Labor vs sales, and demand forecast

Labor vs sales is a budget on the week you are still editing, not a month-end surprise. Demand forecast is included — not a premium SKU.

Admins, in Settings:

1. Turn labor target on.
2. Set target labor % (e.g. 28 means scheduled labor should stay at or under 28% of projected sales).
3. Enter projected sales per weekday, per location. There is no POS integration; a manager types the plan.

Those daily sales sit on the location. The schedule compares assigned labor $ against them.

On Schedule, each day shows labor cost as a share of that day's sales, colour-coded against the target. The week has a rollup.

This is visible while the week is editable. Move a shift, re-run Auto-Fill, or drop a double, and the share updates. Waiting for timesheets to learn you overspent is what this page exists to avoid.

Labor $ uses the wages on Team. Members do not see those numbers.

Forecasting estimates expected staffed hours per weekday and position from recent history, with day-of-week seasonality and recency weighting. It is a guide for how many shifts to draw, not a purchase order.

It does not auto-create shifts. You still build the week. It does not override Auto-Fill eligibility.

• Not a till feed. If Saturday sales were actually $14k and you typed $9k, the % is honest against a bad plan.
• Not payroll. Actuals from the time clock can be compared on the dashboard; they do not rewrite the schedule's projected %.
• Not an upsell. If a vendor charges extra for "AI forecasting", that is not this.