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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.



7shifts Competitors

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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7 Stars for 7Shifts !

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 28, 2020
AL
Arthur Li
CFO (Chief Financial Officer)
Altamarea Group (Restaurants, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
7shifts
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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 staff, communicate restaurant and organization announcements to all staff, track revenue and labor cost metrics, and facilitate Time & Attendance. As a truly cloud-based platform via the website and the mobile app, our management corporate team can effectively and efficiently manage the workforce both remotely and at the restaurants in real-time. During COVID, 7Shifts has responded to our evolving needs and instituted health and safety assessment tools as part of Time & Attendance that have enabled us to comply efficiently with local jurisdictional guidelines. 7Shifts has become a valuable and indispensable platform for us.
Pros
  • Lightweight, intuitive and pleasant user interface makes it a useful, reliable and enjoyable tool for all management and staff to use
  • Reliable and effective customer support to help address questions and issues that come up
  • Self-service onboard and implementation makes it easy to get platform set up at our multiple restaurant locations
  • Constantly innovating and responding to our evolving and complex needs
  • Effective and well-developed 3rd party integrations with POS (Toast) and HR/payroll solutions (ADP)
Cons
  • Greater training resource and documentation portal to expand labor management and staff training functionality
  • Ability to generate and request, submit forms as part of broadening capabilities with HR
  • More sales and labor analytics on the mobile app (vs. just on website)
Likelihood to Recommend
7Shifts is ideal for a broad number of restaurant clients, whether it is a single unit, independent location or multi-unit, multi-jurisdiction group like ours. Pricing is very reasonable, and as mentioned earlier, a lightweight and intuitive platform makes it easy to implement and maintain, and scalable for growth.
Return on Investment
  • Simplify and streamline weekly payroll process by reducing the amount of time spent by managers to approve time punches.
  • Real-time visibility into revenue and labor cost enables our management teams to stay within labor cost targets.
  • Much better priced and more effective labor management platform relative to others on the market.
Alternatives Considered
Support Rating
10
Support - whether via email or chat - has generally been prompt, reliable, courteous and effective. Support follows-up and works proactively to ensure our questions and issues are addressed. 7Shifts also genuinely cares about customer success, which is important to us.
Other Software Used

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.
Return on Investment
  • Streamlined communication for faster action when needed (fix broken items, etc).
  • Supports quality of life for staff as schedules are easily posted and viewed.
  • Supports quality of life for managers with a managers-only forum to communicate staff issues and handle in a timely manner from shift to shift.
Alternatives Considered
Slack is great for communicating and you can add photos, but 7shifts seems like it was built for our business model (restaurant/bar). It’s easy to use by staff and management and can be mobile or desktop. 7shifts also has the best prompt questions/bubbles that keep you focused on what to include in shift reports. As well as the schedule, availability and time off request being made so simple and easy to use for staff and management.
Support Rating
10
If never had any issues with 7shifts, truly has worked flawlessly for my entire use of the program.
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