Legion
Legion is a workforce management platform for hourly, multi-location employers such as restaurants, retail, hospitality and fitness chains. It forecasts demand, builds compliant schedules automatically, tracks time and attendance, and gives employees a mobile app for shifts, pay and messages. It also offers earned wage access. It is sold by demo to mid-size and enterprise operators.
Last reviewed

- Best for
- Multi-location restaurant operators, Large hourly workforces in retail, fitness and hospitality
- Pricing
- Quote only
- Runs on
- Web
Who it is for
Multi-location restaurant operators
Legion says it is built for high-turnover, multi-location restaurants and claims scheduling time cut by 50% or more.
Large hourly workforces in retail, fitness and hospitality
Case examples cover a retailer going live in hundreds of locations and fitness chains.
Employers focused on retention
The employee app combines shift swaps, pay access and messaging to keep frontline staff engaged.
What it does
Demand forecasting
Machine-learning forecasts of demand in dollars, transactions or traffic at 15-minute, 30-minute or daily intervals, including weather and local events.
Automated scheduling
Creates schedules from demand, labour rules, budgets, skills and employee preferences; the vendor says it matches needs and preferences 96% of the time.
Labour compliance rules
Applies labour rules and predictable-scheduling requirements automatically when building schedules.
Shift swaps and open shifts
Employees swap shifts, claim open shifts, set availability and request time off in the mobile app.
Time and attendance
Schedule-aware time capture with mobile, web, kiosk or POS PIN clock-in, geo-validation and automated timecard approvals.
Pay rule enforcement
Applies premiums, union rules, break thresholds and schedule-change pay automatically.
Labour planning
Connects labour plans with real-time execution and aligns finance and operations on labour budgets.
Employee engagement suite
Chat, polls, newsfeeds and AI communication assistants in one employee app.
Legion InstantPay (earned wage access)
Employees can access a portion of earned wages before payday with no change to payroll processes.
Legion AI assistants
AI assistants for scheduling, payroll and communications using natural language.
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Quote only
Legion publishes no prices; the site directs visitors to schedule a demo. It says implementations take weeks under a two-phase model, and that a customer went live in 200 locations in under 5 months.
Works with
- Other
- Accu-Time SystemsGT ClocksSynelRetailNextRELEXWorkatoWorkJamZipline
- Payments
- Stream
- Payroll
- SAP SuccessFactors
Names come from the vendor's partner page. Many partners are time-clock makers or implementation consultants. Legion also says its time clock supports POS PIN entry, but no restaurant POS is named on the vendor's site.
Where and how it runs
- Platforms
- Web
- Apps
- Legion mobile app: Employee schedules, shift swaps, timesheets, earnings and messages
- Hardware
- Employees can clock in by mobile, web, kiosk or POS PIN without special hardware; Legion also integrates with time clocks from partners such as Synel and GT Clocks.
No country list is published; the vendor mentions research on UK retail and hospitality and a UK site.
The company
- Company
- Legion Technologies, Inc.
- Headquarters
- Redwood City, United States
- Founders
- Sanish Mondkar
- Funding
- Growth round, $50M, May 2024 (Riverwood Capital, Norwest, Stripes, Webb Investment Network, XYZ)
- Series C, $50M, May 2021 (Stripes, Norwest Venture Partners, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Dollar General)
- Series B, $22M, September 2020 (Stripes, Workday Ventures, Dollar General, NTT DOCOMO Ventures)
- Customers named by the vendor
- Rite Aid, Alo Yoga, Dollar General, Cinemark Theaters, RaceTrac Petroleum, SoulCycle
Security and support
- Support
- Legion offers onsite and virtual training, account management and customer success teams, and a 24x7 online support portal.
Listing details
- Built for
- Restaurants
- Focus
- General-purpose, used in food businesses
- Status
- Active
- Website
- legion.co
- Also listed in
- Employee Scheduling & Rostering
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What we could not confirm
These points were not confirmed when this page was written.
- Any price, plan or contract term
- Year founded and team size
- Restaurant POS and payroll integrations by name
- Countries served and interface languages
- Security certifications
- Mobile app names and store listings
Sources
Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.
- Homepagehttps://legion.co/
- Restaurant offerhttps://legion.co/industries/restaurants/
- Product overviewhttps://legion.co/products/
- Forecastinghttps://legion.co/products/demand-forecasting/
- Schedulinghttps://legion.co/products/automated-scheduling/
- Time and attendancehttps://legion.co/products/time-and-attendance-management/
- Employee apphttps://legion.co/products/employee-engagement-suite/
- Earned wage accesshttps://legion.co/products/legion-instantpay/
- Labour planninghttps://legion.co/products/labor-planning/
- AI featureshttps://legion.co/legion-ai/
- Partners and integrationshttps://legion.co/partners/
- Implementation and supporthttps://legion.co/support-services/
- 2024 fundinghttps://legion.co/company/press-releases/2024/05/07/growth-investment-led-by-riverwood-capital/
- Series Chttps://legion.co/company/press-releases/2021/05/11/series-c-50m-fuel-wfm-innovation-growth/
- Series Bhttps://legion.co/company/press-releases/2020/09/02/legion-technologies-raises-22-million-series-b-demand-next-generation-workforce-management-accelerates/