7shifts: Employee Scheduling

7shifts, Inc.

About this app

7shifts is the only all-in-one team management app built specifically for restaurants. The goal? Making the daily operations of restaurant owners, managers, and employees easier. We help restaurants simplify their work with one app to schedule, time clock, communicate with their team, stay labor compliant, run payroll, pool tips, pay tips, and more. The mobile app is free for teams to use as part of their restaurant’s 7shifts subscription.

Manager features:
- Manage the schedule with time-off and availability automatically added
- Notify staff of their shifts automatically via email, text, or push notification
- Approve or deny shift trades
- Approve or deny time-off requests
- Track staff availability
- Track staff engagement like lates and no-shows
- Chat with staff or create team-wide announcements
- Get overtime alerts if staff are at risk of going into overtime
- Track real-time sales and labor to make smart decisions to reduce labor cost

Staff features:
- View all of your shifts
- See who you’re working with on upcoming shifts
- View hours and estimated earnings
- Request shift trades
- Request time off
- Submit your availability
- Chat using GIFs, pics, or emojis with your co-workers

SCHEDULING MADE EASY
Say goodbye to manual scheduling headaches! Our intuitive interface lets you create, edit, and distribute schedules in minutes, not hours. Drag-and-drop shifts, set availability, and handle shift swaps effortlessly. With smart tools like Auto Scheduling, ensure optimal labor costs while meeting staffing needs.

SEAMLESS TEAM COMMUNICATION
Communication is key! Keep everyone in the loop with instant messaging, shift reminders, and real-time updates. Share announcements, updates, and policies instantly. Your team stays engaged, informed, and ready for success.

LABOR MANAGEMENT & COST CONTROL
Maximize efficiency and minimize labor costs. Track labor budgets, forecast sales, and manage overtime seamlessly. Get insights into labor cost percentages to make informed decisions that positively impact your bottom line.

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT & HAPPINESS
Empower your team with easy access to schedules and shift updates on their mobile devices. Give employees the flexibility to swap shifts, set their availability, and request time off. Happy employees equal better retention and increased productivity.

TIME & ATTENDANCE TRACKING
Accurate timekeeping is possible! Track clock-ins, breaks, and overtime without error. Say goodbye to tedious timesheets and embrace precision in payroll processing.

REPORTING & INSIGHTS
Unlock the power of data! Access comprehensive reports and analytics on labor costs, employee performance, and scheduling trends. Make data-driven decisions to optimize your restaurant's operations.

INTEGRATIONS & CUSTOMIZATION
Seamlessly integrate 7shifts with your chosen POS system or payroll provider. Customize settings to fit your unique restaurant needs and workflows.

Take it from our customers:
“If you're a restaurant professional, this is a mandate. If this is a hobby for you, by all means, use something else. Use Excel, use post-it notes if you write it down. But if you're a professional and this is your career and your actual goal is to earn profit for your business, then there's no viable solution or anything that would make sense other than this, there just isn't."

“Communication in this business is everything. 7shifts has saved the day and made it possible for me to get through that first opening, and I continue to use 7shifts to open my other restaurants and it’s the one consistent thing that keeps us together.”

Join the 1,000,000+ restaurant pros already using 7shifts to simplify their team management.

Ratings and reviews

App is just ok. It's super glitchy. Randomly logs me out. Sometimes notifications of messages don't alert me (yes, notifications are set properly). I'm also not a fan of the lack of desktop notifications. It won't alert you if someone messages you. You have to go to messages to even notice the message. Would love the feature to pin 📌 an important comment in a thread instead of having to scroll all the way back to find important info. A pro is the scheduling. Pretty easy to do and to follow.

The app was working well, but just recently, it seems to be glitchy. Sales and labor numbers are not always available or are not available until much later on in the day. It used to be very accurate, but there is an obvious lag now. I also am no longer receiving any emails regarding shift changes, announcements, and messages. This is much more recent, and I have already double checked my settings and spam folders.

It's gotten worse. Not sure why, but the drop-down to change an assignment snaps back before you can select anything. The notes on availability are so large they block dropping a shift on someone and can't be clicked through. Making rearranging for time off requests a game of operation to find the one spot I can drop the shift. The header/footer are so big that I see more of them on a 15" laptop than I do of the schedule I'm trying to work on. Overall 7shifts is backsliding from 3 years ago.

What’s new

Approvals, On Demand. Managers now see all actionable requests prioritized right on the Overview screen. Get your team answers faster than a quick-service line!

Continuous Support. Start talking to our support team on one device and jump to the other without missing a word. Your chat sessions now travel with you.

If 7shifts will have scheduled maintenance or is facing a tiny hiccup, you'll now see a notice right in the app. No more guessing why things feel slow—we'll tell you what's up!