Staff scheduling software for shift-based teams
Keeping your business staffed shouldn't be your second job
It drafts, fills, and publishes your schedule — you decide how much to hand over.
AnchOps drafts your week, messages your team to fill open shifts, and publishes the schedule on its own — and it knows exactly who shows up, because it scores every shift. The Sunday-night schedule build, the 4pm call-off scramble, the “who can I even text?” panic — handled.
Flat $59.99 per location. Unlimited employees, no per-seat math — less than one call-off you cover yourself.
Free plan included · No credit card · 15-day Pro trial
Your data stays yours — hosted on AWS, encrypted, never sold. If you connect your POS, we only read what we need. Privacy
The staffing grind, every single week
- —It’s Sunday night and you’re building the schedule. Again.
- —An open shift sits unfilled while you text six people, one at a time
- —Someone calls off at 4pm and you’re guessing who’ll actually say yes
- —You publish the week, then availability changes blow it up
- —You find out someone’s a no-show problem only after they burn you on a Friday
- —The schedule needs you every single week — whether you’re on vacation or not
AnchOps takes the whole loop off your plate.
The autonomous scheduler
A schedule that builds, fills, and publishes itself
AnchOps drafts next week from your history and your team's availability. When a shift is still open, it doesn't wait for you — it messages the qualified people directly: “Can you work Friday 5–10?” First yes fills the shift. When the week is ready, you publish with one tap — or let AnchOps publish it on its own and only bring you the weeks that genuinely need a human call.
You decide how much to hand over — and dial it up as trust builds
- Drafts each week from your sales history and team availability
- Messages qualified employees to fill open shifts — no group texts
- One-tap publish approval on your phone, with labor projections
- Fully autonomous mode: clean weeks publish without you
Reliability scoring
Stop guessing who will actually show up
You know who your rocks are — until your gut is wrong on a Friday night. AnchOps turns every scheduled shift into a fact: on time, late, covered, or no-show. Those facts become a reliability score for every employee, broken down by day of the week.
- The scheduler favors proven-reliable people for the shifts that matter
- Open shifts are offered to your most reliable people first
- Employees see their own score — showing up becomes something you earn with
- New hires start neutral; the score is built on facts, not vibes
On-time %, completed shifts, call-outs and no-shows — scored from every scheduled shift, weighted to the last 90 days.
Coverage without the chaos
AnchOps talks to your team so you don't have to
Every employee gets the free AnchOps app on their own phone — iOS or Android — with a direct line to AnchOps. It reaches out when something needs them, and answers when they need something.
And the back office runs itself too
Tips handled — for restaurants
On Toast POS, pools, tip-outs, delivery, and cash declarations compute daily from real sales. The 30 minutes of nightly math is gone.
Labor stays on target
Projected labor before you publish, and a mid-shift alert the moment actual labor drifts over your target — while you can still fix it.
Timecards approve in minutes
Every employee’s hours in one weekly grid, synced from your POS. Batch-approve and export to payroll.
Up and running in minutes
Bring in your team. Choose your autonomy level. Let AnchOps run the week.
Run a restaurant on Toast POS? You get the deepest integration we make — including automatic tip calculations. See AnchOps for restaurants.
Bring Your Team In
Add your people in minutes — or connect Toast POS and employees, time entries, and sales sync automatically. Your schedule history becomes AnchOps's starting point.
Choose Your Autonomy Level
Start with drafts you approve. Slide toward autonomous as AnchOps earns it — every location sets its own level.
Get Your Week Back
The schedule drafts, fills, and publishes itself. You hear about the exceptions — and nothing else.
The hard questions, answered straight
The stuff you'd ask before trusting software with your schedule.
“We’re not a restaurant — will AnchOps work for us?”
Yes. AnchOps was built inside a restaurant, but the whole staffing loop — drafting the week, filling open shifts, reliability scoring, the built-in time clock — works for any shift-based team: cafes, retail, salons, warehouses, care teams. Restaurants on Toast POS get the deepest integration, including automatic tip calculations.
“Can I trust it to publish on its own?”
You set the autonomy level per location. Clean weeks only publish once you dial it up; anything with conflicts, coverage gaps, or budget overruns comes to you first. Turn it back down anytime.
“Is the Android app any good?”
Native iOS and Android apps ship together, so your team gets the same schedules, tip earnings, availability, and time-off tools on either platform.
“What does it cost across multiple locations?”
The math is deliberately boring: $59.99 per location, flat. Two locations are $119.98, five are $299.95 — unlimited employees at every one. No per-user pricing that climbs as you hire, no tier upgrades to unlock features, and no POS-integration surcharge stacked on per location. Every location gets everything.
45 min → 1 tap
to get a filled week published — or zero taps on autonomous
0 group texts
to fill an open shift — AnchOps asks the right people for you
Every shift
scored for reliability, so the schedule leans on people who show up
Switching from another scheduler?
See exactly how AnchOps stacks up on price, autonomy, and reliability scoring.
Built by an owner running a real business
AnchOps was built by Tony Newcome inside Pizza Harbour, his working restaurant doing ~$18k/week — including the autonomous scheduler, which runs his own location. Not theory. Not consultants. Real operations, real problems, real fixes.
Hand your next schedule to AnchOps
Your first week drafts itself. Free plan included — no credit card.