7shifts

About 7shifts

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by 7shifts

All products by 7shifts reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

7shiftsAI Workforce Management

Scheduling, payroll, and team management built for restaurants

From $39.99/mo7.8/10

How Our Review Panel Scores 7shifts

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed 7shifts's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who 7shifts competes with, and how they differ.

Homebase8.0/10

The closest head-to-head rival for small-restaurant accounts: same scheduling, time clock, hiring and payroll bundle, sold with a free tier for single-location businesses. Homebase spreads across all hourly-worker small businesses — retail, salons, services — where 7shifts builds restaurant-only features such as tip pooling and multi-unit labour compliance.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

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Toast

The restaurant-native bundling threat: Toast sells Payroll & Team Management attached to its own POS and payments stack, so scheduling comes as a line item in a system the restaurant already runs. 7shifts is deliberately POS-agnostic and integrates with Toast, Square and Lightspeed, trading the bundle discount for working across whatever POS an operator already owns.

When I Work7.9/10

A pure-play shift scheduling and time clock product for hourly teams, priced per user and sold across restaurants, retail and healthcare alike. It stops at scheduling and communication, where 7shifts has pushed into payroll, tip payouts and the wider restaurant employee lifecycle.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Deputy7.9/10

Sydney-based, with the strongest position outside North America — Australian award interpretation and UK/EU labour rules are core to the product. Deputy sells across hospitality, retail and healthcare and integrates with third-party payroll rather than running payroll itself, while 7shifts concentrates on US and Canadian restaurants with its own payroll product.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Workforce.com7.5/10

Competes on demand-based labour forecasting and wage-compliance depth for multi-unit and enterprise operators, with embedded payroll. Its sales motion is top-down at chains, against 7shifts' product-led growth from independents upward into franchise groups.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Legion Technologies, Inc.7.9/10

An AI-first labour forecasting and optimisation platform built for enterprises with thousands of hourly workers, sold through enterprise contracts to large retail and hospitality chains. It targets the top of the market that 7shifts reaches only through its biggest franchise accounts, and does not serve the independent restaurants that make up most of 7shifts' base.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in 7shifts's history, with sources.

1. May 6, 2026Launch

   Launched On-Demand Pay for Tips with Clair

   The product lets restaurant employees access a share of earned tips shortly after a shift instead of waiting for the pay cycle, calculated automatically inside 7shifts and paid out through embedded fintech partner Clair at no cost to the operator.

   prnewswire.com
2. Mar 5, 2026Milestone

   Passed 55,000 restaurants and joined Deloitte Technology Fast 500

   In a growth update, 7shifts said it serves more than 55,000 restaurants and named new enterprise customers including IHOP, HCI Hospitality, Boston Pizza Franchise Group, Scooter's Coffee, Hattie B's Hot Chicken and The Salty Donut. It was listed on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 and won the 2025 Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures award.

   prnewswire.com
3. Oct 10, 2024Partnership

   Lightspeed Commerce expanded its 7shifts integration to include payroll

   Lightspeed (NYSE/TSX: LSPD) deepened an existing integration so Lightspeed Restaurant sales, labour and employee data sync automatically into 7shifts forecasting, and made 7shifts' US payroll, tip integration and benefits features available to Lightspeed merchants.

   prnewswire.com
4. Jan 11, 2024Milestone

   Cut 68 jobs, 19% of staff, in second layoff round in four months

   The reduction hit research and development, sales, business operations, and people and culture, and followed a 30-person (7%) cut in September 2023 after 7shifts fell short of its 2023 revenue targets. The company told BetaKit it was refocusing on product-led growth; restaurant workers on the platform were up 125% year over year and it served over 40,000 restaurants.

   betakit.com
5. Apr 13, 2022Partnership

   Partnership with fintech Clair to offer restaurant staff free instant pay

   The two companies announced a partnership giving US restaurant workers earned-wage access inside the 7shifts app at no cost to the employer. It became the basis of 7shifts' later On-Demand Pay line.

   businesswire.com
6. Feb 10, 2022Funding

   Series C — US$80M led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2

   SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 led the US$80M (C$101.6M) round with participation from existing investors Ten Coves Capital and Enlightened Hospitality Investments — SoftBank's third Canadian investment. 7shifts had grown its restaurant locations 59% to 27,000 and doubled platform workers to 650,000 in 2021, and said it would double its roughly 220-person team.

   theglobeandmail.com
7. May 25, 2021Funding

   Series B — US$21.5M led by Enlightened Hospitality Investments

   Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group-affiliated growth fund led the round, joined by existing investors Ten Coves Capital, Relay Ventures and Conexus Venture Capital; EHI took a seat on the 7shifts board. The company reported roughly 18,000 restaurant customers and over 500,000 restaurant workers on the platform.

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8. October 2019Funding

   Raised an additional US$6M in growth equity led by Napier Park

   Existing investor Napier Park Financial Partners led the extension nine months after the Series A, with returning investor Relay Ventures and new investor Conexus Credit Union. 7shifts said it was scheduling over 7 million shifts per month.

   finsmes.com
9. Jan 24, 2019Funding

   Series A — US$10M led by Napier Park Financial Partners

   New York private-equity firm Napier Park led the round, joined by Teamworthy Ventures, existing investor Relay Ventures and former Snagajob CEO Peter Harrison; Napier Park managing director Dan Kittredge joined the board. The Globe and Mail called it the largest Saskatchewan cloud-tech deal since 2013, citing CVCA data. 7shifts then served about 10,000 locations and 250,000 workers with 80 employees.

   theglobeandmail.com
10. August 2017Funding

    Raised US$3.5M from Tandem Capital and Relay Ventures

    Tandem Capital invested alongside existing investor Relay Ventures, bringing total capital raised to US$4.5M. 7shifts said its scheduling platform was managing more than 150,000 restaurant workers at the time.

    finsmes.com
11. May 26, 2016Funding

    Seed — C$1.2M led by Relay Ventures

    Relay Ventures led the seed round with participation from Globalive Capital and existing investors Boost VC and Tim Draper. 7shifts said the platform was in use at more than 1,900 restaurants across North America, Scandinavia, the Middle East and Australia at the time.

    betakit.com
12. 2014Founded

    7shifts founded in Saskatoon by Jordan Boesch

    Jordan Boesch co-founded 7shifts with his wife Andree Carpentier and Johannes Lindenbaum, turning scheduling software he had taught himself to code for his father's Quiznos franchises into a company. The founders passed through the Boost VC accelerator before settling the business in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

    theglobeandmail.com