Gamify shifts and tasks with points, leaderboards and rewards

Zelos is a gamified workforce app for volunteers, temporary staff, crew and contractors. Team members claim available shifts or tasks, earn points when work is completed and climb live leaderboards through friendly competition.

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Zelos showing task completion points, leaderboards, and team rankings

Points and scoring
Leaderboards
Team competitions
Task signup
Built-in messaging
Free with unlimited members

A gamified workforce app for completing shifts

Zelos combines self-signup workforce management with points, leaderboards and team competitions. Instead of manually assigning every shift, managers publish available work and let eligible team members claim it themselves. Those gamification features sit in the same claim-based workflow.

When a task or shift is completed, the team member earns the assigned points. Managers can use leaderboard results to recognize contributions or award their own prizes, benefits or incentives.

Publish shifts, tasks and temporary assignments
Let staff claim available work
Award points for completed shifts and tasks
Track individual and team leaderboards
Run competitions for seasonal or temporary workforces
Connect rankings to manager-defined rewards

You set the challenges. Your team competes. Everyone levels up.

Post tasks with point values

Create tasks, challenges, or missions. Assign point values based on difficulty, time, or importance. Publish to your full team or specific groups.

Members claim and complete

Team members browse available tasks and claim what they want to tackle. Completion earns points automatically. No admin data entry required.

Leaderboards drive momentum

Real-time leaderboards show who's contributing most — by day, week, month, or custom period. Run parallel competitions for different groups or skill levels.

Recognise and reward

Identify top performers with visible achievements. Use leaderboard standings for rewards, recognition, or simply bragging rights.

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What teams replace with Zelos

Static to-do listsSpreadsheet trackersManual point countingReward apps that don't track tasksGroup chat task assignmentPaper checklists

Built for teams that run on motivation

Real tasks, real points

Every completed task earns points. No fake badges or meaningless achievements — points reflect actual work done by real people.

Leaderboards that update live

See who's leading right now, this week, or this quarter. Parallel boards let different groups compete fairly.

Free for unlimited members

Your whole team joins free. No per-person fees. Paid plans unlock volume and advanced features.

Works for any kind of work

On-site tasks, remote challenges, learning modules, community missions. If you can describe it, your team can claim it and earn points.

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Who uses Zelos for gamified task management

Corporate team engagement programmes

Turn quarterly goals, operational tasks, and cross-department initiatives into point-scoring challenges. Leaderboards give managers visibility into who's contributing and create healthy competition between teams.

Sales and performance challenges

Run time-limited competitions for prospecting activities, client visits, or demo completions. Points and rankings provide real-time feedback without waiting for end-of-quarter reviews.

Onboarding and training programmes

Structure new hire onboarding as a series of missions — complete compliance training, meet five colleagues, shadow three departments. Points track progress and gamification reduces the "paperwork" feeling of onboarding.

Community volunteer motivation

Keep volunteers engaged between events with ongoing challenges and visible achievements. Leaderboards recognise your most active contributors and encourage consistent participation rather than one-off sign-ups.

Youth programmes and empowerment

Turn programme activities into missions that young people want to complete. Points and competitions make participation feel like a game rather than an obligation. Coordinators track engagement without manual spreadsheets.

Internal operations and seasonal surges

Mobilise your existing team during peak periods by gamifying operational tasks. When everyone can see progress on a shared leaderboard, large workloads get conquered faster through collective momentum.

Gamification for temporary staff and seasonal workforces

Temporary and seasonal teams often need to fill work quickly while keeping people engaged throughout a busy period. Zelos lets workers browse and claim available shifts, see the points attached to each assignment and follow their progress on a live leaderboard. Managers can create separate competitions for locations, teams, roles or time periods. This makes Zelos suitable for event crews, promotional teams, seasonal operations, casual staff and other distributed workforces. Teams comparing temporary staff management apps or casual staff management apps can run the same claim-based workflow.

What team leaders say

★★★★★

"Zelos is a great tool for gamification! It is relatively easy to customize the customer journey and adjust different settings."

Merili G.

Program Manager

Education Management

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★★★★★

"Zelos was essential in our specific need to gamify our volunteers' experience. Very few users ever had questions about how to use the product or refused to join at all, so we got almost everyone on board."

Sandra Laura L.

Volunteer Coordinator

Performing Arts

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★★★★★

"The app offers everything our non-profit needs within the free version limits, from recruiting to scheduling, messaging and the gamification feature is adorable!"

Cristina P.

Coordinator

Non-Profit Organization Management

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Free for teams of any size

No credit card, no trial expiration. Pro starts at $99/month — never per member. Points, leaderboards, and competitions on every plan.

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Frequently asked questions

Is the gamification included on the free plan?

Yes. Points, leaderboards, and task scoring are available on every plan, including free.

Can I run competitions between teams?

Yes. Create parallel leaderboards for different groups, departments, or skill levels. Each group competes independently.

What kind of tasks can I gamify?

Anything you can describe as a task — on-site work, remote assignments, learning modules, community challenges, operational chores. If someone can claim it and complete it, it can earn points.

How do leaderboards work?

Leaderboards update in real time as members complete tasks. You can set custom time periods — daily, weekly, monthly, or a custom date range.

Can I reward top performers?

Zelos tracks and displays achievements. You decide what rewards to attach — gift cards, recognition, prizes, or simply visibility. The platform provides the data; you provide the incentive.

Is Zelos different from apps like Habitica or gamification plugins?

Yes. Most gamification apps are personal habit trackers or plug into existing CRM systems. Zelos is a standalone team task app with built-in self-signup, messaging, and leaderboards — designed for coordinating groups, not individual habits.

How many people can join?

Unlimited. No per-person fees on any plan.

Do members need to download an app?

No. Zelos works in any browser. Native iOS and Android apps are also available.

Can workers earn rewards for completing shifts?

Workers earn points when they complete claimed shifts or tasks. Managers can then use leaderboard standings to provide their own rewards, prizes or recognition. Zelos tracks the work, points and rankings, but does not issue cash rewards automatically.

Is Zelos a gamified temporary staff management platform?

Yes. Organizations can publish work for temporary staff, crew or contractors to claim, attach point values to assignments and run live individual or team leaderboards.

Can temporary staff claim their own shifts?

Yes. Eligible team members can browse available work and claim shifts or tasks themselves instead of waiting for a manager to assign each one.

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