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Sling

4.6
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Employee scheduling made easy and free!

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Sling Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

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Q. What type of pricing plans does Sling offer?

Sling has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $2.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available

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Q. Who are the typical users of Sling?

Sling has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business

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Q. What languages does Sling support?

Sling supports the following languages:
English

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Q. Does Sling support mobile devices?

Sling supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone

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Q. Does Sling offer an API?

Yes, Sling has an API available for use.

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Q. What other apps does Sling integrate with?

Sling integrates with the following applications:
Square for Restaurants, Gusto, Square for Retail, Shopify POS, Google Calendar, Toast POS, Shopify

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Q. What level of support does Sling offer?

Sling offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Chat, FAQs/Forum, Email/Help Desk

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Sling product overview

Price starts from

2

/user

Per month

What is Sling?

Sling is a staff scheduling and communication software for businesses where employees work in shifts. The software allows managers to assign shifts and tasks to employees across multiple work sites, using a single shared calendar.

Key benefits of using Sling

Streamline your business:

- Schedule faster and smarter: Build accurate schedules in minutes and avoid overlapping shifts and double-bookings.

- Control labor costs: Stay under budget while controlling overtime and absenteeism.

- Communicate efficiently from a single platform: Send messages in group or private conversations, keep everyone informed, and build a stronger company culture.

- Simplify time tracking: Allow employees to clock in and out right from their phones.

- Make payroll processing easier: Export timesheets for seamless payroll processing.

- Drive operational compliance: Ensure standards are being met to keep your business compliant.

- Enhance employee engagement: Engage employees in achieving business objectives in an easy-to-digest way while making work effortless and expected outcomes clear.

- Schedule with ease: Build your employees' schedules in minutes and manage time off, availability and shift trade requests.

- Eliminate scheduling conflicts: See up-to-date employee availability, time-off requests, and avoid overlapping shifts and double-bookings.

- Democratize scheduling: Let employees sign up for shifts on a first-come, first-served basis, or approve the requests and finalize the schedule.

- Reduce employee absences and late arrivals: Use shift alarms to remind employees of their upcoming shifts and send them notifications when they forget to clock in.

- Optimize labor spending as you schedule: Set wages per employee or position and see how much each shift will cost. Forecast and optimize expenses while scheduling to ensure you stay on budget.

- Manage multiple work locations with ease: Schedule employees across multiple locations on one account and view all schedules in one place.

- Set specific clock-in locations: Use GPS or IP settings to designate where you want employees to clock in.

- Integrate Sling with platforms you already use: Save time and money by integrating your scheduling with your existing platforms.

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Knowledge Base
Chat
FAQs/Forum
Email/Help Desk

Training options

Documentation
Live Online
Videos
In Person
Webinars

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Sling pricing information

Value for money

4.7

/5

135

Starting from

2

/user

Per month

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Sling features

Functionality

4.5

/5

135

Total features

57

12 categories

Most valued features by users

Alerts/Notifications
Activity Dashboard
Reporting & Statistics
Third Party Integrations
Reporting/Analytics
API
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export

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Sling users reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

/5

135

Positive reviews

Rating breakdown
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8.91/10
Rating distribution

5

4

3

2

1

89

42

2

2

0

Pros
After doing our research on many types of scheduling software, we have found that Sling best fit our needs through value, functionality, and amazing support.
I must say, I do wonder how long it will remain free. It's a great product and certainly deserving of a monthly cost affordable to small business as well as large corporations.
Being able to use the integrated time clock is also a great feature. There are just so many feature and customizations that it would be an asset for any type of business at any size.
Cons
Sling seemed to have constant problems loading, or randomly needing to reload, and then having troubles doing so.
My personal feelings after having to pay such high prices for cable channels on the market we just had to drop them. Someone told us about sling and to try it.
Sometimes to the shows wont work or keep loading. They wont play or keep glitching it says a error has occurred to try later.

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Tina L.

Director of Events

Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees

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Overall Rating

Best Value for your money

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Tina: Hi, my name is Tina and I'm the director of events. I give Sling a five out of five. For more reviews...

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Stefanie O.

Director of Operations

Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees

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Overall Rating

Best team scheduler!!!

Reviewed 3 months ago

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Stefanie O.: Hi, my name is Stefanie and I work for an orthodontic practice with a team size of about...

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Retail, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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Overall Rating
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Sling a must to check it out.

Reviewed 4 years ago

My personal feelings after having to pay such high prices for cable channels on the market we just had to drop them. Someone told us about sling and to try it. We love it. We will stick with sling for a long time. And to enjoy all the channels for cheap prices and affordable. Check it out and try it. Highly recommended Sling.

Pros

Sling is a great program. We have been with sling for 3 years now. We love sling. It better than spectrum for cable. Sling is way cheaper than any cable on market unless you go annetena. In order to use sling we had to buy roku to get sling for our tv. Sling programs offers very good rates for cable channels and more. Sling also offers dvr for any channel they have. My favorite channel is hallmark. Sling offers 3 hallmark channels that i never knew was on market. So being on a budget this was good buy and reasonable. Just to enjoy sling. I highly recommend it to anyone that is on a budget.

Cons

I don't have any complaints or downfall with sling. I am very happy and pleased with sling. I don't know what i do without sling program. It great program and you can't go wrong with sling.

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john t.

Security and Investigations, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best scheduling app out there

Reviewed 4 years ago

It truly has been a real asset for our business, I really believe we would be lost without this fantastic software.

Pros

Clocking in works great with SLING, scheduling and the employee interaction with the app is fantastic!

Cons

Getting use to messaging for help, were all used to calling someone. I found it works great and the response time is quick and responsive.

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Josephine-Marie M.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Not the best of software

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

what I do like about this software is if you don't have one of your coworkers number you can go on there and message them. Also it gives you your schedule when you work on a month to month basics.

Cons

What I don't like is that I have the app and I don't get notifications about it also when I want to pick up a shift it doesn't add it to my calendar so if I forget I wouldn't know if I did pick it up until I get a call.

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Martha M.

Individual & Family Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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We LOVE using Sling

Reviewed 2 months ago

Overall, we love everything about Sling!

Pros

Sling makes my scheduling task a breeze. I especially like: 1) being able to copy a previously posted schedule into a future period 2) employees being able to post unavailability 3) employees being able to make time off requests 4) employees being able to view who they are working with on a scheduled day 5) the ease in changing a schedule when a sick call comes in or an employee emergency happens

Cons

I really can't think of anything I do not like about Sling.

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Tina L.

Restaurants, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best Value for your money

Reviewed 2 years ago

Communicating with my team is easier especially since it was a free app and they are able to get notifications. I communicate much more effectively with news updates and menu changes.

Pros

It is very user friendly. I use it for scheduling and although I am currently unable to use the actual scheduling portion, I love the newsfeed portion! It is our own social media hub that I use to upload schedules, upload news of the restaurant, menu changes etc. The best feature is that I can see who has viewed it!!

Cons

Once I edit a post on the newsfeed portion and repost it, it doesn't alert users that there has been a modification.

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