Features
Organize your team from one place with all the labour management tools you need.
Time Tracking
Keep track of your team’s time.
Time clock (POS and Mobile)
Your team can clock in with a personal passcode at the register through the Square Team app if they’re away from the POS, which can be enforced with geofencing. This way, you can always precisely track hours worked based on their physical presence.
Timecards
Automatically generate timecards once a team member clocks in. You can add notes or edit timecards at any time.
Scheduling
Create a schedule in minutes.
Shift scheduling and publishing
Track your team’s availability, assign upcoming shifts, and ensure everyone on the team knows when and where they’re working with email and notifications in the Square Team App.
Review shifts
View all planned shifts by week to assign a job or a team member. A shift can be viewed weekly or daily to make changes.
Reporting
Optimize your business with reporting.
Labour cost reporting
View your team’s hours, wages and tips in one dashboard to gain insight into your labour costs.
Labour-vs-sales reports
See how much you’re selling versus how much you’re paying out in labour costs so you can improve your bottom line.
Labour Costs
Manage labour costs to help your business grow.
Clock-in protection
Prevent early and unscheduled clock-ins and get alerts about unscheduled shifts to manage your overall labour costs.
Break and overtime tracking
Track breaks and overtime to ensure you don’t exceed your labour-cost limits.
Payroll Prep
Make payday easier.
Payroll syncs and exports
Efficiently export timecards to a third-party payroll provider.
Payroll calculations
Thanks to automatic tip and commission calculations, all wages are included in exports so payroll stays up to date.
Wages
Provide transparent compensation.
Tip pooling
Easily manage tips at your business with tip pooling. Automating your tip pooling process helps your team get paid promptly, reduces costly errors, and saves you time.
Cash tip tracking
Let team members claim cash tips they accrue during their shifts. You can view cash tip tracking data in the Square Dashboard at any time.
Team App
Empower your team.
Team-initiated scheduling
Empower your team to manage their schedules by providing them with time-off requests, shift swapping, and open-shift scheduling that can be managed from the Square Team App.
Timecards and schedules
Let your team see their information remotely with the Square Team App. Team members can view their timecards and scheduled hours, tips and commissions.
Built to grow with your business
Have questions?
Get answers about the features and benefits of Square Shifts for your business.
Square Shifts offers two tiers, Shifts Free and Shifts Plus. Shifts Free offers basic Shifts features and is free for up to five team members, including account owners. You can get more advanced Shifts features with Shifts Plus. Shifts Plus starts at $4.50 CA per team member (including the account owner) per month. Subscribers to Shifts Plus will be charged for a minimum of two team members.
Square Shifts integrates directly with Square Point of Sale. This unified ecosystem fosters harmony in your workplace with easier access and simplified daily tasks. Whether you build a schedule or your team swaps shifts, everyone saves time.
Plans are not prorated, so you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel your plan at any time and only pay your current subscription through the end of the month.
Square Shifts helps you understand how your business is doing by providing real-time attendance, shift and sales reports. You can use these numbers to optimize labour costs and fine-tune staffing for every day of the week.