Bluu POS

You can integrate your Bluu POS to pull your actual sales, labor, and employee data into 7shifts. Bluu provides tools to manage daily operations, with back office reporting to support employee, vendor, and inventory management. The integration with 7shifts will include pushing sales and labor data into 7shifts.

Adding the Integration

1. Log in to Bluu Back Office.
2. In the left navigation bar, head to Other Service > 7shifts > Connect.
3. Log in to your 7shifts account with Admin permissions.
4. Select the account you would like to connect from the dropdown menu.
5. Click Grant access to authorize the integration.
6. You’ll be redirected to the Bluu Back Office. When access has been successfully granted, the 7shifts status will display Connected, and the Company ID field will be populated when access has been granted successfully:
   
7. Any Locations or Employees created in 7shifts will automatically populate in Bluu Back Office for you to download into Bluu. And vice-versa for you to upload to 7shifts. In other words, Locations/Employees created in either system will sync, and require you to either download/upload them into the other system.
8. (Recommended) To download a Locations and Employees, head to Bluu Back Office > Other Service:
   1.  Choose Store Sync (for Locations) > Download tab > checkmark the 7shifts Location > Download:
      
   2. Choose Employee Sync (for Employees) > Download tab > use the drop-down menu to select the correct Location/Department/Role > checkmark the employees > Download:
      
9. Alternatively, you can create stores (i.e., 7shifts Locations), and employees in Bluu Back Office, and upload them to 7shifts.
   1. To create a store in Bluu for upload: Basic Setting > Store Management > Store Info > in General tab, fill in the store details > Save > head to Other Service > Store Sync > checkmark the created Store and click Upload > Yes. Be sure to head to your 7shifts to assign Departments and Roles to the Location.
      
   2. To create employees in Bluu for upload: Basic Setting > Employee Management > Employee Info > select an Employee Group and enter their General details > Save > head to Other Service > Employee Sync > checkmark the employees and set their Department and Role assignements > Upload:
      
10. Head to 7shifts, to confirm that the Bluu Store appears in your 7shifts Locations, and employee(s) appear on your Employee page (head to Team in the left navigation bar).

Actual Sales & Forecasting

Once your integration has been activated, your real-time sales data will be enabled by default. 7shifts will also use those Actual Sales values to populate Projected Sales, allowing you to create schedules based on those projections. These will become more accurate over time as more data is available.

After activating your integration, please note that sales projections may not appear immediately. It can take approximately 1-2 weeks from the activation date for sales projections to become visible, covering up to four weeks into the future. These will become more accurate over time as more data is available.

You can manually import sales data for more immediate projections. To do this, import hourly sales each day or individual receipts consistently. You can learn more about sale projections here.

7shifts will sync sales data into the Dashboard, Manager Log Book, Actuals Report, and the Labor Budget Tool.

Actual Labor

We integrate with Bluu POS for Actual Labor, this means that your actual labor costs will be pulled into 7shifts. Once enabled, your actual labor costs will be displayed on the Dashboard allowing you to compare Sales vs. Labor.

You'll see the labor numbers update on the Dashboard on the day you enabled Bluu POS actual Labor. Going forward, these numbers will be updated daily (every 5 minutes) from your terminal.

Integration Warnings in Time Clocking

Once your POS labor is syncing into 7shifts, you will see a Warnings tab when reviewing your current pay period. This tab highlights punches missing a role in your POS/7shifts labor data that may need attention before running payroll.

These warnings appear directly in Time Clocking > Pay Periods > Warnings, helping you quickly identify and fix issues with labor data flowing in from the POS.

You can resolve most issues right from the Warnings tab, and you can still close your pay period even if some warnings remain.

Deactivate the Integration

1. Log in to Bluu Back Office.
2. In the left navigation bar, head to Other Service > 7shifts > Disconnect.
3. Confirm that you would like to disconnect from 7shifts.
4. Head to your 7shifts account with Admin permissions, head to Settings > Developer Tools > More options icon > Delete.