Turn your POS data into payroll in seconds.
Upload your export. Sidekick cleans, formats, and prepares it for Gusto — no spreadsheets, no errors.
Works with Toast today. Square & Clover coming soon.
Payroll shouldn’t take hours.
If you run a restaurant, you know the drill. Every pay period, the same painful cleanup before payroll can even start.
Messy POS exports
Inconsistent columns, weird date formats, missing employees.
Manual spreadsheet cleanup
Copy, paste, VLOOKUP, repeat. Every single pay period.
Errors in tips and wages
Tip pools and overtime are easy to miscalculate — and costly.
Hours wasted every week
Time you should be spending on the floor, not in Excel.
Sidekick does it for you.
Three steps. Under a minute. Zero spreadsheet gymnastics.
- Step 1
Upload your POS export
Drag and drop your Toast time entries, tips, and employee CSVs.
- Step 2
Sidekick cleans and structures the data
Tips are distributed, overtime is calculated, errors are flagged.
- Step 3
Download a Gusto-ready file
One clean CSV, formatted exactly how Gusto expects it. Done.
Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.
POS → Payroll conversion
Built for Toast today. Square and Clover on the roadmap.
Automatic tip handling
Cash, credit, and pooled tips distributed by your rules.
Error detection & validation
Missing punches, negative hours, mismatched employees — flagged before you export.
Clean CSV for Gusto
Column names, formats, and totals exactly how Gusto wants them.
Fast processing
Hundreds of shifts crunched in seconds — not hours.
No spreadsheet skills required
If you can drag a file, you can run payroll with Sidekick.
Built for restaurant operators.
Designed with real payroll workflows from real restaurants — not a generic data tool with a payroll wrapper.
“Sidekick gave us our Sunday afternoons back. What used to take three hours of cleanup now takes one upload.”
“It catches the stuff we used to miss — missed punches, weird overtime — before it ever hits payroll.”
Stop doing payroll the hard way.
Upload your next POS export and see a clean Gusto file in under a minute.