Toast Scheduling in Toast Web and the MyToast app
Sling and the Sling app, when your Sling account is connected to Toast
Businesses on Toast POS. Toast Scheduling isn't available for locations that don't use Toast POS.
Toast has two scheduling plans. Each plan has a new name and applies to both Toast Scheduling and Sling; customers do not pay for Sling separately.
Plan name | Earlier name | How you get it |
Scheduling Basic | Sling Lite | Included with Toast POS |
Scheduling Pro | Sling Pro | Included with Toast IQ Team Essentials and Toast IQ Team Pro, or available on its own |
Head to Toast Shop for more information and product availability. Select the shopping cart icon in the upper-right corner of Toast Web.
This table lists features in Toast Scheduling in Toast Web and the MyToast app.
Feature | Description | Scheduling Basic | Scheduling Pro |
Create, edit, and publish shifts | Build and publish your schedule in the calendar view | ✅ | ✅ |
Copy shifts | Repeat shifts from a previous day or week | ✅ | ✅ |
Toast IQ | Ask Toast IQ about your schedule and create or edit shifts with plain-language prompts | ✅ | ✅ |
Shift alarms | The MyToast app reminds employees of upcoming shifts | ✅ | ✅ |
Shift reopens and offers | Employees offer unwanted shifts to coworkers | ✅ | ✅ |
Open shifts | Create unassigned shifts that employees can pick up | ✅ One open shift per created shift | ✅ |
Manager approval | Approve or deny shift reopens, offers, swaps, and open shift pickups | ✅ | ✅ |
Unpaid time off requests | Approve or deny employee requests for unpaid time off | ✅ | ✅ |
Weather forecasts | See the upcoming weather forecast while you schedule | ✅ | ✅ |
Shift swaps | Employees trade one shift for another | ❌ | ✅ |
Paid time off requests | Approve or deny employee requests for paid time off | ❌ | ✅ |
Employee unavailability | Employees set recurring times they can't work | ❌ | ✅ |
Revenue forecasting | Compare your schedule to projected sales and your labor target in the calendar view | ❌ | ✅ |
Auto-assign open shifts | Assign open, unpublished shifts automatically (see Exceptions) | ❌ | ✅ |
Auto-scheduling with Toast IQ | Toast IQ builds a first draft of your weekly schedule based on employee availability while helping minimize overtime | ❌ | ✅ |
Remote and mobile clock-in | Employees clock in from their mobile device in the Sling app | ❌ | ✅ Sling app only |
These features are available in Sling and the Sling app but not in Toast Scheduling or the MyToast app.
Feature | Where to use it | What to use in Toast Scheduling instead |
Shift tasks and task templates | Sling and the Sling app | Add a Shift note to share instructions for a shift |
Remote and mobile clock-in | The Sling app, with Scheduling Pro | Employees clock in on a Toast POS device |
Messages, newsfeed, and announcements | Sling and the Sling app | Group chats in the MyToast app |
To open Sling, navigate to Team > Scheduling in Toast Web, select the three dots in the upper-right corner and select Sling. Log in with your Toast Web email address and password.
At this time, "Auto-assign open shifts" is available only for single-location companies and includes hourly employees only.
Revenue forecasting needs at least 30 days of Toast POS sales history before projections appear, and forecasts improve as more sales history builds.
Chat in the MyToast app and messages in the Sling app are separate, and messages can't be sent between them.