Managers Should Run the Floor, Not the Staff Group.
Shabetzli exists because the work around the schedule - asking, reminding, negotiating, filling gaps - quietly eats the week of the people who are supposed to be leading the team.
Why Shabetzli Exists
In most businesses that work in shifts, the schedule lives in a WhatsApp group. Someone posts "send me your availability", and for the next three days the answers arrive in fragments: a voice note, a photo of an exam timetable, a "same as last week", a reply to the wrong message. Then the manager rebuilds the week by hand, usually at night.
The schedule is only the visible part. Behind it are dozens of private conversations: who can't do Friday, who wants more hours, who's on reserve duty next week, who will swap with whom. When someone calls out at 16:00, the manager is the one sending messages one by one until someone says yes.
Managers are judged on what happens on the floor - service, team, costs. But a large part of their week goes to coordination that nobody sees. We built Shabetzli to take that coordination off their plate, in the place their team already talks: WhatsApp.
The schedule itself takes an hour. The conversations around it take the week.
What We Believe
These principles decide what we build, and just as often, what we don't.
Where your team already is
Hourly staff shouldn't need another app, another password or another login. WhatsApp is already open on every phone, so that's where Shabetzli works.
You stay in charge
Shabetzli prepares, follows up and proposes. You decide. Nothing is published without your approval, and you can change anything.
Fair by design
Weekends, holidays and closing shifts should rotate evenly, by rule rather than by who complains loudest. The reasoning behind the schedule is visible.
Private by default
Exams, health, family - personal reasons belong in a private conversation, not in front of the whole team. Every employee talks to Shabetzli one-on-one.
Built with operators
We build alongside the people who run shifts every week. Their problems set our roadmap, not a feature checklist.
How We Work With Early Teams
Shabetzli is in private access. That's deliberate.
Gradual onboarding
We bring teams in a few at a time, so each one gets real attention instead of a login and a help-center link.
Personal setup
We configure your roles, shifts, staffing levels and rules with you, so Shabetzli is ready to run from the first week.
A roadmap shaped by operators
Early teams talk directly to the people building the product. What you need on the floor shapes what we build next.
Built in Israel
Shabetzli is built in Israel, for teams that work the way Israeli businesses do: Hebrew mixed with English and slang, Friday and Saturday shifts, holidays that move every year, reserve duty that arrives with a week's notice, and staff who speak Russian, Arabic, Spanish or English at home.
Restaurants were our first market. The same problem exists wherever work runs in shifts, and that's where we're going next.
Help Shape What We Build Next.
We're onboarding teams gradually, with personal setup for each one. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out when your spot is ready.