Labor Management. NOW Simple.

The TimeForge product began life about 6 years ago, with the vision of a simple, easy to use, online employee scheduling product for the restaurant and retail industries.

We quickly realized that every business owner and manager has their own idea of what a “simple” employee scheduling system must do to help their business , labor scheduling requirements greatly vary by industry and location.   However, saving time and money is important to all business owners …

• Businesses in California, New York, and other areas need to schedule employee breaks (not very important in Texas, New Mexico, and other locales),
• Large organizations need to schedule multiple departments and supervisors (smaller groups only have one department),
• Labor costs need to be accurate, and account for overtime, multiple locations, positions, and job codes (many businesses fly by the seat of their pants, and don’t see the value in this information),
• Employee schedules need to be enforced, making sure employees do not arrive too early or leave too late (locations with full-time employees don’t worry about this requirement),
• And on, and on -.

Over the past several years, TimeForge has evolved to solve all of these problems , in an approachable manner for new and existing customers.

Multiple versions of the TimeForge service are now available, including:

• TimeForge Scheduling, the simple-to-use employee scheduling software, reduces labor scheduling from hours to seconds, improves employee communication (reducing frustration and turnover), and enables staff to check and receive schedules remotely.

• TimeForge Attendance, a full-featured time and attendance program, tracks when employees clock in / out, displays employee timecards, enforces the TimeForge Scheduling work schedule, and exports attendance for payroll calculations.

• TimeForge Daily Log, a powerful communications tool, records daily activities in an organized and searchable manner , removing the need for expensive physical log books.

Each TimeForge product can be used separately, or the products can be combined together to create a powerful labor management tool.   Managing labor with any of the TimeForge products will result in an immediate Return On Investment, but combining the products together will increase your profits in both good and bad economic climates.

The latest release of TimeForge continues to improve on our simple concepts, and continues to make life easy for managers and employees alike.   Read more about our latest release here…

Are complicated employee scheduling practices taking up precious time at your restaurant?   Are you making the best possible restaurant schedule?   How much turnover is created because of bad (or late) schedules? Did you know that TimeForge can improve retention, reduce turnover, and increase profits at your restaurant? Sign up today for a free trial!

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Some of the new improvements that are quickly noticeable by TimeForge users:

• A New Daily View!   TimeForge continues to be the easiest solution for making employee schedules.   You can now add or edit employees or positions directly from the schedule , no need to leave the schedule screen to add new staff members.   This also creates a streamlined sign up process , new users can be up and running and building schedules in under a minute!

• TimeForge Max customers can now track Sick, Vacation, and PTO requests!   Tracking time off is one of our most requested feature, and is now part of the TimeForge Max software product.   TimeForge Request Types can now be used to calculate sick time, vacation time, or personal time off (or paid time off).   Check back soon for a tutorial on how to use these powerful new features!

• TimeForge Attendance now goes through an approval process before it is exported.   At the end of each payroll period, managers review and then approve attendance before exporting payroll for the pay period to help reduce payroll errors.

• Overtime calculations for Canada, or any other country!   TimeForge now supports overtime calculations in the US (including California Overtime rules), Canada (with 40 hours, 44 hours, or 48 hours, depending on the province), or any other number of hours per week.   This can be set on a per-location / unit level , to assist international businesses, and affects both the theoretical labor schedule and the attendance calculations.

• Weather at your location can be displayed in either Fahrenheit or Celsius.

• TimeForge has supported exporting payroll information to CompuPay, a premium payroll and HR service, for about a year.   We now support exporting to Heartland Payment Systems payroll product as well.

• The new TimeForge reporting tool is available for all TimeForge users.   We have been working on releasing the new reporting tool for quite some time, and this new tool is significantly faster than our old reporting system.
  • In addition to being faster (most reports run in less than half a second!), you can now export reports in a number of formats, including Adobe Acrobat (PDF), Rich Text Format (RTF), and Microsoft Excel (EXCEL).
  • Reports too big or too small?   With a single click, you can now change the font size of the reports , fitting more, or fewer, employees onto each report.
  • Most reports now have Grand Totals , including payroll reports and multi-location reports.

We would love to hear your feedback about these features and improvements to TimeForge, and what you would like to see included in future versions of TimeForge.

What else do you want to see added to TimeForge?

How long does it take to make an employee schedule at your retail store? It should take less than 5 minutes! Did you know that labor costs are your #1 controllable expense, and could eating up more than 30% of your monthly expenses? TimeForge will streamline and minimize labor costs through effective employee scheduling at your store.   Start profiting now!

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• TimeForge Labor Management, a quick background ….
• Enforce Scheduled Positions and Clock In Times
• Building a Labor Schedule is Complicated. Use Tools to Keep Managers and Employees Happy.
• Workforce Labor Scheduling Updates (Part 2)
• Updated Labor Scheduling … TimeForge version 1.9