Alpacca: Shifts & Time Clock

Who's working Saturday, who has clocked in, whether the closing checklist got done, and where the van is — one app, one flat price for the whole organization.

Alpacca runs the organization: the schedule, the shifts, the time clock, the bookings, the clients, the tasks and the equipment. It's built for barbershops, salons, cafés, clinics, cleaning and trades crews — small businesses that have outgrown a group chat and a shared spreadsheet. Nonprofits that run the same way use it too.

Try it first
Tap Try the demo on the first screen and look around a café with a team and a week of shifts, as the owner or as someone on the team. No account needed.

Shift scheduling
Build next week's schedule from your usual one and publish it in a few minutes. A shift that's short of staff is flagged. Someone can't make their shift? They can hand it off, and anyone qualified can pick it up — waiting on your approval if you want the last word.

Shift checklists
Give a shift its routine: opening, closing, cleaning. Members mark each item done during the shift, with who and when, and clock-out reminds them what's left. You see what got done without calling anyone.

Time clock
Turn a tablet you already have into Alpacca Terminal. Open alpacca.app/terminal and pair it from the app. Your team taps their name and a 4-digit PIN to clock in, take a break or clock out — no account or app for them. It keeps working when the wifi drops.

Or let members clock in from their own phone: everyone, or only the people you choose. Each punch records the street it came from. Nobody is tracked in between, and clocking out always goes through.

Time cards
Every member's week in one place. Hours so far plus the shifts still ahead show overtime before it happens, and late, early and missed shifts are marked. A correction never erases the original; it keeps who changed it, when and why. Members ask for a fix on a missed punch, which counts only once a manager approves it. Export hours to Excel, or to PDF with one page per person, ready to sign.

Booking pages and appointments
Share a booking page where clients pick a time that works, with the person they want or whoever is available. A confirmed booking lands on your calendar.

Clients, vendors and tasks
Contacts and notes for the people and companies you work with, and one History for each: past events, finished tasks and what's coming up. Assign the work, set a due date, and see what's still open.

Members and teams
Your people, sorted into teams, with clear access levels. Skills record who is qualified for which shifts.

Calendar, assets, polls and time off
One calendar everyone can see, who has the van and when it's back, a quick poll instead of a thread, and days off requested and approved.

Everywhere your people already are
Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad, and the full app in any browser, in light or dark.

What Alpacca doesn't do
We don't process donations, dues or payments, and we are not a payroll or accounting system. Time cards give you the hours to hand to whoever runs payroll.

Plans
One flat price per organization, not per person, billed monthly, quarterly or yearly. Every feature is in every plan; plans differ only by how many members they hold.

Essential — up to 8 members
Standard — up to 25 members
Pro — up to 75 members

Essential, billed monthly, includes a 14-day free trial that becomes a paid subscription when it ends unless you cancel first. Every other plan and billing period is charged from the first day. Subscriptions renew automatically at the price and interval shown at checkout until you cancel. Cancel any time in Google Play; cancelling stops the next renewal, and access continues to the end of the term you have paid for.