Built by someone who plans a roster every Sunday night.
SuperShift started because the existing options were either Excel (free, painful) or enterprise scheduling platforms (expensive, painful in different ways). There was nothing in the middle that respected how a small hospitality team actually works.
So we built one. It is intentionally small. It does one thing well — make a schedule for a hospitality team — and nothing else. No payroll, no compliance dashboards, no AI shift recommendations, no "team well-being score". The features we don't have are deliberate.
Independent and self-funded
No venture capital. No board of investors who need a 10x return in five years. No pressure to grow at any cost. SuperShift is bootstrapped, which means the only people we're accountable to are the people who actually use the product.
Practically, this is why we have a free plan that's actually free, no sales team to hassle you, and pricing on the website without a "contact us" voicemail trap. We don't need 10,000 paying customers next quarter to justify our existence.
Built in Belgium, made for Belgium first
The defaults of SuperShift are configured for the Belgian hospitality reality: flexi-jobs, the 475-hour student contingent, secrétariats sociaux, NL/FR mixed teams. That's not a marketing line — it's the context the product was built in.
That said, the core (rosters, roles, time tracking) works anywhere. We have users in the Netherlands, France, Germany, and the UK. The interface is in English, French and Dutch — each user picks their own language.
What we will not do
We will not add a payroll module. We will not become an HR suite. We will not introduce tiered "manager levels" that gate basic features. We will not start sending you weekly "engagement" emails. We will not require a credit card for the free plan.
If you ever feel the product is drifting in any of those directions, email us and tell us to stop. The address is below — a real human reads it.
The team
It's small on purpose. The product is built and maintained by a tiny team that includes the founder, who also runs (and rosters) a hospitality venue. Every feature decision gets tested against the question: would I actually use this on Sunday night, or is this just something that's easy to put on a marketing page?
Most of the time, the answer reveals the feature is unnecessary. So it doesn't get built. That's why SuperShift is small — and why we plan to keep it that way.
The fastest way to know if SuperShift is right for you is to try it with your real team. Free up to 20 staff, no time limit, no payment details required.