7shifts vs Toast
7shifts
Shift scheduling, labor cost tracking, and team communication for restaurants
Kitfinch pick for 1 job across 1 trade.
Toast
Restaurant point-of-sale platform with online ordering and staff tools
Kitfinch pick for 1 job across 1 trade.
How they differ
| Feature | 7shifts | Toast |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Check price on vendor site | Check price on vendor site |
| Free plan | Not stated | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| Point of sale | — | |
| Online ordering | — | |
| Staff scheduling | ||
| Suits | restaurants | restaurants |
We don't have a verified price for both 7shifts and Toast yet, so we can't chart the cost by team size. Check each vendor's pricing page.
7shifts
Strengths
- Restaurant-specific scheduling with real-time labor cost vs. sales tracking
- Staff-facing mobile app for shift swaps, time-off requests, and team messaging
- Integrates with many restaurant POS systems for sales data
Drawbacks
- Pricing page is JavaScript-rendered; plan pricing was not verifiable via this session's fetch method
- Single-purpose tool; needs a separate POS and ordering tool alongside it
Toast
Strengths
- Deep restaurant-specific POS feature set (menus, modifiers, kitchen display)
- Online ordering and payroll add-ons available inside the same ecosystem
- Wide adoption gives it a large support and integration network
Drawbacks
- Pricing page returned a bot-protection response this session; current plan pricing was not verified directly
- Hardware and processing costs are often bundled with software plans, complicating like-for-like comparisons
Frequently asked questions
What do 7shifts and Toast have in common?
Both cover staff scheduling.
Which is cheaper, 7shifts or Toast?
We can only answer that with prices verified on both vendors' pricing pages, and we don't have that for either tool right now. Check the vendor sites for current prices.