The pain
Bar staff are the hardest group to schedule and the hardest group to reach. Bartenders work late, sleep late, and live on their phones — but they don't install apps. Barbacks rotate constantly. Security works three venues. Your Saturday night pivots on whether the person who just woke up saw the text.
Most scheduling apps assume everyone's glued to a push notification. Bar industry reality: they see the text, they don't open email, and they definitely don't know their app password.
The Convey approach
Schedules go out as SMS. That's it. Ava taps the link at 2pm, sees her week, closes her phone. When a call-out hits, Convey messages the next ranked bartender and waits for a "yes". The AI knows who's cleared for cocktails, who's barback-only, who speedruns Friday night.
Draft the week in the grid or let the AI build it. Publish. Done. Your staff never install anything, and neither do you.
A realistic Friday
9:47pm — Ava: "sorry food poisoning can't come in"
9:47pm — Convey parses, flags Ava out, ranks replacements
9:48pm — Offers to Marcus (barback, cleared for bar)
9:52pm — Marcus: "otw 20 min"
9:52pm — Confirmation to Marcus, Ava, you
You were on the floor. You got a single notification.
Pricing for bars
Free up to 10 employees. $19/mo flat after that. No per-user fees — which matters when half your schedule is rotating barbacks and security. See the pricing section.
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