The same software, speaking four different trades.

Helm Shift ships four setups: restaurants, bars and pubs, cafes and bakeries, pizza shops. They are not four products and they are not a rename. What changes is the vocabulary, the categories, the units and the shift windows, which is exactly the set of things that makes software feel like it was built for someone else.

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Why it matters

Generic software makes you translate.

Pick any general scheduling or inventory tool and you will spend the first week translating. Your Open shift becomes their Breakfast. Your kegs become their “units”. Your dough goes in Dry Goods next to the napkins. None of it is wrong, and all of it is friction, every single day, forever.

That friction is the reason software gets abandoned in week two. So we did the boring work instead: each setup arrives already speaking the trade’s own language, and you can change any of it afterwards.

The concrete difference

Same three questions, four different answers.

Restaurants

Shifts: Morning, Lunch, Dinner, Close.
Categories: Produce, Protein, Dairy, Dry goods, Frozen, Beverage, Bar.
Counts in: chicken by the kilo, oil by the litre, to-go containers by the case.

Bars & pubs

Shifts: built around a late close, not a dinner service.
Categories: Spirits, Draught, Bottled beer, Wine, Mixers, Garnish.
Counts in: kegs, bottles and part-bottles, because a bar counts what is left in the bottle.

Cafes & bakeries

Shifts: Open, Mid-day, Afternoon, Close. Open starts at 6am; there is no dinner.
Categories: Coffee, Tea, Dairy, Bakery, Syrups, Packaging, Retail.
Counts in: beans by the kilo, milk by the litre, cups by the sleeve.

Pizza shops

Shifts: Prep, Lunch, Dinner rush, Close.
Categories: Dough, Cheese, Sauce, Toppings, Boxes & packaging, Beverage.
Counts in: 00 flour by the bag, mozzarella by the case, boxes by the box.

What does NOT change

One product, one price list, one login.

Every feature is in every setup. Scheduling, inventory, menus and recipes, labour cost, suppliers and ordering, the assistant. The setup decides the vocabulary, never the capability.

The same plans and the same prices. Lite $49, Starter $99, Professional $199, Enterprise $349, all CAD per month, whichever trade you are in.

Nothing is locked in. Rename a shift, add a category, change a unit. The setup is a sensible starting point, not a cage.

The cost noun follows the trade. A restaurant sees food cost; a bar and a cafe see recipe cost. Small thing, but it is the difference between software that sounds like you and software that does not.

Picking one

You choose it once, in about a second.

You pick your trade during setup and everything above is already in place when you land on the dashboard. If you are genuinely between two, pick the closer one; the categories and shifts are editable and nothing depends on the choice being permanent.

Restaurants Cafes Pizza shops

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