Sling
Sling provides a free employee scheduling and communication platform that helps businesses build schedules in minutes, manage time-off requests, shift trades, and overtime. The tool includes integrated time tracking and team messaging to streamline internal communication and payroll processing. It is designed for businesses like restaurants that need to reduce scheduling time and labor costs.
- Enterprise Software
- HR Technology
- Software Only
Funding
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Product
Problem
Creating employee schedules manually is time-consuming and prone to errors, leading to labor cost overruns, overtime, double-booking, and miscommunication. Businesses also struggle to coordinate shift changes, availability, and time-off requests across a dispersed workforce, which can increase absenteeism and late arrivals.
Solution
Sling offers a unified employee scheduling and communication platform that lets managers build optimized schedules in minutes while automatically flagging budget overruns, overtime, and overlapping shifts. The platform centralizes time-off requests, availability updates, and shift trade approvals so adjustments are handled without stress. Built-in group and private messaging keeps teams aligned in a single workspace, fostering collaboration regardless of employee location. For payroll, Sling simplifies time tracking and attendance logging, reducing manual paperwork and errors. The solution is designed for speed and simplicity, helping businesses save hours each week and lower labor-related costs.
Target Audience
The primary audience is small to mid-sized businesses with hourly workforces, particularly restaurants, retail stores, and service providers that require frequent schedule adjustments and multi-location coordination.
Features
- Drag-and-drop scheduler with instant conflict detection for double-bookings, overtime, and budget limits
- Centralized time-off, availability, and shift-trade request management with automated approvals
- Integrated time tracking and attendance logs to simplify payroll processing
- Group and private messaging channels for team-wide announcements and direct conversations
- Overlap and late-arrival notifications to reduce absenteeism in real time
- Free-tier core functionality with optional advanced management tools for scaling operations