McDonald's tech stack

Burgers. McDonald's supplies its own POS to restaurants and offers McHire, built with Paradox, for hiring; most franchisees use it.

Map the McDonald's stack

Required and recommended systems

Sales & POSRequired, brand-built

McDonald's POS (NP6 / NewPOS)

McDonald's procures and supports its POS internally; it isn't sold or licensed to others. Third-party description, not a McDonald's document.

Esper, 2023

Hiring & OnboardingPreferred

McHire, powered by Paradox

Built by McDonald's and Paradox with franchisee input; Paradox reports about 90% franchise adoption.

Integrations: Paradox

Paradox announcement

Scheduling & TimeRecommended

Altametrics (e*Restaurant), Harri or LifeLenz

All three sell scheduling and time to McDonald's operators. Altametrics runs a McDonald's-specific program covering predictive scheduling and child labor rules; Harri reports 5,000+ McDonald's restaurants live; LifeLenz is built for McDonald's (it connects to McHire, DataPass and the in-store POS) and reports thousands of locations across the US, UK and Ireland. Vendor sources only.

Integrations: Altametrics, Harri Scheduling, LifeLenz

Altametrics McDonald's page

OperationsNot disclosed

Franchisee's choice, as far as public sources show

Tips & Pay AccessNot disclosed

Franchisee's choice, as far as public sources show

Payroll & HRNot disclosed

Franchisee's choice, as far as public sources show

AccountingNot disclosed

Franchisee's choice, as far as public sources show

From franchise disclosure document (FDD) summaries, brand and vendor announcements, and ProLiant's data-partner records (marked "partner data"). Brands change vendors; confirm against the current FDD before relying on any of this.