7shifts

What Is 7Shift?

7shifts is a cloud-based workforce management solution for hospitality businesses. It helps teams schedule their employees, communicate with them, and manage their labor costs. The platform also features labor forecasting, tip management, and employee retention features. These tools are all part of the same system, which helps alleviate administrative burden.

What Is 7Shift Best For?

One of the key features of 7shifts is its labor cost forecasting suite. With this feature, restaurant owners can sync their point of sale (POS) system to 7shifts. This helps them match the number of employees to the anticipated demand and adjust their workforces accordingly to lower expenses based on sales forecasts.

Managers can also review sales data to learn something that will help them avoid overstaffing or understaffing. This assists in establishing labor targets and budgets for each department.

How Much Does 7Shift Cost?

7shift price starts at $44.99/month/location for its Essentials plan. Suitable for up to 30 employees, it comes with many features, such as advanced scheduling, team messaging, and basic time clock. Other plans include:

• Pro- $89.99/month/location
• Premium- $149.99/month/location

There’s also a free plan called Comp that covers up to 15 employees. A 14-day free trial is available as well.

Besides the monthly subscription costs, users are recommended to budget for additional charges, including:

• Tip Management - $49.99/month/location
• Manager Log Book - $14.99/month/location
• Task Management - $12.99/month/location
• Employee Onboarding - $2.99/onboarding package

Users generally view 7shifts as reasonably affordable, especially for small restaurants using its free Comp plan or entry-level plan. However, an increase in pricing is a common concern for restaurants with multiple locations or those needing advanced features.

Disclaimer: The pricing is subject to change.

7Shift Integrations

7shifts supports integration with different third-party systems, including:

• ADP Workforce Now
• Paycom
• QuickBooks Online
• Clover Software
• Paychex Flex
• Square
• Revel

How Does 7Shift Work?

Here's how you can navigate the dashboard after you have logged into the system:

• Head to the homepage to access key features like scheduling, team communication, and reporting
• Use the scheduling tool to set shifts for your employees, ensuring optimal staffing
• Link your POS system to forecast sales and labor costs
• Track time and attendance when employees clock in and out using the app
• Use in-app messaging for seamless communication with your team
• Generate reports to analyze labor costs, sales data, and employee performance

Who Is 7Shift For?

Businesses across the hospitality sector can benefit from 7shifts. These include:

• Independent restaurants
• Food chains
• Cafes and coffee shops
• Bars and pubs
• Quick-service restaurants (QSRs)
• Food trucks
• Catering services

7Shift Use Cases

Based on our assessment of 7Shifts features, we have identified several situations where the platform can work:

Multi-Unit Franchise Groups Standardizing Scheduling Across Stores:

Franchise operators with multiple stores may experience issues related to the inconsistent scheduling practices across stores. 7shifts provide a unified, consistent scheduling process for all locations of multi-unit operators. This uniformity simplifies the staff training and usage of the platform, irrespective of the store they are working in. This helps build employee engagement through a system that's familiar and predictable throughout the organization.

Cafés Managing Time-Off Requests Across Locations

Many café owners with multiple locations use paper time-off slips, which are prone to being misplaced and are difficult to track from one location to another. 7shifts eliminates this by enabling time-off requests and approvals within the app. This allows managers to see all time-off requests in one place. This also provides them with increased visibility into their labor operations on a day-to-day basis at all of their locations and allows them to track compliance requirements at the state level, which may differ from location to location.

Full-Service Restaurants Handling Student and Part-Time Availability

Full-service restaurants often employ students and part-time staff whose availability changes frequently around school schedules, exams, and other commitments. When they track the shift timings and schedules via different documents, more than one spreadsheet, or informal notes, it tends to cause errors and disrupt the system with missed shifts. 7shifts consolidates all employee availability into a single system. This way it gets easier for managers to build schedules that respect each person's constraints, reduce scheduling conflicts, and cut down on the manual back-and-forth needed to confirm who can work when.

Bars and Breweries Tracking Labor Costs and Lateness

Bars and breweries typically operate on thin margins, making labor cost control a priority alongside day-to-day staff communication. 7shifts offers messaging, scheduling, and labor spend tracking into one platform. By doing so it reduces the time managers spend juggling separate tools or manual processes. Operators can use it to meaningfully cut down weekly administrative work, while also gaining a clearer way to monitor employee lateness and maintain basic HR records without relying on disconnected spreadsheets or paper logs.

Is 7Shift Right For You?

Do you struggle with creating schedules that align with fluctuating demand, leading to overstaffing or understaffing, lost profits, and inefficient business operations? If yes, 7shifts may give an all-in-one solution to your problem.

It is designed to help restaurant owners schedule, organize, and pay their workforce in one system. The platform follows industry regulations, including ISO, IEC 27001, PCI-DSS for cardholder data protection, and SOC compliance, ensuring high security and operational integrity.

If you are still not sure whether 7shifts is the right solution for your requirements, we are here to assist you. Contact us at (661) 384-7070, and we will guide you to make a well-informed decision.