New: the coverage agent now explains every pick

Employee scheduling that balances the business with the people in it.

Scheduling, a live time clock and payroll-ready timesheets in one app, with a coverage agent that fills the gaps and shows its work. Built for startups, small businesses and multi-location operators.

Formclock's dashboard, showing today's coverage timeline across three locations and labour cost against budget.

Draft a week in minutes. Publish it clean, every time. Get your Sunday nights back.

The platform

Scheduling, time and pay. One system.

No add-ons and no tab-switching. A shift published in the schedule is what the clock expects, and what the timesheet totals.

Scheduling

A week grid tuned to your floor. Copy last week forward, drag people into place, and see every gap before it becomes a Friday-night phone call.

Discover scheduling

Time clock

Kiosk PIN clock-in with an optional photo, geofencing when you want it, and a live board that shows who is on across every site right now.

Discover the time clock

Timesheets and pay

Hours, breaks and overtime roll up on their own. Exceptions surface for review, and payroll leaves as a clean CSV rather than a re-typing job.

Discover timesheets

Plus a coverage agent, leave, fair-rotation scoring, and the parts we only show inside.

The coverage agent

Every pick, explained.

When a gap opens, the agent ranks every eligible person on skills, availability, fairness and cost, and says why the top pick won. Anything it fills carries one-tap undo, and every action it takes lands in the audit log.

  • Ranks every eligible person and says why
  • One-tap undo on anything it fills
  • Every action written to the audit log
See how the agent works
Coverage agent1 gap · Server 4–10PM
SA
Sofia Almeida
32.5h scheduled this weekno conflicts
LK
Leo Kowalski
36h scheduled this weekno conflicts
GN
Grace Nakamura
38h scheduled this week1 soft warning
Fill gap Undo
Ranked 3 eligible of 12 considered · written to the audit log
Compliance

The law, checked before you publish.

Rule packs for the US, UK, EU and Anglophone Africa, and every rule cites the statute it reads from. Warnings surface before a schedule goes out, and blocking conflicts stop it.

See every rule and its citation
Publish checkUnited States · California
Weekly overtime (40h)warn
Priya hits 43.5h · FLSA 29 U.S.C. §207(a)
Meal break (30 min after 5h)warn
Tue 11a–5p has no break · Cal. Lab. Code §512(a)
Maximum shift length (12h)block
Sat close runs 13h · Blocks the publish until resolved
Resolve 1 blocking conflict2 warnings noted
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rules across eight packs

US, UK, EU and four Anglophone-Africa baselines, plus the California add-on, each versioned like code.

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regions to choose from

The US, UK, EU, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. Pick where you operate. You are never warned under another country's law.

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citation on every rule

Each rule names the statute or guidance it reads from, so you can check our reading.

Before and after

Sunday night, two ways.

The spreadsheet way

  • Three hours in a spreadsheet every week
  • Coverage gaps discovered when someone no-shows
  • The good shifts always going to the same people
  • Overtime you find out about at payroll
  • Compliance tracked by memory

With Formclock

  • A week drafted and auto-filled in minutes
  • Gaps flagged before they happen, agent on standby
  • Fair rotation everyone can see
  • Overtime flagged the moment it starts
  • Rules enforced before every publish
The maths

Estimate what you would get back.

Our assumptions are printed on the calculator. Change them, and watch the number move.

Team size50
Average hourly wage$25
Hours spent scheduling / week10 H
Potential annual savings$125,060
Manager hours saved / yr468 hEstimate only. Assumes about 90% of scheduling time saved and 4% labour optimisation. Your results will vary.
Role-based access Tenant-isolated Reversible automation Payroll CSV export
Proof, not promises

Built to be checked, not admired.

Every number here is a fact about the product today, and each links to the page where you can verify it.

See every rule and its citation
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rules across our US, UK, EU, California and Anglophone-Africa packs, each citing its statute
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coverage-agent modes you stay in control of
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built-in reports, all CSV-exportable

The statutes our rule packs cite

  • FLSA 29 U.S.C. §207(a)
  • WTR 1998 reg 4
  • WTR 1998 reg 10
  • Directive 2003/88/EC Art 3
  • Directive 2003/88/EC Art 6(b)
  • Cal. Lab. Code §510(a)
  • NY Labor Law §161
  • Labour Act Cap L1 s.13
  • Employment Act 2007 s.27
  • Labour Act 2003 (Act 651) s.40
  • BCEA 75 of 1997 s.15

Built for your floor

Tuned to how your industry actually runs.

Draft a week in minutes
Sunday scheduling drops from hours to minutes. The coverage agent does the first pass and the GM just approves it.
Three-location taquería
More use cases
Built for your stage

From your first hire to your fiftieth site.

The same core on day one and at fifty locations. Start free, add the agent and compliance as you grow, wherever you operate: the US, UK, EU and Anglophone Africa.

Startups

Just getting off the ground

The free tier runs one location and up to five people with the whole core: scheduling, a kiosk clock, timesheets and payroll CSV. No time limit, no card.

See the free tier
Small businesses

One or two locations

Turn on compliance warnings and the coverage agent as you grow. Your region's rule pack checks every publish, and the agent suggests who can cover a gap.

Meet the agent
Multi-location operators

Five to fifty sites

Multi-site coverage, fair-rotation scoring, budget guardrails and an agent that fills the gaps at the autonomy you set, every action auditable and reversible.

By industry
How it works

Live in an afternoon.

01

Set up your workspace

Answer a few questions. Your locations, positions and rules seed themselves as you go.

02

Build & auto-fill

Draft a week, then let the agent rank and place people against coverage and fairness.

03

Publish & track

Staff clock in, timesheets assemble themselves, and every decision stays auditable.

Coming from something else?

We put our differences beside theirs, line by line, and we do not pretend they have no strengths.

Questions

Straight answers.

The things operators actually ask before switching.

How much does it cost, and is there a free way to try it?+
Simple per-user pricing that starts at $9/user/mo, and you can spin up a real workspace with no credit card to try it first. See the pricing page for details.
How long until my team is actually using it?+
Most operators are live in an afternoon. Your industry seeds starter positions and rules, you copy a week forward instead of starting blank, and staff clock in on a kiosk the same day.
Is it only for big operators, or can a small business use it?+
Both. A startup or single-site small business can run the whole core free, for up to five people, and grow into compliance and the agent when ready. Multi-location operators running 5–50 sites get per-location grids, positions, timezones and staff shared across sites.
Does it work outside the US?+
Yes. Set your currency, timezone and labour-law region per workspace. Compliance packs cover the US, UK, EU, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa today, each citing the statute it reads from.
Can I trust the AI to touch my schedule?+
Only as much as you allow. The agent defaults to suggest-only; you can let it act with approval or act and report. Every action is reversible with one tap and written to an audit log.
Will my staff actually adopt it?+
It shows up where they already check their schedule, with no new app to install. They clock in with a PIN, request time off, and pick up shifts from their own phone.
We already use a scheduler. Is switching a project?+
No migration project. You set up in an afternoon and can run it alongside your old tool for a week. Your data is always exportable, because it's yours.

See it with your own schedule

Set up a workspace, add your team, and build a week. It takes about ten minutes and costs nothing.

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