Group chats, spreadsheets, phone calls – and somehow it's always you holding the pieces together. Let your team sign up themselves. See gaps before they become problems.
WP Dienstplan is volunteer scheduling software for fire departments, emergency services, and community organizations.
Shifts get filled by whoever replies first. Everyone else gets a phone call. And somehow, it all lands on one person.
Three versions floating around. Nobody knows which one is current. The coordinator maintains it alone – after hours, unpaid.
No visibility into who covered what. Motivation drops. Arguments start. And the quiet ones just keep picking up the slack.
Member data lives in WhatsApp groups and Google Sheets. Everyone knows it's a problem. But there's no better option – right?
You see open shifts at a glance in the dashboard. Your members sign up themselves. If someone can't make it, they swap – without calling you first.
You're not introducing a new tool. WP Dienstplan is a plugin for your existing WordPress site. Your members open the page, see their schedule, and act. You stop being the bottleneck.
I'm Alexander Nusselt. In 2003, a fellow firefighter and I wrote the first online scheduling system for our newly formed First Responder unit – because nothing out there worked.
As chairman of the Kalchreuth Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Bavarian Red Cross (BRK) Erlangen-Höchstadt, I experienced first-hand how much organisational burden falls on team leaders when the right tools are missing.
Today I serve as a psychosocial emergency responder with the Crisis Intervention Team (KIT) in Munich and I know: volunteers need simple solutions that hold up in everyday life – not software that creates new problems.
Open shifts are highlighted in the dashboard. Whoever can, signs up in the calendar or trades. You don't have to call everyone individually.
Everyone sees their schedule – in the dashboard, the weekly view, on their phone. If you're on duty, you know it. No room for confusion.
Qualifications are stored in the system. If someone doesn't hold the right one, they don't see the shift. No misassignments, no back-and-forth.
Everything lives in your WordPress database. No third-party vendor, no US cloud. You decide who has access. Full stop.
When a shift opens up, qualified members get an email. No chasing, no forgetting. The shift gets filled before you even think about making calls.
Basic & ProCan't make your shift? Offer it for swap. Another member picks it up – one click, done. You don't have to coordinate anything.
Basic & ProQualifications are built in – SCBA operators, team leads, paramedics, or your own custom roles. If someone doesn't hold the right cert, the shift doesn't even show up.
Basic & ProStats show who covered what – by period and shift type. Transparency for the team, and hard numbers for billing or reporting.
ProEvery change to the schedule is logged – date, time, user. For organizations that answer to a municipality, a board, or a regulatory body.
ProYour organization already has a WordPress site. WP Dienstplan is a plugin for it. No new login, no training, no learning curve.
Everything lives in your own database. No third party sees your member data. No cloud dependency. Data protection stays in your hands.
You update when you're ready. You decide who gets access. And if the price ever changes, you keep your data.
Standby schedules, SCBA qualifications, training nights. For municipal departments that take data privacy seriously.
Learn more →12-hour shifts, ambulance staffing, paramedic qualifications. With stats for billing and compliance reporting.
Learn more →On-call schedules and qualification levels – discreet, documented, all data on your server.
Learn more →Standby rosters and on-call availability. See at a glance who's carrying the pager.
Learn more →Box office, bar duty, groundskeeper. No more no-shows on match day.
Learn more →For small teams with a single duty roster – fully functional, with no usage limits.
When you need email notifications and shift swapping. The typical choice for a single department or club.
For organizations that need to report – to a municipality, a board, or a governing body.
Install the free version and see for yourself. Or try the live demo – no sign-up, no risk.