Guard rosters that keep the 144-hour cap in view.
Klacks schedules long guarding shifts in private security and monitors the legal limits continuously — optionally with a hard block in automatic planning — including public holiday compensation. Installed on your premises, so staff data is stored on your own servers.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
Long shifts, a hard overtime cap
A regular 8-hour base despite long shifts
Long shifts are common in the guarding industry — but the legal baseline remains a regular 8 hours a day, a maximum of 2 hours' overtime a day, and total working hours capped at 144 hours per 3-week period (Art. 19).
Compensating public holiday shifts correctly
If a guard is rostered on a public holiday, they are entitled to a substitute rest day, or to their daily wage plus a premium of at least 50% (Art. 28(2)).
Your finished shift plan in three steps
Install
Klacks is installed on your own infrastructure — via Docker; allow about half an hour for the first start.
Adjust rules
Public holidays and rest periods come preconfigured for your country, surcharges where defined for your country — and you can adjust them anytime.
Plan automatically
Klacks builds shift plans, flags conflicts and optimizes routes — with an AI assistant if you want.
How Klacks takes the load off security firms in the UAE
From proactive cap warnings to public holiday compensation — everything works together.
The 144-hour cap proactively monitored
Klacks warns before a shift is assigned if the 2-hour daily limit would be exceeded, and monitors total working hours per 3-week period live against the 144-hour cap — before the shift is assigned, not after. On request, Klacks strictly blocks the excess in automatic planning; with manual planning it stays at a warning.
Public holiday compensation suggested automatically
Klacks automatically recognises public holiday shifts and suggests either a substitute rest day or the 50% premium.
Guard posts & patrols planned automatically
Klacks schedules deployments across multiple guard posts so that handovers and travel times are properly aligned.
Installed on your premises: data on your servers
Klacks runs on your own infrastructure — your guards' personal data is stored on your servers; the AI model can be run locally on request.
Klacksy understands your request
"Who still has capacity for the night shift at Site X this week?" is all it takes — Klacksy starts the planning, Klacks automatically factors in availability and qualification and shows the 144-hour total per 3-week period.
Absences covered fast
If a guard calls in sick, Klacks immediately shows who is qualified and available — including the hours worked so far per 3-week period.
What Klacks can do — in real recordings
Short videos from the running app, sorted by topic. Choose a chapter; only the video of the open chapter ever plays.
Note on the sample data: All names, places (for example Winterthur), addresses and figures in these recordings are fictitious demo data with a Swiss background, written in Latin script. They only illustrate the product – you do not need to know or be able to read them. In your own installation you enter your own data, and the interface is multilingual.
- Klacksy helps you get it right in every one of these cases: describe your rule in the chat in your own words, for example “Sundays earn a 50% surcharge.” — Klacksy asks follow-up questions, shows a preview and only saves once you confirm.
- Klacksy also creates scenarios and starts planning inside them — tell it in the chat, for example: “Plan Winterthur from November 2 to 8.”
- Klacksy, the built-in AI assistant, can also do all of this for you on request — for example, tell it in the chat: “Add expenses of 24.50 for Mia on October 6.”
A calendar that keeps pace with the moon
In the United Arab Emirates, all official public holidays are decreed centrally by the UAE Cabinet — uniformly for all seven emirates, with no cantonal or municipal variation like in Europe. The real challenge lies elsewhere: holidays whose exact date is only confirmed at short notice, and businesses that plan across several Gulf states.
- Uniform nationwide, confirmed at short noticeEvery holiday applies equally across all emirates — but religious dates such as Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha are confirmed only by a national moon-sighting committee, often just days in advance. New dates can be added to Klacks the moment they're announced.
- Mix calendarsA Dubai business with branches in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Oman needs several country calendars running at once — moon sightings occasionally differ by a day between Gulf states, and national days fall on different dates to begin with.
- Binding or purely informationalFor each calendar, you decide whether a holiday affects hours & premiums — or simply appears as a reminder.
It all comes down to the settings
Klacks offers countless ways to calculate rules and hour credits for nights, weekends, public holidays and overtime — exactly the way your contracts and company agreements require.
- Nights and weekends You set the night window and the surcharge rates yourself, and choose up to three weekend days — as a multiplier that is added to the hours worked as a time credit in hours.
- Public holidays and overtime A separate public-holiday rate, and overtime per day or per week in up to three tiers. When several surcharges fall on the same hour, the highest one applies — or all of them add up.
- Your own calculation with a macro If that is not enough, a macro does the maths: a short script using weekday, time of day, public holidays and contract values — with conditions, loops and functions of your own.
- Scheduling rules Rest periods, maximum daily and weekly hours, consecutive working days, free Sundays or hour caps per period — each one as a warning or, in automatic planning, as a block.
Rule violations: Klacks warns you instantly
Klacks flags time collisions, rest periods that are too short, too many consecutive working days and work on holidays right as you plan — as an error or warning in the error list.
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The best route — automatically
From your service addresses, Klacks works out the most sensible order and shows the finished route on the map. All you choose is the mode of transport.
- 1Capture addresses Every service location has an address on file — Klacks knows the way.
- 2Optimize the order Klacks works out the shortest sensible sequence — detours and empty runs are reduced.
- 3Show it on the map The finished route appears on the map — by car, bike, or on foot.
Stylized example: Klacks connects the service locations into the shortest route.
The cap and the public holiday, at a glance
Before every shift assignment, Klacks shows a guard's total working hours accumulated so far per 3-week period, and for a public holiday shift immediately suggests the right compensation — no manual recalculating required.
See Klacks in your security firm
Try the Playground to see how Klacks builds guard rosters, makes the 144-hour total visible and suggests public holiday compensation — or install it directly on your own premises. No license fees, with no registration required.
Klacks is open source under the AGPL-3.0. Host it yourself, keep your data with you, pay no license fees — you stay in full control.