Puppy is probably for you if…
- You have roughly 8–50+ hourly employees.
- Your staffing needs change throughout the day.
- Employee schedules vary week to week.
- People care which days or hours they receive.
- Employees work different amounts of hours.
- Some people work across multiple locations.
- You regularly receive scheduling requests through conversations or messages.
- And too much of the schedule still lives in one manager's head.
Puppy is especially useful when availability is not enough — when somebody could work six shifts but would be happiest with three, or wants 35 hours while a colleague wants 12, or is flexible everywhere except one evening. If those differences matter to your schedule, Puppy gives them a structured way to matter.
Where it is already a weekly puzzle
Coffee shops
Opens, closes, students, second jobs, weekends — and everybody wants something different. Tell Puppy when the shop needs coverage, let employees tell Puppy when they would like to work, and build from both.
Restaurants & bars
A full schedule is not enough; you need the right coverage at the right times. Set changing staffing needs throughout the day, account for roles and availability, and let Puppy work through preferences around them.
Retail
Part-time teams rarely have simple schedules: changing availability, school, second jobs, weekend demand, seasonal staffing. Employees keep their normal preferences and update only what changes.
Gyms & studios
Coordinate instructors, front-desk employees, varying demand periods, desired hours and changing availability without recreating the normal week every time.
Salons & service businesses
Give employees one place to say when they can work, when they would prefer to work, and how much they would like to work. Then let Puppy keep track of it.
Pet care, hospitality & other hourly teams
If your business has changing coverage needs and employees with meaningful scheduling preferences, the underlying problem is the same.
Multi-location operators
Your employee does not become a different person at the second location. When employees work across locations, their hours, availability and preferences need to make sense across the whole operation. Multi-Location and Full Puppy are built for shared employees.
Puppy probably isn't for you if…
- Your team works the same permanent schedule every week.
- Your primary need is a comprehensive enterprise HR platform.
- Your central problem is payroll rather than scheduling.
- Or your operation depends on specialised regulatory, union, clinical, credentialing or compliance rules Puppy is not designed to handle.
That is fine. Puppy is intentionally focused: it is scheduling software first.
You already have most of the information needed to build next week.
It is in texts, conversations, notes and memory, and every week somebody has to turn all of it into one schedule. Puppy gives it somewhere useful to go.
From $12 a month billed yearly, or $19 monthly. Your whole team included.