Features

Constraint-based scheduling.
Ready out of the box.

eBrigade automates your most complex schedules: skills, availability, compensatory rest, distance, hierarchy. You describe the mission, eBrigade finds the right people. 12 functional areas, 49 modules included in every plan, configurable emergency plans and industry reference frameworks.

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Constraint-based scheduling

Your constraints, our craft since 2004

Here is exactly what eBrigade takes into account automatically before it proposes an assignment. No manual schedule can stand up to nine constraints at once — eBrigade does it in a few milliseconds. Trusted since 2004 by 1,500+ organisations and more than a million users across six countries.

Required skills

First aid, nursing, HGV licences, forklift and machinery certificates, electrical clearances, professional driving qualifications, security-guard cards — eBrigade checks who holds what before it ever proposes an assignment.

Declared availability

Everyone declares their available slots from the mobile app (Live status), their unavailability and their preferences (nights, weekends). eBrigade only ever suggests the right people.

Compensatory rest

Recovery time after a 12- or 24-hour shift, daily rest, weekly rest, day/night rotation — all enforced according to your own rules.

Configurable emergency plans

Heatwave, flood, snow, storm, pollution, lockdown — protocols you can activate in a moment for local reserves, accredited associations and fire services.

Distance & catchment area

Assign the people closest to the site first. Mileage calculation, automatic expense allowances, and control across scattered sites.

Up-to-date qualifications

Refreshers and continuing education — eBrigade blocks an assignment if a qualification has expired or is about to.

Rank & hierarchy

Watch commander, non-commissioned officer, incident-command qualification — eBrigade respects the chain of command and the required supervisor-to-staff ratios.

Clashes & double-bookings

One person can't be in two places at once. eBrigade detects clashes automatically and suggests alternatives.

Fair rotation

Shifts and on-call duty balanced fairly over time — nobody works more shifts than anyone else, unless they choose to.

1
You describe the mission

What (wildfire, emergency shift, trade-show cover), when, where, how many people, which skills are required.

2
eBrigade sorts automatically

Filters the eligible people: skills ✓, availability ✓, rest ✓, distance ✓, qualifications current ✓.

3
You approve in one click

Mobilisation texts sent instantly. Real-time responses. Central tracking of the field reply.

Quick start

Up and running in hours, not months

No installation, no server, no long months of onboarding. Your workspace is ready in two minutes, you import your staff from Excel, and you configure your reference data and plans your way — with help if you need it.

Excel import in one minute

Upload your staff spreadsheet to eBrigade: it's imported automatically in under a minute, with no help needed from our team.

Workspace ready in two minutes

Your SaaS instance is created instantly: you log in and start configuring right away — nothing to install, no server to run.

Reference data your way

Create your skills, qualifications and clearances to match how you really work, with automatic expiry alerts.

Configurable emergency plans

Build your protocols (heatwave, flood, mass-casualty plan…) with the people you can mobilise and the procedures that go with them — ready to activate in one click when the moment comes.

Mobile app included

iOS and Android from day one: your teams declare their availability, receive alerts and clock in from their phones.

Built-in help on every page

Included in every plan: the “?” button shows the help article for the page you are on — staff records, shifts, equipment, memberships and more. Your administrators find the answer without leaving the screen.

Help with your setup

Optional eBrigade Coaching: a dedicated contact helps you configure your organisation and train your administrators.

Sovereign EU hosting

Data centres in France and Germany, multi-data-centre redundancy and daily backups — no server to run on your side.

Free Excel migration

We bring across your existing schedule and files so you can start without re-keying anything.

Personnel & skills

The heart of your organisation. Profiles, ranks, skills and clearances — all tracked and auditable.

Personnel records

Complete profiles: photo, contact details, status (volunteer, employee, temp, casual worker) and full history.

Ranks & hierarchy

Customisable ranks with their own associated skills. Automatically respected when assigning people: supervisor-to-staff ratios and required roles.

Skills & qualifications

Customisable frameworks, qualification levels, expiry dates and attached certificates.

Clearances & certifications

Forklift, electrical, security, driving and first-aid certifications… alerts before they lapse.

Live availability

Real-time status updated by each person from the mobile app. Aggregated view by skill and area.

ID number

A unique number, auto-generated or entered by hand. Free-form or coded — printed on documents, badges and exports.

Staff badges

Automatic PDF ID cards — photo, rank, skills, QR code. Print on demand.

Accreditations

Track the accreditations of your branches and organisations: number, awarding body, validity, renewal.

External personnel

Manage trainees, outside contributors and partners under a dedicated status, with no access to internal members.

HR tracking & appraisals

Each member's history in one place: training completed, ranks earned, absences, availability — all consolidated on their record. Annual appraisals draw on this real data, with no re-keying.

Scheduling & activities

Smart scheduling under real constraints: skills, availability, compensatory rest, distance and hierarchy. eBrigade does the work for you.

Multi-team scheduling

Day/week/month views, drag-and-drop, clashes flagged automatically, colour-coded by skill, site or team.

Automatic suggestions

eBrigade proposes the right people against every constraint: skill, availability, rest, distance and fairness. You approve in one click.

Shifts & on-call

Rotations of 12, 24 or 48 hours, fair balancing over 3 to 12 months, station duty vs. on-call from home.

Missions & events

Create a mission with its requirements (first-aiders, nurses, drivers), several time slots, and track how it fills up as people sign up.

Recurring activities

Generate a series of activities (weekly, on set days, until a date or a number of occurrences) and edit “this activity” or “this and all following” — just like a calendar.

Controlled online sign-up

Your members sign up from the calendar; eBrigade blocks sign-up if a required skill is missing, and collects configurable options (choices, quantities, mileage).

Calendar sync (iCal)

Each member subscribes to their eBrigade calendar in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar through a personal, secure iCal link.

Availability declarations

Everyone declares their slots (morning / midday / evening, full or half days). Three cross-views — by day, by month, by person — plus Excel export for the scheduling desk.

Substitutions

Someone can't make it? They submit a substitution request visible to available, qualified people. One-click approval, full traceability.

Leave & absences

Online requests, approval up the chain, leave balances calculated automatically, all integrated into the schedule.

Rest & legal limits

Daily rest, weekly rest, maximum working hours — eBrigade blocks any assignment that would break your working-time rules.

Multi-site / multi-team

Central control of teams spread across many sites, access rights per site, consolidated or filtered views.

Approval workflows

Approval chain (team leader → HR → management), notifications, full history and electronic signature.

Rotations & repeating cycles

For temp and short fixed-term work: short repeating cycles, variable pay, multiple employers.

Mobilisation & alerts

Get your teams moving in under 10 seconds. Targeted SMS, mobile push, real-time responses.

SMS mobilisation alert

Target by skill and geographic area. Instant group send.

Push notifications

Through the native mobile app, with no SMS cost. Reply in one tap.

Configurable emergency plan

Heatwave, flood, snow, storm — protocols you can activate in one click.

Response tracking

Who has seen it, who has accepted, who is available — track the field response as it comes in, exportable for the log.

Cross-team reinforcement

Request backup from available teams in another section or organisation. Manage the flow between structures.

Event call-ups

Invite by email or push, track RSVPs, automatic reminders.

Incidents & command

An operational command tool for events, incidents and crisis management. From briefing to debrief, everything is logged.

Incidents

Trigger and follow your incidents from a dedicated command tool. Team deployment, real-time status, field feedback.

Standby medical cover

Create and manage the safety cover tied to your events: required headcount, first-aid and nursing skills, assigned equipment, regulatory compliance.

Casualties & triage records

Track casualties and reception centres during operations. Manage standardised casualty triage records.

Digital incident log

Real-time entry on mobile, geolocated photos, legal archiving. A chronological record of the incident you can consult at any time.

Operational mapping

Locate your teams on a custom map (last known position, time-stamped, with the member's consent), base maps and tactical zones — multi-site, consolidated or filtered.

Communication

One tool to reach your teams on every channel, generate your documents and archive them — without juggling five apps.

Multi-channel composer

Email, SMS, push notification, internal messaging and WhatsApp from a single screen: pick a selection, choose the channel and send — with SMS credit management.

Internal messaging

One-to-one and group conversations, attachments, notifications, automatic archiving and a personal signature.

Reusable message templates

A library of Email / SMS / Notification templates per section, dropped into the composer in one click — no more rewriting the same messages.

Targeted mailings

Target by sector, skill or status. HTML templates, a searchable send log and a “view online” link.

Smart push notifications

Only what concerns you, schedulable per user — with no SMS cost.

Document generator & mail merge

A template editor with ~150 merge fields: mass-generate agreements, mission orders, call-ups, certificates, minutes and receipts as PDFs — logo, scanned signature and QR code included.

Document library (DMS)

A document vault: folders and subfolders, automatic versioning, access restricted per document and per section, sharing via a secure expiring link.

Electronic signature

Attendance sign-offs, timesheets, absences, expense claims and contracts signed remotely from a simple link — no account needed for the signer.

Internal news feed

Your organisation's news feed, announcements, mission photos — with no outside spam.

Read confirmation

Mark a post as critical: each recipient must explicitly confirm they've read it before moving on. Timestamp, IP address and identity are logged — a confirmed/declined tracker per message.

Logistics & equipment

Vehicles, stock, PPE, uniforms — your whole logistics operation run and auditable from eBrigade.

Vehicles

Full fleet, roadworthiness checks, mileage, geolocation, authorised drivers.

Equipment & PPE

Individual tracking of equipment, issued kit, periodic checks and PPE re-testing.

Consumables & stock

Multiple warehouses, configurable storage locations, threshold alerts, tracked stock movements.

Uniforms & kit

Manage uniforms per member: sizes, issued items, condition, return history.

Field QR codes

Scan the QR code on a vehicle, a piece of equipment or a batch to reach its record instantly — check-in, history, usage.

Preventive maintenance

Maintenance schedule, checks, service reports, full maintenance traceability.

Training & qualifications

Your teams kept current on their mandatory training, with no manual work.

Initial training

Track the entry qualification path, skills acquired, sign-off by the training officer.

Continuing education

Refreshers and re-qualifications — automatic alerts before they expire.

Certificates & diplomas

Automatic PDF generation of signed certificates, legal archiving, audit compliance.

Sessions & enrolment

Internal or external sessions, enrolment, automatic PDF call-ups, attendance tracking.

Assessments

Tests, trainer assessments, sign-off of competencies, results archived per trainee.

Finance & memberships

Hours, expenses, membership dues, donations, invoicing — your whole financial engine, run by your own rules.

Time clock & working hours

Hours counted per activity, then a timesheet approval flow (draft → approved / rejected) with electronic signature by SMS and PDF/Excel export.

Overtime

Weekly, quota, premium rates, compensatory rest — all calculated to your own rules.

Expense claims

Mobile entry, photos of receipts, signature, online approval (single or dual) and reimbursement tracking — with SEPA export of the payments.

Memberships & dues

Track dues and payments (cheque, transfer, direct debit), reminders, renewals, and automatic direct debit via SEPA file generation.

Donations & tax receipts

Collect donations online and automatically generate tax receipts and annual certificates for your donors.

Client invoicing & CRM

Organisation records, quotes and invoices, a product catalogue with margin and VAT, payment tracking and compliant electronic invoicing.

Accounting

Single-entry accounting fed automatically by dues, expenses and ticketing — general ledger, income statement and exports for your accountant.

Payment methods

Stripe, PayPal and other providers switched on by use case (donation, membership, ticketing, dues, invoice) — online payment from the client area.

Statistics & reporting

The data you've already entered turns into clear charts in one click — never rebuild a spreadsheet by hand for the AGM or your funders again.

Reporting & statistics

More than 70 ready-made reports: age pyramid, participation rates, length of service, staff turnover, equipment and training summaries — as interactive charts, filtered by section and period.

KPI dashboards

Indicator cards and summary charts (activities, CRM) consolidated, with filters by year — the essentials at a glance.

Exports & pivot tables

Export any filtered dataset to Excel, and build pivot tables — configurable columns and formats.

Annual review

A summary PDF of the year's key figures (active personnel, activities, total hours), generated in one click.

Report catalogue your way

An administrator switches reports on, hides and reorders them by drag-and-drop; a usage counter shows which ones really get used.

Audit log

Every action logged with a timestamp — GDPR compliance and regulatory audits.

Native mobile app

iOS and Android. Mobilisation, availability, clocking in and field photos — your teams act straight from their phones.

Availability in one tap

Available / Unavailable / Away status updated in two seconds, visible instantly to the scheduling desk.

Mobilisation & field response

Receive alerts by push notification, accept or decline in a tap, confirm you've started your shift on site.

Geolocated clocking & photos

Time-stamped clock-in, photo evidence and a touch signature captured in the field and sent through immediately.

Connectivity alert

The app flags any loss of signal so you never assume a message was sent when it wasn't.

Biometric sign-in

Face ID, Touch ID and passkeys — sign in in a second, with no password to remember.

Built-in weather widget

Current conditions and a 7-day forecast right on the dashboard, located automatically. Included with no setup or third-party account — handy before any outdoor mission.

Integrations & API

eBrigade integrates natively with your ecosystem: identity, communication, data.

REST API

Inbound and outbound data through API keys, to connect eBrigade to your systems. Call log and rights per key.

SSO SAML / OIDC

Enterprise single sign-on: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Google Workspace, Keycloak. Sign-in method configurable by status.

API import & federations

Import your data from an external source via API — personnel, activities, schedules — including syncing a federation's registered members.

WhatsApp

Direct WhatsApp messages and groups created in one click from an activity or a team.

Calendar sync (iCal)

Subscribe to your eBrigade calendar in Google Calendar, Outlook or Apple Calendar through a personal, secure iCal link.

Security & compliance

Sovereign EU hosting, GDPR by design, and a real cybersecurity dashboard — enough to reassure your IT department and answer any tender.

Cybersecurity dashboard

A single security score out of 100, calculated across 8 criteria (password policy, MFA coverage, SSO, passkeys, log retention…), with prioritised recommendations and a direct “Fix it” link.

Passkeys & biometric sign-in

Passwordless sign-in with FIDO2 passkeys: Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello or a physical key. Phishing-resistant by design, with multi-device management.

Session monitoring

A world map of where sign-ins come from and a live list of active sessions (device, browser, IP) — an administrator blocks a suspicious access in one click.

Two-factor authentication (MFA)

MFA by email, SMS or push notification, triggered on risky context (new IP, sign-in from abroad).

Password policy & anti-brute-force

Required complexity and length, periodic expiry, and temporary account lockout after repeated failed sign-ins.

Sovereign EU hosting

Data centres in France and Germany, daily backups, multi-data-centre redundancy. HDS option for health data.

GDPR by design & encryption

Encryption in transit (TLS) and at rest, field-level GDPR masking, full action traceability and a log of emails sent.

Fine-grained roles & permissions

Granular permissions per module, per section and per status — each person sees only what concerns them.

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