Comparison
Talstor vs 7shifts
Fit
Who each product is best for
Choose Talstor if…
- You run more than a dining room: catering, events, retail or contract work alongside service.
- You want every feature without climbing a per location tier chart.
- You bill some work by the job and want invoices from tracked hours.
- You want front of house and back office in one system.
Choose 7shifts if…
- POS integration and sales per labour hour forecasting drive your scheduling.
- Tip pooling needs to live inside your scheduling tool.
- You run multiple locations and want restaurant specific benchmarks.
Side by side
How the two compare
| Area | Talstor | 7shifts |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | Headcount bands that cover all of your sites, everything included, with a 30 day free trial. | Per location per month tiers. Free plan limited to one location. |
| Restaurant tools | Scheduling, labour tracking and overtime alerts. | POS integrations, sales forecasting, tip pooling and labour targets. |
| What every plan includes | The whole platform. | Advanced labour and reporting tools on higher tiers. |
| Billable work | Estimates, work orders, job costing and invoicing included. | Not offered. |
| Messaging | Direct, group and company wide messaging on every plan. | Team chat and announcements, some features tier dependent. |
7shifts details are summarised from their public product and pricing pages and can change at any time, so check their pricing page before you decide. 7shifts is a trademark of its owner and we are not affiliated with them.
Pricing
What you actually pay
Talstor
One company subscription by team size. Free: $0/month (1 – 5 employees); Small team: $59/month (6 – 10 employees); Growing team: $99/month (11 – 20 employees); Established team: $149/month (21 – 50 employees); Large team: $249/month (51 – 100 employees); Multi-location: $399/month (101 – 200 employees). Monthly, six-month and annual billing are available. Every paid plan starts with a 30 day free trial.
See the full pricing breakdown7shifts
Free for one location with limited features, then paid tiers billed per location per month, with the better labour tools and reporting on higher tiers.
Check current 7shifts pricingTalstor advantages
Why service teams choose Talstor
1. One price, every location
Restaurant tools usually bill per location and put the useful labour reporting a tier or two up. Talstor prices by total team size with everything on. Opening a second site does not restart the buying conversation.
2. Built for businesses that are not only restaurants
Plenty of hospitality operators also cater, run events or take contract work that gets billed as jobs. Talstor handles both in one account: rosters and attendance for the floor, estimates and invoices for the billable work.
Where they win
Where 7shifts is the better buy
For a pure restaurant, 7shifts goes deeper where restaurants care: POS integrations, sales forecasting, labour percentage targets and tip pooling. Talstor does none of those. If your scheduling decisions come straight from POS data, they are the better fit.