Case study · Workforce operating system · SaaS

Shiftly

Fair Stand OS — run your whole floor from one screen. POS, staff, scheduling, payroll, and tips in one installable app, with no per-transaction fees eating your margin.

Product
Shiftly / Fair Stand OS
Type
SaaS · workforce OS
Status
Early sales
Role
Product design + build
Built as
Installable PWA
For
Local biz · fairs · food trucks
Pricing
$49–$99/mo flat
Stack
PWA · JS · Stripe · offline-first
Shiftly marketing site — Run the shift. Own the numbers.

The problem

Local floors run on duct tape and card-processor fees. A POS here, a scheduling app there, a spreadsheet for tips, and a processor skimming every sale. For a fair stand or food truck it's chaos on the busiest day of the year. Shiftly puts the whole operation — sales, staff, tips, payroll — on one screen anyone can run.

What it does

01

Point of sale

Fast POS built for a rush — menu, modifiers, and checkout a new hire can run in minutes.

02

Staff board

Clock in/out, roles, and who's on the floor right now — live, on one screen.

03

Scheduling

Build shifts, swap them, and see coverage before the day starts.

04

Payroll + tips

Hours, tips pooled and split fairly, and payroll math done for you.

05

No per-transaction fees

Flat monthly, not a cut of every sale — the margin stays yours.

06

Installable PWA

Installs like a real app on any phone or tablet, works at the stand, syncs when it can.

Shiftly live board — today's sales, crew, orders, and tips
The live board — sales rung, crew on the floor, open orders and tips in one glance, with alerts like "drawer not closed" and "low stock." Sample data shown.
Shiftly app — role selection: Operator or Crew
The installed app opens to a role split — Operator runs the register, crew, orders and closeout; Crew clocks in and checks their Shift Record.

The approach

Local operators don't fail because they lack software — they fail because they're running four tools that don't talk to each other while a processor skims every sale. I designed Shiftly around one screen anyone on the floor can run, then made the pricing itself the argument: a flat monthly fee instead of a percentage, so the busiest day of the year doesn't become the most expensive.

Building it offline-first was a deliberate constraint, not a feature. A fair stand or food truck loses signal constantly; a POS that stalls at the window is worthless. Shiftly runs fully local and syncs when it can, which is why it holds up in exactly the environments other tools quietly break in.

Pricing model

Starter — $49/mo · single location Pro — $99/mo · payroll + tips + reporting + multi-device Enterprise — custom · multi-location + events

Flat monthly, no cut of your sales — deliberately priced against the processor-fee model that eats local margins.

◉ Proof: a real working PWA (installable, offline-first), not a static mockup. Shiftly and Fair Stand OS are the same product direction. Status: early sales.

The build

PWAJavaScriptlocalStorage syncStripeOffline-firstInstallable app
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