For retail workers

Availability is not a schedule, and your family needs the schedule

Retail scheduling is built around forecast demand, which means it changes. You give availability, you receive a schedule, and it moves: hours added at Christmas, cut in January, a shift swapped on the day. Everyone at home is working from whatever you last told them.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Weekly, posted late

Often days rather than weeks ahead, which is enough notice for the store and not enough for childcare.

Clopens

Closing then opening the next morning. The hours between are sleep, not free time.

Cut or extended on the day

Quiet afternoon, sent home. Busy one, kept on. Either way the posted time was wrong.

Seasonal swings

A December schedule bears no relation to a February one, and neither does the school run built around it.

What it sounds like at home

“The schedule goes up and I spend the evening forwarding it.”
“I got sent home early and my lift did not know.”
“A clopen looks like a normal evening and a normal morning to everyone else.”
“My hours change every week so childcare is a weekly negotiation.”
“My parents ask when I am off and I genuinely do not know yet.”

Where Freeish fits

Photograph the posted schedule or screenshot the scheduling app — Freeish reads the shifts off either.

Cut early or kept late: change the one shift, and everyone following sees it.

A clopen reads correctly, because the two shifts are visible with the short gap between them.

Whoever handles pick-ups sees next week without asking you for it.

One week, start to finish

Jordan, floor team

The schedule posts Wednesday for the week starting Monday.
Jordan screenshots it in the break room and imports it before clocking back on.
His mum, who collects his daughter, sees the week without a message.
Friday is quiet and he is cut two hours early; one edit and the lift knows.
December hours arrive and the same one-minute import covers the whole month.

Questions retail workers ask

My schedule is in an app my employer gave me. Does that work?

Screenshot it and import the picture. Freeish does not need to connect to your employer's system, which is also why nothing you do here is visible to them.

Can my manager see this?

No. Freeish has no connection to your employer and no directory. Only people you invite see anything.

What if my hours change constantly?

That is the case it is built for. Changing one shift takes seconds and everyone following you sees it without a message.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.