What is Axial Shift restaurant software?

What Axial Shift does

• Scheduling: build schedules with as much automation as you want, or as little, from templates by sales band to auto-scheduling from the forecast.
• AI sales forecasting: a separate forecast model for every store, built from sales history, holidays and optional weather data, updated every day for the next 28 days.
• Time and attendance: a punch clock on a store tablet or NFC stickers, geofenced to the store, with punch edits from the app and manager approval before payroll.
• Tip pooling: set the rules once and Axial calculates every pool automatically each day.
• Daily Guide and checklists: each manager's shift-by-shift playbook, with checklists, timed tasks, break reminders and live sales-and-labor pacing.
• Team messaging: channels by store, role or job, without group texts.
• Role-based dashboards and reporting: a server, a GM and a regional director each see the numbers they own.
• Goals, KPIs and sales contests: rank employees or stores on the behaviors you care about, using live POS data.

Why it exists

Hospitality leaders belong on the floor, not in the back office. Restaurants don't need more technology. They need technology that hands the shift back.

Who uses it

Axial Shift runs in production across 1,000+ restaurant locations and 19,000+ users, backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA. It's an open platform with more than a hundred connections, including Toast, NCR Aloha, Oracle Simphony, Dayforce, UKG, Workday and HotSchedules.

How much it costs

The Platform is $75 per store per month, the Operate Bundle is $110 and the Engage Bundle is $170. Add-on apps range from $10 to $35, and yearly billing saves 10%. See pricing.

Formerly Axial Commerce

Axial Shift was formerly Axial Commerce. The company is Axial Commerce, Inc. dba Axial Shift, based in New Braunfels, Texas.