7shifts vs Sling Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Comp
- Basic scheduling
- One-way announcements
- Availability and time off requests
Essentials
- Advanced scheduling
- Team messaging and communication tools
- Basic time clocking
- Customizable permission settings
Pro
Popular- Track accruals and balances for PTO
- Labor compliance and labor cost tools
- Advanced time clocking tools
- Manager Log Book
Premium
- 7shifts Payroll
- Tip Management
- Task Management
- Permission templates for faster profile creation
- Advanced hourly labor forecast
- Advanced labor recommendations
- Advanced operational insights and reporting
- Employee Training
Free
- Announcements
- Available shifts
- Long-term scheduling
- News sharing
- Private messaging
- Shift alarms
- Shift offers
- Shift scheduling
- Shift templates
- Time-off requests
Premium
- Announcements
- Auto clock-out
- Available shifts
- Break attestation
- Budgeting
- Calendar synchronization
- Clopening
- Day parts
- Early clock-in prevention
- Geofencing
- Group messaging
- Labor cost management
- Long-term scheduling
- Mandatory breaks
- Mobile time tracking
- News sharing
- Overtime tracking
- Premium pay
- Private messaging
- Schedule templates
- Shift alarms
- Shift offers
- Shift scheduling
- Shift swaps
- Shift templates
- Slots on available shifts
- SMS shift alarms
- Time-off requests
- Timesheet approvals
- Timesheet history
- Timesheets
- Unavailability
Business
Popular- Announcements
- Attendance reports
- Auto-assigning
- Auto clock-out
- Available shifts
- BCC messages
- Break attestation
- Budgeting
- Calendar synchronization
- Clopening
- Day parts
- Early clock-in prevention
- Employee documents
- Geofencing
- Group messaging
- Holiday pay
- Kiosk time tracking
- Labor cost management
- Labor reports
- Late arrivals
- Long-term scheduling
- Mandatory breaks
- Mobile time tracking
- News sharing
- Newsfeed restrictions
- No-shows
- Overtime tracking
- Payroll reports
- Premium pay
- Private messaging
- PTO management
- Salary support
- Sales reports
- Schedule templates
- Shift acceptance
- Shift alarms
- Shift offers
- Shift scheduling
- Shift swaps
- Shift tasks
- Shift templates
- Sick call-outs
- Slots on available shifts
- SMS shift alarms
- Tags
- Task templates
- Time-off requests
- Timesheet approvals
- Timesheet history
- Timesheets
- Unavailability
7shifts vs Sling FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Sling is the cheaper option, starting at $2/mo vs $44/mo for 7shifts.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. 7shifts uses flat-rate pricing, while Sling goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. 7shifts: They're mid-market — not the cheapest (free tools like basic Square scheduling exist) but well below enterprise workforce platforms. At $44.99–$149.99/location, they're squarely targeting independent restaurants and small chains who've outgrown pen-and-paper but can't justify an HCM suite. Sling: At $2–$4 per seat, Sling is firmly in the budget-friendly tier of workforce scheduling — well below tools like Deputy or When I Work, which can run $3–$6+ per seat with fewer freebies. They're clearly going after cost-sensitive SMBs in hospitality and retail, and the Toast integration suggests a deliberate play for restaurant operators already in that ecosystem.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for 7shifts and Sling and let you know when something moves.