Best Way to Track Shifts When You Work for Multiple Security Companies
Plenty of SIA-licensed guards don’t work for a single employer — they pick up shifts across two, three, sometimes five different security companies, each with different sites, rates, and pay cycles. It’s flexible work, but it comes with a real admin problem: keeping track of who owes you what.
Why this gets messy fast
Say you work three days for Company A at one rate, two nights for Company B at a different rate, plus a weekend event for Company C. By the time pay day comes around for each one, it’s genuinely hard to remember exactly what you worked, whether a shift was paid in full, or whether one company’s payslip is short.
Most guards end up using one of three methods:
- Memory — unreliable the moment a dispute comes up
- The Notes app — better, but not built for tracking pay status or totals
- A spreadsheet — works, but takes time to maintain and isn’t built for quick logging on shift
What to actually track for each shift
- Company and site
- Start and end time, plus any unpaid break
- Agreed rate for that shift
- Payment status: awaiting, paid, partial, overdue, or disputed
- Any expenses tied to the shift
Tracked consistently, this turns into something powerful: a running total of exactly what each company owes you, at any moment — not just at the end of the month when something already feels off.
Built specifically for this problem
Shiftaan was built by a guard doing exactly this — juggling multiple companies and getting tired of not knowing who owed what. It lets you log companies, sites, and shifts separately, tracks pay status automatically, and gives you one dashboard showing total money owed across every company you work for — logged in under 30 seconds per shift.