Frequently asked questions

Many teams get their first schedule live quickly. Add your team, create a schedule, and start publishing right away.

Yes. Any device with a browser works. Your team just opens Shift Terminal on their phone, tablet, or computer and clocks in. No app download required.

iOS and Android apps are coming soon. Until they are in the App Store and Google Play, install Shift Terminal to your home screen from any browser: it opens full screen from its own icon and works the same.

Shift Terminal works as a standalone time clock too. Admins can turn off scheduling in Settings and your team gets a simplified experience focused on clock-in, clock-out, and timesheets.

Shift Terminal works for any business with hourly or shift-based employees: restaurants, retail, healthcare, hospitality, construction, trades, and more. If your team works in shifts, it works for you.

Yes. Lock any tablet as a terminal from the Attendance page. Employees identify with their employee ID and a PIN. The tablet needs a connection to take a punch; if a punch fails while it is saving, the tablet keeps it and saves it when the connection returns.

A searchable help center inside the app, support tickets with threaded replies, and e-mail at support@shiftterminal.com. Replies come from our team.

One plan with everything included: CA$49 per month flat for your whole team, after a 14-day free trial. It is priced per organization, not per user, so adding people never changes your bill. Pay annually for CA$490 and get two months free. Prices are in Canadian dollars, plus applicable sales tax.

No. There is a single plan with every feature and unlimited users, so there is nothing to choose and no seats to buy. Admins can cancel anytime from Settings, and you keep access until the end of the period you have paid for. To switch between monthly and annual billing, contact support.

Nothing is deleted. An admin can subscribe from Settings at any time. If you subscribe with two or more days of the trial left, you keep those days and the first charge is on the day the trial ends. If the trial ends first, the organization is paused until someone subscribes, and your data is kept. No credit card is needed to start the 14-day trial, and every feature is included during it.

Yes. To switch between monthly and annual billing, contact support. Annual billing is two months cheaper than twelve monthly payments, and either way the price is per organization, not per person.

Cancel anytime from Settings. Your subscription stays active until the end of the period you have paid for, and there are no cancellation fees. Refund handling for the different cases is spelled out in the Cancellation & Refund Policy.

No. Multiple schedules and job sites are included in the one flat price, and staff can be shared across locations. The bill is the same whether you run one site or ten.

Approved timesheets sync to QuickBooks Online (Essentials or Plus) as time activities. For everything else, export a payroll CSV in Ceridian/Dayforce, ADP Canada, ADP, Gusto, QuickBooks, Standard or Generic format.

Yes. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and each organization is isolated with role-based access controls.

Your database and uploaded files are hosted in Canada (AWS Canada Central, Montréal). Some service providers (payments, e-mail delivery, push notification delivery and error monitoring) process limited data in the United States, as listed in our Data Processing Agreement.

Yes. Anyone can turn on two-factor authentication with an authenticator app from My Profile, and it is mandatory for platform administrators.

Admins can ask for a complete export of the organization’s data by e-mailing privacy@shiftterminal.com, and we send it within 30 days. Timesheets, reports and requests also export to CSV from the app in a browser. Any user can delete their own account from My Profile or the website. Records an employer must keep for payroll are anonymized rather than removed.