7shifts Software

Absolutely necessary for any size business

The setup process was a breeze. Working with reps was such a positive experience. I felt like he was always available to assist me and was always knew the answers to questions immediately.

Pros

7shifts saves me so much time when building my weekly schedule. All the information I need is right at my finger tips and I don’t need to be looking through a request off book. So much less room for error

Cons

no cons that have come up at this point

7shifts Review

Our rep was great

Pros

All of the features, easy to manage availability

Cons

Difficult to view the full schedule without scrolling up and down when you have employees in multiple roles. There is no support on the weekends

Great product

We now have a better handle on budgeting labor hours. Ease of use and better accountability for all my employees.

Pros

Great communication tool
Easy to use
Tons of options

Cons

Could possible use an open reason for time off or availabilities.

Simple yet powerful

Pros

Drag and drop scheduling and not having to manage availability/time off requests.

Cons

The clock in app is separate from the scheduling app.

Easy to use!

Pros

I love that this software is easy to use - and you are always making it better by updating and adding new items.

Cons

The least thing I like about our system is when you are removing an employee due to theft or immediate termination - that there should be an option to make the remaining shifts that are left for that employee to go to open shifts - instead you need to physically remove the shifts and put them to open shifts - and if the MOD hadn't noticed that this wasn't done - you could potential be shorthanded.

Scheduling MADE EASY!

It is easy to use and someone is always there to help if we have questions, comments or concerns. It has made scheduling easier on us and our staff. Everything is right there on your phone.

Pros

We have 50+ employees at our restaurant. It used to be difficult looking up everyone's availability and time off. Now with just a mouse click everything you need to know about each individuals availability and time off is at your finger tips. It saves our management team so much time!

Cons

When you decline a request off and put in a reason why we can not figure out how the staff member sees those. It's most likely us and user error?

Multi unit hospitality operation

so far so good -- love the ability to manage my schedule from home/on the go

Pros

I like the shift flag feature --- would like an attendance report option.

Cons

Announcement feature is faulty at best -- would like the option to send announcements company wide without having to select each zone which results in multiple emails/notifications for a single message.

Would love to see a feature where you can pin announcements and a place where you can make attachments more easily accessible

Effective

Pros

Schedule building is a breeze and then available through the app.

Cons

Better POS integration would be a great benefit.

Employees are uptodate on their schedule.

Pros

If employees want to change their shift, they don’t need to ask their boss/manager and it gets forgotten. The shift is directly sent for approval and a replacement can easily be found.
You can also mange your daily salary budget and even weekly to have control on how to staff efficiently.

Cons

They need to have cluster part of their platform to get daily sales.

It’s improved so much that their is nothing to complain about.

Great app

Made for easy communication of schedule. Gave ability to reach out to entire team at once. Made it easy for crew to reach out to management even when off duty.

Pros

Easy to teach, user friendly, free for staff, made my job easier.

Cons

The updates didn't always make it better.

Yes to 7 shifts

Nice to release schedule to all Teammembers at once.

Pros

Ease of use. Easy to change shift times.

Cons

Nothing so far. This software has been very helpful

Less time scheduling, more time where I'm needed!

Like I mentioned above in my title and in the 'pros', so much less time dealing with my old Excel spreadsheet ....... schedules are done in a matter of minutes, and less mistakes with availabilities and time off requests.

Pros

I love how easy it is to make weekly schedules. From just copying them week to week, to easily changing a shift when an employees availability is not there, to keeping track of days off needed....... less to worry about! Also, NO MORE EXCEL SHEETS!! No more creating the following week, fixing a cell calculation that got changed, no more adding up all employee hours individually! Just add in 7punches, and all that is taken care of for you! Just close a payroll period, download the excel file and print. Simple. OH, and I forgot to mention the app!! Wonderful, and great updates happening!

Cons

Honestly, it works great. I can't complain. Money well spent!

7shifts review

Love it

Pros

I like the broadcast messaging option. The mock schedule option before publishing. The employee information all in one place and also the manager logbook. Everything’s all in one place - Mise en place !

Cons

The inconsistency with the layout, multiple people at our restaurant are using differently versions and sometimes it shows up with inaccurate information.

Very User Friendly

Overall positive experience.

Pros

Ability to easily and clearly make and show schedules. Reports of worked hours showing breakdown is very helpful

Cons

No ability to see actual number of days worked summarized. In a month if someone works for 20 days, it will show 20 lines instead of one line saying he or she worked 20 days. This is essential a simple thing like how many days an employee works is inexplicably missing!

Great Platform

Pros

The easy of staffing and announcements for staff.

Cons

Needs more connectivity to our pos platform.

good

Pros

easy to use, easy to track labour and very user friendly for staff

Cons

nothing really, the switch to 7shifts has been great.
better timeclocking control would be helpful

The Ultimate Scheduling Software

Pros

Very easy to use! I love the templates. Makes my scheduling a breeze. Also love that 7shifts is always coming out with new features!

Cons

Really no cons! Excellent software! My team loves it!

7 shifts from a managers standpoint

The ability to have everyone scheduled and for employees to trade shifts makes for a very fluid reporting overall.

Pros

First off it makes it VERY easy to keep track of employees as well as allowing employees to cover for each others shifts.

Cons

I think it could create even greater "ease of use" for end of day reporting

about four months now

Much improved scheduling and the employees take to it quickly

Pros

fairly intuitive, with some really thoughtful functionality i would not have thought to ask for, but really depend on now. i particularly like the scheduling ease, and the approve/modify hours function, the chat/message function, and the mgrs log. phone support has been terrific too

Cons

i still couldn’t clearly explain all the color coded little buttons and notifications on the main scheduling page—still learning

Great schedule

Pros

It's super easy to use even for beginners

Cons

Price is a little high I believe but what can you do.