Hour-Hive builds the week's schedule from real availability and seniority — then clocks people in, tracks who was on time, and totals the hours. No separate time-and-attendance app to buy.
One admin dashboard, one employee portal that installs like an app. Set staffing needs by 30-minute interval, generate, and let the algorithm place people fairly — while staff handle their own availability, swaps, and open shifts from their phone.
| Time | Prio | Needed | Assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 AM | 1 | 3 | AliciaDevonBen |
| 2:00 PM | 2 | 2 | CaseyDevon |
| Time | Prio | Needed | Assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 PM | 1 | 3 | EmeryTom |
None of this is a staffing problem. It's a coordination problem — and it happens on a clock.
Someone calls in sick. Three people get the same group text, and whoever answers first gets the shift — right fit or not.
Nobody actually knows who showed up on time this week versus who was scheduled — the schedule and the time clock live in two different tools that don't talk.
A manager is still hand-placing names into cells the night before the week starts, then re-keying the same hours into payroll by hand.
Not a roadmap, not a "coming soon." This is what the dashboard and portal actually do today.
Employees clock in and out from the portal. The dashboard automatically compares punches against the schedule — on time, late, left early, no-show, or unscheduled — with correct handling of breaks.
Download a CSV with employee name, ID, manager, scheduled hours, and actual hours — computed from real punches, not a rough span, so lunch breaks are never counted as worked time.
Once a few weeks of history exist, the dashboard flags intervals that consistently needed a manual top-up and suggests a real requirement — grounded in what actually happened, not a guess.
Mark your lunch rush or Saturday open as High priority. If hours run short, the gaps land on your quietest times, not your busiest.
Senior staff get close to their full target hours first, standard staff next, in staged passes that never fully shut either tier out.
Staff see last week, this week, and a next-week estimate right in the portal — clearly marked tentative until a real schedule exists.
Upload your roster, requirements, and Employee IDs straight from a spreadsheet you already use. Export any view, any time.
Anything left uncovered surfaces automatically, ready to post or manually assign — even outside someone's usual hours.
Staff can hand a shift directly to a teammate. It only transfers once that teammate accepts — never automatically.
Every release, manual edit, and completed swap is logged with a reason — filterable by type, deletable when it's no longer needed.
Days Covered % broken into Morning, Afternoon, and Evening, color-coded — see exactly which part of the day is actually short-staffed.
The employee portal adds to any phone's home screen with a real icon and full-screen launch — no App Store required.
The dashboard doesn't stop at building the schedule. It compares it against real punches, flags what's off, and exports a clean timecard for payroll.
| Employee | Scheduled | Actual | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alicia | 9:00–5:00 | 9:03–4:58 | On Time |
| Devon | 9:00–5:00 | 9:31–5:02 | Late 31m |
| Casey | 1:00–6:00 | — | No Show |
| Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| Day | Time | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Tue | 9:00–5:00 | 8h |
| Day | Time | |
|---|---|---|
| Fri | 4:00–8:00 PM | Claim |
The portal installs to your phone's home screen like a real app, and covers everything a shift worker actually needs day to day.
Create your company, set business hours, and you're scheduling — no IT ticket, no onboarding call required.
Upload your existing team and requirements from a spreadsheet, Employee IDs included.
The algorithm places your team by availability, seniority, and priority in seconds.
Staff install the portal to their home screen and log in with the ID you give them.
Publicly listed pricing as of this year, for a team of 250 hourly employees. We're not the fit for every team; here's exactly where we win and where we don't.
| Hour-HiveFlat, tiered by headcount | When I WorkPer employee/month | DeputyPer employee/month | AspectEnterprise, custom quote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost at 250 employees | $249/mo | ≈$1,750/mo | ≈$2,250/mo | Custom premium quote* |
| Time clock & attendance included | Included | Paid add-on | Included | Real-time adherence (phone systems) |
| Seniority-weighted auto-scheduling | Multi-pass, staged | Basic auto-fill | Basic auto-fill | Not publicly documented |
| Segmented coverage analytics | Morning/Afternoon/Evening | Enterprise analytics suite | ||
| Historical demand forecasting | Included | Higher tier | Core strength (enterprise) | |
| Consent-based shift swaps | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Mobile app | Yes (installs from browser) | Yes | Yes | Not publicly documented |
| Payroll integration | Included API | Included | Included | Enterprise integrations |
I used to build the schedule in one tool and reconcile hours in another. Now the timecard export just matches what actually happened.
Nobody double-books themselves anymore, and I can finally see which evenings are actually short-staffed instead of guessing.
My whole team just adds the portal to their home screen. No app to explain, no passwords to reset.
Hour-Hive is cloud-hosted shift scheduling software made up of two connected apps: an Admin dashboard for managers and an Employee Portal for staff. It auto-fills a full week's schedule down to the half hour, based on real staff availability, seniority, and interval priority — and includes a built-in time clock with adherence tracking.
No. Clock in/out and schedule-adherence comparison are included on every plan, including free — not a paid add-on the way some competitors handle it.
Staff log in with just the Employee ID their manager gives them, plus their company's account name. The portal installs to their phone's home screen like an app — no App Store needed.
Yes. Download a CSV for any past week with employee name, ID, manager, scheduled hours, and actual hours — computed from real punches, correctly excluding break time between clock-outs and clock-ins.
Yes. An employee can offer a shift to a specific teammate from the portal. It only transfers once the receiving teammate accepts.
Plans start free for up to 5 employees, with flat monthly tiers by headcount from there — no per-seat billing that punishes you for hiring. See the comparison above for how that plays out at 250 employees.
One dashboard, one portal, one place your schedule and your time clock actually agree.