# ZoomShift

> Employee scheduling and time clock, free for up to 20 users

ZoomShift is an employee scheduling and time clock app for restaurants, retail, services, hospitality and healthcare teams. Managers build schedules from templates and availability, staff swap shifts and clock in from the web or a phone, and approved timesheets turn into payroll reports. A basic scheduling plan is free for up to 20 users at one location.

- **Category:** Shift Scheduling
- **Made by:** ZoomShift
- **Website:** https://www.zoomshift.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

ZoomShift has a free plan. Paid plans start at $2 per active user / month, billed annually (Starter).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Essentials plan, free for up to 20 users at one location: schedules up to 2 weeks ahead, team messaging, reminders, shift notes and shift confirmations. No time clock.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial with every feature, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Essentials | $0 | Up to 20 users and 1 location, scheduling up to 2 weeks ahead, team communication, reminders and shift confirmation. |
| Starter | $2 per active user / month, billed annually ($2.50 billed monthly) | Unlimited users and locations. Adds templates, availability and time off, swaps and covers, time clock, timesheets, PTO and break tracking, payroll report. |
| Premium | $4 per active user / month, billed annually ($5 billed monthly) | Adds auto-scheduling, overtime warnings, conflict prevention, early and late clock-in limits, a geofenced time clock and custom role permissions. |

Read from https://www.zoomshift.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ZoomShift before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **About 20% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing brings Starter to $2 and Premium to $4 per active user a month, against $2.50 and $5 billed monthly. Source: https://www.zoomshift.com/pricing

## Key features

- **Schedules from templates:** Shift and schedule templates, availability and time-off requests, and multi-shift assignment for groups; Premium adds auto-scheduling.
- **Shift swaps and covers:** Staff request covers and swap shifts in the app, and changes reach the team by email, text and push notifications.
- **Web and mobile time clock:** Employees clock in for assigned shifts from a browser or the iPhone and Android apps, with break and meal tracking, GPS checks and IP address whitelisting.
- **Timesheets and payroll reports:** Each finished shift creates a timesheet that managers edit and approve, then a payroll report breaks down hours and gross pay by location, position or person.
- **Overtime and attendance controls:** Premium warns about overtime, blocks overlapping shifts and clock-ins that are too early or late, and compares scheduled with worked hours.
- **AI applicant screening:** An applicant tracking tool filters candidates by your criteria and runs AI-led first interviews that score each answer.

## Good for

- Single-location teams of up to 20 that only need a shared schedule
- Small businesses that want a low per-user price for scheduling and time clock
- Seasonal businesses, since a subscription can be paused for quiet months

## Worth knowing

- The free Essentials plan has no time clock or timesheets, schedules only 2 weeks ahead and covers one location and 20 users.
- Auto-scheduling, overtime warnings and the geofenced time clock need Premium.
- No payroll integrations are named on the site; timesheets are exported and sent to your payroll provider.
- There is no set non-profit or education discount; the vendor says it will discuss a price on request.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. ZoomShift keeps it simple and cheap: $2 a person a month gets you schedules, a time clock and timesheets, and teams of up to 20 at one site can schedule free. You can even pause it in quiet months. It names no payroll connections, though, so hours leave as an export.

- **Value for money: C.** Starter is $2 per active user a month billed yearly, so 15 staff pay $30 a month with the time clock and timesheets included. For a team that size that's just past the cheapest quarter of this category.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Essentials is free for up to 20 users at one location, with schedules up to 2 weeks ahead, messaging, reminders and shift confirmations. No time clock, but a small single-site team can live on it.
- **Features: C.** Templates, availability, swaps and covers, a web and phone time clock, timesheets and a payroll report, with auto-scheduling on Premium. The gap the listing names is payroll: no payroll connections, so hours are exported.
- **Ease of use: C.** We have no App Store rating on record for it. Schedules need staff, positions and templates set up before the first week goes out.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android. No integrations are named at all, so this B rests on the devices alone.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ZoomShift's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps

- ZoomShift's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 2 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 7 of 12) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $2 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.65 for the category: 1 of the 12 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of ZoomShift you could make: time off and applicant tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 8 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps grade higher. It costs $24 a year.

- You could make: Time off and applicant tracking: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- You could not: A scheduler that rearranges your day as things move.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Time off, Auto-scheduling, Applicant tracking

## Alternatives

- [When I Work](https://toolgpa.com/tools/when-i-work): Staff scheduling with auto-fill, shift trades and an add-on time clock. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/when-i-work-vs-zoomshift)
- [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/homebase-vs-zoomshift)
- [Sling by Toast](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sling): Free shift scheduling for up to 30 users, with paid time clock tiers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sling-vs-zoomshift)
- [Connecteam](https://toolgpa.com/tools/connecteam): Employee app for shifts, time clock, chat and HR, free up to 10 users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/connecteam-vs-zoomshift)
- [Findmyshift](https://toolgpa.com/tools/findmyshift): Drag-and-drop staff scheduler priced per team, free up to 5 employees. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/findmyshift-vs-zoomshift)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://www.zoomshift.com/pricing
- https://www.zoomshift.com/
- https://www.zoomshift.com/time-clock-software
- https://www.zoomshift.com/timesheet-app
- https://www.zoomshift.com/ai-recruiting
- https://www.zoomshift.com/about

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoomshift
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