AI-powered shift scheduling software - Plain Shift management app
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Get your week back. Schedule shifts with AI in seconds

For managers and HR teams: perfect schedules in minutes, no spreadsheets, no last-minute scrambles.

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2M+ Schedules created
40% Time saved

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This is how easily you'll save hours of work with AI-powered shift scheduling

Plain just needs to know your staffing requirements for each shift to give you the best solution in under 1 second.

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Enter your employees' availability

Specify which hours and days each employee is available. For example: Rachel can work Monday to Friday from 9am to 2pm.

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Alex López
Mon–Fri · 9am–5pm
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Lidia Camacho
Tue–Sat · 10am–6pm
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Rodrigo Sales
Mon–Thu · 8am–4pm
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Enter your operational staffing needs

Next, set how many people and with which roles you need for each shift. For example, 2 people on the morning shift.

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Set constraints and get your schedule

Finally, you can enable constraints such as maximum hours, public holidays or consecutive days. Done!

Respect overtime limits
Minimum 12h rest
Schedule shifts until target is met
Your optimal schedule, ready in under 1 second! No errors, no conflicts, respecting collective agreements and each employee's preferences.
AI & Scheduling

AI builds the complete schedule
in a matter of seconds

Enter your business requirements, team availability and collective agreement constraints. Plain does the rest.

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The AI that manages your team's operations for you

Optimised shifts, leave management, time tracking and documents — in a single tool that learns how your business works.

AI Shift Scheduling

Optimise shifts based on demand and reduce operational costs

Schedule shifts with artificial intelligence, aligning demand, roles and locations. Apply rules, manage hour banks and complementary hours, measure schedule quality and automatically adapt coverage to real business needs.

Visualise workload with advanced charts and reports, export in multiple formats and give managers and teams access via mobile app.

  • Shift scheduling with artificial intelligence
  • Assignment by specific locations and roles
  • Demand forecasting to anticipate coverage needs
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AI Shift Scheduling
Leave management

Fewer leave conflicts and greater operational control

Reduce administrative burden and avoid internal tensions while keeping team balance. Every request is automatically validated against defined rules, preventing errors and inconsistent decisions between managers.

Gain visibility before approving, protect service coverage and ensure consistency between scheduling, work calendar and availability.

  • Rules engine that validates requests against collective agreements
  • Automatic overlap detection for employees and managers
  • Direct integration with payroll and HR systems
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Leave management
Time tracking

Comply with time-tracking regulations with full traceability

Ensure legal compliance and eliminate audit risks with a system integrated into shift scheduling. Define clock-in rules, record every modification with complete traceability and automate clock-ins from a mobile app, terminals or scheduled check-ins.

Centralise information, prevent manual tampering and maintain consistency between planned and actual hours worked.

  • Automatic reports ready for labour inspections
  • Touchscreen terminals and integrated tablets for clock-in
  • Geolocated check-in with alerts outside the authorised site
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Time tracking
Document management

Centralise employment documentation and gain control and security

Manage all your employees' documentation in a single secure environment: payslips, contracts, health & safety files, annexes and internal communications. Organise information by employee and folder, define permissions by manager or group and ensure controlled access and full traceability.

Reduce administrative tasks, eliminate manual distribution and ensure every document is available when needed.

  • Automatic bulk payslip distribution
  • Digital signature integrated with Signaturit
  • Documentation structured by employee and secure folders
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Document management
AILA · AI Copilot

Your AI copilot
for the whole team

AILA is Plain's artificial intelligence. It learns how your business works and helps you make better decisions, every day, every shift.

  • Generates complete schedules in seconds, respecting agreements and business rules
  • Detects coverage conflicts before they happen and suggests automatic adjustments
  • Learns from your demand patterns and adjusts scheduling automatically
  • Answers questions about your team, shifts and coverage in natural language
See AILA in action
AILA — AI Copilot
Can you generate this week's schedule for the morning shift?
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AILA

I've generated the schedule for 24 employees on the morning shift. Coverage optimised to 98%, respecting all collective agreement rules.

3 conflicts resolved 2h saved Coverage 98%
Are there any employees with overtime this week?
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AILA

Yes, 3 employees are exceeding their contracted hours. I recommend redistributing Friday's shift to balance the workload at no extra cost.

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By industry

Plain adapts to your industry.
Not the other way round.

Every sector has its own collective agreement, its own rules and its own legal obligations. Plain knows them all.

Hospitals & care homes
24/7 shifts, healthcare categories, mandatory rest breaks and urgent cover in one click.
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Retail & franchises
Per-store schedules, sales forecasting and time tracking for the entire chain from one dashboard.
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Industry & logistics
12-hour shifts, plant rotations, continuous production and compliance with metalworking agreements.
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Hotels & hospitality
Season management, occupancy peaks and cross-department coordination in real time.
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Supermarkets
Section-by-section scheduling, checkout control and guaranteed coverage on public holidays and sales events.
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Pharmacies
Licensed pharmacist present every shift, night duty management and qualifications verified automatically.
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Restaurants
Service, front-of-house and kitchen schedules coordinated, with attendance records ready for inspection.
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Facility services
Workers spread across multiple client sites, geolocated and monitored in real time.
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Staffing agencies
Check-in policies tailored to each client company, multi-group and collective agreement applied automatically.
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