Labor Management. NOW Simple.

When setting up your TimeForge account, you can use the Set Up Wizard and User Wizard to guide you through the process of entering your employee information.

Input contact information for your employees, and TimeForge will automatically email them with information about creating and logging in to their own TimeForge account. Through their TimeForge account, your staff can make schedule requests, receive messages (like memos) from you, view upcoming schedules, and check on their time sheets / attendance. Of course, if you want to limit their access to any of these features, you can do that in the “Settings” menu for each of your business locations.

Additionally, employees can provide their contact information (like cell phone number and Facebook information), and we will automatically notify them about any upcoming schedules you post that might affect them. When we notify your employees, we record the notification, so that you can run an audit report – ensuring that staff members are receiving and responding to schedule updates. This completely eliminates the “I never got the schedule / memo / note” excuse!

Through our automatic notification system, your employees will always be up to date on the latest schedule, eliminating any confusion about schedule information, improving your staff’s tardiness, and ultimately improving your bottom line!

Read our guide on setting up employee accounts with the User Wizard to get started.

Read our guide on editing your Notification preferences to modify how and when your employees receive TimeForge Notifications.

Sign up for a free trial today to see how TimeForge improves employee satisfaction, reducing turnover and improving your bottom line!

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We are so excited about our new human resource management product, called TimeForge HR! This software streamlines the application and on-boarding processes, and keeps up with employee certification documents so you don’t have to. Perhaps most importantly, TimeForge HR prevents “The Stack” – that ominous heap of poorly organized applications and certifications that has been sitting in your office for months with only a brief frantic sifting once in a while. With TimeForge HR, all employee certifications and other important documents are compiled online into a single employee folder so you can access them any time, any place … eliminating The Stack!

When it comes to the food service and retail industries, it is imperative that management keep track of the certifications necessary for food handling and serving alcohol. Failing to properly monitor and document relevant employee certifications could lead to costly, reputation-damaging legal repercussions. For example, in many states, if the ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Commission) catches an employee with an expired certification serving alcohol, the location could be shut down, and the employee and manager at fault can be fined or even jailed , a heavy cost to the business.

After uploading important documents into TimeForge HR, management can easily track certifications, qualifications, and training performed by staff members with TimeForge’s automatic reminders. When a certification is nearing expiration, management will receive notifications informing them that necessary certifications or training are nearing expiration and need to be renewed.

TimeForge HR allows managers to create documentation requirements specific to each position (or for each staff member) and when combined with our other products (such as TimeForge Scheduling or TimeForge Attendance), TimeForge HR will prevent unqualified staff members from being scheduled or clocking in without the necessary documentation being submitted to TimeForge (and management) first.

Sign up for a free trial of TimeForge today and let us handle your stack of paperwork, so you don’t have to!

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Are you tired of sitting in front of the time clock to see when your staff members show up to clock in, or clock out for their shift? Monitoring time clocks is a time consuming way to manage employees and while it can often be an effective way to reduce payroll expenses, it also increases frustration and costs among managers and supervisors.

TimeForge already supports a number of ways to manage staff members without sitting in front of the time clock including:

• Online employee work scheduling accessible over the Internet,
• Web-based attendance that can be viewed remotely,
• Enforcing the schedule with a grace period for clocking in or out,
• Identifying “most different” time punches, and
• Allowing other staff members to act as a witness when employees show up before they are scheduled to work

We now go one step further! Fully manage your business remotely!

TimeForge can notify managers or supervisors when employees show up early or late, and when clocking in or clocking out. There are four new “Alerts” inside of each supervisor and manager account, controlling when alerts are sent to management personnel.

For example, you can receive email and TimeForge notifications when staff members show up more than 10 minutes early for their scheduled shift.

To configure these Alerts, log into TimeForge, go to your Settings page, and configure the applicable Alerts.

You should be using a labor management system to make 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 trial today!

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Building employee schedules can be a time consuming and laborious task, and getting a schedule wrong means higher turnover and lower profits. With TimeForge, managers can quickly and easily review and post labor schedules, approve (or deny) time off, and manage employee shift swaps – all in a few seconds!

TimeForge Scheduling has been designed from the ground up to keep managers on the floor, not stuck in the back room working in Excel or on a clipboard!

TimeForge is a web-based employee scheduling and labor management system that ensures staff stay informed of any schedule changes with text messages, email messages, Facebook, and smart phone access (such as a Blackberry or iPhone) – automatically!

More than 2,500 businesses around the world have used TimeForge to manage their labor – retail stores, restaurants, bars, clubs, pharmacies, valet companies, doctors offices, children’s health clinics, child care centers, churches, and many other businesses!

Build a Schedule in Seconds!

• Ease to Use
  There is no software to install, and includes a fast web-based setup.
• Cost-Effective
  Weekly schedules can be created in under a minute.
• AutoScheduler
  Gives you and other managers more time “on the floor”.
• Balanced Schedules
  Balance staff requests and labor requirements to create a perfect schedule.
• Daily Reminders
  Staff members receive daily reminders about work schedules
• Reduce Turnover
  Automatic labor management keeps staff happy, reducing turnover!
• Automatic Notifications
  TimeForge automatically notifies staff of any schedule changes.
• Control Costs
  Control labor costs with sophisticated reporting
• Instant Return On Investment
  Instant ROI so you can focus on growing your business
• Affordable
  TimeForge provides plans that are affordable for businesses of all sizes!

Employee Scheduling Software is also known as Labor Scheduling Software, and some companies refer to this type of software as Enterprise Employee Scheduling Software. Whatever your organization calls it, TimeForge Scheduling is the most powerful tool available to manage labor and control profits at your business! Read more about the capabilities of TimeForge Scheduling, or Sign Up for a Free Trial.

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Building employee schedules can be a time consuming and laborious task, and getting a schedule wrong means higher turnover and lower profits. With TimeForge, managers can quickly and easily review and post labor schedules, approve (or deny) time off, and manage employee shift swaps – all in a few seconds!

TimeForge Scheduling has been designed from the ground up to keep managers on the floor, not stuck in the back room working in Excel or on a clipboard!

TimeForge is a web-based employee scheduling and labor management system that ensures staff stay informed of any schedule changes with text messages, email messages, Facebook, and smart phone access (such as a Blackberry or iPhone) – automatically!

More than 2,500 businesses around the world have used TimeForge to manage their labor – retail stores, restaurants, bars, clubs, pharmacies, valet companies, doctors offices, children’s health clinics, child care centers, churches, and many other businesses!

Build a Schedule in Seconds!

• Ease to Use
  There is no software to install, and includes a fast web-based setup.
• Cost-Effective
  Weekly schedules can be created in under a minute.
• AutoScheduler
  Gives you and other managers more time “on the floor”.
• Balanced Schedules
  Balance staff requests and labor requirements to create a perfect schedule.
• Daily Reminders
  Staff members receive daily reminders about work schedules
• Reduce Turnover
  Automatic labor management keeps staff happy, reducing turnover!
• Automatic Notifications
  TimeForge automatically notifies staff of any schedule changes.
• Control Costs
  Control labor costs with sophisticated reporting
• Instant Return On Investment
  Instant ROI so you can focus on growing your business
• Affordable
  TimeForge provides plans that are affordable for businesses of all sizes!

Employee Scheduling Software is also known as Labor Scheduling Software, and some companies refer to this type of software as Enterprise Employee Scheduling Software. Whatever your organization calls it, TimeForge Scheduling is the most powerful tool available to manage labor and control profits at your business! Read more about the capabilities of TimeForge Scheduling, or Sign Up for a Free Trial.

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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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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.

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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:

• Many areas of the scheduling system, including the creating schedules from templates, publishing a new schedule, and deleting schedules are significantly faster.

• A new field is available for employees, which allows managers to enter an identifier for tracking the employee (such as an internal employee number).

• Internationalization! TimeForge now works in Canada, the United Kingdom (England), Australia, Ireland, France, Spain, Scottland, and many other countries. The best labor scheduling system from the US is now available to anyone, anywhere. In fact, if you are a multi-location (or multiple unit) operator, with stores in different countries or locales, TimeForge will appropriately manage notifications for the whole team.

• Do you schedule more than one location from within your TimeForge account? The improved scheduling system in version 1.9 will automatically disable employees that are already scheduled to work at other locations. TimeForge already disables employees that are scheduled to work on other conflicting schedules.

• Day parts have been renamed “Work Periods”, which is … simple. More improvements with “Work Periods” and “Day Parts” are coming in Version 2.

• A number of minor bug fixes, improvements to Internet Explorer 6, and other changes.

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.

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Our employee scheduling product, TimeForge, has been featured on RunningRestaurants.com, a members-only sister site of RestaurantReport.com In the interview, I discussed some of the special features in TimeForge, such as the AutoScheduler, employee schedule alerts, employee requests, and setting up availability.

Thanks very much to Jaime Oikle and his staff for featuring our software!

Some of the topics that we covered included:

• Labor scheduling has been done on paper for years … why should a restaurant look at moving to web based employee scheduling?
• Do employees like to use labor scheduling systems like TimeForge?
• What are employee notifications, and do employee alerts help keep staff happy, and reduce turnover?
• Does a web based employee scheduling software positively effect employee turnover?
• In 15 seconds (or less), tell restaurant operators and managers why they should use TimeForge for their scheduling needs.
• How long does it take to learn a powerful labor scheduling system like TimeForge, and how much time do owners/managers spend with your system on a weekly basis to manage the schedules?

Feel free to let us know if you think we forgot something important!

You can read the complete article on RunningRestaurants.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.

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We’re proud to present the latest version of TimeForge, version 1.3, the most advanced employee scheduling software available for the restaurant and hospitality industry.

After weeks of testing, and more feedback from our valued users (thanks for your feedback!), we have added new features to ensure that TimeForge works the way you, and your management team, work.

Some of the new features include:

• Improved tab interface provides easy navigation around TimeForge.
• Our new Setup Wizard will have you up and running within minutes, streamlining the input of positions, base pay rates, and employee specific information.
• Skill levels can now be applied to shifts and employees to build more accurate schedules that reflect your needs to have experienced staff at certain times. Skill Levels now work with the AutoScheduler™!
• Text message notifications for your staff will now consider your time zone, and will notify employees during appropriate business hours.
• Easily copy existing schedules or templates with one click – create a schedule for next week in a matter of seconds.
• Many of the reports have been improved.

Version 1.4 should be released to our customers (at no extra charge!), with new features, on May 11, 2007. If there are any features you’d like to see in the software, which might help your spend more time “on-the-floor”, and less time sitting in front of a bunch of sticky-notes, please let us know!

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