Workforce management that runs itself

Leave, time, balances, and payroll — in one place.

TempoShift takes the busywork out of managing people's time. Employees request leave in seconds, managers approve from anywhere, balances update themselves, and payroll exports in the format your provider expects. No spreadsheets, no chasing, no surprises.

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14-day free trial · No credit card · Workspace ready within 1 business day

TempoShift home dashboard with onboarding checklist, time-off balances, next shift, time clock, work profile, and approved upcoming leave
$2 per user / month to start
14 days free trial, no credit card
~1 day to a ready-to-use workspace
4 payroll export formats

Purpose-built for operations teams in

Healthcare Retail & hospitality Logistics Manufacturing Professional services
The problem

Workforce ops shouldn't live in spreadsheets and inboxes.

Most teams patch together email threads, a balance spreadsheet someone built years ago, and policy enforcement by memory. Then payroll prep eats a day every period.

Requests buried in email and chat

Leave requests live in DMs, three inboxes, and a forms folder. Some get answered same-day, some sit for two weeks, and nobody can say what was approved or by whom.

Balance spreadsheets that drift

Accruals applied by hand, carry-forward caps forgotten, and no record of why a number changed. When someone asks "where did my hours go?", the honest answer is a shrug.

Manual payroll prep, every period

Punches reconciled by hand, overtime calculated in a side sheet, and a copy-paste marathon into the payroll provider — with quiet edits to closed periods nobody catches.

Product tour

Leave, time, balances, and payroll — one place.

Real screens from TempoShift. This is what running itself looks like.

One-tap quick actions

Running late shouldn't require a form.

Employees tap a single button — Running Late, Out for Rest of Day, Full Day Sick — and TempoShift calculates the hours, notifies the manager, and updates the balance. Live balance cards sit right next to it.

  • Late, sick, and leave-early in one tap — hours calculated for you
  • Balances update themselves the moment a request lands
  • Pending approvals surfaced the moment you sign in
  • Attach doctor's notes and custom fields on full requests
Running late shouldn't require a form.
Smart approval chains

Every request flows through the right people.

Requests route automatically — backup approvers first, then the manager — with email notifications at each step. Out of office? Delegate approvals to a covering manager for exactly the dates you choose, and they hand back automatically.

  • Backups clear first, then the manager — automatically
  • The full approval chain visible on every request
  • Manager delegation with exact start and end dates
  • Edit pending requests without starting over
Every request flows through the right people.
Balances & accruals

Balances that are always right.

Vacation accrues on service-based tiers that grow with tenure, sick time accrues monthly, and carry-forward caps apply themselves. Every deduction, refund, and adjustment lands in a transaction ledger — so "where did my hours go?" is one click away.

  • Automatic accruals — service tiers, monthly grants, carry-forward caps
  • A full audit trail behind every balance
  • Configure your own categories or use the built-in defaults
  • Import starting balances from CSV in minutes, export any time
Balances that are always right.
Policy engine

Your rules, enforced before submission.

Stop policing requests by hand. Define rules once — minimum advance notice, no overlapping requests, coverage minimums by department — and TempoShift blocks or flags violations before a request is ever submitted.

  • Hard stops block violations; soft warnings flag them
  • Advance notice, double-booking, caps, coverage, and blackout rules
  • A starter pack of recommended rules — running in one click
  • Scoped per department, so each team gets the right guardrails
Your rules, enforced before submission.
Corrections

Corrections without the chaos.

Mistakes happen. Employees and managers formally request changes to past submissions — increase, decrease, or cancel — with comments, attachments, and a clear approval trail. On approval, the request, the balance, and the queue all update together.

  • One thread per correction — comments and attachments included
  • Current, requested, and projected hours shown side by side
  • Request, balance, and approval queue update together on approval
  • Scoped permissions — managers handle their teams, admins keep oversight
Corrections without the chaos.
Calendars everyone can see

"Who's out today?" — answered.

Day, week, and month views of who's out, color-coded by leave type. Approved leave syncs to your shared Microsoft 365 calendar automatically, and personal and team ICS feeds drop straight into Outlook, Google Calendar, or Apple Calendar.

  • Team and absence views — today, this week, next month
  • Microsoft 365 sync that stays current as requests change or cancel
  • Live ICS subscriptions for Outlook, Google, and Apple Calendar
  • Master holiday calendar with department-level variations
"Who's out today?" — answered.
Time tracking & payroll

From punch-in to payroll, connected.

A time clock with guardrails on one end, exports your payroll provider actually accepts on the other.

Time clock with guardrails

Punches, breaks, and overtime — tracked.

Punch in and out, track breaks, and apply configurable overtime rules. Payroll period locks prevent anyone from quietly editing a closed pay period, and manager edits are recorded so the trail stays auditable.

  • Punch in/out and break tracking, live "clocked in" status
  • Configurable overtime and doubletime rules
  • Period locks — closed pay periods stay closed
  • Shift scheduling with employee swaps and manager sign-off
Punches, breaks, and overtime — tracked.
Payroll-ready exports

One click, in your provider's format.

Generate exports formatted for Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks, or generic CSV. Hours are classified as regular, overtime, and doubletime, with PTO folded in. Every export is frozen and reproducible — what you sent to payroll is always exactly what you can pull up later.

  • Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks, and generic CSV formats
  • Regular, OT, DT, and PTO hours classified per employee
  • Pre-payroll sanity checks before anything goes out
  • Frozen, reproducible exports — pull up any past run exactly as sent
One click, in your provider's format.
Works like an app

Approve from anywhere. Request in seconds.

TempoShift is an installable progressive web app, fully responsive on phones and tablets — no app store required. The same one-tap quick actions, approval chains, and audit trail, in your pocket.

  • Installable PWA — add it to your home screen
  • Fully responsive on phones and tablets
  • Approvals badge and one-tap actions on the go
  • Built and remediated against WCAG accessibility standards
Approve from anywhere. Request in seconds.
What you get

Everything between "I need Friday off" and payroll.

TempoShift takes the busywork out of managing people's time — no spreadsheets, no chasing, no surprises.

Smart approval chains

Backup approvers first, then the manager, with email notifications at each step. Out-of-office delegation hands approvals to a covering manager for exactly the dates you choose — then hands them back.

One-tap quick actions

Running late, out sick, leaving early — one button. TempoShift calculates the hours, notifies the manager, and updates the balance. No form required.

Balances & accruals

Vacation on service tiers that grow with tenure, sick time monthly, carry-forward caps applied automatically — with a transaction ledger behind every number and CSV import/export.

Policy engine

Minimum notice, no overlaps, coverage minimums by department — defined once, enforced before submission. A starter pack of recommended rules gets you running in one click.

Correction workflow

Formal requests to fix past submissions — increase, decrease, or cancel — with comments, attachments, and an approval trail. Request, balance, and queue update together.

Time clock with guardrails

Punch in/out and break tracking with configurable overtime rules — and payroll period locks that keep closed pay periods closed.

Payroll-ready exports

One-click exports formatted for Gusto, ADP, QuickBooks, or generic CSV. Every export is frozen and reproducible — what you sent is what you can pull up later.

Calendars everywhere

Microsoft 365 sync for approved leave, live ICS feeds for Outlook, Google, and Apple Calendar, team absence views, and a master holiday calendar with department variations.

Shift scheduling & swaps

Build shifts and let employees request swaps with manager sign-off — coverage stays intact while the roster stays flexible.

Manager visibility

Team activity and analytics dashboards, employee snapshots and timelines, an org chart generated from your reporting structure, and WFH tracking with backup-coverage alerts.

Certifications & supplies

Track credentials and renewals so nothing lapses unnoticed, and handle hardware and equipment requests end to end — without another inbox.

AI-assisted workflows

AI assistance you can enable or disable per organization, with every interaction logged — plus a notification audit log recording every email the system sends.

Why teams choose TempoShift

Before and after, side by side.

Without TempoShift
With TempoShift
Leave requests buried in email and chat
One queue, automatic routing, nothing slips
Balance spreadsheets that drift out of date
Self-updating balances with a full audit ledger
Policy enforcement by memory
Rules enforced automatically, before submission
Manual payroll prep every period
One-click exports in your provider's format
"Who's out today?" asked in every standup
Live team calendars everyone can subscribe to
Why we built it

We got tired of running teams out of spreadsheets and inboxes.

TempoShift is the tool we wished we'd had: one place where a time-off request takes seconds, balances keep themselves honest, your rules apply before a request is ever submitted, and payroll exports in the format your provider actually wants — no side spreadsheets, no chasing, no surprises at the end of the period.

We built it for the manager approving from a phone in the carpool line and the ops lead who just wants payroll prep to stop eating a day every cycle. If that's you, the trial is free for 14 days and there's no credit card required.

— The TempoShift team

Pricing

Simple, per-seat. No surprise fees.

Pay monthly or annually. Add or remove seats anytime. Every plan includes the mobile experience and the audit trail.

Starter
$2/user/month

For small teams getting their first system off email and spreadsheets.

  • Up to 25 users
  • All leave and approval types
  • Shift scheduling, swaps & balances
  • Mobile app experience (installable PWA)
  • Calendar feeds (Microsoft 365 + ICS)
  • Email support
Enterprise
Custom

For larger organizations with SSO, SCIM, and procurement requirements.

  • Unlimited users
  • SSO (SAML, OIDC) and SCIM provisioning
  • Custom integrations and webhooks
  • Dedicated success manager
  • 99.9% uptime SLA with credits
  • Procurement and security review support
Enterprise-ready foundations

Built for the questions your IT team will ask first.

Multi-tenant role-based access, logged AI, audited notifications, and accessibility by design.

Role-based access

Multi-tenant with employee, manager, and admin roles, scoped down to the department level.

AI on your terms

AI-assisted workflows can be enabled or disabled per organization — and every interaction is logged.

Notification audit log

Every email the system sends is recorded — approvals, reminders, escalations, all of it.

Accessible by design

Built and remediated against WCAG accessibility standards, and installable as a progressive web app.

SOC 2 Type II GDPR & CCPA AES-256 encryption 99.9% uptime SLA

Spend your time on your team, not their timesheets.

Start your 14-day free trial. No credit card, no sales call — we'll set up your workspace within one business day.