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The app for your restaurant.

Keep your team, schedules, working hours and payroll prep together, so running the day-to-day takes less work.

No credit card required. Setup in under 10 minutes.

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Squadra for restaurants

Everything your restaurant team needs, from first shift to payday.

Five essentials. One Squadra. From the first shift to hours ready for payroll.

Squadra scheduling and time tracking on desktop, tablet and mobile.
  • Shift planning

  • Work time control

  • Salaries

  • Time recording

  • Team management

Plan your shifts

Get the right people on every shift.

Plan your week or month around availability and staffing needs, manually or with Squadra’s help.

Discover scheduling

Build your schedule in the calendar.

Create shifts individually or in bulk, copy what already works, and adjust the schedule as the week takes shape.

Monthly calendar with coloured shifts and assigned employees.

Plan each employee’s schedule in the roster.

Use the calendar to plan around shifts and times, or switch to the roster for an employee-by-employee view.

Weekly schedule with a row for each employee and coloured shifts.

Let Squadra Magic Planner find the best fit.

Use Squadra AI to suggest assignments based on availability, contract hours and the coverage you need.

Schedule with AI staffing suggestions.

Know when everyone can work.

Employees submit their availability so you have it in front of you when building the schedule.

Availability calendar with selected days in the mobile app.

Keep an eye on hours while you plan.

See how planned shifts affect each employee's hours before you publish.

Schedule showing planned hours, contracted hours and hour balances for each employee.

When plans change

Someone called in sick. Now what?

Find cover, arrange shift swaps and keep everyone informed when plans change.

Find cover without messaging everyone.

Advertise unfilled shifts to eligible employees and let them apply.

Discover shift ads
Open shift with applications and buttons to assign or decline applicants.

Let the team sort out shift swaps.

Employees can offer up a shift and eligible colleagues can apply. You stay in control of the final assignment.

Discover shift swaps
Shift swap request with available candidates and their application status.

Schedule updates reach your team instantly.

As soon as you publish schedule changes, your team is notified on the Squadra mobile app. Employees always see all their up-to-date shifts.

Personal shift schedule in the mobile app calendar.

Message your team right inside Squadra.

Use Squadra Chats for conversations that would otherwise disappear into group chats.

Discover chats
Chat list and team conversation with messages and a shared photo.

During the shift

Know what’s happening on every shift.

Keep clock-ins, breaks and presence checks for every shift in one place.

Discover time tracking

Let employees track time on their phone.

Employees can clock in, start breaks and clock out directly in the Squadra app, from anywhere.

Discover Squadra mobile app
Employee using time tracking on her smartphone.

Employees can track time from a shared tablet.

Phones away? No problem. Set up a shared Squadra station so kitchen and service staff can track their time without using a personal phone.

Discover Squadra Terminal
Tablet displaying the team schedule and attendance status.

Use QR codes to ensure presence.

You can ask employees to scan a QR code to start, pause and end their shift. No badge terminals required.

Employee scanning a QR code at the workplace with her smartphone.

See who's currently working.

Check who has started, who is on break and who hasn't clocked in yet.

Daily overview of the team's working hours and attendance status.

Define shift tasks and track completion live.

Give employees clear checklists for opening, closing, cleaning or recurring shift tasks. They can check off each task directly in the Squadra mobile app or on a shared tablet.

Discover checklists
Mobile checklist with tasks, photos and completion progress.

After the shift

Accurate records, simple fixes and approvals.

Compare planned and recorded hours and resolve differences before payroll.

Discover work time control

Get shift reports and spot what doesn't add up.

Late clock-outs, changed breaks and other discrepancies are easy to find and correct.

Work session reports with approval status and warnings about time differences.

See the full story behind every shift.

Review the complete story behind every worked session, from planning to the hours employees tracked and submitted.

Shift timeline comparing planned, tracked, submitted and approved hours.

Stay compliant with labour laws.

With Squadra’s double-approval system both employees and supervisors approve each work session.

Work session entries with separate approvals from employees and supervisors.

Review completed checklists.

Check completed tasks and attached photos and notes, so you can see what got done without extra follow-up.

Discover checklists
Checklist overview with task status, responsible employees, notes and photos.

Your team

New starter on Monday? Get them ready before their first shift.

Invite new employees and keep their details, contracts and availability in one place.

Discover team management

Onboard new team members with just an email address.

Every email address receives an invitation link. With this link, employees can join your company on the Squadra mobile app.

Form for inviting new employees by email.

Employee profiles managed by the employees themselves.

When employees accept your invitation to join Squadra, they create a profile on the Squadra mobile app and fill out all the standard and custom profile fields you defined.

Custom profile fields and the corresponding form in the mobile app.

View your whole team at a glance.

Manage your whole team from a single screen, monitor status across multiple of your business branches, employee roles & rights, and much more.

Employee list with roles, employment status and onboarding progress.

Get the contract signed digitally.

Create and send employment contracts digitally. Employees can review and sign them directly from their phone.

Discover Signable Contracts
Employment contract and signature field shown on two smartphone screens.

Store & share employee documents.

Store important documents within the employee profile and share the ones the employee needs to see.

Discover File sharing
File list with shared payslips.

Payday

Worked hours are already where payroll needs them.

Calculate salaries from approved hours, contract terms and each employee’s supplements.

Discover salaries

See wage costs as the month unfolds.

Track gross wages based on actual working time instead of waiting until payroll day to find out.

Salary overview with employees, working hours and calculated salaries.

Keep track of tips without spreadsheets.

Record the tip pool and let Squadra calculate each employee's share based on the rules you define.

Discover Tips management
Tips overview with an annual total and monthly amounts on a smartphone.

Night, Sunday, holiday? Account for it.

Set up salary supplements for specific hours or days, and Squadra automatically applies them when calculating pay.

Night supplement form with a time window and a percentage salary increase.

Export salary data straight to payroll.

Send prepared salary data directly to your payroll software without manually transferring figures or rebuilding spreadsheets.

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SquadraAdd-ons

Need more?

Expand Squadra with powerful add-ons.

Expense management

Check and approve expenses submitted by employees directly in the app.

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Recruiting

Publish vacancies, collect applications and hire faster and with less administration.

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