SocialSchedules 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

SocialSchedules

4.5

(558)

Pricing

Starting at $19.99 per month

About SocialSchedules

SocialSchedules is a cloud-based employee scheduling solution designed to help small to large businesses in the restaurant, hospitality, retail and other sectors. It allows managers to communicate with field employees through private and group messages and share schedules in case of any changes.

Features of SocialSchedules include shift management, budgeting, overtime control, time-off management, conflict resolutions, hourly rates configurations, templates, notifications and access permissions. It comes with candidate matching capabilities, which enables enterprises to match employees with skills and availability required for the shift. Additionally, staff can use swapping functionality to exchange shifts with co-workers, maintaining compliance with state labor laws.

SocialSchedules facilitates integration with several third-party applications such as Heartland Payroll, MobileBytes, Clover POS, Square POS and more. Pricing is available on monthly subscriptions and support is extended via live chat, email, documentation and other online measures.

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SocialSchedules Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $19.99 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.00

Plan includes:

10 Scheduled Workers
1 Department Per Location
28 Days Cloud/ Report Data Storage
Availability Management
Bulk Worker Import Through POS.
Desktop / Mobile Apps
Employee Contact Tracing
In-App Messaging
Scheduling
Tablet Time Clock

Starter

$19.99

per month

Plan includes:

1-Year Cloud/Report Storage
2 Departments Per Location
Basic Labor Budgeting
Black Days From Time off Requests
Daily/Weekly OT
Department Budget; Manually
Employee Contact Tracing
In-App Messaging
Manager Logbooks
Max Consecutive Days

Premium

$49.99

per month

Plan includes:

5 Departments Per Location
7 Years Cloud/Report Storage
Advanced Reporting
Black Days From Time off Requests
Certification Management
Daily/Weekly OT
Department Budget; Automated Sales
Department Budget; Manually
Employee Contact Tracing
In-App Messaging

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

All Features in the Premium Plan and Dedicated Support Contact
API Access
Custom API Integration
Custom Features
Custom Reports
Dedicated Support Contact
Manager Logbooks
Negotiated Pricing
Slas
Time off Export (CSV)

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SocialSchedules Features

Popular features found in Employee Scheduling
Alerts/Notifications
Attendance Management
Calendar Management
Employee Management
Messaging
Mobile Access
Payroll Management
Reporting/Analytics
Schedule Distribution
Self Service Portal
Shift Swapping
Timesheet Management
More features of SocialSchedules
Approval Process Control
Attendance Tracking
Automated Scheduling
Availability Management
Biometric Recognition
Budgeting/Forecasting
Clock In/Out
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Email Management
Employee Database
Employee Onboarding
Employee Portal
Employee Profiles
Employee Scheduling
Forecasting
Group Scheduling
HR Management
Labor Forecasting
Mobile Alerts
Multi-Location
Online Time Clock
Overtime Calculation
Performance Metrics
Punch card
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-time Scheduling
Real-Time Updates
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Shift Management
Skills Tracking
SMS Messaging
Time & Attendance
Time Off Management
Time Off Requests
Vacation/Leave Tracking

SocialSchedules Integrations

Harbortouch POS

Genius

Heartland Payroll+

SocialSchedules User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

58%

35%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.2

Carlos T.

Verified reviewer

Import and Export

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2019

Work hours programming platform for companies

We are sure that Opensinsin, is on a good path to be a platform that provides a service that amalgams with a vital recuse and is the time to help with the needs of people how to manage their time at work and how to dispose Exchange schedules with coworkers and other virtues that allows the Opensisin platform in our case we within the company are grateful to meet their services and thus be able to organize in an optimal way the most valuable resource that for us the time of our employees and thus have more happy and motivated employees and managers when giving them the ideal tool to have their working hours. it resulted in positive changes for the productive development of the company

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In our successful experience with OpenSimSim, I manage to solve an internal problem in the company and to make an hourly schedule of our employees making its use easy, ease of configuration, the configurations are quite clear. The most practical is that they receive the schedules, they are published on their mobile devices in real time, helping to maintain a reciprocal communication, another very appropriate faculty, because it is free for managers and employees, which gives an additional bonus to this platform, that help to companies that have workers for a certain time. OpenSimSim gives its users the power to create a program through proven programming templates where they see staff availability and the hours worked are displayed and are more accurate for our workflow, which seeks to achieve and optimize a Correct performance of our employees, which helps managers avoid inconvenience or confusion in relation to the extra overtime so far you have the virtue of visualizing the budget allocated and thus monitor labor costs in real time to keep track of the budget of The company, another useful and pragmatic virtue, is being able to have contact via chat being able to write messages with employees and management, in addition to being able to install a mobile application from smartphones wherever it is, this innovative application allows employees of our company who make purchases and sales of raw materials or product s finished, maintaining a schedule that can be modified by us

Cons:

to our experience with OpenSimSim, and the little that could be highlighted as negative or enhance improvements in the characteristics and capabilities of precarious synchronization, which as a constructive criticism can be enriched between the application of the computer and the Smartphone, for the better performance, contact lists must be optimized for use and all personnel, phone numbers and emails can be accessed to be able to exchange shifts with anyone on the contact list, even if they have a different schedule. Currently, the function of exchange and allocation of these hours since what we have seen is that it is available to those who have a clear availability of hours on the platform. Shift change is very important in all lines and departments, since what is sought is that employees are without worries about how to organize their time for better performance since one of the most valuable resources is time for both growth of the company like that of employees and their free time and how to manage it, in terms of organization when printing schedules, everything should be organized from the platform and thus avoid having to go to Excel and place the calendar information of work are better digestible to the understanding of the employees, also organizing by start date and an end date can illustrate how Anasa does it on her platform just to mention as an example and adapt it to the OpenSimSim platform, also look for ways to automate as well as edit the master lists and a

Reasons for switching to SocialSchedules

Opensinsin and its services and customer service captivated us more, in addition to accepting constructive criticism in order to improve and provide the best service.

Verified

Reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Easy and very useful scheduling tool

Overall every time I've made suggestions or talk to the staff at opensimsim they have been very helpful and quick to resolve any issues I may have.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very useful and easy to copy and paste schedules instead of having to individually do a schedule every week. And it reduces the amount of time it takes for me to have to do schedules for my team of 20 + employees

Cons:

The messaging portion of the app would be more useful if it could be sorted by message. As of right now it is a little cumbersome with the messaging and trying to revert back and look up previous messages to my teams.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

Overall it seemed a lot more simpler to use as I do not want to create any more work than necessary in my already busy day. I'm able to put my time to better use because of the ease that I get from a opensimsim.

Reasons for switching to SocialSchedules

Product was too expensive for what it provided and not easy to use.

Amber U.

Verified reviewer

Arts and Crafts

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Convicence to access my work schedules

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Functionality

Previously 5

Pros:

The app/ software allows me to see my up to do schedules and shifts which is quite convenient.

Cons:

The app is very confusing, it is not very user friendly and takes time to get the hang of it.

Sara W.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

My OpenSimSim review

I am so happy with OpenSimSim. We use it very exclusively for scheduling and have reduced greatly the amount of confusion about scheduled shifts experienced by our staff. It is a great way to get a message out to the full staff, and has increased are accountability for publishing schedules.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I really like how we can make frequent updates/changes to the staff. We are a job training program with shifts going to Managers, temporary interns, and volunteers. I like how convenient it is for users to interface with it. It’s very accessible.

Cons:

I can’t really think of anything. I know sometimes the interface for messages for managers can get cluttered because they are inundated with staff individual and group messages. It might be nice if there was an easy way to sort or archive certain threads or easily click on a user and see all the messages associated with that person.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

It seemed better than the system we were currently using.

Reasons for switching to SocialSchedules

It was a long time ago and I can’t quite remember honestly. I think it had to do with better rates and the messaging function and ease of adding / removing staff.

Sarah R.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Review

Definitely spend less time scheduling than ever before, which is awesome!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, ease of setup, setup is organized and clear, love that it notifies my staff when I publish a schedule and is integrated with phone platforms/has an app.

Cons:

I really really dislike that I have to manually edit “availability” for each new staff member, in order to force them to submit timeoff requests. I also don’t like that you can’t have an algorithm for time off requests- for example I require two weeks notice for time off requests, and I wish the app would allow me to enforce that, but it doesn’t...so instead I have employees submitting time off requests 5 days before which then makes me look like the mean guy when I have to decline a request. I wish open simsim would just allow me to have a setting that removes the ability to request time off if it’s less than 14 days from the requested time off date.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

It was free and even though it has a premium upgrade, it still provides more functionality in the free mode than when I work

Fiona M.

Verified reviewer

Market Research

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

OpenSimsim review

Overall OpensimSim has slim-lined our procedures for allocating shifts which in tern has reduced our admin costs and time. This allows our senior staff to move on to more important tasks and making our processes more productive and efficient. A lot of our staff members are not tech savvy so having a product that is easy to use was quite important and OpenSimSim has ticked the boxes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It was easy to set up. The staff had no issues getting used to using it. It has reduced hour scheduling hours significantly as we no longer need to contact staff or go through individual text messages, everything is all in one place where we can see who is available and at what times. Makes booking in shifts very easy. I also love that you only have to post once and everyone will have their shifts allocated, no more individual messages to each staff member.

Cons:

When posting the shifts it goes to every staff member listed on the system even if you did not get a shift this week. I would prefer it only goes to those who have been rostered on. It would also be more beneficial for us if the availability times show when the staff is available not the opposite way around.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

It was easy to use. It provided everything we needed as a rostering system.

Reasons for switching to SocialSchedules

There set up was not quite what we wanted. It was not easy to use.

Janice D.

Verified reviewer

Libraries

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Free Scheduling Solution for Small Team

OpenSimSim has been an excellent scheduling tool for our small staff and team of Student Assistants. It has been very easy for administrators to add and remove users, edit and publish shifts, and add extra touches of personalization like user photos and different colors for positions. There are some functions which we use little or not at all (Timeoff Requests, Payroll, etc) but they do not hinder our use of the scheduling software.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

OpenSimSim has an easy-to-use, simple, and aesthetically pleasing interface that works well on both desktop and mobile apps. Our employees picked it up easily to drop shifts, swap shifts, and message one another and supervisors whether at work or on the go. It's also been very easy for administrators to create schedule templates to quickly and effortlessly publish week after week.

Cons:

There is still room for improvement in regards to tutorials for employees. A few of the functions in the tutorials are only covered from the employer's perspective and not the employee's perspective, which makes it more difficult to explain how to use the software to new employees in some regards.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

Cost. OpenSimSim filled all of our needs for free. However, if we were a larger company that needed the premium features, we have been so pleased with the software and quick customer service that we would fight to include it in our budget.

Matthew S.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

User friendly and accessible

With open sim sim we are able to reduce manual hours of calculating timesheets. The systen allows staff to sign in and of their shifts at great ease.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I found open sim sim very user friendly in comparison to it's competitors such a deputy. The navigation around the website is simplistic but effective. The support team are always on hand and eager to help with any issues.

Cons:

As the product is still relatively new in comparison to it's competitors some features are only just becoming available, such as accounts integration. However these features are definitely on the way and the product is constantly developing.

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

Better support system and more user friendly. Better personal relationship with support team

Laura D.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Super practical

It´s super helpful in order to organize timetables; I highly recommend it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It´s very visual, eye.friendly and simple. You figuer it out in two minutes and gives you good reliable information.

Cons:

Maybe some drag and pull features; or that I can´t fully customize the viewing screen (you can see it dialy or weekly) but I cant suggest a third way. But nothing too serious

Reasons for choosing SocialSchedules

Its practicality and friendly setting.

Reasons for switching to SocialSchedules

It allows me to have accurate information on my employees working times

Michael M.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Great scheduling app