# Sling by Toast

> Free shift scheduling for up to 30 users, with paid time clock tiers

Sling, now Sling by Toast, is an employee scheduling app for restaurants, retail, healthcare and other shift-based teams. Scheduling, time-off requests, open shifts and messaging are free for up to 30 users, and paid plans add a mobile time clock, labor cost tracking against sales, a kiosk clock and payroll reports.

- **Category:** Shift Scheduling
- **Made by:** Sling, Inc. (Toast)
- **Website:** https://getsling.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Sling by Toast has a free plan. Paid plans start at $1.70 per user / month, billed annually (Premium).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free plan for up to 30 users: shift scheduling, time-off requests, open shifts, schedules built months ahead, a team newsfeed and one-to-one messaging.
- **Free trial:** 15-day free trial of the paid plans.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | Up to 30 users: shift scheduling, time-off requests, available shifts, long-term scheduling, news sharing and private messaging. |
| Premium | $1.70 per user / month, billed annually ($2 billed monthly) | Adds mobile time tracking, labor costs compared against sales, overtime tracking, group messaging and calendar sync. |
| Business | $3.40 per user / month, billed annually ($4 billed monthly) | Adds a shared-device kiosk time clock, hours and wage reports, no-show and sick call-out tracking, and PTO management. Recommended. |

Read from https://getsling.com/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sling by Toast before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 15% with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing brings Premium to $1.70 and Business to $3.40 per user a month, against $2 and $4 billed monthly. Source: https://getsling.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Schedules and templates:** Managers build schedules months ahead from shift and weekly templates, around staff unavailability, with day parts, custom tags and several slots per shift.
- **Auto-assigning shifts:** Sling can assign open shifts automatically, and mandatory meal and rest breaks are added to the shifts they apply to.
- **Shift offers, swaps and alarms:** Employees offer shifts to coworkers, swap shifts and pick up available ones, and alarms remind them of upcoming shifts by push or SMS.
- **Time clock and labor costs:** Paid plans add clock-in from phones, and Business adds a shared kiosk. Labor costs and overtime are tracked as the schedule is built and compared with sales.
- **Messaging and newsfeed:** Private and group messages, announcements and newsfeed pages aimed at chosen groups of staff.
- **Task management:** Tasks can be assigned to a shift or to an employee and tracked from the app.

## Good for

- Teams of up to 30 that want free scheduling and messaging
- Restaurants using Toast, Square or Harbortouch point of sale
- Managers who build schedules weeks or months in advance

## Worth knowing

- The Free plan stops at 30 users and has no time clock; time tracking, labor costs and overtime tracking start on Premium.
- The kiosk clock, PTO tracking and payroll-ready hours and wage reports need the Business plan.
- Integrations are mostly restaurant point-of-sale systems: Toast, Square, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager and POSiTouch, with timesheet export to Toast Payroll.
- Sling is now owned by Toast, and Toast customers buy it through the Toast Shop rather than on Sling's pricing page.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Sling gives you proper shift scheduling free for up to 30 people: open shifts, time-off requests, schedules months ahead and messaging. Paying is cheap too, at $1.70 a person for the time clock. Its connections are mostly restaurant tills, though, and the only payroll it names is Toast's.

- **Value for money: B.** Premium is $1.70 a user a month billed yearly, so 15 staff pay $25.50 for the time clock and labor costs. For a team that size that's in the cheapest quarter of this category, and scheduling alone is free.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free for up to 30 users with scheduling, time-off requests, open shifts, schedules built months ahead and messaging. The one big thing missing is the time clock, which starts on Premium.
- **Features: B.** Templates, auto-assigned open shifts, breaks added for you, swaps and offers, a time clock with labor costs against sales, PTO and tasks across its plans. That covers the whole job, with the kiosk on Business.
- **Ease of use: C.** We have no App Store rating on record for it. A schedule needs staff, positions and templates set up first, so give it an afternoon.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with till links to Toast, Square, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager and POSiTouch. The only payroll it names is Toast Payroll, and there's no desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sling's own pages on 18 October 2026. Sling's pricing page sent our reader a robot check on 18 October 2026, so its prices are as the listing has them. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps

- Sling by Toast's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 8 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 1.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 9 of 12) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $1.70 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.65 for the category: 0 of the 12 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Sling by Toast you would be making chat that a whole team counts on staying up. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 8 of the 12 other shift scheduling apps we grade. It costs $20.40 a year.

- You could make: Time off and tasks: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- You could not: A scheduler that rearranges your day as things move.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Toast, Toast Payroll and Square among them.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Toast, Toast Payroll, Square, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager, POSiTouch

**Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Time off, Team chat, Auto-scheduling, Tasks

## Alternatives

- [When I Work](https://toolgpa.com/tools/when-i-work): Staff scheduling with auto-fill, shift trades and an add-on time clock. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sling-vs-when-i-work)
- [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/homebase-vs-sling)
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## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://getsling.com/pricing/
- https://getsling.com/faq/
- https://getsling.com/integrations/
- https://getsling.com/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sling
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