Every site, scheduled cleanly even in summer.
Klacks treats the annual summer midday ban (June 15 to September 15, daily from 12:00 to 15:00) as a blocked period — Klacks flags assignments within it immediately, and on request automatic planning does not place any shifts there.
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.
Summer Midday Ban, Split Shifts and Nitaqat
Observing the Summer Midday Ban
From June 15 to September 15, all work under direct sun exposure is banned daily between 12:00 and 15:00 (حظر العمل تحت أشعة الشمس) — violations are reported via hotline 19911.
Enforcing Split Shifts During the Ban Window
The schedule must mandatorily provide for split assignments during this window — tedious to coordinate by hand across many sites and teams.
Nitaqat Minimum Wage Tracked
A Saudi employee counts as a full unit (1.0) toward the Saudization quota only if the GOSI-insured salary is at least SAR 4,000 per month — critical for facility management firms.
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 Facility & Cleaning Services in Saudi Arabia
From blocked periods to route planning — it all fits together.
Site Routes Optimised
Klacks sequences sites so that travel distances stay short.
Summer Midday Ban as a Blocked Period
If the 12:00 to 15:00 window from June 15 to September 15 is stored as a blocked period, Klacks flags assignments within it immediately, and on request automatic planning does not place any shifts there. You create the split shifts before and after it yourself.
Teams Assigned Flexibly
Changing crews and absences: Klacks keeps track and suggests suitable assignments.
Nitaqat Minimum Wage Stays in Your Payroll System
Klacks calculates neither salaries nor Nitaqat classification — whether the GOSI salary threshold for the full quota unit (1.0 from SAR 4,000) is reached is checked by your payroll system; Klacks provides the hours worked as a file export.
Matching Qualifications
Specialised cleaning, machinery, security zones: only appropriately qualified staff are assigned.
Klacksy Understands Your Request
"Schedule the sites for tomorrow morning, before the midday ban" is enough — Klacksy starts the planning, Klacks optimises route and team.
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 follows the moon
In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development decrees all four official public holidays centrally — uniformly across the whole Kingdom, with no provincial or municipal level like in Europe. The real challenge lies elsewhere: the two religious holidays, whose exact date is only confirmed at short notice by moon sighting.
- Uniform nationwide, no regional levelEid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, National Day on September 23 and Founding Day on February 22 apply unchanged across the whole Kingdom — for the public and private sector alike, with no cantonal or municipal exceptions.
- Mix calendarsA business based in Riyadh or Dhahran with partners in the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain or Oman needs several country calendars running at once — moon sightings occasionally differ by a day between Gulf states, as they did between Saudi Arabia and Oman in 2023.
- 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.
Summer Midday Ban, Split Shift, One Plan
If the annual window from June 15 to September 15, 12:00 to 15:00, is stored as a blocked period, Klacks automatically recognises affected assignments — you plan the split shifts before and after it directly in the same schedule.
Experience Klacks in Your Cleaning Business
Try the Playground to see how Klacks plans routes and maps the summer midday ban as a blocked period — or install it directly on your own infrastructure. No license fees and without registration.
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.