What is Team Shift?

Last reviewed: 2026-07-14

Team Shift is a Shopify-embedded app for staff scheduling and point-of-sale clock-in and clock-out. It's built by the makers of Easy Appointment Booking, and it runs entirely inside Shopify — a dashboard in Shopify Admin for managers, and a tile on the Shopify POS home screen for staff.

What it does

Team Shift has two halves that work together:

• Scheduling, which happens in Shopify Admin. Admins build weekly shift schedules for their team, assign staff to locations, and publish schedules so staff can see their upcoming shifts.
• Clock-in, clock-out, and breaks, which happen on Shopify POS. Staff tap the Team Shift tile on the POS home screen to clock in at the start of a shift, take breaks, and clock out at the end — no separate login or PIN required beyond the one they already use for POS.

The core feature areas are:

• Staff — sync your team from Shopify or add them manually, assign them to one or more locations, and archive staff who leave.
• Schedules — a weekly grid for building and publishing shifts, location by location.
• Timesheets — every clock-in and clock-out becomes a timesheet, which admins can review, edit, and annotate.
• Reports — payroll-style hour totals per staff member, with CSV export.
• Settings — control notifications, early/late tagging, POS sales attribution, and which day your week starts on.

Who uses what

Team Shift draws a clean line between admins and staff:

• Admins (owners and managers) work entirely in Shopify Admin, on a computer or browser. They never need to open the Team Shift tile on POS to do their job — building schedules, reviewing timesheets, and running reports all happen in the dashboard.
• Staff work entirely on the Shopify POS device. They don't see the admin dashboard at all. If a staff member (or anyone) opens Team Shift from inside POS — for example, through Settings > Apps — the app detects that it's running inside POS and shows a restricted screen instead of the dashboard, along the lines of "Manage Team Shift from the web. To clock in or out, tap the Team Shift tile on your POS home screen."

Staff identity on POS comes automatically from the POS session — whoever is logged into that POS device with their staff PIN is who Team Shift clocks in or out. There's no separate PIN entry inside the Team Shift tile itself.

What Team Shift does not do

Team Shift is focused on scheduling and time tracking. It does not:

• Calculate wages or run payroll — it gives you the hours; your payroll provider does the math.
• Integrate directly with any payroll provider.
• Forecast staffing needs or optimize schedules automatically.
• Offer a standalone mobile app — all POS-side functionality happens through the Shopify POS app itself.

Next steps

• Installing Team Shift and completing setup — walk through the install flow and the Setup Guide
• Adding and importing staff — sync your team from Shopify or add them by hand
• Adding the Team Shift tile to POS — the one manual step to get clock-in working on the register