The spreadsheet
Good at math, bad at telling anyone.
It lives on your laptop, so what your team actually has is a screenshot. You find out it went stale when somebody shows up on the wrong day.
Scheduling for small teams
Build next week’s schedule, and everyone has it on their phone.
Thyme is one schedule for your whole team. Build the week person by person, hit publish, and each person gets their own shifts on their phone. It takes the place of the spreadsheet, the screenshot, and the group text.
Making the schedule was never the hard part.
Getting it into eight people’s hands, keeping it right after Wednesday’s swap, and answering the same question at 9pm: that is where the week goes. Everything below is a reasonable thing to try, and they all break at the same step.
The printout by the time clock
Only works if you’re standing in front of it.
Wednesday’s swap gets written over it in pen, and anyone who wasn’t in that day is still working off Monday’s version.
The group text
Fine for the walk-in. Useless for Thursday.
The schedule sinks under forty messages by Wednesday, the new hire was never added to the thread, and nobody can tell which version is current.
The app you made everyone download
You paid to fix this and still answer texts at 9pm.
Half the team never finished signing up, the other half lost the password, and the schedule quietly moved back into the group chat.
Thyme replaces all four. One schedule you build, publish, and change in one place, and every person’s copy updates the moment you do.
See a week get built.
An empty week, the shifts filled in person by person, and one publish at the end. No narration, and no setup to sit through first.
Whatever your week runs on.
If it runs on shifts, Thyme’s for it.
Cafés
Restaurants
Coffee shops
Bars
Bakeries
Salons
Barbershops
Nail studios
Gyms & studios
Retail shops
Cleaning crews
Pet groomers
In practice
What this looks like where you work.
The 5:40am text.
Your opener oversleeps, you move the shift from your phone, and whoever’s covering knows before the grinder’s on.
These are scenarios, not testimonials. We’re in private alpha, so we’re not going to put words in a customer’s mouth yet.
How it works
Three steps, once a week.
Start from last week.
Copy last week, change what’s different, and most of the week is already done.
Publish it.
One button emails each person their own shifts for the week.
The team just has it.
Everyone gets a private link that opens on any phone. Post a QR code in the break room.
Thyme does one thing.
Thyme builds and publishes your weekly schedule, and gets it onto your team’s phones. That is the whole job. It’s not a time clock, it’s not payroll, and it’s not an all-in-one system you have to learn just to find out who’s on Friday. Keep whatever you already use for hours and pay. Thyme just makes sure everyone knows when they’re working.
It is
- Builds your weekly schedule
- Publishes it to everyone at once
- Opens on any phone, no app
- Free while in private alpha
It’s not
- A time clock
- Payroll
- An all-in-one platform
- Anything you have to train your team on
Free while we’re in private alpha. Planned after launch: free for up to 5 people, then $29 a month flat — your whole team, however many you hire.
We’re building this with a small group of businesses first.
Thyme is invite-only while we get it right with a small group of real businesses. Join the list, and we’ll bring on a few more each week as we’re ready for them.
No credit card, no trial timer. We’ll email you when there’s room for your business.