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Shift Helper vs a spreadsheet.
A spreadsheet can be a perfectly good starting point. The question is whether the team can still tell who is available, where coverage is short and which version is current.
Where the shared sheet starts to bend
Availability arrives in comments, messages or separate copies.
Double-bookings and gaps depend on someone spotting them manually.
After a swap, people may be working from different files.
What Shift Helper is designed to change
Shift Helper focuses on the handoff: collect availability, surface coverage and clashes, let an owner review, then publish one clear schedule. It is not trying to become a payroll or HR system.
See the spreadsheet replacement workflow → · Collect availability →
Which should you choose?
Stay with a spreadsheet if one person can maintain it and everyone reliably sees the same version. Consider a focused scheduling workflow when the weekly chase, corrections and uncertainty cost more time than the sheet saves.