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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "shiftie",
 "name": "Shiftie",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "shiftie.co",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": "Time tracking, shifts & attendance",
 "summary": "Rota building, clock-ins, leave and shift swaps for shift-based businesses. Not an HR or payroll platform, so those stay separate purchases.",
 "best_for": "shift-based businesses (hospitality, retail, leisure) that want quick rota building, clock-ins and leave management without spreadsheet pain",
 "skip_if": "you need full HR, payroll and performance management in one system, or your team doesn't work in shifts at all",
 "honest_knock": "It's focused, affordable rota software — which means it does scheduling, clock-ins, leave and swaps well, but it isn't a full HR or payroll platform, so a growing business will still bolt on payroll and HR tools around it. Pricing is genuinely low, but the per-active-employee model means a large seasonal team in a busy month costs more than the headline suggests. For shift-based scheduling specifically, it's a clean, cheap fit.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "£2.75",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month per active employee for the first 30, then £1.50 per employee above 30",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(price re-verified 24 September 2026, unchanged since 5 September) £2.75 per active employee per month for the first 30, then £1.50 for each employee above 30 — the reduced rate is marginal, not retroactive. Measured on the vendor's own pricing slider: 1 employee £2.75, 5 £13.75, 10 £27.50, 15 £41.25, 30 £82.50, 31 £84.00, 50 £112.50, 100 £187.50, 150 £262.50, 199 £336.00. At 200 employees the slider stops quoting and switches to Custom Pricing. There is no minimum and no entry-plan floor: one employee costs £2.75. Monthly billing only — no annual option is offered anywhere on the page. Billing is in arrears: at the start of each month you are charged for users marked active during the previous month. 28-day free trial, no card details required, and 7-day UK-based support included. Cancelling is a button in the billing section; access runs to the end of the current billing period, and the cancellation can be reversed until then. Note the domain move: shiftie.co.uk now redirects to shiftie.co.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-24",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-08-13",
   "last_read": "2026-11-01",
   "read_days": 8,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-08-13",
    "until": "2026-11-01",
    "reads": 8,
    "days": 80
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Deputy or 7shifts",
  "why": "comparable scheduling platforms — Shiftie tends to undercut on price; compare on payroll/HR features you actually need"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/shiftie.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/shiftie-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/shiftie/",
  "vendor_site": "https://shiftie.co"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://try.shiftie.co/vndu93lvag6m",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "shiftie:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shiftie:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shiftie:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "shiftie:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}