Shift cover, handled
A cook calls out.
You’re still covered.
When someone can’t make their shift, Covered texts everyone who can work it. The first to say yes takes it, and your schedule fixes itself — no more calling ten people one at a time.
This month’s board
filling liveThe schedule only ever breaks one way. People get sick, cars break down, a kid spikes a fever — and filling the hole always lands on the one manager already running the floor.
Nobody planned to be short tonight. Covered is the part that quietly handles it, so a call-out at four o’clock stops being your problem.
01 — The blast
One text,
out to the floor
Add your team once. When someone drops, tap the open shift and Covered messages everyone who’s free that day and can actually do the job.
Not the whole roster, not the people already working, not the ones on holiday. Only the people who could genuinely say yes.
Tonight · Fri
One text, out to the floor
Sam called out for the 5:00 line shift. First to reply YES takes it.
sent to 6 people who are free tonight
Dana— yes, I’ve got it
0:06Marco — I can come in?
already filledTonight’s line
Back to a full board
- set
Grill
Alex
- set
Sauté
Priya
- covered
Line · 5:00
Dana
- set
Expo
Ben
- set
Dish
Kayla
02 — First yes wins
Whoever replies
first, takes it
The shift is theirs the second they say yes. Everyone else is told it’s already covered, so nobody double-books and nobody shows up to a shift that was handed to someone else.
No group-chat guilt trip, no chasing, no “did anyone see my message?”
03 — The record
Watch your nights
get quiet
Every call-out, how fast it filled, and who keeps stepping up — by person, by role, by week.
- Nothing is assigned without a real person saying yes first.
- Only ever asks people who are free that day and can do the role.
- You see who keeps saving your night — so you know who to lean on.
Avg time to fill
0 min
Covered this month
0 / 13
Every call-out this month and how long it took to fill. Almost none of them needed a single phone call.
It only ever texts your own team
Covered messages the people you put on your roster, and nobody else. Every worker opts in, one word stops the texts for good, and their number is never shared or sold. It never texts a customer, ever.
How we handle your team’s numbers
How it works
Six steps, from
the call-out to covered
You set it up once. From then on the only thing you do is glance at your phone and see it's handled.
- 01
Add your team once
Names, phone numbers, roles, and who can do what. Ten minutes, and you never do it again.
- 02
Someone calls out
You tap the empty shift, or the worker texts that they can't make it. Either way, the clock starts.
- 03
One message goes out
Only to the people who are free that day and can actually do that job. Not the whole team, not the wrong people.
- 04
The first yes takes it
The shift is theirs the second they reply. Everyone else is told it's already covered, so nobody double-books.
- 05
The schedule fixes itself
The roster, the floor plan, and the hours that go to payroll all update to match who actually worked.
- 06
You see what happened
Who covered, how fast it filled, and who keeps saving your night — so you know who to lean on next time.
Before you talk to us
Work out what a
call-out costs you
Three numbers you already know, and every assumption behind the answer is yours to change. We don’t hide the result behind a form.
From the people running the floor
The night nobody
showed up short
Owners and managers who used to run the phone tree themselves, every week.
Your crew already knows how to text
No app to download, no login to forget. A worker gets a text, replies yes, and they’re on. That’s the whole thing they have to learn.
Stop running
the phone tree.
Fifteen minutes to add your team, and the next time someone calls out you just watch it fill.