7shifts Restaurant Scheduling for ADP Workforce Now® Next Generation

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.

Help 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.

Help eliminate unbudgeted labor costs

• Help 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.

Clients on average:

• Save 12 hours a month managing labor compliance* *Data compiled from a March 2023 customer survey of 2,398 SMB and mid-market customers. The 12 hours represents the average time saved per month managing labor compliance among survey respondents. Results may vary. Notice $589 in labor infractions surfaced per month* *Data compiled from analysis of aggregated, anonymized customer usage data from April 2023. Results may vary.

Create & enforce custom breaks

• Help 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:

• Uncover 34 labor infractions per month using 7shifts* *Data compiled from analysis of aggregated, anonymized customer usage data from April 2023. Results may vary. 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 goodbye 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* *Data compiled from a March 2023 customer survey of 2,398 SMB and mid-market customers using 7shifts team communication tools. The 50% reflects the average reported reduction in calls, texts, and emails. Results may vary. 93% of teams using Shift Feedback said it helped them resolve team conflict and identify operational issues* *Data compiled from a March 2023 customer survey of 2,398 SMB and mid-market customers using Shift Feedback. The 93% reflects the percentage of survey respondents who reported the feature helped resolve team conflict and identify operational issues. Results may vary.

Effortless payroll prep

• Set customizable labor rules and tip earnings and generate pay reports directly in 7shifts, then sync to ADP with a single click.

Eliminate manual, error-prone, and incomplete data

• Traditionally, compiling pay data from your POS and formatting it for ADP has been a time-consuming, manual process prone to errors and missing information. With 7shifts, you can automatically sync employee and pay data between systems, ensuring accuracy and saving valuable time.

Multi-location functionality

• 7shifts supports both single and multi-location restaurants. For restaurants with multiple pay groups, separate 7shifts accounts are required for each. To connect this integration, you’ll need one 7shifts connector per location.

Point of Sale integrations

• Connect your POS to 7shifts, and start syncing your labor and tips data for payroll. Choose from over 30 different integrations including: Brink POS Cake Clover Heartland Lightspeed Micros Simphony Revi SpotOn Square Toast Touchbistro And more!

Automatic Tip Calculation

• If your current calculation model isn't broken, don't change it—just automate it! Outline your custom set-and-forget distribution rules matching your existing policy one time, and sit back while we accurately calculate tips for you in real time, every time.

Employee Transparency

• For employees, being able to see what they've earned in tips on a day-to-day basis should be the norm. Your team can easily view their personal earned, calculated, and paid tips in real-time from the mobile app so you don't have to spend time answering all of their questions.

View and update your schedules on the go

• Gain the flexibility to make decisions faster from any location. Add, edit, delete or re-assign shifts easily and notify your team instantly through the mobile app.

Track your restaurant performance anywhere

• Empower your managers to make daily decisions about the restaurant and stay on top of their budgets by showing them Actual Sales & Actual Labor hourly or daily.

Manage requests on the go

• Get notied when an employee makes an availability, time off, or shift trade request and approve or deny it on the y.

Stay connected to your team while maintaining privacy

• Have one place to securely chat with your team, send attachments, and get notified about announcements—without sharing phone numbers or emails.

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