Comparison • Restaurant teams
A 7shifts alternative for restaurant teams.
You are not shopping for a scheduling tool. You are trying to run a shift. Gid puts the schedule, the tasks, the team chat and the training in one app, at one price per location, with your whole team in.
No contract. No commitment. No credit card.
Our job is to earn our place on your floor, not to lock you in.
Last updated September 23, 2026
Gid
Founders rate • Lifetime$29 $89 USD per location per month
- Tasks, schedule and team chat in one app
- Continuous training tuned to your menu
- Daily reports that surface what matters
- An AI assistant that knows your documents
- Your whole team in. Adding people never raises your bill.
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Who this is for
Three rooms where the schedule is the smallest problem
If one of these is your Tuesday, read on. If none of them is, 7shifts may well be the better buy, and we say where below.
One location
You are the scheduler, the trainer and the group chat
You build the week, chase confirmations, answer the text thread and walk the new hire through the menu, all in the same shift. Six tools means six places to forget something.
Two to ten locations
Same rules everywhere, without the seat maths
One price per location, whatever the headcount. Add a dishwasher in March and your bill does not move.
Already on a scheduling app
The schedule works. Everything else costs extra
Tasks, training and team messaging often sit on a higher plan, behind an add-on or in another app. In Gid they come with the location, whatever the headcount.
Side by side
Gid and 7shifts, on the record
Every 7shifts line below was read on 7shifts' own public pages on September 23, 2026. Where we could not confirm something there, the cell says "to verify" instead of guessing.
| What you are buying | Gid | 7shifts |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD public. | Comp: free. Essentials: $39.99 CAD. Pro: $79.99 CAD. Premium: $134.99 CAD. Each shown as "Per month/location". |
| People included | Your whole team. Adding people never raises your bill. | "Up to 15 employees" on Comp, "Up to 30" on Essentials, "Up to 60" on Pro, "Unlimited employees" on Premium. |
| Free plan and trial | Free workspace, no card. It brings you plus one helper; the rest of the team rides on a paid location. | Free Comp plan "For single locations", plus "all features of 7shifts Pro plan for 14 days" and "no credit card needed to start the trial". |
| Scheduling | Forecast, labor targets and confirmations in one view. Publish and it is live in every pocket. | "Basic scheduling" on Comp, "Advanced scheduling" from Essentials, with templates, breaks and the weather forecast. |
| Team chat | Included. Send tasks, shifts and ops detail right inside the conversation. | "Team messaging and communication tools" from Essentials. One-way announcements on the free Comp plan. |
| Tasks | Included. The whole team sees what is done and what is next, live from the floor. | Task Management on Premium, or an add-on at "$12.99 Per month Per location". |
| Training | Included. Continuous micro-training tuned to your menu, your SOPs, your service. | Employee Training on Premium, listed as "Valued at $99.00", with "Build courses from existing documents with AI". |
| Manager log book | Daily reports that surface what matters. No separate log book product. | Manager Log Book on Pro, or an add-on at "$14.99 Per month Per location". |
| Tip management | Not a Gid product today. | Tip Management on Premium, or an add-on at "$49.99 CAD Per month/location". |
| Payroll | Not a Gid product today. | 7shifts Payroll, labelled "US-only" on its own page, with a waitlist for restaurants outside the US. Priced separately at "$39.99/month per location, plus $6/month per employee paid." |
| Hiring and applicant tracking | Not a Gid product today. Employee onboarding is included once someone is hired. | A "Hiring" section is listed on the plan comparison: track candidates, post jobs, schedule interviews. Plan level: to verify. |
| AI assistant on your own documents | Included. An AI assistant grounded in the approved documents your operation runs on. | AI is named for course building: "Build courses from existing documents with AI". A general assistant: to verify. |
| Named POS integrations | "Gid already connects with several platforms, and we build custom integrations free of charge for any system that allows it." No public list of named systems today. | Its integrations page shows Toast, Square, Lightspeed, Clover, TouchBistro, Revel, GoTab, Qu, Cake, Bypass, Aloha and Micros 3700. |
| Phones | iOS and Android apps, plus the web app. Nothing depends on the office computer. | "Share the latest schedule, hours, time off, wages and more with the free mobile app". |
| How big the vendor is | Early. 250 Founders spots worldwide, personal onboarding, weekly shipping in the public changelog. | "Trusted by 55,000+ restaurants". |
Verified on September 23, 2026. Sources, all 7shifts' own public pages: 7shifts.com/pricing, 7shifts.com/restaurant-payroll-software, 7shifts.com/integrations. Their pricing page rendered in CAD from a Canadian connection and showed no currency switcher, so the 7shifts figures above are CAD while Gid's are USD. Convert before you compare them. 7shifts' prices also vary with team size: on September 23, 2026 the same page sometimes showed a Team Size choice, and for 31+ employees it listed Pro at $89.99 CAD and Premium at $179.99 CAD per month per location with annual billing. 7shifts states on that page: "New customer pricing. Prices are subject to change." Gid's own figures come from gidai.ca/#pricing and gidai.ca/founders. Anything we could not read on those pages is marked "to verify" rather than filled in.
Where Gid differs
One app, one price, and a roadmap you help write
The shift and the work around it live together
The schedule is linked to the tasks, tasks can be sent in the chat, the chat knows the shift, and training and onboarding sit in the same app, on iOS, Android and the web.
One price per location, whole team in
No employee tier to outgrow at 15, 30 or 60 people. You hire, you train, you schedule, and the bill stays where it was.
Training that is part of the job
Sessions are interactive, last about 5 minutes, and arrive at the right moments. Send us your manuals and Gid learns your culture. No documents, and it ships with ready templates.
Founders write the roadmap
250 operations worldwide lock the Founders rate for as long as they run on Gid. When what you need is useful and responsible, our team ships it free of charge. See what shipped this week in the changelog.
The stack you have today
Six apps that do not talk to each other, or one that does
Nothing here is a knock on any specific tool. It is what happens when the schedule, the tasks, the training, the chat, the documents and the guest reviews were never built to know about each other.
6 apps 6 logins 6 bills
- SchedulingThe week is posted, the swaps still happen by text.
- Tasks and checklistsA missed closing task shows up the next morning.
- Onboarding and trainingNew hires learn from whoever is on shift.
- Team chatShift talk buried between personal texts.
- Documents and menusRecipes and SOPs lost in folders and binders.
- Google reviewsReplies go out, the lesson never reaches the team.
Gid
One app on iOS, Android and the web
1 app 1 login 1 price
- Scheduling
- Tasks and checklists
- Onboarding and training
- Team chat
- Documents and menus
- Google reviewsReply drafts, recurring themes, lessons for the team
$29 USD per location per monthWhole team included
First 250 worldwide • rate locked, no contract
Switching
How to try Gid without betting the schedule on it
Nobody should move a live restaurant onto a new tool in one Sunday. Four steps, in this order.
Step 1
Open a workspace, keep your current tool running
No card, no commitment. You are not cancelling anything yet. Set it up on your own and look at it with a manager's eyes.
Step 2
Bring one location and one week
Rebuild next week's schedule in Gid next to the one you already have. Publish it to two or three people who will tell you the truth.
Step 3
Send your manuals
Gid learns your culture, procedures and policies from what you already wrote. No documents, and it ships with ready-to-use templates, free.
Step 4
Move the team when it has earned it
Most businesses run within hours, with zero technical work. If Gid has not earned its place on your floor by then, close the workspace. Cancel anytime.
In the app
What your team actually looks at
The honest part
Where 7shifts may be the stronger fit, and what Gid does not do yet
A comparison page that only flatters the vendor who wrote it is worth nothing. Here is the side of the ledger that costs us signups.
Pick 7shifts if
- You are in the US and you want payroll inside the same tool. 7shifts Payroll exists; Gid has no payroll product.
- You need tip calculation and distribution. That is a 7shifts Premium feature or a paid add-on, and it is not something Gid sells.
- You need hiring and applicant tracking in the same place as the schedule.
- You want a published list of named POS integrations you can check before buying.
- You are one location under 15 employees and free is the entire budget. 7shifts' Comp plan is free at that size.
- You want a vendor that already serves 55,000+ restaurants, not one serving its first 250.
Limits of Gid today
- Gid POS and Gid Reservations are listed as coming soon. They are not in your hands yet, and we will not bill you for them until they are.
- Gid is not SOC 2 audited and not ISO/IEC 27001 certified. We use relevant practices from those frameworks as references; our providers' certifications cover their services, not Gid as a company. See our exact security status.
- The Founders Programme is deliberately small: 250 operations worldwide, onboarded personally. That is a promise about attention, and also a queue.
- The free workspace brings you plus one helper. Bringing the full team means a paid location.
- No payroll, no tip pooling, no applicant tracking today.
Questions, answered
Is Gid a drop-in replacement for 7shifts?
For the schedule, the shift confirmations and the conversation around them, yes. For payroll, tip pooling and hiring, no. Those are not Gid products today, and we would rather you know that before you sign up than after.
What does Gid cost next to 7shifts?
Gid is $29 USD per location per month at the Founders rate, $89 USD at the public rate, with your whole team included.
On its own pricing page, read September 23, 2026, 7shifts lists a free Comp plan for single locations up to 15 employees, then Essentials at $39.99 CAD, Pro at $79.99 CAD and Premium at $134.99 CAD, each per month per location. Those figures are CAD and ours are USD, so convert before you compare.
Can I try Gid without a credit card?
Yes. Create a workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. No card, no commitment, cancel anytime. The free workspace brings you plus one helper; the rest of the team rides on a paid location.
Does Gid connect to my POS?
Gid already connects with several platforms, and we build custom integrations free of charge for any system that allows it. There is no public list of named POS integrations on the site today, so ask us about yours by name and we will answer straight.
Does my team need a computer to use Gid?
No. Gid runs on iOS, Android and the web, so the schedule, the tasks and the training live in the pocket of everyone on shift. Nothing depends on the office computer.
Make every shift lighter.
Set up your workspace and try every part of Gid on your own. When you know it earns its place, your team rides in next.
No contract. No commitment. No credit card.