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Features
59 features across 10 categories
Communication(8)
Send important information to team
Send direct messages to multiple people at once
Communicate with multiple employees in group conversations
Share news with team through targeted pages
Share news efficiently and save paper - distribute information to specific groups and post updates, files, pictures and videos
Restrict who can create Newsfeed pages
Communicate with employees one-on-one
Streamline internal communication and create a collaborative environment
Compliance(1)
Save important documents and set expiration alerts
Labor Management(8)
Stay on budget when setting employee schedules
Comply with local rules and mandated rest times between shifts
Assign extra pay to shifts on holidays
Keep track of labor costs and compare against sales
Set weekly labor budgets, track preferred hours and overtime thresholds, and get alerted of any excess
Track, analyze and prevent excessive overtime
Allocate a premium pay rate for missed breaks
Track and manage salaried and hourly employee time
Management(2)
Three levels of access - Admin, Manager, and Employee - for different responsibilities
Manage teams across multiple locations
Reporting(4)
View reports of total hours worked and wages earned
Aggregate and sync reports for payroll processing
Analyze and understand labor data by pulling reports for custom periods
Import projected sales data and compare with actual sales
Scheduling(16)
Save time and let Sling assign shifts automatically
Easily see which shifts still need to be filled
Keep track of scheduled shifts on any calendar app
Organize schedules by morning, afternoon or night shift
Build employee schedules months in advance
Automate meal and rest breaks to be automatically applied to applicable shifts
Save time by re-using weekly schedule templates
Automatically remind employees of upcoming shifts via SMS
Allow employees to offer their shifts to coworkers
Build employee schedules in minutes, manage time off, availability and shift trade requests, avoid overtime and double-booking
Stay in the loop and manage employee shift swaps
Save time scheduling with easy-to-use shift templates and reuse weekly schedule templates
Assign multiple positions to work during the same shift
Group and organize shifts with custom tags
Approve or deny employee requests for time off
Accurately schedule using employee availability information
Task Management(3)
Attach tasks and checklists to a shift for clarity
Distribute tasks across team and clarify what needs to be done during each shift
Save time assigning recurring work with templates
Time & Attendance(14)
Report on total hours worked, sick call-outs, late arrivals and more
Automatically end a shift if employees forget to clock out
Require employees to acknowledge whether they took or missed a break before they clock out
Prevent employees from starting their shifts too early
Ensure employees are on-site when clocking in and out, and automatically stop tracking time if outside boundaries
Use a shared device for employees to clock in and out
Track and manage tardiness
Accurately clock in and out of shifts from a mobile device
Track and manage shifts employees miss
Track and manage employee sick call-outs
Easily track employee hours from a designated device or mobile apps, and export timesheets for seamless payroll processing
Approve or edit team's time on the clock
Keep track of any timesheet edits
Track hours worked in one simple report
Time Off(2)
Cap paid time off by leave types and approve incoming requests based on remaining allowances
Track employees' paid time off
Pricing
Free
- ✓Shift scheduling
- ✓Time-off requests
- ✓Available shifts
- ✓News sharing
- ✓Long-term scheduling
- ✓Private messaging
- ✓Up to 30 users
Premium
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Mobile time tracking
- ✓Labor cost management
- ✓Overtime tracking
- ✓Private and group messaging
- ✓Calendar synchronization
- ✓Per user per month billing
Business
Popular- ✓Everything in Premium
- ✓Kiosk time tracking
- ✓Reports
- ✓No-shows
- ✓Sick call-outs
- ✓PTO management
- ✓Per user per month billing
Cost Calculator
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Total Cost Comparison
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Build vs Buy
Should you build a Sling alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 59 features.
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Better ValueBuild Your Own
Buying Sling saves ~$54,720 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 59 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
7 known integrations