Pro runs high-volume industrial staffing — shift orders, worker pools, credential tracking, geofence clock-in, fill-rate reporting, invoicing — with AI that recommends and coordinators who decide. Built for the floor, not the desk.
Industrial staffing is a fill-rate business.
The DC needs bodies on the line by six. A picker oversleeps. The client isn't grading your résumés — they're grading your fill rate.
Warehouse and manufacturing clients used to call for seasonal surges. Now they staff ongoing operations through you — the demand is year-round and the fill pressure never lets up. TempGuru was built inside that reality — by a founder who owned staffing agencies and covered those 6am gaps herself.
The pool churns hard — the average industrial temp cycles out in about ten weeks — so you're rebuilding the roster while you fill today's shift. Credentials, safety certs, and reliability scores stay attached to every worker, so the person you dispatch is the person who's cleared to be there.
Light industrial staffing software handles high-volume, shift-based placement for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics agencies. Core needs: shift orders, worker availability, no-show detection and backfill, credential tracking, and client fill-rate reporting. TempGuru Pro is that system, W-2 by default, for $424/month.
Seven steps. One system.
Every temp job on earth moves through the same seven steps. Each one is a place your week goes to die when it lives in a different tool.
Order, fill, dispatch, clock-in, timesheet, invoice, pay. Run them in five tools and you become the integration — retyping, reconciling, apologizing. Run them in one and the data walks itself from the client's text to the paid invoice.
If a step lives in a spreadsheet, that step is where you'll lose Saturday.
Pro is not a feature list. It's your operation, running.
Guru is your client's entire interface, by text — they place orders, ask who's coming, change details, approve timesheets, and ask about invoices without ever logging into anything. The staff portal lets workers see open shifts and raise their hands — interest and availability flow in instead of being chased down. AI recommendations rank those hands by reliability and history; your coordinator approves every assignment. The mobile app clocks workers in with geofence and selfie verification. The Client Hub puts it all under your logo for clients who like dashboards — Guru covers the ones who don't. QuickBooks sync and e-signature close the books without a second job.
And because software alone never fixed an agency: Pro ships with an operator-written AI-for-staffing playbook and a cohort of agencies working the same problems.
What you're buying is a shift that fills before the line starts.
From text to staffed.
A real order shape, on Pro: the DC adds six to tomorrow's 6am shift at 6:47 the night before.
Guru confirms and files the order in a minute. The AI ranks fourteen available workers four minutes later. Your coordinator approves six from the couch — dinner isn't cold yet. Workers confirm in the app; the client watches the roster fill in their Hub. Twenty-four minutes, no phone tree, no spreadsheet.
Speed isn't a luxury in temp staffing. It's the product.
Fire the stack. Keep the work.
Industrial agencies don't lack software. They run five subscriptions stitched together with exports and prayer — and explain the fill-rate miss to the client on Monday.
The service fee is simple: $10,000 in billed shifts = $250. It scales with revenue you invoiced, not seats you might use.
AI recommends. You decide.
Every AI feature in Pro is decision support, not automation. That's a design position, not a disclaimer.
The fill is two-sided. Workers raise their hands in the staff portal; the model ranks the hands it can defend — availability, reliability score, history on this kind of shift — and shows its reasoning. No worker is assigned by a machine. The report builder answers plain-English questions and hands you the chart; you decide what it means. That shape is why agencies trust it — and, increasingly, why regulators require exactly it.
And let's say it now: someday a recommended worker will no-show anyway. The model flags the risk before call time, your coordinator sees it early, and backfill is one tap. Judge the system on the season, not one at-bat.
Recommendations carry reasons. Decisions carry a name.
This is where shortcuts get expensive. Gig apps rent you 1099 crowds and leave the classification risk on your desk. We built for W-2 agencies on purpose.
Payroll handoff, workers' comp, and wage records that survive an audit.
A coordinator approves every AI-recommended assignment — the architecture NYC's AEDT rule and Colorado's AI law point at.
No setup fee. Migration included. Your data stays exportable. Month-to-month exists.
Three plans. One is the answer for most.
Essentials, $254/mo + 2% — the full platform: scheduling, dispatch, timesheets, invoicing, base reporting. For agencies replacing the spreadsheet.
Pro, $424/mo + 2.5% — everything above, plus the parts that replace your stack: Guru (clients run orders, changes, timesheets, and invoices by text — no login), AI recommendations, geofence clock-in, your-brand Client Hub, AI reporting, QuickBooks, e-signature, the playbook and cohort, same-day support. $499 month-to-month if you'd rather we re-earn it every four weeks.
Scale, from $999 — white-label on your domain, SSO, API, dedicated CSM.
Roster migration, client setup, rate configuration — every plan, no setup fee. Branches $99/mo. SMS metered honestly at $29–$79.
What Pro looks like by shift change.
Monday, the DC adds a second shift; text recruiting and ranked recs fill it before the line starts. Tuesday, a forklift cert expires — the worker is held off dispatch automatically, so there's no OSHA surprise at the gate. Wednesday, geofence clock-in catches a gate-lot punch before it reaches an invoice. Thursday, the client pulls up live fill rate in their Hub instead of calling you. Friday, invoices go out same-day and QuickBooks agrees with itself.
You held the fill rate without living in the spreadsheet. That's the product.
Your floor. Our problem.
A demo takes thirty minutes. Bring a real shift order — your headcount, your certs, your chaos — and watch the clock yourself.
“Pro was built by someone who owned staffing agencies. This is the system we wish we'd had when we ran ours.”
Megan Hayward — Founder & CEO, TempGuru
Plainly answered.
What is light industrial staffing software?
Software that handles high-volume, shift-based placement for warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics staffing agencies — shift orders, worker availability, no-show detection and backfill, credential and safety-cert tracking, and client fill-rate reporting. TempGuru adds SMS job orders through Guru, AI candidate ranking your coordinator approves, and geofence clock-in.
What's the best software for a warehouse or manufacturing staffing agency?
The one that holds your fill rate. Industrial agencies need shift orders, a warm worker pool, instant backfill, credential tracking, and fill-rate reporting in one system — not a résumé pipeline. That's Pro at $424/month.
How do industrial staffing agencies improve fill rate?
Keep the pool warm and backfill fast. TempGuru fills by text, scores reliability, flags no-show risk before call time, and lets your coordinator approve a ranked backup in a tap — so the shift is staffed before the line starts.
Does it track safety certifications and credentials?
Yes. Certs and credentials stay attached to each worker, and an expired cert holds a worker off dispatch automatically — so the person you send is cleared to be on that floor.
Do my clients have to log into a portal?
No. Guru gives clients full access by text — placing orders, asking who's on shift, changing headcount, approving timesheets, and invoice questions. The Client Hub is there for clients who want live fill-rate dashboards.
Does the AI auto-assign workers?
No. It recommends best-fit workers with reasoning; your coordinator approves every assignment. Decision support, not automation.
What does Pro replace?
A typical stitched stack of ATS/CRM, scheduling, time tracking, client portal, and e-signature — $1,685–$3,835/month — for $424/month plus 2.5% on billed shifts.
Is there a setup fee?
No. Roster migration, client setup, and pay/bill rate configuration are included on every plan.
How much does industrial staffing software cost?
Standalone staffing platforms typically run $800–$2,500/month before add-ons. TempGuru is $254–$424/month plus a 2–2.5% service fee on billed shifts. Pricing is public — it's on this page.