Targets you set once.
Productivity, average hourly wage, or labour cost percentage, per department. Shiftbase measures every week against them.
Performance
Know what a shift costs while you plan.
Set a labour cost target per department, then let the schedule tell you where you stand as you build it. Green, yellow, red, per team, per day. Most businesses find out they overspent at month-end.
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Labour cost, before payroll instead of after.
Feedback while you plan.
Each day shows green, yellow, or red per department. Swap a shift or add someone and the number moves on the spot.
Actuals, not estimates.
Your till feeds real turnover in, so the comparison is between what you planned and what happened, not between two guesses.
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Decide what labour should cost.
Set a target per department in three shapes: productivity, average hourly wage, or labour cost as a percentage of turnover. One number to plan against, chosen by whoever owns the numbers rather than by the software.
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Green, yellow, red, before anyone clocks in.
Targets show up on the schedule itself. Each department gets a colour per day, so an overstaffed Tuesday is visible while it is still a draft. Drop a shift and watch the number come down.
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Four numbers, per department, per week.
Turnover, productivity, labour cost percentage, and average hourly wage, each with what you scheduled against what actually happened. Compare every department in one table, then open one to see its teams.
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Real revenue, not a guess.
Connect your till and actual turnover flows in on its own: Lightspeed, unTill, MplusKASSA, Vectron, SIDES, Twelve, Unitouch, Tonit, and Bork. No till? Enter it by hand or import a file.
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Staff up on the days that earn.
When turnover spikes, the target tells you to add people rather than cut them. Spend deliberately on the shifts that pay for themselves and trim the overlap on the ones that do not.
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Everything about Performance in Shiftbase - and if it's not here, our team is one message away.
Tracking labour cost needs two things: hourly wages on your employees, and turnover per day. Wages come from the employee records; turnover comes from your till, a file, or by hand. Most teams have their labour cost in view in under 30 minutes.
Shiftbase has three target types: productivity (forecast turnover divided by scheduled hours), average hourly wage, and labour cost as a percentage of turnover. You set one per department.
The Performance overview page starts on Basic. Targets, the indicators in the schedule, the KPI dashboard, and multi-department comparison come with Premium and Enterprise at no extra charge.
No, a POS is optional. Turnover connects automatically from Lightspeed, unTill, MplusKASSA, Vectron and others, and you can also import a file or type it in.
Yes, Shiftbase compares planned with actual on every KPI except turnover, which uses your forecast. That gap between planned and actual labour cost is where the overspend hides.
Yes. Shiftbase puts every department in one sortable table with a total across them, plus a detail page per department.
Labour cost management is keeping what you spend on staff in line with what the business takes in, usually tracked as labour cost as a percentage of turnover. In Shiftbase you set that target per department, and the schedule shows green, yellow or red against it while you are still building the week. The correction happens before anyone clocks in rather than in the month-end figures.