Schedio vs 7shifts: which fits your floor?
Last reviewed: June 2026
- Pick 7shifts if you want a restaurant-only suite tied deep into your POS — tip pooling, labor-cost forecasting against sales, and POS integrations such as Toast and Square†.
- Pick Schedio if you want the schedule, live coverage and shift hand-offs in one calm view, at one flat price — and you'd rather not pay more as the team grows.
- Pricing: 7shifts prices in tiers per location, with a limited free entry tier and employee caps on lower tiers†; Schedio is a flat $49/month per location, unlimited staff.
Side by side
$49/month per location, unlimited team members
Tiered per location; free entry tier with limits, paid tiers unlock features†
None — staff logins never cost extra
Lower tiers cap employee counts; higher tiers lift the cap†
Self-serve: pick a trade template at signup, import your roster from CSV
Self-serve with optional onboarding; POS connection for labor features†
Six trades: hotels, restaurants, clinics, security, retail, support desks
Restaurants and food service only†
Built in — structured hand-over notes attached to every shift
Manager log book feature on paid tiers†
Monthly, cancel anytime; data stays exportable for 30 days
Monthly or annual, self-serve cancellation†
Where 7shifts is strong
7shifts is built for restaurants and nothing else, and it shows. The POS integrations let it pull sales data and project labor cost against revenue, which matters if you schedule to a labor budget†. If your operation lives and dies by labor percentage, that depth is real.
It also bundles restaurant-specific extras — tip pooling and payouts, task lists, engagement tracking† — a wider suite than Schedio attempts. If you want one vendor for all of that, 7shifts is a fair choice.
Where Schedio is different
Schedio does the floor, not the back office. One flat $49 a month per location with unlimited staff — no tier chart, no feature gates, no per-employee math when you staff up for summer. Hand-over notes between shifts are first-class, not a log book bolted on: the 86 list, the VIP at eight, the walk-in repair all carry from shift to shift on the same dashboard that shows who's on right now.
And Schedio is not restaurant-only. If the group also runs a hotel desk, a clinic or a retail floor, every location lives on one account with the trade-right template.
Switching
Moving from 7shifts is a roster export and an import. Get your people and a typical week into a CSV, and Schedio imports them with a row-by-row preview — nothing lands until you confirm it.
The 14-day trial needs no card, so the usual path is to run Schedio alongside your current tool for a week or two and let the floor decide. If you leave, your data stays exportable for 30 days after cancellation.
† Details about 7shifts marked with a dagger are awaiting our routine verification against their current public materials. Spot something out of date? Write to info@schedio.team and we'll fix it.
Common questions
Can I import my schedule from 7shifts?+
If you can get your roster and shifts into a CSV, yes. Schedio imports employees and a typical week with a row-by-row preview, so nothing lands by surprise.
Is Schedio cheaper than 7shifts?+
It depends on your headcount and which tier you compare. Schedio is one flat $49 per location per month with unlimited staff — there is no tier to outgrow, so the bigger your team, the better the flat price tends to look.
Does Schedio integrate with my POS?+
No. Schedio deliberately stays out of sales data — it does scheduling, live coverage and hand-offs, and pushes alerts to Slack, Telegram or WhatsApp. If POS-driven labor forecasting is essential to you, that is a genuine reason to pick 7shifts.
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