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ShiftSee vs. 7shifts.

7shifts is restaurant scheduling software. ShiftSee is a global shift platform that schedules your crew, fills cancellations, lets workers negotiate, and works for every shift industry — not just restaurants.

What it is

What 7shifts actually is.

7shifts is a scheduling and labor management tool built specifically for restaurants. Founded in Saskatoon in 2014, around 50,000 restaurant customers and 700,000 active users (Restaurant Velocity, April 2026). Strong drag-and-drop scheduling, tip pooling, POS integration with Toast, Square, Clover, and Lightspeed, and one of the cleaner mobile apps in the category. If your only problem is "build the weekly schedule for my existing staff," 7shifts works.

Pricing as of 2026: free Comp tier (1 location, basic features), Entrée at $29.99–$39.99/location/month, The Works at $69.99–$76.99/location/month, Gourmet at custom pricing (POSUSA, February 2026, Restaurant Velocity, April 2026).

The structural wall

Where 7shifts hits a wall.

7shifts schedules the people you already employ. Anyone outside that group is invisible to it.

No external workforce. When your line cook calls out at 4pm Saturday, 7shifts has no answer. You're back to the group text.
No marketplace. You can't reach new shifters through 7shifts. There is no pool.
No worker negotiation. Internal staff get assigned shifts. They can swap with each other; they can't counter you on rate or time.
Restaurants only. If you run a hotel, dance studio, gym, salon, cleaning company, or anything else that isn't a restaurant, 7shifts wasn't built for you and the POS-driven labor logic doesn't apply.

What we do that they don't

What ShiftSee does that 7shifts doesn't.

Broadcast Shifts. When someone bails, ShiftSee fires the open shift to every qualified shifter in your connected crew. First to claim wins. Most fills happen in under 20 minutes.
A connected workforce that grows. Shifters you work with become part of your roster. New local shifters can request to connect. Your pool expands organically. 7shifts has no concept of this.
Negotiation on every shift. Counter on time and rate. Genuine staff agency, lower hiring friction, better retention.
Portable reputation. Your shifters' rating and reliability follow them across every business they work for, which attracts better workers to your business over time.
All shift industries. Hospitality, fitness, beauty, creative, cleaning, trades, events, dance studios — 7shifts is locked to restaurants.

Side by side

Side by side.

	ShiftSee	7shifts
Industries	All shift industries	Restaurants only
Scheduling	Yes	Yes
External workforce / marketplace	Yes	None
Emergency fills via Broadcast Shifts	Yes	None
Worker negotiation	Yes — rate and time	No
Pricing model	Per shift (10% / 10%)	Per location subscription
Coverage	Global	Global

Pricing

Pricing in plain English.

7shifts charges a flat subscription per location whether shifts happen or not. A small restaurant on Entrée is paying ~$360/year per location for scheduling whether they need it or not.

ShiftSee charges 10% from the business and 10% from the shifter, only when a shift actually happens. 50 shifts/month at $20/hour × 5 hours puts the business-side fee at ~$500/month — higher than 7shifts' subscription on volume alone. But the comparison is misleading: 7shifts only schedules. ShiftSee also fills cancellations, gives you access to a wider workforce, and lets staff negotiate. The honest version is: 7shifts is cheaper if your crew never breaks. ShiftSee pays for itself the first Saturday it saves.