Prime Cost
Weekly, monthly, honest.
Weekly and monthly prime cost with straddle splits, cascade reopen, and a slide-over inventory editor. Built the way operators actually do their books.
The platform
Run your floor with the same numbers your accountant sees.
Sales, labour, prime cost, forecasting — every Shiftend module is wired to your real POS and payroll data, not a spreadsheet snapshot from last week. Ten manager-facing modules. One source of truth.
The tour
Ten modules, one connected story.
Every module reads and writes the same data. Budget feeds Revenue, Revenue feeds Prime Cost, POS feeds Forecasting. Nothing to reconcile, nothing to keep in sync.
Dashboard
Tonight, this week, this month — at a glance.
KPIs against budget, segment cards for lunch and dinner, sales trend, covers, and the AI Alerts feed. The first thing every manager opens.
Revenue & Finance
Every dollar, every day.
Daily, weekly, and period revenue. Per-cover spend, category mix, budget vs actual, drill-downs to every receipt.
Labour
Payroll data that tells you something.
Push Operations data ingested weekly. Hourly vs salaried, overtime, top earners, labour % against revenue targets.
Featured module
Prime Cost the way operators actually do it.
Weekly and monthly tabs share one source of truth. Straddle weeks split cleanly at month boundaries. Cascade reopen keeps downstream periods honest. No spreadsheet in the world does this.
- Weekly and monthly tabs share the same numbers, period.
- Straddle weeks split at the month boundary — no double-counting.
- Cascade reopen recalculates every downstream period automatically.
- Slide-over inventory editor — never leave the page to fix a number.
- Category cost % flagged red over target, green at target — instant signal.
The rest of the platform
Seven more modules, every one wired to the same data.
POS & Sales
Item-level sales, no spreadsheet gymnastics.
Silverware Sales Analysis CSV ingestion with category standardization, rank indicators, and Food/Beverage KPIs that match how the kitchen actually thinks.
Budget
Annual top-down, day-of-week smart.
Annual budget rolled out across 52 weeks. Labour categories as % of sales. Historical pre-fill so you're not starting from zero.
Calendar
Holidays, closures, events — one source of truth.
Public holidays, restaurant closures, special events. Drives reporting context, forecasting features, and shift-end report headers.
Reservations
OpenTable + SevenRooms in one pane.
Live covers, pacing, waitlist, no-shows. Both reservation systems unified so the floor team stops flipping between dashboards.
Pre-Shift authoring
Daily lineup, written once, read on every phone.
Specials, 86s, push items, VIPs, FOH/BOH topics. Categories that recall what you've said before. Print, share, push to staff app — done.
Shift-End Report
Yesterday in your inbox by the time coffee's poured.
Auto-emailed daily snapshot. Configurable time, recipients, and per-restaurant rules. The owner's morning briefing without anyone typing a thing.
Light or dark
Both modes, first-class.
Some restaurant operators prefer dark for the rhythm of an evening service. Others want light for the bookkeeping morning. We refuse to make either feel second-class.
Dark
Light
Toggle from the topbar. Every chart, every KPI, every chip honoured in both palettes. Print-mode forces light, automatically.
Why one platform
The typical setup vs Shiftend.
Most independents are running seven tools at once. Each one needed integration, training, and an export. Shiftend collapses the seven into one login.
| The typical setup | Shiftend |
|---|---|
| Toast / Square POS | Silverware ingestion built in |
| 7shifts / Push for scheduling + payroll | Push Operations data ingested into Labour module |
| Excel for prime cost (or no prime cost at all) | Weekly + Monthly Prime Cost with straddle handling |
| Email chain for the daily lineup | Pre-Shift authored once, read on every phone |
| Google Doc for the staff handbook | Resources, Onboarding, Cert tracker in Team Hub |
| Spreadsheet budget that no one updates | Annual budget, day-of-week smart, edits cascade |
| Accountant's report once a quarter | Real numbers in Revenue & Finance, every day |
See it on your real data.
A 20-minute call, your data on screen, and you'll know if Shiftend is for you.