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How do Axial Shift's sales contests compare to Toast's built-in contests?

Short answer

Toast is a great POS, and its built-in contests are a nice way to run a quick push at one store. When contests become part of how you run the whole company, that's where Axial Shift comes in. Axial connects to your Toast data and adds what multi-unit operators ask for next.

One leaderboard, every store

Run one contest across the whole company, a region, or the stores you pick. Rank employees, jobs, stores, or regions against each other.

More than sales

30 contest types, including sales per labor hour, punctuality, comp and void %, perfect checks, ticket times, task completion, and guest star ratings.

Reward the upsell

Modifiers count, so add-ons like bacon, cheese, premium sides, and liquor upgrades can move the leaderboard.

Scored your way

Limit to certain hours or days, set eligibility, exclude items or people, weight items by points, or build a custom formula.

Just ask Claude

Connect Axial to Claude and describe the contest the way you'd say it to your team. Claude finds the right stores, jobs, and menu items, builds the contest, checks it, and turns it on. No setup screens, no doing it store by store.

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Last updated October 24, 2026
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