Email Labor Schedules Immediately - New in TimeForge

TimeForge emails a rolling daily schedule to every employee in your account. However, emails containing the schedules are emailed to staff members on a daily basis, which may not be fast enough for your company if you want immediate notifications.

To alleviate this problem TimeForge now includes an “Email” link next to each schedule. Clicking on this link sends a message to your staff immediately.

Please note: Staff members must have an email address entered in TimeForge to receive an email message.

Of course, you can send any message to your staff at any time by clicking on the "Messages" section in the "Schedules" tab.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

Posting of Schedule Changes - Improved in TimeForge

TimeForge will automatically notify your employees of any changes made to the schedule after it is posted ... you no longer need to repost the schedule for the changes to take effect! Make schedule changes quickly, and rest assured that your employees will be notified of any last minute changes to the schedule.

How long does it take to make your employee labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

Scheduling is Simplified and Graphical! - Welcome to TimeForge v1.9.2

As previously mentioned, the team behind the TimeForge employee scheduling software has been working hard on version 1.9.2 of TimeForge - released today, Jan 1, 2008. Happy New Year!

So, what's new in TimeForge? A lot! Some of our recent improvements include:

• Messages about your schedule are available on all of the schedule views (including the daily, weekly detail, and weekly summary views). You can see which “rules” have been broken by your management team while building the schedule, whether the shifts were created by the AutoScheduler or by management.

• Day Parts are now displayed in the schedule (on the day view), and can be used to segment your day into different parts (for instance morning, afternoon, and evening shifts).

• Day Parts are also visible when looking at employee availability. You can quickly see what shifts employees are available to work.

• When editing an availability request, you can click on the day of the week to make an all-day request.

• A new report: On the report page, there is a new 7-day schedule, called “Condensed 7-day schedule, sorted by position.” This new report is a variation of the Condensed 7-day schedule, where all of the employees are grouped by the position / department.

• Templates have been updated to look like the Daily Schedule View, including graphing and different views of the day (sort by position or employee).
  

• Additional numerous small improvements were made to the software ....

How long does it take to make your labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

TimeForge Service Restored - Better Than Ever

Over the weekend, we began improving some of the internal systems on TimeForge.com to provide our users with an improved labor scheduling experience.

Demand for our simple scheduling system has increased over the past few months, and it was time to invest in more RAM, faster hard disks, and other improvements to ensure that TimeForge is available when you need it. The upgrade should have been a four - six hour outage, but instead spiraled into a twenty-one hour outage. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused, but really hope that you enjoy the new hardware!

All services have been restored to their normal operating conditions.

If you were affected by the outage, and would like some credit for the pain we put you through, please send an email to support@timeforge.com, and we will credit your account for two free days of usage (48-hours).

How long does it take to make your labor schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your retail business, restaurant, bar, club, or hotel?

TimeForge Back Up .... But Getting Some Upgrades

Early this morning (late last night), one of the TimeForge servers began experiencing some issues which disabled access to the server. We are very sorry if this caused any inconvenience - we were able to have the system back up and running within a few hours.

However, we are taking a few hours this evening (Sunday night, and Monday morning) to improve some of the TimeForge architecture, in an effort to provide a faster and more reliable program to our many users.

TimeForge will be down for 2 - 6 hours to upgrade the systems.

Thanks for your understanding.

TimeForge.com Server Issues....

Some of you may have noticed that TimeForge was unavailable for an hour or three earlier today. We are aware of the issue (which is a faulty server) and are working diligently to restore it to working condition.

Feel free to check back here for updates on our progress.

Workforce Labor Scheduling Updates (Part 1)

We are pleased to announce TimeForge version 1.9 – the easy-to-use employee scheduling program for food-service (restaurant, bar, club), hospitality (hotel, motel), and retail companies.

Thank you to our users who provide priceless feedback about the software can make their lives easier!

This version provides significant enhancements to all TimeForge users, and includes several dozen new and improved features. Some of our time-saving improvements include:

• Availability and requests both received drastic improvements for both managers and employees. You can now view weekly availability on a continual basis on a calendar. Availability is color-coded based on when employees “want to work”, are “available to work”, “do not want to work”, and are “unavailable to work”. Requests awaiting manager approval are also displayed for employees. This is what the improved requests look like:

• In addition to the calendar view of requests, TimeForge users can quickly make new requests, or change availability by using “drag and drop” techniques. Each day of the week is split into hourly segments, and you can now click and drag to create schedules in a single click. Of course, our flexible scheduling system still allows users to build both simple and complex requests:
  
  

Of course, we look forward to your ongoing comments about changes to the TimeForge scheduling system.

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your retail business, bar, club, or restaurant.

TimeForge Workforce Scheduling is now listed in FindApps.com

What is FindApps.com? FindApps is a comprehensive guide to hosted applications (also known as Application Service Providers or ASPs). They currently list several thousand applications which require no installation, no updates, and no service contracts (like our own labor scheduling program). It's a resource that every business owner should have saved in their Bookmarks.

What kinds of things are on FindApps.com? Although many of the programs listed on FindApps.com are “generic” in nature and apply to anyone who uses a computer, some of their listed programs apply directly to TimeForge.com employee scheduling users.

Some of the categories that you may be interested in reviewing include:

• Human Resources (employee reviews, background checks, benefits management)
• Utilities (backups and virus scanning)
• Accounting and Finance (payroll and online accounting)

TimeForge is posted in the employee scheduling section of FindApps.com

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant.

How Email Can Go Wrong ....

Yesterday, some of our users were sent a email describing how well TimeForge.com can assist with labor scheduling at multi-unit or multiple store concepts.

For instance, TimeForge users can manage an unlimited number of locations from their account, and each store can have different employees. Employees can work at more than one store and TimeForge automatically detects when employees are scheduled at other locations so that no staff members are double-scheduled. TimeForge has other multi-store labor scheduling capabilities as well – and we are always adding new features to the software.

However, the email program that sends out short reminders and email tips malfunctioned, sending many of our users multiple copies of the same email. We are truly sorry for "spamming" your mailbox, and can assure you that we have taken the necessary precautions to ensure that this doesn't happen again.

Thank you for your understanding. If you have any further questions, please send an email to our support group.

It should take less than 5 minutes to make the labor schedule for your business! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your retail business, bar, club, or restaurant?

Simple, Fast Employee Scheduling

Choosing a simple and easy-to-use labor scheduling program takes time. Someone with buying authority and an operations background in your organization must:

• Research the available programs
• Contact each vendor
• Track down customer references (customer testimonials are available on our website)
• Narrow the list of vendors
• Evaluate each program (every TimeForge.com user receives a free trial)
• Purchase or finance the software (TimeForge.com is affordable, and payment is automatically drafted every month)
• Install and configure the software (no software to install with TimeForge.com)
• Train all employees (TimeForge.com training is free)
• Hope that the software works as promised (no contracts are required with TimeForge.com, and you get a free evaluation / trial of the software)
• Pay ongoing maintenance and support fees (no ongoing maintenance or annual support fees with TimeForge.com)
  

Our team has done the research for you!

In addition to our own TimeForge.com employee scheduling product, ScheduleSimple.com provides a list of many of the software products available for labor scheduling and workforce management in small, medium, and enterprise level organizations. The new scheduling site covers software for the retail, restaurant, food-service, motel, hotel, hospitality, and grocery industries.

How long does it take to make an employee schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses? TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, or club.

What's Coming Soon?

As you may be aware, we release improvements to the TimeForge employee scheduling software every few weeks, and our team is hard at work developing version 1.9 of TimeForge. The next version will be released around Thanksgiving.

What can you expect to be in our next version of TimeForge?

• Improved Availability. You will be able to view availability as you do now, in a list format – but you will also have the ability of adding and viewing availability on a calendar. Two clicks to create a time-off request! Also, Day Parts will be more integrated with the rest of the TimeForge system – so you can schedule around the different parts of your day.

• Faster. We are aware that TimeForge can slow down occasionally for those of you with a large number of employees. These issues will be resolved in our next release.

• Improved Templates. Templates will continue to receive upgrades, and you will be able to add and edit shifts with the same ease that you edit schedules.

• And much more! If you know of something that will make your life simple ... let us know!

Are you ready to go home early? It should take less than 5 minutes to make the employee labor schedule for your business! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant?

What's New in Employee Scheduling? (Part 2)

Our team is proud to announce the latest version of simple employee scheduling ... TimeForge version 1.8.6! This version includes a number of minor bug-fixes, as well as some major new features – all designed to save you time!

Some of the new features include:

• Split Shifts. TimeForge's AutoScheduler will try to not assign employees to split shifts. Employees who close your business will not be scheduled to open the next morning, if at all possible. This makes employees and managers happy!

• Reports. The main report which runs when you click on “Print” from the schedule page now prints only scheduled employees (not all employees). This makes the printout more concise, and easier to read! There's also a new report, which can be found on the Reports page, and is called “Costs by Position”. This report gives managers a quick, graphical summary of where labor dollars are being spent on the schedule.

• Day Parts and Availability. You asked for it, and you got it! One of the most requested features from TimeForge users is to be able to use the request and availability editors with your own “time of day”. For example, your “Morning” shift may run from 6am – 11am, and your “Afternoon” shift may go from 11am – 4pm, and now you can setup requests and availability using “Morning” or “Afternoon” times.
  
  Login to TimeForge, and click on “Schedules”, and then choose “Day Parts”. Enter your shifts (such as open, morning, afternoon, evening, or close), and select a start time, end time, and a description. Day part periods cannot overlap. Once you have entered all of your time periods, you can save the Day Parts.
  
  Once Day Parts are in TimeForge, you can create and edit requests and availability using them. You, and your employees, will have the option of entering a time range, or you can pick a Day Part instead.

Look out for Version 1.9 and Version 2.0! Employee Scheduling will be faster and easier! Spend time doing what you want to do...

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant.

What's New in TimeForge? (Part 1)

Our team is proud to announce the latest version of simple employee scheduling ... TimeForge version 1.8.6! This version includes a number of minor bug-fixes, as well as some major new features – all designed to save you time!

Some of the new features include:

• Employee Messaging. Managers and supervisors can send messages to employees using TimeForge! To send a message, click on the “Schedules” tab, and then click on “Messages”. You can choose to send messages to everyone who works a certain position (e.g. all Cooks), select employees (e.g., Sarah and Joe), everyone who is scheduled to work (e.g. Everyone on next weeks schedule), or everyone who is not scheduled to work. Messages are sent via email to each employee, and employees can retrieve the messages at any time by logging into TimeForge.com You can also send schedules directly from the positions, employees, and schedules pages!

• Security. If you were not already aware, TimeForge is now secure. When you connect to TimeForge, you will notice that your location bar / url turns to “https”, which means that your connection is secure! TimeForge is using 128-bit SSL technology, the same kind your bank uses!

• Templates. Templates received a major upgrade on Monday night and can now be used on an existing schedule. You will see a link to “Use” and “Make” templates on the schedule page (if you have templates). Also, positions are grouped together when editing a template to make editing more simple.

Version 1.9 and 2.0 are coming soon!

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant.

Employee Scheduling Goes Secure

In addition to the many, many, many updates that TimeForge.com received this week - employee scheduling also became more secure. All of the pages in the TimeForge.com scheduling program are now equipped with the same 128-bit SSL encryption that many banks and credit cards require. You can be certain certain that no one will intercept usernames, passwords, pay rates, or other valuable information while you are on TimeForge.com!

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, grocery, convenience store, or restaurant.

Tech Tags: TimeForge employee+schedules secure labor+scheduling restaurant

Simple Employee Scheduling - Version 1.8.5 (Part 3)

On Sunday night, we released the latest version of TimeForge, the groundbreaking, simple and easy to use employee scheduling software. This new version continues to improve the TimeForge software, adding many new features so you can go home sooner!

What's New?

Graphic Improvements. Many of the charts in TimeForge.com received an upgrade over the weekend. They look better, display faster, and can now be printed! To print a chart, right click on the chart, and click “Print”.

Colors! You can now change the colors of the graphs inside of TimeForge to meet your needs, based on the position being scheduled. To do so, click on “Employees” and then click on “Positions”. Click “Edit” on the position you want to change, and then click on the color box to pick a color for the position.

Reliable Text Messaging Alerts. We guarantee that our text messages will be delivered to you and your staff. We provide a high quality text messaging solution for our clients, and have partnered with ClickATell, a text-messaging pioneer, to ensure that your messages are always delivered to your staff.

Setup Wizard and User Wizard Improvements. These two tools enable you, and your management team, to quickly add employees and positions to TimeForge. They have been streamlined to include only the crucial information needed to build a schedule.

Free Schedule Entry. We have always offered Free Schedule Entry for you and your team. Fill out a simple spreadsheet, and send us two of your current schedules. We enter your schedules for you!

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, grocery, convenience store, or restaurant.

Tech Tags: employee+scheduling labor+management TimeForge employee+schedules

Simple Employee Scheduling - Version 1.8.5 (Part 2)

On Sunday night, we released the latest version of TimeForge, the groundbreaking, simple and easy to use employee scheduling software. This new version continues to improve the TimeForge software, adding many new features so you can go home sooner!

What's New?

Schedule without Wages. Just want a simple scheduling tool? TimeForge can now schedule employees without having any wage information entered into the software. All that is required are the names of your employees and the positions that they can work. That's it! Of course, TimeForge can do much more ...

Turn off the AutoScheduler. For many businesses, the AutoScheduler saves hours of management time by correctly placing the right employee into the right shift on the schedule. However a few of our users would like to do this process themselves, and want to turn the AutoScheduler off. To do so, login to TimeForge.com, and click on the “Settings” tab. Then, click on the “Settings for this Location”, and locate the “TimeForge configuration” section. One of the options is to enable or disable the AutoScheduler. Setting this option to “No” will disable the AutoScheduler.

Double Alerts. If an employee shift swap will result in a double shift (where an employee will work more than one shift that day) ... you'll be notified when you approve or deny the shift!

How long does it take to make your employee schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor expenses through effective employee labor management at your business, bar, club, or restaurant.

Tech Tags: employee+scheduling labor+management TimeForge employee+schedules

Free Schedule Entry Service – Get Started with Labor Scheduling Today

Our goal is to provide you with the best scheduling tool available, and we've built TimeForge.com so that it's usage requires very little training.

Unfortunately, for TimeForge.com to work properly, it must know about your positions / job codes, employees, and required shifts at your business – and entering this data can take a few minutes. The Free Schedule Entry service is a fast way to be up and running on TimeForge.com with almost no work required for you!

To ensure that you are able to use TimeForge.com as fast as possible, you can take advantage of our Free Schedule Entry service. Our team will need you to complete a small spreadsheet, which can be downloaded from our website (by clicking here). Once you are complete with the schedule (there are only about six columns!), send us the spreadsheet and two of your existing schedules. You can send the documents by email (support@timeforge.com) or fax (806.799.1024). That's it!

Our data conversion team will setup all of these items:

• Positions / job codes
• Employees
• Schedules
• Templates
• Our team can also enter availability and requests
  

The schedule entry process can take between 2 and 5 days. When we're done entering your business's data, you can login and make schedules in seconds!

Interested in more information? Visit our free schedule entry page, or send an email to support@timeforge.com

How long does it take to make employee schedules for your foodservice business? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, club, or business.

Tech Tags: TimeForge employee+scheduling labor+management+software online restaurant+management free+schedule+entry

Halloween Giveaway!

The Offer: Purchase the most advanced labor scheduling system available, TimeForge.com, before midnight on October 31, 2007, send us an email explaining how TimeForge.com has made your life easier, and receive 10% off of our monthly prices!

The Details: To qualify for the offer, login to your TimeForge.com account by going to the website, and then click on the “Setup” tab, and then click on “Payment Options”. Sign up for one of our monthly plans, which are $9, $24, $49, or $98 per month (per location).

Note: Sign up will require either a monthly credit card draft or e-check draft.

Then, send a quick one-or-two line email to support@timeforge.com explaining how TimeForge has made your life simple. If you want to write more, feel free! Our support team will immediately reduce your monthly bill by 10% (for the next 12 months) upon receipt of the email.

The new monthly rate will be $8.10, $21.60, $44.10, and $88.20 respectively (per location).

You could save more than $115 for every location / unit in your business!

Why are we offering a discount? The TimeForge.com development team has been hard at work developing the next major release of TimeForge.com (version 2.0). Version 2.0 is right around the corner, and will include many new features, such as employee messaging and overtime calculations.

We will be increasing the monthly pricing to account for the increased functionality. However, we will honor the current monthly pricing structure for at least 12 months for all of our clients, and you will receive all of the new features of TimeForge.com at no additional cost!

Still not sure? Go visit the TimeForge.com Return On Investment Calculator and find out how much employee scheduling is costing you. You're going to be surprised!

Sign up now, and save!

How long does it take to make your labor schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, club, or business.

Tech Tags: TimeForge employee+scheduling labor+management+software online restaurant+management free+data+entry

NAFEM / FS-TEC highlights 2008

We recently visited the NAFEM and FS-TEC trade shows at the George World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA - we were able to attend the show on the second and third days. What an amazing experience!

Two of the GWCC halls were packed with non-stop food-service innovations and people who wanted to get their hands on all of the new innovations! Everything from kitchen appliances and walk-in freezers to wireless temperature monitoring devices and energy saving kitchen dish washers.

Although there was a lot of software being showcased in the FS-TEC tradeshow, our experience was that the show was very slow for both attendees and exhibitors. On the second day of the show, there were only a handful of attendees walking through FS-TEC, and on day three we found it hard to find attendees other than ourselves. A number of employee / labor management and scheduling companies were exhibiting at the show, including:

• HotSchedules (also known as EMN8, Inc)
• Deterministics Management Technology, Inc.
• e-Restaurant (from Altametrics)
• When To Waiter (by WhenToManage)
• RedPrairie / BlueCube
• Time Management Corporation
  

Standard Disclaimer: Why do we showcase other companies and products that perform similar functionality to TimeForge.com? Because we believe TimeForge.com is a superior scheduling product. Check them out yourself! Go review their products, ask for their schedule entry and free trial. Come back when you're ready to make scheduling simple!

As we wandered the much larger NAFEM show, we began to notice that much of the new technology was not at FS-TEC. It was at NAFEM. We found new products in many different booths that do all kinds of things, like:

• Stoves that monitor their own energy usage
• Dishwashers that reduce waste water when washing dishes
• All-in-one food cooking centers that use less energy to cook food
• Microwaves that can cook food in metal containers
• Walk-in rotisseries that turn off when food is cooked thoroughly
• Electronic controls to automatically turn equipment off and on
• HACCP automation technologies
• Wireless temperature monitoring systems for monitoring refrigerators, freezers, and holding areas
  

The coolest technology at the show? One of the most interesting pieces of technology being sold at the NAFEM show was the JeneSys product line from LynxSpring, a Kansas based company. The JeneSys is an Internet enabled facility monitoring and control management platform – a neat mini-computer that can monitor and control lighting, walk-ins, HVAC, security systems, and much more. The system is relatively affordable, and the graphical interface for monitoring the system is very intuitive.

The neatest booth at the show? The neatest booth had to be the Hobart booth, which was enormous. Hobart had several sample kitchens laid out in their booth, which was easily 250 feet long and 100 feet wide. I don't know how much the booth cost, but it wasn't less than $250,000. Impressive!

How long does it take to make your labor schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, club, or business.

Tech Tags: TimeForge NAFEM FS-TEC technology HACCP wireless

Resource for Restaurant Operators: Restaurant Report

Restaurant Report - Preserving, Protecting, and Perpetuating the Independent Restaurants of America.

We are always on the lookout for new resources for ourselves and our clients. At the 2007 Florida Restaurant & Lodging Show, we had the chance to meet with Jaime Oikle, an entrepreneur and the owner of www.RestaurantReport.com

If you are not currently reading Restaurant Report, you should start today! In addition to editorials and information on running a restaurant, they have a Tool Kit for Running Your Business, a Question & Answers forum staffed by leading industry consultants, and an Online Marketplace.

Restaurant Report publishes a newsletter, a blog, and a number of other resources for independent restaurants. Some of their recent articles have included:

• 13 Steps to a Fool Proof Schedule
• Making Customer Connections - Technology offers the tools to reach customers more effectively

Make sure to visit Restaurant Report!

How long does it take to make your labor schedules? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that TimeForge can streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, club, or business.

Tech Tags: restaurant resources TimeForge labor+scheduling

Accuvia – Labor Scheduling Systems

In foodservice, your business is primarily controlled by two large expenses: labor costs and food costs. Unfortunately, both expenses are variable in this industry and can be challenging to control.

Accuvia, a comprehensive information and technology resource company for the hospitality, foodservice, and retail services, recently reviewed a number of labor management systems in their weekly Newsletter. TimeForge was one of the top labor management companies chosen to be reviewed by Accuvia.

Some of the other companies and products mentioned in the article include:

• Restaurant Manager POS by Action Systems, Inc. (ASI)
• POSitouch Labor Management by POSitouch
• RES 4.0 by MICROS Systems, Inc.
• HotSchedules.com by TDR3
  
• TMx Labor Management System by TimeManagement Corporation
  

The actual newsletter can be downloaded here.

Why are we posting direct links to some of our closest competitors? Because we believe our product is superior and we would like you to go check out the other packages to see how we stack up. You will quickly find out that TimeForge is faster, more affordable, and easier to use than any of our web-based competitors or point of sale applications.

When you're done trying the competition, make sure to visit our Free Trial page, and sign up for our Free Trial.

How long does it take to make an employee schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses? TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, or club.

Tech Tags: TimeForge.com labor+management+software scheduling+software

TimeForge Update – Version 1.7.1 Available Now!

On Wednesday, September 19, 2007 we released TimeForge version 1.7.1. This new version includes a number of new features and tweaks to the software, including:

• Faster review of requests and availability
• New Feature! You may now include or exclude employees from shifts when building the schedule.
• Major Bug Fix: As previously reported, Internet Explorer 6 did not work with the schedule screen for some clients. This bug has been fixed, and now works in all recent versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox.
• Numerous minor improvements, bug fixes, and “tweaks” were made to the software as well.
  

Please let us know if you have any additional suggestions for the software! Expect version 1.8 to be released next month, with a number of new features!

How long does it take to make an employee schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses? TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, or club.

Tech Tags: TimeForge employee+scheduling exclude shifts labor

Faster Employee Schedules

As previously mentioned, TimeForge.com recently received a network upgrade, including a much faster server to handle the growing needs of our clients. The changes occurred on Sunday night, and was completed in about 30 minutes. We apologize for any disruption this may have caused.

Overall, the changes have made TimeForge.com even faster when building employee schedules, and when using the TimeForge AutoScheduler™ to automate the schedule process.

How long does it take to make an employee schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses? TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, or club.

Tech Tags: TimeForge employee+scheduling fast schedules

Support Blooper

Valued customers and trial users of TimeForge.com, the worlds best restaurant employee scheduling software .... we are very sorry for a recent blooper.

It appears that several emails that were sent to our support and info mailboxes over the last few weeks were mistakenly routed to the wrong location, and were not checked until today. There were about forty emails in the mailboxes, and we have already responded to everyone that had sent us questions, comments, or suggestions.

Remember, you can reach us at anytime at support@timeforge.com or info@timeforge.com.

Again, we apologize for this mistake and have taken the necessary steps to ensure it does not ever happen again. Thanks for your understanding!

How long does it take to make an employee schedule? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses? TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your restaurant, bar, or club.

Tech Tags: scheduling timeforge employee+scheduling software bugs

TimeForge.com Website Update

Today we are releasing the latest TimeForge.com website, version 2.0!

Last week, after some feedback from our users, we updated the look-and-feel of the TimeForge.com website to make the site even more Simple to use!

In addition to a new logo, the Free Trial is now easier to locate, and some new graphics have been developed to enhance your viewing experience. Additionally, the prominent "Login Here" will help your staff locate where to go to retrieve their schedules or request the day off.

Labor costs could be as much as 30% of your expenses; TimeForge can help streamline and minimize labor costs through effective restaurant employee scheduling.

Tech Tags: timeforge restaurant+software restaurant+management