Simplifying access to employee benefits in the hospitality industry
Named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the Dining category, Oyster Sunday launched OS Benefits in 2023 — a platform designed to give hospitality owners access to a curated range of employee perks through a streamlined digital experience. With branding developed by Astrid Stavro, the project called for a technical partner capable of translating the visual identity into a robust and scalable product. We rebuilt the experience from the ground up, replacing a fragmented manual process with a fully automated platform designed for growth.
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- Design consultancy, Frontend + backend development
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- Astrid Stavro
- Year
- 2023
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Seamless onboarding for every business
At the heart of OS Benefits lies the registration experience, designed to transform what was previously a manual, time-consuming onboarding into a seamless, automated flow.
Users are guided through four intuitive steps — account creation, subscription selection, employee data entry, and payment — with every action designed to feel effortless. Behind the scenes, the system immediately takes over: new employers and employees are automatically subscribed to Mailchimp with customized tags based on their selected benefits. Simultaneously, full subscriber lists are sent to third-party providers, granting users immediate access to their perks without the need for human intervention.
The result is a registration process that removes operational friction, scales effortlessly, and frees the Oyster Sunday team from repetitive tasks.
your team
Here is a checklist to keep the process moving smoothly.
- Step 1: Provide your company details.
- Step 2: Pick your plan.
- Step 3: Input the names and email addresses of your team.
- Step 4: Add your credit card information — this will be stored with your account.
Make sure you click 'Continue' to save the information on each page if you need to step away and come back to finish registration.
We know your team may change regularly. You’ll have access within your account to make edits when new team members join or others leave.
Need onboarding support?Contact Us
One plan supports your team with affordable preventative care and a range of lifestyle services, all at an accessible price. This plan includes the OS BENEFITS Marketplace, Customer Support, and a free 14-Day onboarding period.
Empower vour team with a more robust benefits plan that provides access to both preventive care and a supplemental insurance pian coverine over 13.000 conditions, Includes all of the Essential offerings with greater health care coverage to further protect your team.
Our most comprehensive plan provides all the benefit administration and support you need to meet your team's every need. You'll enjoy the benefits of Essential+, alonaside the ability to opt into catastrophic insurance. Plus. anI easy-to-use dashboard integrated with your existing benefits for an all-in-one employee experience. Plans start at $95 per employee per month.
your team
Here is a checklist to keep the process moving smoothly.
- Step 1: Provide your company details.
- Step 2: Pick your plan.
- Step 3: Input the names and email addresses of your team.
- Step 4: Add your credit card information — this will be stored with your account.
Make sure you click 'Continue' to save the information on each page if you need to step away and come back to finish registration.
We know your team may change regularly. You’ll have access within your account to make edits when new team members join or others leave.
Need onboarding support?Contact Us
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Crafting a flexible and reliable payment architecture
Supporting a dynamic subscription model required a payment system that could offer both precision and flexibility. On the frontend, we implemented Stripe Elements to deliver a secure and frictionless checkout experience. Behind the scenes, subscription management is handled through Laravel Cashier, allowing the platform to manage complex billing operations with reliability and scale.
Employers can modify their subscription at any time — adjusting their plan, adding or removing employees, or swapping add-ons — with the system automatically recalculating prorated charges for the remaining billing cycle. This depth of integration ensures that businesses can adapt their benefits offering to match their staffing needs without disruption, maintaining a consistent and accurate billing process throughout.
Essential Plus
Empower vour team with a more robust benefits plan that provides access to both preventive care and a supplemental insurance pian coverine over 13.000 conditions, Includes all of the Essential offerings with greater health care coverage to further protect your team.
A tailored experience for every employee
Once registration is complete, users access a personalized dashboard displaying the benefits available under their chosen subscription. Each perk is organized by category and accompanied by a dedicated page explaining how it can be redeemed, creating a straightforward and accessible experience for employees. The platform also allows the Oyster Sunday team to integrate each business’s internal benefits, ensuring that employees see a complete, customized view of all opportunities available to them.
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Building a system with design integrity at its core
To balance performance with design integrity, we separated the marketing website and the user dashboard into two distinct applications. This approach kept the public-facing site lightweight and optimized for speed, while the dashboard was engineered to handle authentication, employee management, and payment operations with greater complexity. Both applications are managed through a shared headless CMS, enabling the editorial team to build and update pages consistently across the platform.
We also developed a modular library of components that offers editors creative flexibility within strict brand guidelines, maintaining visual coherence while supporting a range of layouts and content types.
OS Benefits Program
For years, the restaurant industry has been fraught with competing stressors—low margins, high turnover, unhealthy work environments, among others. Yet one of the most important factors preventing high-quality candidates from investing in hospitality as a long-term career is the failure of the industry to provide widespread benefits.
From paid sick or family leave, to continuing education and preventative care, an investment in benefits for your team is, undoubtedly, an investment in the retention of your best employees.
Even if offering comprehensive health insurance remains out of reach for many small operators, there are still meaningful ways hospitality employers can support the holistic well-being and happiness of their employees.
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Identity and website by Astrid Stavro, Alessandro Molent. Additional UX and UI design, user flows by Cinzia Bongino.
Laravel development: Emanuele Coppola.
Frontend: Nuxt 3, Naive UI
Backend: Laravel, Directus, Stripe
