Shift Roster & Scheduling Software for Indian Teams

Indian HRM gives ops managers a drag-and-drop shift roster that replaces the WhatsApp group, the printed sheet on the canteen wall, and the supervisor's notebook. Build a week in 15 minutes, copy last week as a template, auto-assign by skill or seniority. Employees see their shifts on the mobile app, request swaps in two taps, and the system flags anyone working past the legal rest gap before payroll catches the overtime.

Drag-and-Drop Roster Builder

Open the grid, drag a shift onto an employee's row, you're done. Plan week-on-week or a full month for production lines on a 4-week rotation. The "copy last week" button is the one most managers live in. Tweak the exceptions, hit publish, the team gets the new schedule on their phone.

Shift definitions you control

Set up any shift you actually run: morning 6 AM to 2 PM, general 9 to 6, night 10 PM to 6 AM, 12-hour A/B doubles, split shifts for hotels (7 to 11 AM plus 5 to 10 PM). Each shift carries its own break, pay rate, and overtime threshold. Night shifts can pin a differential rate that flows into payroll.

Auto-Assign and AI Rostering

Foundation plan rostering is manual with rule checks. Growth plan adds AI auto-rostering that fills a week in one click using the constraints you define: skills required (welder, charge nurse, forklift certified), gender for safety on night shifts, seniority, and recency rules so nobody gets back-to-back nights. The system suggests, you approve or override.

Swap Requests and Rest-Period Compliance

An employee on the night shift wants to swap with a colleague on the morning shift. They open the app, pick the partner, send the request. The other employee accepts, the manager approves, the roster updates itself. No phone calls. No WhatsApp screenshots forwarded to HR.

The conflict checker runs on every change. It blocks a shift that overlaps approved leave, catches double-booking, and flags violations of the 8-hour minimum gap between consecutive shifts. Weekly working-hour caps and women's night-shift consent (with transport request and end-of-shift notification) sit in the same checker, so labour-law compliance stays inside the workflow.

Real Indian Shift Patterns, Out of the Box

Templates ship for the rotations Indian businesses actually run. 3-shift continuous for manufacturing. 12-hour A/B doubles for security and warehousing. 6-day weeks with rotating weekly off, where the off-day moves forward each week so everyone eventually gets a Sunday. BPO night cycles, hotel split shifts, hospital charge-nurse rotations. Pick a template, tweak it, save it as your own.

Roster → Attendance → Overtime → Payroll

The roster is the expected-attendance contract for the week. When an employee punches in, the system compares actual to scheduled and decides what counts: late-mark, absent, half-day, full attendance. Overtime is priced against the shift's own threshold, with daily caps (12 hours), weekly caps (60 hours), holiday OT, and weekly-off OT each handled separately. It all flows into the next payroll run with no Excel reconciliation.

Manager floor view

The supervisor opens one screen and sees floor coverage by hour. Understaffed slots are highlighted in red. Predicted overtime is shown per employee, so a manager can rebalance on Wednesday instead of explaining a payroll spike on the 5th.

Mobile App and Pricing

Most factory and field staff don't use a desktop. The mobile app shows this week's shifts, lets the employee mark unavailability, and handles swap requests end to end. Push notifications fire when a roster is published or a shift is changed within 24 hours.

The roster builder, swap workflow, conflict checks, and overtime engine are in the Foundation plan at ₹49 per employee per month. AI auto-rostering ships in Growth at ₹99. Every account opens with a free 3-month trial, no credit card.