Zignyl Walkthrough - Day One
Welcome to Zignyl! This guide is designed to get you and your team up and running, not by throwing every feature at you at once, but by following a logical path from initial setup to daily operational excellence. Our goal is to help you get connected, have the right tools you need, and understand the basics of how our platform works.
What is Zignyl?
Zignyl is an all-in-one operational intelligence and workforce management platform designed specifically for Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) franchisees and multi-unit operators. We help you manage all your locations and brands from a single platform, eliminating the chaos of juggling multiple systems, spreadsheets, and dashboards.
Our goal is to move you beyond simple reporting to actionable intelligence that directly impacts your bottom line, employee retention, and overall profitability.
What are the core features of Zignyl?
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Scheduling
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Forecasting
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Reporting
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Human Resources
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Tasks
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Incentives
What are the core layers of Zignyl?
How does this all work together?
Zignyl is built around a powerful, data-driven workflow designed to optimize your business: Forecast → Schedule → Execute → Analyze.
| Platform Module | Core Functionality | Key Benefit to Your Business |
| Forecasting | Uses real-time and historical POS data to create a precise, hourly sales forecast. | Prevents guessing. You know exactly what demand to expect and when. |
| Scheduling | Uses the hourly sales forecast to create optimized schedules, ensuring your labor aligns perfectly with sales demand. | Controls labor costs and stops both over- and under-staffing. |
| Task Management | Replaces paper checklists with an interactive, digital Location Dashboard (tablet-based). | Ensures compliance and consistency across all locations and empowers managers to hold the crew accountable. |
| Incentives & Rewards | Automatically calculates and distributes hourly team incentives and fair tip-pooling based on sales and performance. | Boosts sales and staff retention by paying your top performers more without spending an extra dollar. |
| Reporting | Consolidates real-time sales, labor, and task data from all your POS systems and locations into a single, comprehensive dashboard. | Provides a true "bird's-eye view" of your entire operation, allowing you to quickly spot problems and drill down to the root cause. |
| Human Resources | Offers a centralized digital roster, automated onboarding, and e-signatures for 100% compliance before the first clock-in. | Simplifies management of multi-location teams and provides employee self-service access via the Team App. |
Okay, that's a lot to take in! Now what? How do I get started?
Setting up Zignyl revolves around 3 core pillars:
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POS access - this allows for our system to talk to your system and pull data
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Bring your own hardware (iPad) - this device at each location will serve as the operational hub for tasks, goals, and time tracking, with this tablet app*
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Zignyl Core login - this is your central management hub to set up and run all of our features listed above
Without any of these, your Zignyl experience will be incomplete, and you will not be able to take full advantage of our revolutionary features.
*Please note that you will need to purchase or obtain your own Apple iPad (iPadOS 16 or newer) prior to setup. Zignyl does not provide tablets; our platform is designed for customers to bring their own compatible device to keep costs low.
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