Connecteam vs 7shifts: Which is a better fit?

Maria H.: Hi, I'm Maria. I'm the Director of Administration and Finance at First Presbyterian Church in Lake Wales, and I give Connecteam five stars. We used to be using a different online time clock program, but I was notified that the price was going up by 50% about a week before that date. I started looking around because we're a non-profit, and I saw that Connecteam had extremely high ratings. And so that's why we tried it. I really liked the idea of the idea of the geofencing because our church is kind of spread out in a couple different buildings. And the nursery workers were able to go right to work, and they didn't have to come by the office all the time to clock in and out. Same thing for the custodians, if they were ready to take their lunchtime, they could just clock out or clock back in. The geofencing was amazing. It also worked for our secretary, who would take deposits to the bank, and she could clock out there on her way home. And then, as an administrator, I could approve it, and she did not have to come back to the office to clock out or anything. It's very easy. Even our custodian, that's a little challenged when it comes to using electronic devices, after the first day, she just loves it. It's very easy. I like the reports. And the tech support person that did help me finalize a couple things on setup was just amazing. And the best part of it all is, since we have less than 10 people on the program, it's free for us, which is a help for a charity. And we all love it. I did have a little glitch on startup. There were a couple things I had questions on. We are a small company, and I wanted to make sure that I got it set up just right. And I was able to sign up for 15 minutes or so with one of their tech support people, who was just amazing. So setup went very seamlessly after that. It's just a great program and very easy to use. It gives us all the information that we need. So Connecteam is perfect, I think, for either small companies or large companies. It is so filled with just different things you can do with it that it would handle multiple locations or just a single location with just a handful of people. So I would say, definitely give it a look, give it a try. It's an amazing program, and I think you'll be very happy with it.

Allie B.: Hi. My name is Allie and I am manager and owner of my family's pizza restaurants. We have five locations and just about 100 employees overall, and I would have to give 7Shifts a rating of four out of five. Before 7Shifts, honestly, we were doing pencil and paper. We've had 7Shifts for well over five years now. It was just really hard to catch everybody's schedules and make sure everybody knew about their scheduled shifts, and also we were really lacking the communication aspect that we were able to have through 7Shifts too. Since having 7Shifts, we've also opened up other needs that we didn't realize that we had so it's been a really good experience overall. I love 7Shifts, most importantly because I love the aspect that our employees can individually put in their time off requests and their availability settings. The main reason I love that is because with us managing five locations it's not realistic for us to have everybody print off their school schedules, their sports schedules. We deal with a lot of students, and so that is my number one favorite thing about 7Shifts. Also, being able to digitally put their schedules online on an app. Even with reminders of their shifts, it just eliminates that excuse that I didn't know I was supposed to work today. I also really love the communication aspect where we can send announcements to our staff and they can also communicate with each other what ever they need, maybe some time off, someone to cover their shift or they have a question with us. And then lastly, I really love the new onboarding feature where we can have all of our onboarding documents previewed, viewed, and signed. That's just honestly been a really nice component of it too that we didn't really sign up for but we really love that they have that now. 7Shifts was very easy to get started with. If you know how to work an iPhone, if you know how to work an app, it's pretty self-explanatory. This is something that we have our managers use on a weekly basis as well. And so, teaching them and training them how to do it literally takes no more than 15 minutes and that's really important for us because we are handling a lot of different things at once and just having this be so easy is just such a relief. My best advice if you're going to sign up for 7Shifts is definitely look at all of the features that it has to offer. It has a lot more than we actually use but it does offer more than just scheduling and I think those things really came in handy for us. I also recommend that whenever you're dealing with your employees, just on an onboarding side, take the time to explain everything to them. We always put in the point that if your name's on the schedule it's your responsibility. With 7Shifts, it makes it so easy for them to do that because they can trade shifts, they can put in their time off. And so, I show them how to do those things and after that it's out of my hands. I definitely recommend having the conversations with your staff that this is such a great tool, and if they are not taking advantage of it they're kind of putting themselves at a disadvantage with their employment with you.