Human Resource Categories help you organize and streamline your labor management by uploading documents or recording certifications and other HR items into TimeForge. TimeForge HR documents are easy to upload, easy to print, and best of all – easy to access. You can make HR documents required for specific positions. For example, if every employee on staff needs an I-9, you can require that every position has an I-9. If Bartenders need alcohol serving certifications, you can make this document required only for bartenders. Below are instructions for making HR documents required.

Your labor to sales ratio provides you with a benchmark for how much profit your business is making. TimeForge can track your labor to sales ratio for convenient analysis. According to your settings and preferences, TimeForge can also TimeForge can alert you when your schedule costs exceed your schedule threshold (when a schedule is costing you more than you predicted).

HR information might include pre-hiring information, onboarding paperwork, training documentation, certifications, or offboarding paperwork.

You can upload forms, specify which positions need specific HR documents, and customize your options. Below is information on adding HR information to an employee, after you have already customized HR settings. If you have not set up HR yet, go to the Human Resources link under the Employees tab.

TimeForge enables you to set up multiple locations in the TimeForge system to represent the physical locations of your stores.

Corporation settings allow you to access the entire business, and after adding your second location, TimeForge will automatically switch between the Corporate Level and the Location Level as necessary.

Each location or business has specific employees, and often times different locations have completely different schedules and managers. By adding additional locations to your accounts, you can easily access schedules and employees for each individual store or business without needing multiple TimeForge accounts, keeping your management organized and efficient.

You might want to delete a department if an unnecessary department was created by accident, or if a department has been eliminated from your business. For example, if Amazing Vittles ‘n Things has closed down their “Dog” department, their managers will want to eliminate the Dog department from the TimeForge system to avoid future Dog related confusion.

You will not be able to see another department if you are not associated with that department, according to your department settings. To be able to see a department, the position to which you are assigned must be associated with that department OR you must be assigned to that department (you can manage a department without working in the department).

For example, if you are a “Craft Manager” (position) in “Crafts” (department), and all “Craft Managers” are assigned to the “Crafts” department, then you will be unable to see what’s going on in the “Produce” department, unless you assign “Craft Managers” to “Crafts” and “Produce”. If you don’t want to assign all of the employees associated with that position to a department, you can add them individually. So, if you only want a specific “Craft Manager” to work in “Produce”, you can assign just the employee you want without assigning all the other “Craft Managers” to “Produce”. Below are instructions for reassigning department positions.

TimeForge enables you to set up multiple departments in the TimeForge system to represent the departments within your store. Often times, an employee will work at more than one department, or will transfer departments, requiring you to add them to a department, in order to schedule the staff members, or account for their payroll cost.

You may want sub departments if your business needs them to track sales or labor needs. An example of a sub-department would be if a sporting goods retailer had a “Marketing” department, and the marketing department had a “Television Advertising” department. Sub departments mostly apply to businesses with an established departmental hierarchy.

TimeForge Age Rules enable your business to adhere to company, state, or federal mandates regarding minors and seniors in the workforce. For example, if employees under age 16 are restricted from working more than 20 hours per week, TimeForge can help you set up and enforce this restriction on the Age Rules Page. Below are instructions for doing so.

TimeForge enables you to set up multiple departments in the TimeForge system to represent the departments in your store. When editing a department, you can select which Payroll ID information for that department, position(s) will be associated with that department, open/close times for that department (if different from the store times), and configuration settings. Configuration settings include options like time punch settings (if different from the store settings). An example of a department for a sporting goods retailer might be “Outerwear”, “Camping supplies”, and “Cash registers”; or “Customer service”, “Stocking and Merchandising”, and “Marketing”.