The multi-unit stack, and what replaces it

If you run 5–500 units, your stack probably looks like ours did: Homebase for time and scheduling, Jolt for checklists and food safety, a comp/sales spreadsheet the area manager rebuilds every Monday, and a Slack channel where alerts go to die. None of it talks to each other.

What each tool actually covers

Homebase is workforce — schedules, time clock, some payroll. Jolt is task execution — line checks, labeling, logbooks. Both are good at their slice. Neither gives you a live cross-unit wallboard, and neither runs your L10 / EOS scorecard — so that gets rebuilt by hand.

The gaps that cost you

The seams are where the money leaks: no single place to see green/amber/red across every unit this morning; the schedule rebuilt manually each week; audit photos in someone's phone; the weekly scorecard a stale Google Doc. Each tool is a subscription, and the per-seat fees add up.

The all-in-one alternative

Manifest doesn't replace that stack — it fixes the piece none of those tools own: the store walk itself. It's a daily log for the operator — tag the finding (clean, ops, cash, training, safety), add a note and a count, watch the week's trend, export CSV. Built by a multi-unit operator. Free to download; Manifest Pro is $79.99/month or $799.99/year.