// Getting started
An all-in-one restaurant operations platform — time, scheduling, tasks, expenses, payroll (with a built-in tax calculator), finance, inventory, and AI — built for independent restaurant owners, and it scales cleanly from one location to many. Its edge is keeping everything in one system: the clock-in photo, the POS void, and the tip sit side by side, so features like the Profit Leak Engine are one look, not a five-app project.
Most restaurant tools each own one slice of the data — the P&L, the POS, inventory, or the schedule. None keep the clock-in photo next to the void next to the tip. OpslyIQ was built with it side by side from day one, which is why it can connect voids, missing inventory, and odd labor in one place. Want a named, side-by-side breakdown of specific vendors — with credit to each and a dated hedge? That's our Compare page.
No. OpslyIQ is built to work with the POS you already run, and it hands payroll off to your existing provider or CPA. It replaces the pile of single-purpose add-ons and the late-night spreadsheet — not the tools you trust.
About 15 minutes. Add your location, connect your POS, and see yesterday's sales the same day — not a multi-app setup project. The moment your POS connects, OpslyIQ backfills recent history and runs the leak analysis over it, so you usually see value before you've entered anything.
// Pricing & the free trial
$99 per location, per month — flat. Your first location and your tenth cost the same, and every location gets the whole platform; there is no cheaper tier that withholds features. Month-to-month, self-serve. Franchise HQ (the multi-brand console for franchisors) and Enterprise (single sign-on, audit controls) are separate packs on top — talk to us for those.
Yes. 14 days, the full platform, no credit card. When it ends, nothing is charged automatically — access simply pauses until you decide to subscribe. There is no auto-conversion, by design and by policy: you decide to pay on purpose, or you don't pay at all.
Per location — never per seat, so labor-heavy operators aren't punished for staffing. Bring every employee you have. Terminated employees are retained for your tax records (W-2s, the IRS four-year rule) and cost you nothing.
// Payroll & compliance
No — and it's honest about that. It has a built-in tax calculator (federal + FICA + your state's taxes, including the ones you pay as the employer; more states rolling out one at a time) and produces an accurate take-home estimate, including real-world setups like a $0-base / $15-floor tip-funded pool where the employer covers the difference. For filing, you export to your processor or CPA; one-click auto-sync to Gusto/Finch is rolling out. It never fakes a 'payroll submitted' success.
Payroll runs federal + FICA nationwide. State withholding is live today in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and North Carolina, plus the nine states with no state income tax (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Wyoming) — where a federal-only estimate is the complete answer. California is in preview, and more states are rolling out one at a time. We never show a state number we haven't verified against the state's own tax authority — if your state isn't live yet, we say so rather than guess.
No. OpslyIQ flags its read of the applicable labor rules so you can catch an issue early — it's not a legal ruling. Confirm specifics with counsel.
// The leak & the AI
A nightly check that connects POS voids, missing inventory, and odd labor patterns, scored by location and day, with the dollar impact and the shift it lines up with. Up to 20% of restaurant profit can leak to product loss, voids, and creeping labor; it surfaces that in plain English instead of at tax time.
No — this is core to how it's built. When a leak signal fires, OpslyIQ shows you a neutral pattern with its evidence — magnitude, confidence, and the exact rows — and never concludes wrongdoing or names someone as guilty. A human investigates and decides. Any ranking of people also carries a fairness check, so it never just flags whoever works the busiest, hardest shifts.
The forward-looking half of OpslyIQ. It combines each location's busy-and-slow patterns with the holidays and local events coming up to tell you what to do before the shift — the owner hears 'you'll be short two servers Saturday, ~$1.4k at risk', and the server hears 'pick up Sunday brunch, projected ~$180 in tips'. Same forecast, sent to whoever can act on it. It's built in and included, not a pay-per-use add-on that runs up a bill.
Real. The Copilot answers grounded in your actual data — every number traces to a row — and it abstains rather than guess when it can't. When you ask it to take an action, it previews the change, checks your permissions, executes under your access rules, logs it, and lets you undo. We deliberately don't put a number on screen the software didn't compute.
// Data & security
Each restaurant's data is walled off from every other, enforced at the database on every read and write — not just hidden in the app. Sensitive values (SSNs, bank and POS tokens) go into an encrypted, write-only vault — never stored in plain text, never exposed to your browser. Two-factor login and a full activity log ship at launch; single sign-on arrives with the Enterprise track next, and SOC 2 is in progress.
No. It's a photo on file for manager review. OpslyIQ does not extract face geometry, and we don't describe it as 'biometric.' If facial matching is ever offered, it's gated behind explicit written consent and reviewed jurisdiction by jurisdiction first. Geofenced clock-in uses precise location for one purpose — verifying the punch — and we treat it as the sensitive data it is.
The employer. OpslyIQ processes most data on the employer's behalf, so employee data-rights requests route to the employer as the controller — we never unilaterally alter your system of record. You own your data, can export it, and can ask us to delete it; we don't sell it or use it to train third-party AI models.
// Product & scale
OpslyIQ 1.0 launches nationwide, web-first, for single- and multi-location single-owner operators. That includes the Profit Leak Engine, Demand Intelligence, true labor cost %, the auto-scheduler, anti-buddy-punch, payroll estimate + tips, POS reports, daily close, finance and cash-leak. Franchise hierarchy (corporate rollups, scorecards) and Enterprise single sign-on come next — built and on the runway, not vaporware.
Three checks at clock-in: where they are, a photo, and a boundary around the restaurant that blocks an off-site punch — plus a review list for the flagged ones.
Your team works from their phone today — OpslyIQ installs to the home screen in one tap, straight from the browser, with no app store and no download. A magic link drops a new hire right into mobile clock-in; from there it's their schedule, shift pickup, tips and earnings. Native iOS and Android apps arrive this fall, on top of the same experience.
Clover is live and tested in production; Square is supported; more POS systems are on the way. Because your POS plugs in through one connection, adding a new one doesn't disturb the labor, scheduling or payroll side.
Yes. Own-store rollups across your locations are included in Core; a brand over independently-owned franchisees adds the Franchise HQ pack. For a formal security review, the Enterprise pack adds SSO/SCIM, enforced MFA with audit, separation-of-duties governance, and SOC 2 evidence support. Bring us your requirements.
A 20-minute demo answers it faster than a pricing page — and we answer honestly, including "not yet" when that's the true answer.