A hotel should always be properly managed  to ensure success. In this area of work, managing your staff and balancing staff schedules may be the biggest challenge. With the use of hotel scheduling software, proper hotel scheduling is a breeze.

Hotel scheduling software makes it possible for you to create work schedules and control labor budgets in you business. In this type of industry, it is important to focus on peak hours, peak seasons, part-time workers, and different job positions when making the schedule. You should also consider time-off requests, labor rules, and personnel availabilities.

Hotel scheduling software has many capabilities such as, easy fixing of schedules, rotating employees, adjusting shifts, and re-adjusting time offs. This includes consideration of employee requirements and staff availability. It also notifies employees of schedules and schedule adjustments which reduces staff turnovers. Hotel scheduling software can easily provide information about schedules where your team members can review them. It allows for your employees to update their availability, request shifts, and trading shifts. It also allows them to receive schedule notifications and reminders through text or email.

With this software, you may also view assignments and staff schedules. Assigning of tasks, duties, and break times may also be possible. There are also options of reports for payroll and cost control. TimeForge hotel scheduling software allows you to synchronize and integrate with your PMS ( Property Management System) and POS (Point of Sale) systems. Hotel scheduling software makes it easy to view labor and sales, as well as forecast them. It may also forecast occupancy, arrivals, and departures in your hotel.

Hotel scheduling software is essential because it will save time in scheduling, increase work efficiency, reduce labor costs, and keep your labor work force balanced. Schedule overlaps, under staffing and over staffing will be eliminated.

Hotel scheduling software will help improve profit because less time will be spent doing paperwork and more time will be spent working with the staff and finding ways to improve the business. Communication lines are kept open between employees and managers because personal shift requests are taken into account and schedules are accessible to everyone.

TimeForge labor management software can save you time and money. Sign up for a free trial today!

March 30, 2012

What we’ve been working on for this update:

Request number 1203 (Locked Out User Issue)

The issue: A user’s employee was locked out of being able to log in!

The fix: We figured out how to let him modify his credentials and log in.

Request number 1202 (Alerts)

The issue: Alerts weren’t specific enough for users with POS integration.

The fix: Alerts with a POS are more specific (telling the user which schedule and/or template and/or location that users are still active, when they cannot be terminated).

Request number 1201 (ADP “Don’t Export” Option)

The issue: A user needed the option to not export the hourly rate to ADP, because managers were updating the hourly rate in ADP and not in TimeForge – causing TimeForge’s hourly rate to be out of date, but override the changes made in ADP, reverting the hourly rate in ADP back to the “not-updated” rate in TimeForge. It was a “who wears the pay rate pants” issue between TimeForge and ADP.

The fix: TimeForge added an option for that user to not export the hourly rate to ADP, letting ADP be the “master record” without TimeForge overriding it with every export.

Request number 1200 (T-Mobile)

The issue: There were some weird things happening when TimeForge sent text messages to T-Mobile users.

The fix: It’s fixed!

Request number 1198 (Emails)

The issue: A user added two employees and they were unable to log in using their email addresses – the same method that all other employees were logging in.

The fix: We set these users up with usernames and password, and that worked for one of them. The other one is Request number 1203 (also solved)!

Request numbers 1196 and 1197 (SurePayroll)

The issue: The TimeForge SurePayroll export was having some issues. It was formatted as “Employee work hours per shift” per line, instead of “Employee work hours per period” per line, and it was re-formatting hours into “1 digit” when opened in “spreadsheet” reader programs instead of text viewer programs.

The fix: The SurePayroll format is now two digits and formatted so that the export works seamlessly.

Request number 1192 (Modified Punch Report)

The issue: A user needed a report of only “Modified Punches” (only those Attendance entries that have been changed after they were entered) to compare to their HR documents and files for record-keeping.

The fix: We built the report!

Request number 1191 (Syncing)

The issue: Syncing employees and positions to TimeForge was taking about 12 minutes for some users!

The fix: It now takes less than 1 minute!

Request number 994 (Emergency Contact Report)

The issue: A user needed a report of emergency contacts for their employees.

The fix: We built the report!

Request number 1134 (Terminated Staff)

The issue: Terminated staff were being displayed in the pop-ups when looking at preferences.

The fix: Terminated staff aren’t displayed there anymore – they are “hidden” like they are supposed to be.

And:

Some significant speed improvements around the application… the Daily View now loads in around 2 – 5 seconds for just about any schedule (much faster for most users). The Today page and Corporate Today page now load a bit faster (using our roll-up tables).

By Chris Butler, TimeForge Educator

Your business has been steadily growing and now it is time to hire a new employee.  You have lots of applicants.  You interview the candidates and find the perfect employee.  They have years of experience, are hard workers, have done this exact same job many times at many places, and are willing to work within your budget.  You hire them on the spot!

Meet your new employee – AutoScheduler!

It is Auto’s first day, so now what?  Just like any other new employee, Auto is going to perform a lot better if you train him a little.  I doubt you would give a brand new server a section and tell them to start serving with no training at all.  Even a very experienced server might struggle.  They could probably take the customer’s order and might even figure out how to get the order to the kitchen.  Chances are though they wouldn’t be very efficient.  On the other hand, if you spent some time with them and did some training on your business, they would probably become proficient much more quickly.  Auto is like that new server, he has lots of experience, but hasn’t worked at your business before.

I can hear you asking, “How do I train Auto, isn’t he just a computer program?”  It’s really simple, you have to give him information about your business and your employees.  Now,  I hear you asking, “What kind of information?”  Probably the two biggest things you can tell Auto are pay rates for your employees and their minimum and maximum hours per week.  Some other things you can give him are skill levels, availability, min/max hours per day, min/max shifts per day/week, OT rules for your state,  on what day you start your work week, and birth date (if you have age rules in place).  There are some things Auto can learn on his own.  These can include patterns in past schedules, patterns in how an employee rates a shift (did you know employees can even do that?), patterns in shift swaps, and if you have TimeForge Attendance, patterns in absenteeism.  The longer Auto works for you, the smarter he gets.

Auto takes all that information and uses it to find the best schedule he can.  How long would it take you to sift through all of that information?  Hours?  Days?  AutoScheduler can do it almost always in less than 10 minutes.

Which would you prefer?  Hours or Minutes?

So take some time and train AutoScheduler now and save yourself lots of time next week!

Click here for the printable PDF version of the Goldie’s Case Study

Long celebrated for delicious home cooking as well as for its wonderfully varied ice cream flavors, Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe attracts customers from near and far. The small restaurant in Prairie City, Iowa, has prided itself on outstanding customer service for many years. Owner Brad Magg knows employee satisfaction and morale are essential to the repeat business Goldie’s has developed over the years.

The ever-changing menu offers everything from sweet potato fries to black raspberry ice cream. As they say on Facebook:

If there is something that you’re craving, don’t be afraid to let us know. Think of us as your Grandma; we might fix something special for you if you’re gonna come visit!

Offering such an amazing variety of fare can be easy compared to employee scheduling, in part because of the mix of retired adults, teenagers, and hourly staff workers. David Jennings, manager of Goldie’s, loathed the handwritten system he had been using:  “The schedule was all written in by hand and photocopied. We had a manual time clock. Time cards would disappear.” It’s no wonder that he was in the market for a better solution.

Solving the Labor Crisis: TimeForge Labor Management Software

Adaptability, affordability, and a short learning curve were big factors in Goldie’s selection of TimeForge, a web-based scheduling and attendance tool that is designed to simplify employee scheduling, reduce labor costs, and improve morale. TimeForge’s employee scheduling software changed Goldie’s “paper and pen” scheduling to an updated labor management solution.

“Before TimeForge, I always dreaded doing the schedule. We do it weekly and I’d get the first half done and then the rest. I always had to hunt down employees to figure out what their availability was. They didn’t know when they were supposed to work. Notifying employees was always a big hassle. It was just a nightmare all around.”

“We never took the time to set up a manual email system. I would text every single employee with his or her schedule for the week. It gave employees the opportunity to say, ‘I read the text wrong.’ …The hassle was that I personally was always getting hassled – constantly texted and called. It was always, ‘I can’t work’; ‘who else is available’; ‘I don’t have their phone number.’ ”

The Budget- and Employee- friendly Labor Schedule in 30 Seconds!

Initially, Jennings said he was hesitant to implement TimeForge because of the older people Goldie’s employs. Jennings knew many would be resistant to use of labor management software. “At first, there was some grumbling among the employees, but now 95% of them are enjoying the new system and appreciate the benefits to them.”

“The employees LOVE it because they know that they are going to have a day off when they need it. Before TimeForge, it was so disorganized that they might get it, or might not.” The most noticeable TimeForge benefits for Goldie’s included an improvement in employee morale and a reduction in employee turnover.  “Our employee morale is better because they feel like they have a better handle on the schedule. They know when they’re going to show up, and they know they won’t be the only one on the shift because we forgot to schedule someone else!”

“The reduced turnover rate is going to give the employees a better impression of our company so they take it more seriously… It’s giving the new hires a better impression of how organized we are, and the existing employees know that they can’t get away with the shenanigans that they used to.”

Labor Costs Are Close to Scheduled Labor

Magg is now able to maximize efficiency by utilizing additional features of TimeForge. Attendance tracking is now streamlined as well. TimeForge TimeClock Mode, one of several TimeForge Attendance tracking options,  enables users like Magg and Jennings to accurately track employee attendance without purchasing any new equipment or suffering through a lengthy set up.

With TimeClock Mode, Goldie’s employees can clock in and clock out quickly on the Goldie’s office computer without interrupting sales at the front of the store. Jennings and Magg can keep a close eye on labor costs, whether they’re at the store or on the go, since web clock-in is in real time.

Advanced Labor Reporting Tools

With TimeForge, labor cost analysis is also greatly enhanced. “I like knowing how much it is costing me to do the schedule,” Magg said. “With pen and paper, it was easy to schedule an extra person. I’m much more conservative when scheduling than I used to be.”

“I had no idea what my scheduling budget was until after I wrote paychecks… Employees were scheduled as needed. During slow seasons, I just kind of guessed and hoped it was appropriate.”

Pain-free Solutions

Goldie’s found the software setup to be painless and worthwhile. “It’s a case of spending 5 hours once, to save yourself 50 hours over the next year… It’s definitely worth the time that it takes to set up… For our banker, and other members of the business, it really makes us look organized and professional, showing them reports like the scheduling budget.”

Helpful and Prompt Support
TimeForge focuses on prompt and direct customer care, with attention to the unique needs of each business. Magg and Jennings both praised the outstanding customer service provided by TimeForge.

So Goldie’s Ice Cream Shoppe has found the transition to TimeForge to be… well… sweet! Now the guys are able to continue to focus on producing menus that elicit rave responses like the following from Facebook:

Awesome food!! We stopped last night on the way to the Iowa State Fair… 250 miles to see you guys was worth it.

Hiring part time workers is a strategic option for any company that is looking for a way to save money. Some people used to think that when a company decides to hire a part time worker, it is trying to get away from the usual employee-employer relationship that comes with health insurance, bonus salaries and other benefits. Businesses in industries such as hotels, restaurants, and retail shops hire part-time workers as an exercise that is necessary to make sure that the business gets what it needs at the right time.

For instance, most hotels have what they call “peak season” or the part of the year when people are most likely to crowd up. Peak seasons are usually during summer, spring break and holidays. Restaurants also have their busiest times during lunch and dinner while retail shops often get congested with shoppers during weekends. These are times when the business needs more people than what it usually has on normal times and days. These are the times when the business needs the assistance of several part time workers.

Now, if your business falls under these categories, you may need to hire part time workers. The question is, how do you do that? Hiring part time workers need not be too meticulous as hiring full time workers. However, a worker is still a worker. That is, he or she still needs the proper training, skills, and dedication to be a part of your business. Here are some helpful tips on how you can systematically hire part time workers for your hotel, restaurant, or retail business.

1. Determine your needs. How many part time workers does your business need? How many part time workers can your budget handle? This is the part when you set your goals.

2. Know who your prospects are. Are you looking to hire students? Students often have the most flexible time. Other options you may have are retirees and mothers who are looking for extra cash for a few hours of work.

3. Advertise your work. In your advertisement, indicate the nature of your business as well as what you are looking for in your workers. Put up your ads at least four weeks in advance at local supermarkets, schools (if you are okay with students working for you), and retirement associations. This amount of time should be enough to give proper training to part time workers prior to the peak season.

4. Read through the applicants resume. Does the applicant have what it takes to cover an eight hour shift on Saturdays and Sundays based on his or her schedule? Does the applicant know the meaning of customer service? Does he or she have prior experience in sales and marketing? Your applicant’s resume matters at this point so scan it cautiously before you call an applicant in for an interview.

5. Interview your applicants. Most part time workers don’t have job experience related to your business. That is because they are students, retirees who worked for years in a different industry, or mothers who have never worked before but needed some extra cash. However, this doesn’t mean that they are incapable. Ask your interviewees about their skills, if they are open to learning, and if they are willing to undergo training. Ask them for character references as well.

6. Check out their background. Once you shortlist the applicants based on the interview, it’s now time to check their attitude towards work as well as their priorities as viewed by the people who know them. Make a brief background check of your prospects by speaking with the character references they have provided you.

7. Hire. When you are done with this process, it’s time for you to make the choice on who among your applicants are suitable for the job. Provide each newly hired with a description of their job, their salary (ask also if they can work under this salary) and benefits (if any), their schedule, and of course, a brief background about the business.

8. Train. When you have finally hired the right person or persons to work on the busiest times of your business, you have the duty of training them. Teach them what they need to know, what they should do in every situation, what the company goals are, and how the company believes they can reach these goals.

TimeForge can save you time and money. Sign up for a free trial now!

Employee scheduling in a retail environment is not an easy task often due to the fact that retail stores operate for long hours and have inconsistent busy periods. For instance, a shopping mall may be open from nine in the morning to ten in the evening and in between these hours there are a number of tasks that need to be taken care of. On the other hand, the busiest days in a week vary and the peak times in a day change day after day. It is only during holidays that the number of people getting in the store is consistently high.

Because of these irregularities, employee scheduling plays an important role in your retail store. With effective employee scheduling you can keep the right number of employees working at the right time and days. Employee scheduling also helps employees complete every task as expected. Imagine having to put a number of employees working on the cashier station, working as sales assistant, working in the inventory, and working on maintenance. Imagine having to assign them on specific days and on different shifts. Does this sound easy to you? For a majority of retail business owners, managers and shift supervisors, this is a daunting task.

Thanks to a very useful tool, employee scheduling in a retail environment is made easy, convenient and more accurate. This employee scheduling software allows a workforce analyst to easily enter work forecasts, schedule preferences, leave requests, and trade shifts. With employee scheduling software, you can show your employees that their needs matter. Thus, you will foster a lot more happiness and productivity in your work environment.

Employee scheduling software is useful to most retail stores as it allows you to automate and analyze staff schedules efficiently. Hours are easily allocated based on the store traffic. For instance, there are more customers in store during the evening than during the day, or during sales season, holidays, promotion and special events. Now, you can schedule employees based on these hours, whether employees prefer morning or afternoon shifts, or even when they are open to working  overtime.

Schedules are generated in seconds so that employees can view the schedules to review them for possible conflicts. Moreover, it also prepares data for payroll reports and sales record of employees can also be viewed.
When employees in a retail environment have balanced schedules, employees morale are higher, and this contributes big time to your business’s productivity. Everyone’s life is made easier with a very functional employee scheduling software.

TimeForge can save you time and money. Sign up for a free trial now!

March 20, 2012

It’s been a while … there’s a LOT here!

Request number 1162, 1178, and 1189 (Shift Range Rules)

The issue: A user needed the ability to enter ranges of sales data into the ShiftBuilder.

The fix: You can now use the Shift Builder with ranges of sales.  IE, from 100 – 150 in sales, I need 3 employees.  This rule is exclusive of all other rules.

Request number 1188 (Double Employees in Bid Shifts)

The issue: Individual employees were showing up as having bid multiple times for the same shift.

The fix: We fixed it! Employees can only bid on a shift once now.

Request number 1184 (Position Needed to Clock In)

The issue: A user’s employee was unable to clock in.

The fix: We added a position to that employee. Employees without positions assigned to them cannot clock in because TimeForge doesn’t know “what” they are clocking in as.

Request number 1175 (Monthly View Last Day)

The issue: There was a bug where last day of the month was sometimes not showing up for users who were scheduling my month.

The fix: The last day of every month shows up in the Monthly View of the schedule now!

Request number 1174 (Shifts)

The issue: One of our users wasn’t able to find some shifts.

The fix: Unfortunately, we couldn’t fix it, because we were unable to reproduce the problem.

Request number 1105 (Text Messages)

The issue: Text messages that were sent were ridiculous and often “cropped” by text providers, because the TimeForge introduction words were so excruciatingly verbose!

The fix: We took away all of that unnecessary stuff, so now your text message looks pretty awesome.

Request numbers 1170 and 1166 (TimeClock Sync)

The issue: Two of our users’ TimeClocks weren’t syncing to TimeForge like they were supposed to.

The fix: The TimeClocks didn’t have a way to send the attendance information for reasons unique to those users. We fixed it for both of them.

Request numbers 1150 and 1161 (Daily View Chart in IE and Chrome)

The issue: The chart in the Daily View of the Schedule was not lining up with the shifts when viewing it in Internet Explorer or Chrome.

The fix: The chart lines up with the shifts now, and we found that the issue also affected Templates, and fixed it there too.

Request number 1160 (Scheduling Events by Employee)

The issue: One of our users was able to get an employee who doesn’t have the right HR certifications scheduled to an event that requires specific HR certifications.  It was only happening if you were scheduling by employee instead of by position.

The fix: HR Certification rules now apply, regardless of how you sort your shifts.

Request number 1151 (View Preference for Employees)

The issue: We had added the ability for users to set a preference as to which Schedule View (Daily or Weekly) they wanted to set as a default. Employees were also given this option, even though they can’t access the schedule in the same way managers could (IE they had a setting that didn’t do anything for them).

The fix: We took this unnecessary preference setting away from employees.

Request number 1142 (Department ID’s)

The issue: A user needed to have multiple departments with the same department ID’s.

The fix: TimeForge now allows that.

Request number 1119 (Aloha “NOPRINT”)

The issue: In Aloha, there is a field called “NOPRINT” which, if set on a position, marks the position as salaried, rather than hourly.

The fix: Well, now we know!

Request numbers 978, 1010, and 1120 (Multi-site Specific Overtime!)

The issue: This was a long time coming.  Some users needed to be able to select only specific sites to be considered when calculating overtime. Why?  Because if some of the sites are seasonal, overtime may not need to be calculated.

The fix: You can now decide which sites are considered when looking at overtime, and which are not.  For example, if Sarah gets overtime everywhere, then all of the sites she works needs to have overtime set (either 1.5, 2.0, or CA OT).  However, if she only gets overtime at the “50th Street” location, then the other locations can have their overtime turned off (inside of the Set Up -> Settings).

Request number 1102 (Overtime Reports Include Today)

The issue: Overtime reports were including “today” twice (once as a schedule, once as attendance).

The fix: The reports now only include the attendance (not schedule) for today.  Also, a new overtime report that shows only hours is now available.

Request number 1117 (Speed Improvements on Sales Reports)

The issue: Some of the Sales reports were taking 3 to 5 minutes to run!

The fix: We’ve whittled those Sales reports down to take less than 30 seconds. This is the first step in a series of speed improvements.

Request number 1066 (Hiding Zeros)

The issue: Two Sales reports were listing zeros in the row, even if the whole row was nothing but zeros.

The fix: Now, those two reports will hide zeros on the row, if the whole row is zeros… These reports are “Sales Breakdown by Date and Department” and “Daily Sales Breakdown by Date and Department”.

 Click here to view the printable PDF version of the Vail Golf Club Case Study

Golfers claim their drives soar 10% farther in high altitudes. Situated in the Rocky Mountains’ White River National Forest at an elevation of 8,200 feet, Vail Golf Club offers an outstanding experience for golfers of all skill levels. This beautiful spot, recognized by Golf Digest as a Top 100 Resort Course, is considered by many to be one of the best courses in the Vail Valley of Colorado. The golf club is open to the public and offers a full range of amenities, including a full service golf shop, group and corporate outings, professional instruction, launch monitor, driving range, practice area, club storage, golf swing analysis, club rentals, demo days, and an on-site restaurant.

Designed in 1962 by the well-known Ben Krueger, the glamorous resort has a decades-long tradition of total professionalism and outstanding customer service. To achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction, club management is acutely aware of the need for an efficient, streamlined operation, and for exceptional employees.

So when Chris Johnson was recruited as Vail Golf Club Head Golf Professional, one of his first priorities was to ensure maximum efficacy in service delivery. He knew the club’s top flight customer service was dependent upon employee satisfaction and effective staffing.

With multiple departments, shift scheduling was a major issue. Although the company had experimented with having individuals work in only one department, currently people are cross-trained to work in all three areas. Using an Excel spreadsheet to attempt to make sure every position was covered and no one was double booked was difficult, particularly with multiple individuals making the schedules. “It was taking forever to do our scheduling. It wasn’t the most accurate process and was frustrating for everyone involved. It was tough on whoever was building the schedule.”

TimeForge Scheduling Software enabled the club to streamline and clarify the process. According to Johnson, now “there are no questions when employees wake up in the morning about when they should be at work that day.” Previously, “it was confusing for them, and it was frustrating – especially if they were double booked or if they weren’t getting enough shifts. It was a little bit all over the place with consistency.”

“It’s important, as a manager, to make the people that work for you happy,” reflected Johnson, emphasizing the Vail Golf Club’s concern for employee morale. Johnson had evaluated different scheduling software programs and selected TimeForge for a number of reasons:

Ease of integration and application: “It had to be simple. TimeForge is very easy to use. The learning curve is quick. It makes sense.”

Outstanding customer service: “We deal with a lot of different companies here. Customer service is important to us. Quick response is important.” Johnson was also impressed with the prompt personal attention. “Anthony, one of TimeForge’s owners, emailed me as soon as I started my trial, and he walked me through the software. It was cool that this guy that started this company would take an hour of his day just to help me out.”

Positive impact on the bottom line: “I think it’s helped us on days we’ve not needed all of our employees or a full staff. It makes it easy to see who’s working when. There’s no doubt. TimeForge puts all the information in the same spot, so it’s easy for us to call people because their phone number is right on the schedule.”

The club renovated its irrigation system in 2009, enabling the company to focus on improving environmental stewardship as it “goes green” in as many aspects of business as possible. Use of TimeForge scheduling software has further enabled Vail Golf Club to achieve that goal by reducing unnecessary paperwork.

Johnson has seen a definite positive impact on turnover rate and employee morale. “With our phones and apps it helps employees that they can just check their schedules no matter where they are. It’s nice to just not have any doubt. It’s much less stressful.”

“I think TimeForge just makes everything simple and easy.”

In almost every case, the labor schedule is created by management staff in the back-office or at home after hours. This is a major point of discontent for most managers who must work longer hours and weekend hours just to build schedules.

Here are the steps to create a labor schedule:

• First review the manager’s log book and estimate or forecast upcoming sales and the demand for labor.
• Next check the employee request log and availability sheets as well as individual work preferences.
• Make sure not to schedules employees that are minors or employees that are restricted to work during specific times or areas.
• Look-up required employee certifications. For example, an ABC license is required to serve alcohol at a restaurant.
• Identify trustworthy and experienced personnel to open or close the business.
• Try to fairly distribute shifts while meeting employee minimum hour works, but do not exceed a maximum number of hours.
• Make sure that employees are not likely to receive overtime if someone fails to show up on the schedule.
• Identify favorable times to provide break and meal periods for staff members who are required to receive breaks.
• Calculate the likely cost of payroll, being mindful of budgetary constraints , if the cost is too high, start over.

It can be complicated to juggle all of these factors and create a good schedule for the workforce. These tasks can consume more than ten percent of a manager’s time throughout the week.
The final version of the labor schedule, which the manager has likely spent hours creating, may be bulk-emailed out to the employees. This is if the manager used the cumbersome tool such as Microsoft Excel and a schedule template to build the schedule. More commonly, schedules are printed and posted on a wall somewhere in the back of the business.

Building a good schedule is extremely difficult using traditional methods such as Microsoft Excel or pen-and-paper. So why not use something as simple as TimeForge labor management software? TimeForge can quickly and easily build your staff schedules, reduce turnover rates, and reduce labor costs. Sign up today for a free trial!

As a restaurant owner, scheduling workers is critical to running your business effectively. While a small restaurant with two or three workers doesn’t have problems working out schedules, it becomes complicated when you own a restaurant and supervise at least ten workers.

In most cases, this is a wearying task and considering how busy your restaurant can be, it is something that demands more time and attention from you. Why waste your valuable time and energy in pondering which worker works on which shift when you can use a reliable restaurant scheduling software?

Restaurant employee scheduling software plays a critical role in helping you handle your business efficiently. Effective employee schedule software can maximize your staff’s productivity. Even if you have a demanding restaurant, this tool will help ease the job of delegating tasks. This software will allow you to focus on the more demanding aspects of your business such as managing finances and marketing your service.

In a nutshell, restaurant scheduling software has special programs that have the ability to track employee availability, anticipated sales and overall labor costs. Here are some of the ways restaurant scheduling software can help enhance your business:

1. Easily input your employee contact details so they can be well informed of their shifts for the next working days.
2. Even the most exasperating task of dealing with schedule swapping requests becomes easier with the restaurant scheduling tool. This tool automatically updates schedules. You can set up the program so the parties involved are immediately informed if the request is approved or not.
3. With effective restaurant scheduling software, you can avoid conflicts or overlapping in schedules, double shifts, and turnovers. Communication between employers and employees is improved.
4. You will know who among your employees are on leave or on break, and which specific leave or break they are in at the moment.
5. Requests for preferred schedules and vacation leaves are automatically considered when fixing the schedules. Employees are immediately informed if their requests are approved or denied.
6. Finally, restaurant employee scheduling software is a great way to reduce administrative costs and is one the best strategies to increase your company’s productivity. Start learning about this new technology to help grow your business.

You should be using a labor management system that makes your life easier! TimeForge can quickly and easily build your staff schedules, manage attendance, reduce labor costs, and streamline employee management. Sign up for a no risk free trial today!