Revenue variance
Net sales drop more than X% from same-day-last-week or budget. Daily, lunch, dinner — broken out so you can pinpoint the service.
Premium add-on
When something breaks, you know first.
Net sales dropped 18% on a Tuesday? Labour five points over budget? A cert expiring in three weeks? Shiftend Intelligence catches it overnight and tells you in the morning — before your accountant, before the inspector, before the GM has a chance to bury it.
AI Alerts
What we watch, every night.
Five watcher categories run automatically against your real data. Each fires only when a real anomaly is detected — not a fixed-cadence noise generator.
Labour overage
Labour cost rolls over the budget threshold. Department, segment, or whole-day. We surface the day, the segment, and the dollars.
Cert expiry
Smart Serve, Food Handler, AODA, WHMIS, ServSafe, First Aid, JHSC. 60/30/7-day fires before the lapse, not after.
Data freshness
Daily POS upload missing? Push payroll late? Intelligence pings you the morning after, not the day you need the report.
Import failures
Silverware row mismatch, Push file format change, OpenTable API hiccup. We name the file, the error, and what to do.
Forecasting
Trained on your data. Not someone else's.
Most forecasting tools ship one model and pray it fits everyone. Shiftend's autoresearch loop tries multiple models — Prophet, XGBoost, ensemble — and picks the one that actually works on your historical POS and labour data. Backtested before it's served. You see the MAPE before you trust the number.
- Per-restaurant autoresearch — Prophet, XGBoost, ensemble — chosen by accuracy on YOUR data, not ours.
- Walkforward backtest before any number ships. Honest MAPE in your face before you decide to trust it.
- Revenue, covers, and labour staffing all forecastable.
- Plays directly with the Labour module — staffing recommendations tied to predicted revenue.
- Holiday + closure context lifted from Calendar so the model knows what's a holiday and what's a Sunday.
How it fits
An add-on, not a separate product.
Most customers don't pay for Intelligence on day one. They add it after the first month they almost missed something — a cert that nearly lapsed, a Tuesday revenue dip nobody flagged, a labour overage that quietly compounded.
Bundled in Pro + Intelligence
Restaurants on the Pro + Intelligence tier get AI Alerts and Forecasting wired in from day one. No additional toggle, no configuration call.
Add-on to Starter or Pro
Already on Starter or Pro? Add Intelligence as a flat per-restaurant rate. Works the same. Lights up the moment data backfills.
See Intelligence on your real numbers.
We'll show you what the alerts surface on your last 90 days. If they're obvious to you already, we'll tell you. If they're not, you'll see why this is the lift.