7shifts API
7shifts has a documented public REST API at developers.7shifts.com with an OpenAPI spec, webhooks, and an Embed SDK. Access tokens are self-serve from Developer Tools for your own account; partner apps use OAuth 2.0. The 10 req/sec per-token limit is tight for multi-location backfills.
Frequently asked questions
7shifts scores A+ on Supergood's API Report Card. 7shifts has a documented public REST API at developers.7shifts.com with an OpenAPI spec, webhooks, and an Embed SDK. Access tokens are self-serve from Developer Tools for your own account; partner apps use OAuth 2.0. The 10 req/sec per-token limit is tight for multi-location backfills.
7shifts has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
7shifts is a cloud-based, restaurant-specific team management and labor operations platform that consolidates scheduling, time clocking, team communication, tip pooling/management, hiring and onboarding, training, performance management, and payroll into a single mobile-first product.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality (restaurant workforce / labor management). Building weekly schedules with demand forecasting (sales + weather + events) and labor cost targets. Shift swaps, drop requests, time-off requests, and availability management through the mobile app.
7/10 within restaurant workforce management. 55,000+ restaurant locations, ~1.5M end users, and 1-in-10 North American restaurant worker penetration make 7shifts one of the top three platforms in its category alongside HotSchedules (Fourth) and Homebase.
Yes - 7shifts is the system of record for labor at 55,000+ restaurant locations.
~12 years old, founded 2014 in Saskatoon by Jordan Boesch.
10 req/sec per-token rate limit is aggressive for back-fills of multi-location enterprise accounts; requires exponential-backoff and parallel token strategies. API key authentication deprecated August 31, 2022 - older integrations forced to migrate to OAuth2, breaking long-standing partner scripts. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include HotSchedules (Fourth), Homebase, Deputy, Push Operations, Sling (Toast), When I Work. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official 7shifts MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. 7shifts doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.