Cover the shift. Skip the 35% agency markup.
Post a shift, a pre-trained worker two doors down picks it up, QR check-in, instant pay — a flat fee, not a 35% agency markup.
The rail · tonight
3 open near you
19:00–01:00·SERVER·$22/hr
Lume Wine Bar
0.2 mi away
M. Rivera picked it up · ★ 4.9
18:00–23:00·BARTENDER·$26/hr
The Mercer · 0.3 mi away
12:00–17:00·BARISTA·$21/hr
Fold Coffee · 0.5 mi away
The 5pm problem
Short-staffing isn’t rare. It’s Tuesday.
Every operator knows the feeling. The trade runs on people, and people call out. The trained help you need is usually a block away — you just have no way to borrow it.
- Agencies tack 30-40% on top of every emergency cover
- You're paying a premium for a stranger you've never met
- Hours of phone calls to fill one evening shift
Tonight, you're a server short.
Someone called out an hour before doors. The floor needs covering and the clock is already running.
The café down the street isn't.
Two doors away, a trained barista is on a slow shift. You'd lend each other staff in a heartbeat — if there were any way to.
So you scramble, or you overpay.
Your only options are a panicked group chat that nobody answers, or an agency that adds a 30–40% markup and sends a stranger.
How it works
From a gap on the floor to a worker on the pass — in three moves.
Post the shift
Role, time window, and rate. Set it in under a minute — the rate step shows live what an agency markup would have cost you.
19:00–01:00 · SERVER · $22/hr
Open
A vetted worker picks it up
Trained neighbours within range get pinged the second your chit drops. They accept in seconds — no group chat, no strangers.
M. Rivera accepted
★ 4.9 · 0.2 mi · 73 shifts
They clock in by QR — and get paid
Scan to clock in, geo-validated against your venue. The moment they clock out, their pay lands and you're charged one flat fee.
Payout sent
Filled$132.00
6.0 hrs · in M. Rivera’s account at clock-out
The moat
A closed network is the whole point.
Open gig apps can’t solve trust — anyone can sign up, and you find out who you got when they walk in. ShiftPool flips it: the network is invite-only and venue-vouched, so reliability is built in before a single shift is posted.
Every venue vetted by hand
No open sign-ups. A human approves each venue before it can borrow or lend — so the people on your floor come from places you'd recognise.
You join by invite
Membership propagates by vouch from an existing venue. The network grows through trust, not cold acquisition — and bad actors can't slip in.
Workers arrive already trained
Everyone carries a portable rating and trade badges earned across the network. No teaching someone how to run a pass mid-service.
Invite-only · venue-vouched
VerifiedCover the floor without the markup.
Fill a gap in minutes
Drop a chit, get pinged when it's grabbed.
Borrow people with real ratings
Trade badges + shifts-completed, not a CV.
One flat per-shift fee
No 30–40% markup riding on every cover.
A typical 6-hour cover · illustrative
Agency markup
+$48
ShiftPool fee
$5
Pick up extra shifts, paid instantly.
Extra hours near you
Open shifts in your trade, within your radius.
A portable rating
It follows you across the whole network.
Paid the moment you clock out
Instant payout to your bank or card.
Only good employers
You work for venues vouched as decent places.
Pricing
The same cover. A fraction of the cost.
Priced against the agency markup you already know: 30-40% on every temp.
A staffing agency
~35% markup, every time
- 30–40% markup on every temp
- Hours of calls to fill one shift
- A stranger you've never met
- No rating, no track record
ShiftPool
No markup. No surprises.
- One flat per-shift fee — no markup
- Filled in minutes, off the rail
- A vetted neighbour, vouched in
- Real ratings, badges, history
Figures are illustrative. Shown in your local currency — $ / £ / S$ / A$. One flat fee per shift, wherever you run the floor.
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Shifts filled this quarter
0 min
Median time to fill
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Filled without a no-show
A line cook called out at five. I dropped the chit, and someone from the place around the corner was prepping by six. No agency, no markup, no panic.
Sample — “Dani O.”
Chef-owner, neighbourhood bistro
Slow nights at my venue used to mean a thin pay packet. Now I pick up a shift two streets over and the money's in my account before I've taken my apron off.
Sample — “Marcus R.”
Bartender · 73 shifts on the network
0 venues already sharing staff in the launch neighbourhood. Sample figures — we onboard a few neighbourhoods at a time.
Questions
The things every operator asks first.
Straight answers on vetting, no-shows, pay, and cover. Anything else, ask us when you request access.
Every unfilled table tonight is revenue you don't get back.
Request access — we onboard a few neighbourhoods at a time.
Tell us your venue or your trade, and who vouched for you. We verify every venue by hand — you’ll hear back within 48 hours.
Invite-only · venue-vouched · no subscription, one flat fee per shift