made for restaurants & bars
Drag shifts onto the week. ShiftNivo prices it as you go and flags overtime, breaks, rest and minors against your state or province's actual rules — before anyone sees the schedule.
No credit card. Free during early access.
United States and Canada. English, French and Spanish. USD or CAD, set per location.
Roles carry their own color and their own initial, so a narrow column still reads. A shift that runs until close says so.
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The same figures ShiftNivo checks every shift against — read from the official source, dated, and free to look at.
Overtime
40h
weekly · daily after 8h · 1.5×
Minimum wage
$16.90
since 2026-01-01
Rest between shifts
No separate rule
Eating period
30 min
after 5h
16- and 17-year-olds at night
Not after 10 p.m.
Public holidays
12
this is the board
$8,190
$1,010
89% of a $9,200 budget · 373.5h
Every shift you drop changes the number at the top. Overtime is worked out the way your jurisdiction works it out — daily thresholds, weekly thresholds, double time, and the ones that do not stack. An hour paid as daily overtime is not counted a second time toward the weekly threshold. The figure you manage to is the figure payroll will produce.
Marcus B.
3h at a premium · $27 over straight time
47h
$885
The threshold, and where the week already is.
Hours worked plus hours still scheduled says who crosses on Friday. The row total turns amber four hours before the threshold and tells you what crossing costs. Not a red ring on one card — no single shift is the problem, and the shift that happens to cross is rarely the one worth moving.
Labor Day · Monday, September 7
Next week has no shifts on it yet.
Canada Day · Wednesday, July 1
18 shifts scheduled · premium pay applies
Public holidays are stored as rules, not as a list that goes stale — the first Monday in September, the Monday on or before 24 May, Good Friday counted back from Easter. The week before one lands, the schedule says so, and tells you whether that week is still empty. A shift that runs from 10pm into the holiday splits at midnight and is priced on both sides.
the old way
How most weeks get built
With ShiftNivo
A restaurant does not know when a Friday finishes. Schedule someone until close, or until business slows down, and that is exactly what the team is told — while you keep a private end time so the budget still means something. A shift costed on an estimate is marked as one.
States and provinces decide when someone under eighteen may work — by hours, by curfew, or only by age — and the law is written in age bands, not in one number per state. Alberta has three bands and the middle one is the restaurant's. Type a birth date and the jurisdiction's own words appear. Put that person on a closing shift on a school night and the board stops you.
Drop a shift, hand it to somebody, or swap two. Time off, availability and cover requests land in the same queue with a count on the badge. Approving something that would double-book a person is refused by the server, not by the person reading it at eleven at night.
for the people on the floor
Servers
Their own week on one screen — no wages, nobody else's hours.
Bartenders
Until close means until close, and the budget still adds up.
Kitchen
Short rest between a close and an open is flagged before it's posted.
Fifty states, DC and the federal standard. Ten provinces, three territories and the Canada Labour Code.
Business name and where you are. That one answer loads the state or province's overtime thresholds, rest rules, meal breaks, minimum wage and holidays, sets the time zone and the currency, and decides whether your week starts on Sunday or Monday. All of it stays editable — a collective agreement can move a headline figure.
Drag shifts onto the grid, or copy last week, or apply a template you saved. Hold Alt while dragging to copy instead of move. Open shifts get their own row, and they cost the role's rate, because when they fill they will spend that money.
Cost against budget, day by day and person by person, with this week against last. Conflicts show up as you go: overlaps, approved time off, short rest, a missing meal break, a minor past curfew.
Every change sits in a draft until you say so. The bar counts what is waiting and publishes the week in one press. Only the people whose week actually moved hear about it.
Yes. Open a workspace in a few minutes: pick your state or province and its rules load with it. It is free during early access. If you would rather have a person help you set up, tell us about your restaurant and we will walk you through it.
US$34.99 per location per month, once billing begins. Until then it is free, and we will tell you at least 30 days before anything is charged. Staff never pay, and compliance warnings are not a higher tier.
No. ShiftNivo schedules and prices the week before it happens; it does not record what actually happened. Most restaurants we talk to clock in on the POS, so we have not built one, and the cost figures are a projection of the schedule, not a payroll record. We would rather say that than let you find out in month two.
No. Advance-notice rules, predictability pay and reporting pay are real law in Oregon, New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco and others, and none of them are modeled yet. What is checked today: overtime and double time, rest between shifts, meal breaks, minimum wage as a floor, youth hours and curfews, and public holidays. If a predictive scheduling ordinance applies to you, ShiftNivo will not keep you compliant with it.
Official published sources, one per row, linked on every page, each with the date the figure took effect. Minimum wages are indexed once or twice a year in most jurisdictions, so the table is reviewed on a schedule rather than when somebody notices. It is a starting point, not legal advice, and the pages say which rules the engine does not model.
No: a person can be scheduled without ever signing in. Staff who do sign in see their own week on the web or in the iPhone app, in beta, which puts their next shift on the Lock Screen, reminds them before it starts, and lets them pick up open shifts, offer or swap shifts, and set their availability and time off. No wages, no budget and nobody else's hours are ever sent to them. Android is next.
No, and it is not going to file anyone's taxes. It schedules, it prices what it schedules, and it checks the schedule against the rules. A week or a pay period exports to a spreadsheet, priced from the schedule; nothing feeds a payroll system.
This site is in English, French and Spanish. The app ships in English and French — and a role is the same color, and a shift the same shape, in whichever one you open.
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Open a workspace and your state's or province's rules load with it. Free during early access, no credit card. If you found a figure on this site that is wrong, tell us; those get fixed first.
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