# Sling Reviews **Vendor:** Sling **Category:** [Employee Scheduling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/employee-scheduling-software) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 88 ## About Sling Sling is a scheduling, time tracking and communication software for companies where employees work in shifts. Sling incorporates scheduling, messaging, time tracking, task management and reporting functionalities and allows managers and employees alike to organize all aspects of their work on a single platform. ## Sling Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate Sling for its **communication efficiency** , which enhances collaboration and reduces confusion among team members. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Sling, highlighting its quick interface and efficient scheduling capabilities. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **efficiency** of Sling, benefiting from its ease of use and streamlined scheduling features. (3 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy scheduling** capabilities of Sling, enhancing work management with flexibility and efficient communication. (3 reviews) - Users value the **ease of scheduling** with Sling, enhancing both management and employee experience effectively. (3 reviews) - Features (2 reviews) - Helpful (2 reviews) - Users find Sling **intuitive** , appreciating how easily they can create shifts and leave important notes. (2 reviews) - Users value the **timely notifications** from Sling, especially for missed clock-ins and outs, enhancing attendance tracking. (2 reviews) - Users value the **efficient attendance tracking** of Sling, appreciating features like clock-in notifications and hour management. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the app's **limited features** restricting, especially for team-building beyond basic scheduling. (2 reviews) - Users find Sling's **cumbersome interface** difficult to navigate, especially on mobile, affecting overall user friendliness. (2 reviews) - Users often find Sling's **difficult navigation** frustrating, especially on mobile, making the interface feel less user-friendly. (1 reviews) - Users often struggle with Sling's **cumbersome mobile interface** , finding it less user-friendly and difficult to navigate. (1 reviews) - Users often find Sling's **mobile app navigation cumbersome** , making it less user-friendly compared to the desktop version. (1 reviews) - Notification Issues (1 reviews) - Notification Overload (1 reviews) - Not User-Friendly (1 reviews) - Poor Chat Functionality (1 reviews) - Poor Display Quality (1 reviews) ## Sling Reviews ### 1. Easy to connect with coworkers **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle E. | Assistant PetsHotel Leader, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Sling makes it easy to connect with coworkers especially in different departments. It is helpful for managing schedules and sending important information. It is very user friendly. **What do you dislike about Sling?** It is a bit difficult to filter conversations if you have a lot of messages going on with a lot of different people at one time. It would also be nice to have the time clock system built in here since the schedule is there already. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** It is easy to use and the app is also user friendly. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to share information with a whole department or the whole team at once and give updates on real time. Also everyone can see who is scheduled for the day so you know who is working. ### 2. tool designed for businesses to simplify employee scheduling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** djanna a. | customer service representative, Computer Networking, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** Users like the Sling schedule app for its ease of use, flexible shift switching, and robust mobile access, which allows for scheduling, task management, and communication on the go. Key benefits include quick schedule creation using templates, simplified time-off and availability management, and powerful communication features that reduce confusion and improve efficiency for both managers and employees. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Users often dislike Sling's cumbersome interface, which can be difficult to navigate and feel "less user-friendly" than desired, especially the mobile version compared to the desktop one. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sling solves problems related to manual, time-consuming scheduling, communication gaps, and ineffective labor cost control by providing tools for automated schedule building, real-time team messaging, and detailed budgeting and time-tracking features. ### 3. Effortless Scheduling That Simplifies My Work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoe W. | CSR, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** I appreciate how easy it is to use; it was extremely helpful for managing my work schedule. I enjoyed the variety of features, and I found myself using it every day. Additionally, the customer support was quick and efficient. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I have no complaints about Sling. It has met my expectations so far. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 4. Timesheet for work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elizabeth B. | Recovery Navigator, Certified Peer Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** It is easy to read and download. I have never had to call customer support for any issues. I check this on a daily basis for my on-call schedule. It allows me to see when things have changed on my schedule and notifies me before each shift. **What do you dislike about Sling?** It does not keep a tally of my PTO. It does not keep a paycheck tracker that shows your taxes and things like that. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is keeping track of the on call schedule that our payroll application is unable to do at the same time. ### 5. Great schedule tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel A. | Team lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** The most useful about Sling is that you can create different shifts at different times but also you can also leave notes when you want to let someone know that you couldn't take lunch time or you had to leave earlier. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Something that Sling can improve is its interface so that it can be a little bit funnier when it comes to pictures and profiles. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sling hasn't showed problems so far. Everything's working fine. ### 6. Easy way to manage a team **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** Easy app and quick interface to pick up **What do you dislike about Sling?** Not a lot of team building things in the app other than scheduling **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** One app to have the schedule ### 7. Easy to use app. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madeleine R. | Recovery navigator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Sling?** My shifts are easy to use and transfer if needed. **What do you dislike about Sling?** There should be more number of features. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** On call shifts are easy to use and transfer. ### 8. Real fast app to send updates about shift trades **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohsin D. | senior account executive, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Sling?** - The clock-in/clock out feature is great for time and attendance tracking. - Sends notifications when employees miss a clock in or out. - Keeps track of everyone's hours **What do you dislike about Sling?** I have always enjoyed Sling and there's really nothing I do not like. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Quick timesheets edits makes my job ten times accurate. - Its quick to track and update schedules in this app. - excellet way to request someone to cover my shift. ### 9. Amazing; no glitches; easy to use format. Very helpful tool for making schedules for my staff. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sijibomi A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Sling?** It is helpful with schedule planning on the fly. it's good I can have it on my laptop and phone. shift updates are instant; staff can see changes immediately and they can request time off via the app. I love the format and easy-to-use style. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I am on the free version and I must confess this is better than some paid versions of similar apps. I don't think I dislike anything about this app; If anything I dislike (my company) not being able to afford the Pro version because I am sure there are many more helpful features on Sling. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling issues communication issues; staff have no excuse to say they forgot due to the shift reminders via the app. it is easier to make schedules and update them after they have been published: staff are alerted of changes instantly. ### 10. Good application for management working shifts **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Sling?** I can check everything about the working shift and others' shifts within one application. We also communicate with each other via Sling, create a group chat, find contacts. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Sometimes, the application was frozen or kept loading. So I need to restart the application. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** They have a push notification to notify me before my shift starts in an hour. It is very useful because my working time is not fixed. Sling also has a function to add unavailable days by myself. ### 11. Sling for business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle E. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Sling?** I like being able to communicate and share photos/documents easily with coworkers. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Sometimes there are a lot of notifications for chats I'm not really involved in. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to communicate important information from anywhere. ### 12. Fantastic application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gunnar S. | Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Being able to create repeating shifts, to be able to visualize what any given should look like, saves a lot of time and energy when planning a shift schedule. It gives a great overview of your business. I have never had to explain the software to my employees, as it is very intuitive. When we have hired new staff, we simply add them into Sling, and their shifts show up on their smartphone apps. I love to be able to keep an overview of all my currently active employees, as well as keep a log of former employees through the deactivated accounts. I feel you get extremely much functionality out of the free version of the software. I highly enjoy being able to see the schedule through different filters, or views. For example viewing only a certain group of employees (part-time employees for example), and seeing each day isolated, so I can get an overview of exactly which person is at work during which time of the day. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Every now and then there are some minor hiccups or bugs. But nothing serious has been wrong. Some actions require relatively many clicks to accomplish. I do feel the software is quite "intelligent" in guessing, what kind of action you want to make. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I enjoy being able to schedule shifts from a centralised place, where my employees can enter their unavailable times beforehand, so the schedules can be made to fit all of my employees. ### 13. Elegant, almost Perfect! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob T. | Business owner/operator., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Sling?** Simplifies scheduling. (Works great for business owners AND employees like it too!) **What do you dislike about Sling?** Wish wording was changed (or made editable) so that the "shift acceptance" feature could be used as "shift acknowledgment." ie: "I'm aware of the shift" INSTEAD OF "I'll accept the shift." **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling is so simple now! ### 14. Sling serves the purpose of efficiency **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Extremely useful software, I use it to schedule every resource requirement at my current company. It has increased efficiency and reduced overlap errors in scheduling time. The platform is especially helpful with adhoc requests that require immediate planning & resource allocation. Also love the fact that they have pre-made templates for different industries. **What do you dislike about Sling?** There isn't much that I dislike about the software, except that a few features can be hard to locate on the dashboard, while for a few, the functionality can difficult to decipher. They can probably enhance their user experience a bit more. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped me solve the problem of scheduling an immense number of workforce that I used to earlier do manually. The time clock functionality also helps me account for payables quicker, and the transparent communication mechanism within the software has made life easier for the team. ### 15. It always has what I need, when I need it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brent V. | owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** When I come across scenarios of needing a certain feature I've never used before- it has already been thought of and is available. **What do you dislike about Sling?** A better way to add "notes". I like the current feature, but it would be nice to the option to have a block appearance that Looks like scheduled shifts/employees **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** no idea ### 16. Fantastic: Team Scheduling + Messaging + $ Tracking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew D. | President | Sales Leader, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Simple to learn and manage, Sling is quickly adopted by our entire team, leading to informed and empowered crew members. It is excellent for team messaging, individual messaging, keeping employees in the loop via "News feed", tracking PTO/requests, and detailed labor $ tracking **What do you dislike about Sling?** We have tried numerous scheduling tools. Sling has out performed our expectations and is used daily by all members of our team. It is our core communication tool and is enjoyed by all team members. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Informed and empowered team members. Push and SMS notifications in advance of shifts ensure team members are well-aware of their expected arrival times. No outside tools needed for systemwide, group, or individual team messaging. Google Cal. integration. Excellent PTO and labor cost tracking capabilities. ### 17. Info for sling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Melissa S. | O, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** That you can post as many employee schedules as needed. That you can select just a few employee schedules to work with at one time and you can make that schedule for multiple weeks at one time. **What do you dislike about Sling?** If you write a note on the scheduled time for the employee, no one can see that note. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Use the how-to options; those options help you make and use the most out of this software. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can make sure everyone can see the schedule and that no one can argue when it goes out. Everyone can see the scheduled times for work even if it is their day off. ### 18. Sling all the way! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexandria Y. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** I like how user-friendly it is. I find it helpful that employees can self manage their profiles. We utilize the Shopify integrations. Sling offers way more features then any other competitor. **What do you dislike about Sling?** There is not much to dislike. What I dislike the most is my employees not clocking in! Perhaps when designing layouts and new features, you can think of the employee profile perspective. Make it cool and fun for them to engage with. Create more but not overwhelming reminders for them to update their availability and to just clock in. For instance, if they could set the sounds or songs for these reminders. Make it fun to look at and interact with. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling. Managing our team! Less time on scheduling, more time on making sales! We are more productive. ### 19. Easy to use! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** I love how simple and straight to the point it is. I also love that the app is user-friendly! We use all of the features available and just upgraded to the premium account! **What do you dislike about Sling?** One small detail we have noticed is that is it a little bit confusing to find the spot to request time off on the app but once you know where it is its not that bad. Wish it was more of a upfront button! **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us keep track of our employees and get into contact with them quickly and efficiantly. It also gives up the opportunity to speak with our whole team at one time! ### 20. Sling has made scheduling easy! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike N. | Store Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** Sling makes my scheduling life so organized thanks to its ease of use! My favorite part is the ability to copy/duplicate shifts and/or positives between my employees. **What do you dislike about Sling?** My biggest issue is that the mobile app that most of my employees use can be glitchy and does not always load correctly or the app crashes while my employees are trying to use it. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to see what the gaps in our schedule are SO much clearer now than when I used to schedule using paper and pencil. I have realized how important organization is to schedule to ensure that I have sufficient coverage at all times! ### 21. Best scheduling app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bob P. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Having both a desktop and mobile app makes it very convenient to spend time building a complete schedule from the desktop but manage changes on the fly from mobile **What do you dislike about Sling?** Nothing, it is very user friendly, with more features than I can name here. The team is alerted to upcoming shifts, can schedule themselves off, it just works very well. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems. Benefits include a great team communication tool in addition to scheduling. ### 22. Great Scheduling Solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chrissy M. | Director of Business Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** I was looking for a very low-cost solution to manage our company's schedule and found Sling to fit our needs perfectly. It is very user-friendly, both for management to create and manage the schedule and for the staff to use it. I have used both the free and premium versions. For our company, even the free version was perfectly capable of what we needed it for; however, the premium version does offer some useful upgrades such as tracking labour costs, a built-in timeclock so employees may log in and out, a messaging app and the ability to create task templates that can be attached to shifts. You also have access to a variety of staffing reports. With the free version, you are able to build lists of employees, positions, locations and groups and use them to populate the schedule. You can also create shift templates to save the time of selecting start and end times each time a shift is created. Multiple work locations and positions can be added for any given employee, which helps when employees have job roles that fluctuate and who may work either in office or from home. The employees receive email notifications when new shifts are created, modified or removed and they can view their schedule from PC or Mobile devices. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I am no longer able to create re-occuring or repeat shifts from the free version. I am assuming that this is now a premium feature. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** I definitely recommend trying this program as it's affordable, effective, and easy to use. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sling allows us meet our scheduling requirements with minimal effort, and also makes it very easy for the staff to check their schedules and be notified when changes are made. The program is intuitive and when there is a scheduling conflict, a pop-up will be displayed to notify you of it. ### 23. Easy to use and has all the features I need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Ease of use. I can create long-term shift plans for my team much quicker than I could the product I was using previously. Additionally, it´s very fairly priced and much cheaper than what I was using before. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I don´t really have any dislikes. It does its job, and it does it well enough. My team´s schedule is quite simple and I´m not using any of the advanced features like the tasks so I can´t rate those. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I´m keeping track of shift schedules and attendance. I then use the system to pull reports for salary calculations. It´s quick and easy to set up a shift schedule, make changes and pull reports. ### 24. I think sling is great but as a school I cannot get them to agree to pay for this. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paula C. | Exams Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** The invigilators get a reminder for each slot **What do you dislike about Sling?** Sometimes to print from sling it takes quite a bit of time to load the pdfs. I use the free app and would like to allocate multiple invigilators to one slot **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** It is a very useful tool **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time ### 25. Sling since 2018 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arianna Z. | S, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** I appreciate accomplishing so much in one program. I like group messaging and private messaging. The creating the schedule and releasing shifts is very user friendly **What do you dislike about Sling?** Once your staff has seen your Announcement, it disappears. We've started creating the announcement and posting it on the newsfeed page so staff can reference it. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Timesheets and getting payroll completed quickly. It's beneficial to have the 'notes' option during clock in/out. ### 26. Cool management software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John D. | Director and Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Easy to use, our employees find it very intuitive. **What do you dislike about Sling?** We use Sling for basic scheduling and haven't graduated to more of its features. Nothing we don't like. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a start-up company, having access to basic scheduling is a tremendous help. ### 27. Sling Review - Talk Recruitment **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria T. | Finance Director, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Easy to use, meets most of our recruitment needs. **What do you dislike about Sling?** That is doesn't sync with Xero or our Payroll. Could have more layers of accessibility. It would be good if our Managers didn't have access to everything for example - archiving positions/locations. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** All our bookings and timesheets are completed on Sling. ### 28. Easy to use scheduling app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** The ease of adding unavailability and of changing shifts **What do you dislike about Sling?** Need to use a different app for payments and clock in/out **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy scheduling app for job ### 29. Sling Scheduling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason S. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Live rotas which are easily accessible to all staff via the app. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I tried to find functionality to share the schedule to more than one Google calendar but couldn't figure out whether this is possible or not. If someone could let me know, I'd appreciate it. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** All scheduling requirements are in one place. ### 30. Fantastic Scheduling Software! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James M. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 12, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Easy to create shifts, user friendly and great to message employees individually or by group. **What do you dislike about Sling?** It would be great if you could designate tasks to employees when you are creating their shifts so they get a list of tasks to complete. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows everyone to see their shifts ### 31. Life saver **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoe G. | Team Lead Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** As some of ho runs multiple group homes with multiple clients at each location all with there own staff. Thsi platform has saved me so much time, effort and money. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Sometimes the mobile app lags quite a bit. Or the notifications don't go away.I wish I could press tentative when someone asks for time off **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Always see that I have enough staff. Who has time off. Gives notifications when you accidentally schedule someone who is off ### 32. Great app for free scheduling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Susan H. | Staffing Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** I like that it's color coordinated, easy to get the hang of for mgmt and staff. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I dislike that they haven't brought back forever shifts yet, and they got rid of the birthday notifications. Our company liked both features. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** It's a great app overall, some glitches here and there. Easier than a lot of scheduling software. We use the free version and it's been pretty good. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sling has made it easier to track the schedule and make changes easily. It's made it a little easier to cover shifts sometimes too. ### 33. Easiest Management application **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cody K. | Restaurant Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** this app/website is so easy to use and helpful for getting out info to all your employees **What do you dislike about Sling?** could use a tutorial for users to more easily work their way around the app without others having to explain everything **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** get to know the inner workings as an admin **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** giving employees their schedules digitally and allowing them to request days off or offer shifts on the fly ### 34. Provides just what I need! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Being able to create shifts and then offer them to my student techies, and that the free level provides this. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I have not found anything terrible. Maybe allow the free level a listing of shifts covered and by whom monthly or by quarter? **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling techies for events in my auditorium can get tough to track. Sling allows me to do this. ### 35. Very easy to use and keep track of my staffing levels over various shifts. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Ease of use. Can keep track of my staff which is all part time or casual working different shifts. Switching shifts, time off and offering extra shift is a breeze **What do you dislike about Sling?** Notifications don't always work but I think that's more to do with hardware than software **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of staffing levels and allocating shifts ### 36. Very easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Ability to swap staff, at a moments notice **What do you dislike about Sling?** Not a lot missing for a small business. Nothing to dislike **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Try it. You will wonder why you spent hours before doing manual rota's **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of Scheduling rota's ### 37. Best app for workshifts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Francisco Javier C. | T, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Sling?** Everything is so easy to manage and make any change **What do you dislike about Sling?** Nothing everything is very easy to use . **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time manage and editing shift ### 38. Makes Scheduling Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chad H. | Customer Service Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** Able to copy and paste schedule week to week. Ability to message employees as a group or as an individual. Sends a reminder to each employee an hour before their scheduled start time. Ability to make a shift available for employees to apply for if someone calls off their shift. The ability to enter when an employee is NOT available so we do not schedule them when they cannot be here. Time off requests is a great feature as well. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Honestly there really isn't anything major that I dislike about Sling. One minor thing is you cannot delete individual messages you can only archive them. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving time on writing the schedule each week. I have almost 100 employees in my department all with different times of when they are available. Certain employees have set schedules so I am able to schedule them indefinitely with the same schedule and do not have to worry about their shifts being scheduled each week. ### 39. Great app to put in PTOS and request sick days as well! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** I no longer have to notify my manager via email when I want to take time off, I just put in Sling. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Customization for having to put time in, 2 weeks before, according to company policies. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Look at your company policies before scheduling time off. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** -We no longer have to send emails when we need to time off, we just schedule it in Sling. -We also have access to see our total PTOS. ### 40. Great software for event managers when creating a day-of staff schedule! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Sling?** One of my favorite things about Sling is that it allows me to get out of Excel spreadsheets explaining to staff what they should do on an event day. Now, it's simple for them to login and see what, when and where they should be to contribute to a successful event! Having a mobile app is a gamechanger! **What do you dislike about Sling?** I wish the message feature was replaced with some type of instant messager similar to Slack. It would keep all communication about the event in one place instead of having to go back and forth between Slack or Group Texts and the app. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more confused staff saying they didn't know they were assigned a shift. They also don't have to carry around a printed paper copy of the excel spreadsheet staff schedule. It's all in the app on their phone, which they're already on anyways! ### 41. The most user friendly schedule organizer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clayton A. | Student Technology Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2020 **What do you like best about Sling?** The most useful thing about Sling is how easy it is to view your shifts, and your coworkers shifts! I typically use the mobile application for sling and it is great to quickly check during the week and it sends me notifications as a reminder. The user interface is very clean. **What do you dislike about Sling?** The least helpful thing about Sling is that the mobile application does not have an option to view schedules for the entire month on one page. However, this is a very minor personal preference of mine. It in no way has any impact on the overall performance of Sling. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** You absolutely need to start using Sling if you don’t already have an efficient scheduling system. This electronic schedule will keep you and your team up to date on the latest schedule at any moment. I would 10/10 recommend this product. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sing has impacted our workplace by allowing an easy access to our schedule at any time. Before my company started using Sling, we printed out the schedule at the beginning of every week and then a picture of it was distributed to every employee. But, schedule changes were a nightmare! With Sling it is very easy to see shift changes and the most up-to-date schedule at your fingertips. ### 42. Excellent functionality **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Sling?** Employees love the ease of requesting shift swaps and time offs. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Unavailability only in paid version of the software. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Makes scheduling easy to manage. Less interaction with employees. ### 43. Sling is a great service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** I love how easily I can organize my team and for them to review their schedules without having to ask me when they’re working. **What do you dislike about Sling?** Other than a few services that are not included without having to buy a subscription, there is nothing I dislike about Sling. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I took over as the head of my team, they were using Word to create their schedules for the month. It was fine for the time being but I wanted to bring more organization within the team and have a central place to easily find when they were working. I also love the feature where we all can communicate in one place. This helps me communicate better with everyone. ### 44. Good for scheduling, location , shift creation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan Felipe N. | Sales and Kitchen Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** It is good for schedule shifts and counting time worked. It makes the employes to be at the place of work to be able to clock into work, this helps to have better control of employes and the time they work. **What do you dislike about Sling?** The software is slow and lacks intuitiveness to use. Sometimes notifications are not in real-time and differ from reality. It must be connected to WiFi or Mobile Data to properly work. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Is good for scheduling and communication on small business. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing when a worker arrived early or late. Communication more accurately. You know a worker has read a message. You can assign task, then know the process of the task and how it is being updated in real time. It can send text sms to the employee to remind that has an incoming shift. ### 45. Great scheduling software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Restaurants | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Sling?** Sling is a great software that is easy to use and create schedules. Great for small restaurant owners. **What do you dislike about Sling?** There isn’t much that I dislike. The app version did take a little long at times to update. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** There is a bit of a learning curve with sling but once you get over that initial hump it makes life easy. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sling makes it easy to track individual hours and helps maintain labor. ### 46. Sling is a Great Schedule Organizer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Janiya G. | Sling is Wonderful , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** I enjoy the fact that sling sends me remainder to log into my shift. I also enjoy the fact that I can see my fellow colleagues schedule so I can plan my vacation time around there’s so that our office can be best staffed! **What do you dislike about Sling?** I dislike the constant notifications it sends, but I was able to turn these notifications off. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving problems with my timelessness when it sends me remainders to check in and I have on time it brings me excitement to know that I am growing in being more efficient. The benefits I have realized is how easy it is to submit time off simple and concise. ### 47. Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** It is very easy to manage employee schedule. **What do you dislike about Sling?** On the app there should be a feature that should unable notification for specified time being. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** Employee scheduling and communication. Very easily accessible. ### 48. Sling is wonderful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about Sling?** Swift communication ability for colleagues. **What do you dislike about Sling?** I can't think of anything I dislike about this app. **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I like the group messaging options for swift communication. ### 49. Work Schedule viewing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elen H. | Vet assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** Sling is helpful in breaking down my work schedule and sending me reminders so I don’t get to work late. **What do you dislike about Sling?** The app is good, I just wish I could filter out and see who is working with me and just see that schedule for the day versus the whole week **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Sling a a great way to view not only your schedule but also who you work with that day. Also you can message coworkers to find coverage **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** I get constant reminders what time I need to go to work and also I can message my coworkers if I need to switch days ### 50. Simple, user friendly and clean **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Sling?** This product offers a clean and user friendly interface for scheduling. The app integration works great on both android and iOS. The app is able to allow various designations for shifts, times, holidays and repetition. **What do you dislike about Sling?** There really is not much I did not like about the app. The only change I would recommend is the ability to decrease the header size when printing out the schedule. This would allow, at times for it to be on one page. **Recommendations to others considering Sling:** Explore all the benefits of this great product! There were many similar apps on the market but this was very easy to implement! **What problems is Sling solving and how is that benefiting you?** The app is free! This is a huge advantage working in a small business and/or a non-profit. Employees can see each other’s shifts as well as those that are available. 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