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7shifts

Overview

What is 7shifts?

7shifts is a restaurant workforce and scheduling management application, which also features collaboration features, from the Canadian company of the same name.

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7 Stars for 7Shifts !

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 28, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use 7Shifts as our comprehensive labor management solution at each of our restaurants. Our management team use 7Shifts to develop, maintain shifts and schedules for all sta...
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Arthur Li
Executive - Corporate
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Altamarea Group
7shifts3 years of experience

7Shifts has improved our business!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 20, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Our entire organization -- one resort and another standalone destination property -- utilizes 7Shifts to help keep our staff organized and informed. We have found that 7Shifts...
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Verified user
Director
7shifts4 years of experience

7shifts makes restaurant life less chaotic!

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 29, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
7shifts is used by all employees at two restaurant locations. Works extremely well for communicating with employees and publishing a schedule. For the end user, 7shifts makes ...
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Employee
7shifts2 years of experience

7shifts keeps communication easy!

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 19, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
7shifts is used for our entire company, of which we have 3 operating locations and one soon-to-be open location. They are all variations of restaurants, bars, and brewpubs. Me...
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Verified user
Manager
7shifts1 year of experience

Affordable & Functional

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 16, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
7shifts is not just great for scheduling but also serves as a direct line of communication with staff. What's really nice about that is being able to send something directly t...
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Jayelynn Willman
General Manager - Other
General Manager
12 West Brewing Co.
7shifts2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Free

$0.00

Cloud

Appetizer

$19.99

Cloud
per location/per month

Entree

$43.99

Cloud
per location/per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Restaurant Feasibility Guide Video 2/2 -

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TechTO Demo of the Month: 7shifts

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Get More Out of 7shifts | 7shifts

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Restaurant Task Management: How to Communicate Tasks to Staff -

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How to Create a Restaurant Staff Training Manual -

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Automate Your Scheduling With 7shifts [Demo]

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Product Details

What is 7shifts?

7shifts is a platform that enables restaurants of all sizes to trim labor costs, retain staff, and stay labor compliant with a veritable toolbox of applications. It handles employee scheduling, communication, labor compliance, and engagement.

Benefits of 7shifts are presented as:

  • Reduces time spent scheduling with its drag-and-drop schedule builder.

  • Reduces calls and texts with built-in communication tools like chat and Announcements.

  • Integrates scheduling to a POS and payroll systems for efficiency and saving on labour costs with its Optimal Labour tool.

  • Lowers employee turnover with engagement statistics for each location, plus a leaderboard to highlight the most and least engaged employees.

  • Drives efficiency by tagging employees to specific tasks to increase completion.

  • Supports compliance with features for California, Oregon, Seattle, and New York.

  • Collects, divides and distributes tips to FOH and BOH staff with a Tip Pooling feature. Can be integrated into a POS and Payroll systems.

  • AManager Log Book feature to stay up to date on maintenance and incidents.

  • Includes a mobile apps for managers and employees to manage availability and time-off requests, chat, and track restaurant performance.

The solution bosts users among 1,000,000 restaurant professionals in restaurants of all sizes—from mom-and-pop shops to national chains like Bareburger, Jamba Juice, and Five Guys.



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7shifts Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

7shifts is a restaurant workforce and scheduling management application, which also features collaboration features, from the Canadian company of the same name.

Homebase, HotSchedules, and Connecteam are common alternatives for 7shifts.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of 7shifts are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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7shifts keeps communication easy!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 19, 2019
Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Food & Beverages Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
7shifts is used for our entire company, of which we have 3 operating locations and one soon-to-be open location. They are all variations of restaurants, bars, and brewpubs. Meaning we have a myriad of departments including management, front of house and back of house. And within those, split between job duties such as barista, expo, bartender, shift lead, etc. 7shifts helps keep communication open and easily accessible between departments.
Pros
  • Staff can easily access fellow team members' contact info (phone & email).
  • Staff can easily enter availability or time off.
  • Managers have a log book to share issues or updates from the days’ shift so quick action can be completed easily if needed.
  • Being able to communicate with managers only, with a specific department, or with the entire staff easily is very helpful.
Cons
  • Sometimes notifications don’t clear when checked; or it’s hard to understand where in 7shifts the notification is coming from (log book, schedule, etc).
  • Would be nice to add photos to post.
Likelihood to Recommend
7shifts is very helpful when staff needs to trade or give up a shift. And it makes it a quick and easy process for the manager and staff involved. It’s also a great way to share information between multiple departments and staff and managers. I can’t think of a scenario where 7shifts isn’t appropriate for our use, as long as the staff operates it within business code. Which we don’t have issues with at our locations.

7 Shifts: Highly Recommend!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 08, 2019
Verified User
Director in Human Resources
Restaurants Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The software is being used to its full potential. We use it for scheduling, the manager logbook, forecasting, and reporting. We also rely on it heavily for communication and announcements. It is used by HR, all operations (from entry level to management), directors, and ownership.
It addressed largely the communication issues we were having. First off, scheduling and issues along with it like swapping, days off, requests availability, etc. are seamless and all in one place with a good audit trail. It also helps by quickly communicating with staff (they have a great mobile app) so they can dial, text, or email on demand from their employee profile. WE LOVE the manager log book it keeps all daily issues in ONE place and can actually be queried for patterns later on (i.e does John Doe call off every football Sunday). Their customer service is FANTASTIC, comprehensive and a real human being! We use a lot of software but this is by far my favorite in terms of versatility, ease of use, no technical issues, and easy to implement.
Pros
  • Scheduling module from top to bottom
  • Manager log book
  • Customer Service
  • Integration into our POS system (Toast)
  • Communication with staff and all verticals through the app
Cons
  • Would be great if they created an ATS (applicant tracking system) would love more add ons
  • Integrate with ADP Workforce Now
  • Keep building more tech! It's great!
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for a high volume restaurant or F&B outlet with high turnover and high demand communication needs (like us). I think it may not be as useful for an office setting (but I have no experience in this area).

7Shifts has improved our business!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 20, 2020
Verified User
Director in Corporate
Restaurants Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our entire organization -- one resort and another standalone destination property -- utilizes 7Shifts to help keep our staff organized and informed. We have found that 7Shifts is easily the best method of communication when we have site-wide announcements and emergencies. Our staff all truly utilize it and we have come to rely on it company-wide and individually in each department. The scheduling aspect has accounted for reduced turnover and helped us to institute policies for call-offs and shift pickups that are otherwise difficult to enforce in this day and age (no one wants to make a phone call!). We have recommended it time and time again to colleagues and others in the hospitality industry as the leading scheduling and communication software.
Pros
  • Easy to use app interface, even for our non-techy staff.
  • Communication tools, like the messaging center.
Cons
  • When creating schedules I wish there was a way to remember the last schedule you were on instead of ordering them in alphabetical order.
  • When working on a schedule, again when you revisit it, it alphabetizes the employees instead of keeping them in the order you add them. This is pertinent for our business because we're reservation-based and work off of a rotating schedule where the lowest ones are called off if there are not enough reservations.
Likelihood to Recommend
7Shifts is the ideal scheduling software for the hospitality industry, where there are multiple departments and where everyone needs access to everything across the board.

7shifts makes restaurant life less chaotic!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
January 29, 2020
Verified User
Employee in Customer Service
Restaurants Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
7shifts is used by all employees at two restaurant locations. Works extremely well for communicating with employees and publishing a schedule. For the end user, 7shifts makes finding coverage for a shift simple.
Pros
  • Shift swaps/giveaways.
  • Communication tools.
Cons
  • Submitting time off requests and availability could be a little more user-friendly. It works just fine as is, but is easy to make mistakes when entering dates.
Likelihood to Recommend
7 shifts works great for the service industry! I would say it could suit other industries as well, but would need to be a little bit more robust. I am not sure if there is a feature for management to use to send out an alert that a shift still needs to be covered. Many times, I find myself scrolling through pages of employee contact information looking for someone available to work my shift. Would be nice to be able to just hit a button and have every single person who is available to work receive an alert that coverage is still needed.

Affordable & Functional

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 16, 2019
JW
Jayelynn Willman
General Manager
12 West Brewing Co. (Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
7shifts is not just great for scheduling but also serves as a direct line of communication with staff. What's really nice about that is being able to send something directly to one employee, an entire department, or the entire staff. Being able to customize your alerts is also helpful; I can see immediately when someone releases a shift or puts in for time off.
Pros
  • Easy of scheduling: allows setup templates
  • Communication with staff: an employee directly or my department
  • Affordable: offers a lot of functions without being overly priced
Cons
  • iPhone app: I'm not able to change the preset time frames so I have to manually enter the shifts
  • When working from the app it doesn't block out the time off as it does on the desktop so I have to make sure I haven't approved anyone first before I start doing the schedule
Likelihood to Recommend
This product is well suited for businesses of all sizes. Its ease of use makes it a valuable resource for not only management and ownership but also for the staff. Using it to communicate with staff when a new beer is being tapped is key for us. I can message the entire staff and they can respond to the group with any questions or comments.
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