Compare Scheduling Basic and Scheduling Pro

What This Applies To
Plan Names in Toast Scheduling and Sling
Feature Comparison
Features Available Only in Sling
Exceptions
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What This Applies To

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.

Plan Names in Toast Scheduling and Sling

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.

Feature Comparison

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Auto-assign open shifts	Assign open, unpublished shifts automatically (see Exceptions)	❌	✅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

Features Available Only in Sling

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.

Exceptions