Lodging

Managing labor costs and employees is a process that quickly becomes a nightmare for both employees and managers at a lodging or hotel and motel business. Employee expectations and requirements will collide with the business needs leading to a reduction in profits, lower employee retention, and higher employee turnover. Not anymore…

TimeForge is a best-of-breed employee scheduling and labor management system designed for hotels, motels, and other lodging and hospitality industries. Managers using TimeForge stay on the floor, serving customers and employees, not stuck in a back-office working on the employee labor schedule. TimeForge builds employee schedules quickly, monitors and manages time and attendance, and communicates any schedule modifications with employees immediately – reducing turnover and improving retention. Your business will profit with TimeForge!

Some of TimeForge’s Benefits Include…

  • Instant communication between managers and employees,
  • Build employee schedules from scratch, using templates, or by using the TimeForge AutoScheduler,
  • Enforce the work schedule with grace periods for clocking in and out,
  • Reject or approve changes to employee availability, and staff member time off requests,
  • Control and monitor labor expenses at one or many locations,
  • Export payroll to many popular payroll provides with a single click,
  • And much more…

Immediate Employee Staff Schedules – Build employee schedules that balance the needs of the business and employee requirements while keeping labor expenses within target. TimeForge automatically forecasts labor requirements, and warns of any employee shortages or other potential staff member problems, while providing an easy-to-use labor management and scheduling system that builds work schedules in seconds.

Easily Control Attendance – Remotely check which employees are clocked in at the store. Managers can provide a grace period around the scheduled shifts, and are able to enforce the work schedule – staff members are prohibited from clocking in early, or clocking out late. Staff members can be automatically clocked out at a certain time during the day, and payroll providers are only one click away!

Staff Member Schedule Reminders, Access for Employees – The TimeForge staff member portal provides remote accessibility for employees to view schedules, review timecards, request time off, change upcoming availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and set up schedule alerts via email or text messages.

Improve Store Profits – Enforce employee schedules and stop staff from riding the clock to provide immediate labor cost controls and improve profitability by more than 3% – 5%. Use TimeForge to notify employees about upcoming schedules and keep employees “in the know” about work requirements. Happy employees stay employed and don’t leave for greener pastures, reducing turnover, onboarding, and training costs.

Integrate with Your POS System – TimeForge can integrate with your Point of Sale system, synchronizing time entries between TimeForge and your POS system seamlessly, recording mileage and tips in both systems, and controlling labor costs without any additional software. TimeForge integrates with several Point of Sale systems, including Dinerware. Contact us, or your Dinerware dealer, for more information.

TimeForge is a complete employee scheduling solution and labor management system for the hotel, motel, and lodging industries, providing one-click seamless access to staff scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. Use the entire TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your business requires.

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Employee Pay Rates are Easier to Enter – Improved in TimeForge

TimeForge developers recently improved the way that employee pay rates are entered.

Previously, to enter a pay rate for an employee, you needed to check a box (telling the software that the employee could work as that employee), then choose whether or not the employee used the base pay rate, and then enter the correct pay rate for that employee at that job code / position. Our recently updated TimeForge 1.9.6 removes the need to use the drop-down box, and provides a handy reference for the position’s base pay-rate.

Please let us know what you think about this improved data entry!

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?

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Templates and Weekly Templates Sorted – Improved in TimeForge

TimeForge daily and weekly schedule templates are now easy to find!

Previous versions of TimeForge sorted the list of daily and weekly schedule templates in the order that they were created. For example, the first template that is created would be listed first in the list of templates. But now, templates are now easier to locate, because they are now sorted alphabetically.

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?

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Improved Time Selector – Upgraded in TimeForge

TimeForge is proud to release our new “time selector” to all TimeForge users.

The new time selector speeds up data entry for start / end times, and reduces the number of mistakes made by users. To use the time selector, pick a start time anywhere you would enter time. The end time will automatically adjust to 30 minute increments starting after your start time, and it will show you the duration of the shift.

For example, if you enter 11:00am to begin a morning shift, the time selector will automatically display 11:30am (30 minutes) as the end time. You can scroll to enter a different time – for example, 2:30pm (3 hours), or you can enter a different time, such as 3:18pm. You will instantly know how long the shift is, or how many hours an employee has taken off from work!

Yet another reason TimeForge makes labor scheduling simple!

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?

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Approve or Deny Employee Requests in Bulk – New in TimeForge

Managers and supervisors can approve or deny employee requests for time off, or changes to availability, in bulk from the “Today” screen in TimeForge. To approve or deny these availability requests, users can easily click the “Approve” or “Deny” for each request, and then click on the “Process” button at the bottom of the list of requests.

All employees will receive email notifications of the Approval or Denial, and employees can always check the status of their availability requests by logging into their own account on TimeForge.com

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?

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Trade Shows Relevant to TimeForge Users in 2008

There are literally hundreds of trade shows every year that are relevant to our users in one way or another: retail products, loss prevention, HACCP safety, forecasting sales and inventory, temperature and humidity monitoring, human resource best practices, and more!

Some of the upcoming trade shows that may be relevant to TimeForge customers include:

What shows will you be attending this year?

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?

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Time and Attendance – Improved in TimeForge

TimeForge contains a very powerful and flexible Time and Attendance Module that can be used to track when employees are actually working at your business. The Time and Attendance Module is designed to ease payroll preparation for restaurants, cafes, catering companies, retail businesses … your business!

Using the Time and Attendance Module is extremely simple, requiring that employees simply click “Clock In” and “Clock Out” to clock-in and out of the TimeForge system. Some of the functionalities of the TimeForge Time and Attendance Module include:

  • Restrict employees to specific computers / IP addresses when clocking in (employees must be on site to login!)
  • Require that employees be on the schedule before they can clock-in
  • Compare the theoretical labor schedule to the actual employee clock-in and clock-out
  • Ensure that employees clock-in right on time, no more early clocking in and clocking out
  • Clock employees out when they forget to do so themselves
  • Easily determine which employees are clocked-in, and how much that employee has cost your business
  • Run employee timesheets to prepare for your payroll

Start using the TimeForge Time and Attendance Module today, and stop using punch cards and time clocks!

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?

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No shows and call-ins – New in TimeForge

What happens when an employee does not show up for a scheduled shift? Or, perhaps the employee does call in and is sick or otherwise unavailable to work. You need to find a replacement, fast! Introducing the TimeForge Replacement Module!

The TimeForge Replacement Module allows TimeForge users to find a replacement for an employee who is scheduled for Today, but will not (or did not) show up for their shift. From one screen, a TimeForge user can see which employees are available to replace any user who is scheduled.

To use the new TimeForge Replacement Module to replace an employee:

  1. Login to TimeForge.com and go to the “Today” screen. A chart will appear, displaying employees who are scheduled to work today.
  2. Click on the employee who will be replaced, and a pop-up will appear.
  3. Choose the replacement employee from the drop-down of available employees, and then choose a reason for replacement, either “No Show” or “Call In”.
  4. The new employee is immediately replaced on the schedule!

Just another way that Employee Scheduling is NOW Simple!

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?

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Large Schedules are AutoScheduled Faster – Improved in TimeForge

The TimeForge team recently improved our proprietary AutoScheduler™ technology to make scheduling large schedules faster. Specifically, TimeForge users who routinely schedule more than 200 shifts per schedule will notice that the AutoScheduler can automatically schedule employees into shifts much faster than previously.

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?

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Age Rules (Minors and Senior Citizens) – New in TimeForge

Scheduling minors and senior citizens couldn’t be easier! In many locations, your staff members who are under a legal age (minors) must be scheduled according to specific legal regulations. Commonly, these labor rules require minors to work on specific days (for example, only on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), fewer than 1 shift per day (no doubles), or less than a certain number of hours per week.

TimeForge makes compliance with these corporate, local, state, and national regulations easy! You and your Human Resources department can easy build age-specific rules, specifying when employees can, or cannot, work.

Some of the rules that can be specified include:

  • Minimum or maximum scheduled hours per week, such as “Maximum of 40 hours per week”
  • Minimum or maximum scheduled shifts per week, such as “No fewer than 2 shifts per week”
  • Minimum or maximum scheduled shifts per day, such as “No doubles”

Additionally, age rules include availability requests that can be specified on a calendar, just like TimeForge employee requests!

To access the Age Rules, login to TimeForge, and then choose the “Employees” tab, and then click on “Age Rules”.

Hot Tip: Age Rules can be used to define corporate-wide standards for scheduling employees. For example, you can define age rules for minors you employee, another age rule for employees aged 18 – 65, and a final age rule for senior citizens.

Hot Tip Two: Within TimeForge, you can have as many age rules as you would like. For example, the rules for scheduling minors who are 14 – 15 may be different than the rules for scheduling 16 – 17 year old minors. In this case, TimeForge will allow you to define two separate groups of age rules to schedule your employees. You can have as many groups as you would like!

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?

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