What is 7shifts?
The platform behind great restaurant teams.
7shifts is a workforce management platform built for restaurants. It brings scheduling, time tracking, team communication, payroll, and tip management into one place so restaurant operators can manage their teams without jumping between tools.
7shifts is used by restaurant owners, general managers, and their teams, from single-location independents to multi-location groups.
Who uses 7shifts
- Admins and owners: full access to settings, payroll, and reporting across all locations
- Managers: build schedules, approve requests, and communicate with their team
- Employees: view schedules, submit availability, swap shifts, and clock in via the mobile app
New to 7shifts? Start with the Getting Started guides, a step-by-step setup guide for admins covering your first 30 days.
How 7shifts fits into your setup
7shifts integrates with most major restaurant POS systems, including Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, and TouchBistro, along with dozens of others. Connecting a POS syncs sales and labor data automatically, which improves forecasting accuracy and removes the need for manual data entry.
If a POS does not support labor syncing, or a restaurant does not use POS-based time tracking, staff can clock in and out using 7punches, the built-in mobile time clock included with every 7shifts account.
Staff use the free 7shifts mobile app (iOS and Android) to view schedules, submit availability, request shift swaps, and clock in. Managers can approve requests and send announcements from the same app, on or off site.
Explore by feature area
| Hire | |
| Hiring and onboarding | Post jobs, track applicants, and move new hires through onboarding. Document storage keeps signed paperwork and certifications in one place. |
| Train | |
| Training | Create and assign courses, quizzes, and checklists to new hires and existing staff, then track completion across roles and locations. |
| Schedule | |
| Scheduling | Build schedules using a drag-and-drop calendar or auto-scheduling based on availability and labor targets. Schedules account for time-off requests and role assignments, and stay within budget using built-in labor cost and sales forecasting. |
| Time clocking | Track clock-ins and clock-outs through a connected POS or the built-in 7punches mobile time clock. Approved time exports directly to payroll, with automatic overtime calculations and custom break rules. |
| Labor and compliance | Monitor overtime, breaks, and local labor law requirements automatically as schedules are built. Reporting gives visibility into labor costs by location. |
| Pay | |
| Payroll and tips | Run payroll for hourly and salaried staff, with time and tips synced in automatically from scheduling and time clocking. Tip pooling automates distribution based on hours worked, role, or custom rules. |
| On-Demand Pay | Give employees access to a portion of their earned wages before payday through Clair, at no cost or admin burden to the operator. Available in the US only. |
| Retain | |
| Team communication | Send announcements, message individuals or groups, and assign shift tasks without sharing personal phone numbers. Read receipts confirm who has seen important updates. |
| Team performance | Monitor attendance, shift activity, and individual performance, collect shift feedback, and recognize staff through the Engage dashboard. |
| Manager Log Book | Document shift notes, assign tasks, and track sales and labor data in a shared digital log that keeps managers connected across every shift. |