Roadmap

Type or say how the week should go ("Maria opens Monday to Wednesday, Sam closes the weekend") and Coyoteshift fills in a draft schedule. Nothing is published until you've checked it. In development: the drafting works in our test copy, and we're finishing the privacy layer (staff names and personal details are replaced with placeholders before anything reaches our AI drafting service) and tuning how it reads unusual requests.

Take a photo or upload a distributor's invoice. Every line is read, added up against the invoice's own totals and matched to your catalog by barcode, item code or name, so you only look at the lines that don't add up. A new distributor's layout is set up once, in plain words. Being built now; you can try a preview in the CoyoteTrack demo. It grew out of an invoice-checking prototype from June 2026.

Received stock, new items, costs and prices go to Clover as one batch you approve, and can undo. Lookup and stock reconciliation against Clover already work; the sync itself is being built.

Moving from another app or a spreadsheet shouldn't take a week. Upload your staff list as a spreadsheet or another app's export; we recognise the common formats (7shifts, When I Work, Sling, Deputy, Homebase, Square) and ask which column is which for anything else. You review duplicates and fix mistakes before anything is saved, and you choose whether invites go out right away or later.

Overtime rules differ by state, and most scheduling apps only count the federal 40-hour week. We plan to apply your state's rules per person: daily overtime where the state requires it, the exceptions the law allows, and a check that pay never works out under your state's minimum wage, with the payroll export saying exactly which rules ran. Nevada comes first: overtime after 8 hours in a day for staff earning under 1.5x the state minimum wage ($18/hour in 2026), as well as after 40 hours in a week, with an exception for written 4x10 agreements. Other states follow, starting with the ones our customers are in. Each state's rules are tested against real timesheets before anyone relies on them for payroll.

Not every business fits a standard plan. We plan to tailor a plan to you: just a time clock for a two-person shop, more staff or locations for a bigger team, features on or off. Set up with you, no new code each time.

Some work doesn't happen at the store: a farmers' market stall, a job site, a catering venue. An owner can let a location accept clock-ins from anywhere; the punch is stamped with where it happened (if the phone allows) and an optional note, so the timesheet still tells the full story.

Everything your staff touch (clocking in, the schedule, swaps, time off, chat and notifications) will be available in Spanish, chosen per person. Translations are checked by a native speaker before release. Owner and admin screens follow later.

One account for Coyoteshift and CoyoteTrack, so staff and owners sign in once. Sign-in is the front door to your business data, so this one gets extra care: single-use codes, protection against stolen links, signing out everywhere at once, and two-step sign-in for owners. It ships only after it has been tested by someone trying to break it.

Cost per item over time, deals starting and ending, margins by department down to the item, and a supplier report on price increases. Preview in the demo.

Wages and tips (from Coyoteshift), fees, rent and utilities against your sales, so you can see your break-even point without waiting on an accountant. Preview in the demo; part of a higher tier.

Not everyone is paid by the hour. Auto techs are paid flat-rate per job, instructors per class, car washers and groomers per piece, stylists and service advisors on commission, often on top of a base wage. We plan one pay setup that handles all of these, starting with flat-rate for auto shops. Whatever the pay type, it checks that pay never works out below minimum wage for the hours actually worked (and shows the top-up owed), and it works out overtime the way the law requires for non-hourly pay.

The next step after rules-based auto-schedule: a draft that weighs coverage at your busiest times, labour cost, your state's overtime rules, availability and a fair share of good and bad shifts, and explains each assignment in plain words. Our ground rules: it only ever drafts, and a manager approves; it never uses lateness, sick days, predictions about people, productivity scores, location tracking or messages as inputs; rest between shifts and stated availability are hard limits it can't trade for a cheaper week; staff can see why they got a shift and ask for a review; and staff names and personal details are replaced with placeholders before anything reaches an AI service.

For auto repair shops: a tech scoreboard (efficiency, productivity, comebacks per tech and for the shop), a live bay board for the shop TV showing who's on what and for how long, and shop capacity ("room for 6 more hours on Thursday") for whoever books the work. Built on the job clock and flat-rate pay above.

Building on the licences staff have been able to keep on their profile since June 2026: reminders before cards lapse (food handler, alcohol awareness, gaming and guard cards, ASE, EPA 609, cosmetology and pesticide applicator licences, CPR) and a warning before you schedule someone on a job their card doesn't cover.

For owners with several stores: one screen with who's on, who's late, labour cost so far and what's waiting on you, across every location.

Nevada's heat illness rule asks businesses with outdoor or hot indoor work to assess the risk, keep a written plan and train staff. We plan to give you templates to fill in, a sign-off for each employee, and on hot days a water-rest-shade reminder at the start of each shift, with a record that it went out.

Instead of exporting a file, approved hours go straight into your payroll provider's pay period in one tap. We'll start with the provider our first customers use most.

Take a photo of the whiteboard or the paper schedule, or upload a spreadsheet, and get a draft week to check and fix before publishing.

Clock time to the job, not just the shift: a repair order, a catering event, a cleaning site, a market day. Techs start, pause ("waiting on parts") and finish jobs from their phone, and owners see labour hours and cost for every job.

For businesses that build their own tools: a documented API with keys per business, read access to staff, schedules, time and jobs, a few safe write actions, and webhooks when things happen (a shift is published, someone clocks in, time off is approved). Your data, connected to whatever you run.

For pest control and landscaping: log each pesticide application on the job. The product is looked up by its EPA registration number (and flagged if it's no longer registered), the amount, area and target are entered, the weather is filled in, and the applicator is whoever is clocked in. Records are kept for the two years Nevada requires and can be exported per property for an inspector. The licensed applicator stays responsible for following the label and the law.

Suggested orders from what sold this week and what's still on the shelf. You check it and send it to your distributor.

Sign in on a store tablet or a computer by scanning a moving code with the phone you're already signed in on. No typing passwords on shared devices.

Schedule changes, shift reminders and open shifts by text message, for staff who don't use app notifications.

Onboarding paperwork with e-signature, and a calendar for the filings, licence renewals and training a business can't miss. Templates and reminders with a person reviewing every form; not legal advice. Preview in the demo; part of a higher tier.

A short, truly anonymous check-in for staff, shown to owners only as totals once enough people answer, so no one can be singled out.

Apps in the App Store and Google Play, alongside the web app you can install today.

A heat-map of who is available each day and hour, so you know where the gaps are before you start the week.

Export the records an inspector or a dispute needs (schedules, punches, approvals, acknowledgements, licences) for a date range in one archive.

Connect Square, Toast or Clover so sales feed labour cost, staffing forecasts and inventory without typing numbers in.

Customers book a stylist, a class, a grooming slot or a service appointment, against your real staff schedule, so nobody is booked with someone who's off.

A QR code at the counter lets customers suggest products or leave feedback, feeding the suggestion box. No account needed and no tracking.

An estimate of pay earned so far this week on My Time, from approved hours and their rate. Never sold as a cash advance.

A list of the equipment you depend on (coolers, lifts, vans, ovens) with service schedules, repair requests with photos and the history of each one.

Temperature logs for coolers and food with alerts when something is out of range, and opening/closing till counts with a photo.

Thank someone in front of the team: shout-outs from managers or peers on the home screen.

A one-time licence to run your own copy of Coyoteshift on your own server, with support and updates for a set term that you can renew. Your copy keeps working if you don't renew. A first self-hosted build was made in June 2026; it's being reworked so your copy keeps running for good.

For cleaning crews and trades: a checklist for each client site, done on the phone with photos, and a tidy report the client receives when the job is done.

Costs, sales and payroll totals sent to QuickBooks or Xero so your books stay current.

Everything an auto repair shop runs on: repair orders, estimates approved by the customer by text, parts on hand and on order, invoices and card payments, vehicle history, and inspections with photos. Labour times and repair data come from licensed providers, so this depends on agreements we haven't made yet.

Pay your team and have payroll taxes filed without leaving Coyoteshift, through a licensed payroll partner. We never hold your money ourselves.

Build the report you want (hours, labour cost, lateness, sales per labour hour) and get it emailed every week.

Send quotes and invoices and take card payments, for shops, caterers, trades and food makers selling wholesale. Payments go through a licensed payment processor.

Open shifts offered in an order you choose (seniority, fewest hours this week, or first come) so pickup is fair and predictable.

For larger customers, staff sign in with the company's Google or Microsoft accounts.

Suggested staff per day and hour from your own sales or customer counts, learned by weekday and season, plus the big Las Vegas weeks (conventions, races, rodeo) that change everything. You stay in charge; it suggests, you decide.

Play licensed background music on the shop speakers and drop in announcements ("we close in 15 minutes") from the manager's phone.

Bite-size training (opening procedure, ID checks, safety) with a quick quiz and a sign-off record per person.