When I Work is $2.50 per user per month and Deputy starts at $4.50 — for 20 employees that is $600 to over $1,000 a year, forever. Shiftly is the useful 90% of both: a drag-drop weekly calendar, swaps, open shifts and a live labor-cost estimate on your own server. $29, once.

• Drag-drop weekly schedule — Drag shifts between employees and days; shift templates like Morning or Close fill a week in two clicks.

• Availability and time off — Weekly windows and approved time off, with unavailable, time-off and double-booked conflicts flagged red on the grid.

• Shift swaps — Employee-to-employee swap requests with manager approval; approving reassigns the shift instantly.

• Open-shift pickup board — Post unfilled shifts and assign a claimer in one click.

• Labor cost estimate — Hourly rate times scheduled hours per employee and week, with an over-budget warning, all in integer cents.

• Publish and notify — Publish a week and affected employees get notified (email optional via your SMTP), plus CSV export and a print-friendly view.

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on any $5 VPS (Docker included).

What's included:

• Full source code (MIT): https://github.com/bensblueprints/shift-scheduler

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)