7shifts vs. Get Beyond

7Shifts is ideal for a broad number of restaurant clients, whether it is a single unit, independent location or multi-unit, multi-jurisdiction group like ours. Pricing is very reasonable, and as mentioned earlier, a lightweight and intuitive platform makes it easy to implement and maintain, and scalable for growth

Incentivized

Excellent, excellent choice for a multi-unit franchisee of quick service restaurants. I would hesitate to recommend for a "mom and pop" type restaurant, particularly one that was not generating at least $1m in sales. I would also hesitate to recommend for a multi-unit restaurant that had legacy general ledger integration unless they were willing to spend the time and energy to re-integrate, which is not an automatic or particularly easy process.

Incentivized

• Staff can easily access fellow team members' contact info (phone & email).
• Staff can easily enter availability or time off.
• Managers have a log book to share issues or updates from the days’ shift so quick action can be completed easily if needed.
• Being able to communicate with managers only, with a specific department, or with the entire staff easily is very helpful.

Incentivized

• Easily add and track inventory items
• Recipe management that allows for built-in costing and calorie / nutrition reporting that is often required by local, state and national regulations
• Cloud based employee scheduling ensures that staffing levels are adequate, employees are happy and surprises are limited
• Very easy to learn and train new employess

Incentivized

• iPhone app: I'm not able to change the preset time frames so I have to manually enter the shifts
• When working from the app it doesn't block out the time off as it does on the desktop so I have to make sure I haven't approved anyone first before I start doing the schedule

Incentivized

• Some custom reports can have errors in our register system is altered (time punch edits).
• Exports can't be customized by font style or size, and must be done within Excel.
• Cost. It is a big program, and we have Enterprise, plus six restaurant locations, so we have a lot of info on it.

Incentivized

Support - whether via email or chat - has generally been prompt, reliable, courteous and effective. Support follows-up and works proactively to ensure our questions and issues are addressed. 7Shifts also genuinely cares about customer success, which is important to us

Incentivized

We have a support representative, and whenever I've needed help customizing a report, or some numbers aren't coming through correctly, they are only one email away. It's very timely in response. They can view our system from the backside, and have fixed problems for me with integration or just a formula wrong in one of my custom reports.

Incentivized

We used When I Work when it first debuted, but 7Shifts technology is much more advanced than When I Work's was at that time.

Incentivized

I have only used the previous program they had here when I started, called Food Trak. It's a very old system. I think it was DOS-based.

Incentivized

• I have worked in the service industry before where we just had a phone directory and copy of the schedule posted on a cork board by the office. It was a nightmare! I would say 7shifts has made a major impact on ensuring proper coverage for different meal hours and special events. We do not run short staffed very often anymore.

Incentivized

• More control for the managers, and they easily see how they affect their overall numbers. They can see labor percentages at 15-minute intervals, and that is key when controlling payroll.
• It has streamlined our corporate office duties. Each store processes their own invoices, instead of our older method of sending all invoices to the office to enter on our old software.
• I get all of my payroll hours from PeachWorks in an Excel file that I can upload to our external payroll company. That ALONE has saved me hours of manual entry.

Incentivized