7shifts Restaurant Scheduling for ADP Workforce Now®

How we use AI

• 7shifts uses machine learning to analyze sales and labor data from your POS to provide hourly forecasts and labor recommendations to help you budget your scheduled labor more effectively.
  
  This enables your restaurant to have a baseline understanding of how to best maintain labor targets while keeping ideal coverage in roles and departments.
  
  If you have questions about how 7shifts uses AI, please contact us.

Make changes on the go

• Adjust your schedule on mobile to keep your team up-to-date—staff can trade shifts and submit availability via the app, too.

Build schedules in one click

• Access schedule templates to create the blueprint for your perfect schedule. By outlining your restaurant's shifts and employee needs, you can easily create weeks worth of schedules in a few seconds.

Clients on average:

• Save 14 hours per month scheduling. Save $508 per month in unbudgeted labor. Save $1,045 per month in overtime pay.

Avoid costly compliance fees

• With built-in labor compliance tools, 7shifts helps you stay ahead of dozens of labor laws and ensure you comply to avoid costly compliance fees.

Eliminate unbudgeted labor costs

• Avoid overtime pay and prevent time theft with time tracking software that alerts you to potential issues and includes features to prevent unauthorized punch-ins.

Easily manage your team’s breaks

• Easily manage your team’s breaks and boost morale by scheduling breaks—paid or unpaid—in advance. Ensure everyone gets a chance to relax while staying compliant with local labor laws.

Export punches to payroll

• Save time comparing time punches against scheduled hours and calculating paychecks based on hours worked. 7shifts syncs data between scheduling, time clocking, and payroll to make managing your labor a breeze.

Use mobile punch

• Admins and Managers can now allow their employees to clock in and out of shifts and breaks from their personal devices with Mobile Punch! This helps reduce the risk in using shared devices, ultimately making your restaurant safer for your team and your customers.

• Save $2,000 per month on time theft and payroll errors 7shifts helps customers surface an average of $589 in labor infractions per month
• Clients on average:

Create & enforce custom breaks

• Ensure compliance with local labor laws by scheduling and tracking employee breaks—paid or unpaid—accurately and in advance.

Say goodbye to unexpected overtime & scheduling penalties

• While building your schedule, receive automatic alerts for overtime or if shifts are scheduled too close together. You’ll also get mobile alerts when employees are nearing or entering overtime, ensuring compliance and preventing costly mistakes.

Enforce your scheduled shift times

• Eliminate unplanned or early employee clock-ins. Integrate 7shifts with your POS to ensure staff only clock in when scheduled, helping you keep labor costs on track.

Keep a record of historical schedules and changes

• 7shifts simplifies compliance by automatically storing all staff schedules and any changes made (including who made them) in 7shifts, ensuring you meet labor law requirements.

Clients on average:

• 7shifts helps customers surface an average of 34 labor infractions per month. Save 12 hours per month managing labor compliance.

Get everyone on the same page

• With Announcements, send important one-way messages to your team and easily track who has, or hasn't, read your message

Boost team collaboration with team chat

• Enable your team to stay connected through 7shifts. Send GIFs or PDFs, videos, or images to communicate effectively with team members. Plus, you can start a thread to keep conversation organized and the group chat clutter-free.

Say good bye to missed or late shifts

• With Shift Notifications, increase accountability and transparency by ensuring employees are promptly notified of schedule changes, reducing missed shifts and boosting engagement.

Send automated Shift Feedback surveys to your team

• Reduce employee turnover by keeping a close eye on your team's happiness. Your automated post-shift surveys can help you easily see what went wrong (or right) with their shift, helping you identify issues before they become problems.

Clients on average:

• Cut calls, texts, and emails by 50% using 7shifts’ team communication tools. 93% of teams using Shift Feedback said it helped them resolve team conflict and identify operational issues.

Customized to fit your needs

• Use the default log book categories to track shift activity or easily create your own categories to track the things that are important to your restaurant.

All your shift notes in one place

• Keep tabs on your daily restaurant operations with a customizable log book that keeps daily notes, important shift details, and follow-up tasks together.

Publish daily notes to managers

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  Instant notifications
  As soon as a log entry is made, other managers will receive it via email or push notification, which you can review or reply to.
  
  
  Past entries at your fingertips
  Our cloud-based log book means you always have access to past log book entries from other managers on the web or on your mobile device.

Search and sort log book entries

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  Organize by date and time
  Entries are organized by day and category, making it easy to communicate issues or feedback. Customize the log book layout to suit your needs.
  
  
  Easily search past entries
  All entries are archived by date and category, so you can search the log book to find all entries in a specific date range or related to a specific category or employee.

Manage requests on the go

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  Update & submit availability
  Staff can set their availability through the app and all changes are sent to managers for review and approval.
  
  
  Approve time-off requests
  Get notied when an employee makes an availability request and approve or deny it on the y.

Assign shift trades quickly

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  Staff can bid on shifts
  Employees can see open shifts in the shift pool and bid to pick them.
  
  
  Assign shift replacements
  Managers can choose who they would like to assign a shift to and employees are notied of the changes.

Track your restaurant performance anywhere

• The Mobile Manager Dashboard is part of the free 7shifts app. The Dashboard takes the guesswork out of your restaurant's progress with info to help you control labor costs and make informed business decisions.

Be in compliance with labor standards

• 7shifts can help you stay in compliance with your local labor laws without having to sacrifice staff, customers, food quality, your bottom line, or your sanity.

Real-time overtime alerts

• Combining hours that staff have already worked with what they’re still scheduled for, we’re able to notify you in real-time if staff are scheduled to go into overtime.

Break enforcement

• We'll help ensure all staff members take their minimum scheduled break at the necessary times to avoid paying penalties.

Benefits for managers

• Approve staff availability and requests from anywhere
• Quickly make changes to your schedules
• Communicate with your staff with messaging and announcements

Point of Sale

• 7shifts integrates with dozens of industry leading POS systems to build labor-optimal schedules, sync wages, forecast and budget sales and labor, and enforce schedules.

Integrations

• Some of our current Point of Sale integrations include: Aloha, Brink, Cake, Clover, Dinerware (Office), Lightspeed, Mobilebytes, Micros3700 & Symphony II (Office), Positouch (Office), Revel, Squirrel (Office), Square, Silverware, Toast, Touchbistro and Upserve.