Hospitality Businesses:
Bars, Clubs, NightClubs , Country Clubs, Hotels, Motels, Lodging , Restaurants and Food-Service
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Car Washes, Auto Supply Stores, Aquatics Centers, Pools , Children's Retail, Footwear Retail , Gyms / Health Clubs, Grocery Stores , Bike Retail, Marinas, Boat Houses and Dance Studios:
Bars, Clubs, NightClubs , Country Clubs, Hotels, Motels, Lodging , Restaurants and Food-Service
Retail Businesses:
Car Washes, Auto Supply Stores, Aquatics Centers, Pools , Children's Retail, Footwear Retail , Gyms / Health Clubs, Grocery Stores , Bike Retail, Marinas, Boat Houses and Dance Studios:
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TimeForge Scheduling is the best labor scheduling tool available for restaurants, retail businesses, hotels,motels, and other businesses involved in the hospitality, retail, and food-service industries. Whatever your needs may be, TimeForge Scheduling can accommodate them.
Stop using Microsoft Excel, and start communicating with staff! Profit from employee scheduling!
Notify Employees
Employees will always know when they need to work! TimeForge Scheduling can email schedules to employees on a daily basis, and send text message reminders to their cell phones hours before they actually work. Employees can also access their schedules by logging onto TimeForge at anytime. Managers are able to see when employees were last notified – no more staff excuses!
Schedule Without Pain
TimeForge Scheduling is a fast Internet application accessible from anywhere in the world. Our proprietary AutoScheduler™ system can make a complete schedule in seconds. Managers can generate a complete schedule in just a few minutes. Every TimeForge Scheduling schedule reduces labor costs and increases profits.
Balance Employee Requests
TimeForge Scheduling allows employees to set their day and time shift preferences, request time off or change availability. Employees and managers can update availabilities or create requests with a click of the mouse. TimeForge Scheduling balances all approved schedule requests and uses these preferences to generate the lowest cost schedule possible while keeping employees happy.
Improve Staff Satisfaction
TimeForge Scheduling remembers requests for days off, sick days, vacation requests, shift swapping, and other changes to the schedule. No more losing little pieces of paper or sticky-notes and no more miscommunication with the employees.
Monitor Labor Costs
Reports are important to managing any food-service, hospitality, or retail business. Almost three dozen reports are available, and we are continually adding new reports to help you monitor your labor costs and scheduling trends. Compare theoretical costs to actual costs, see which employees or positions are the largest portion of your labor cost, view work schedules in a fixed layout or grid, observe your business in real time with bar-charts, and much, much more!
Messaging
Have you ever wanted to send a message to all of your employees at once? Only those employees who are working next week? Maybe you want to remind them about a shirt choice, or a big party coming in that needs to be treated special, or that a new special is running in the local paper. Regardless of your reason, messaging employees can now be done in one-click! The TimeForge Messaging Module provides enhanced messaging to staff members and reports provide employee-level detail on who read the message. Stop making phone calls, let TimeForge Scheduling do the work!
Reduction in Employee Turnover
One of the major reasons for the high turnover in our industry is because managers do not adhere to scheduling requests. TimeForge Scheduling can reduce employee turnover by managing and recording employee schedule requests and changes to employee availability. These changes automatically appear on all schedules, as a constant reminder to management.
Be Notified of Schedule Conflicts
TimeForge Scheduling notifies management of all schedule conflicts that may occur when publishing or posting a schedule for the staff. For instance, if an employee is scheduled during approved time-off, an alert will be shown to the scheduling manager. Additional alerts occur when schedule conflicts could occur between different schedules at the same location, or at multiple locations (for employees who can work at more than one location).
Stop Time Fragmentation
Employee can occupy a lot of manager time when trying to swap shifts. Swapping a single shift could require as many as four phone calls between the employees and management – time that could be spent “on the floor”. Using TimeForge Scheduling, employees can “give up” shifts for other employees to work and “pick up” additional shifts to work. Management must approve or deny the changes to the schedule.
Meal and Break Period Tracking
In many areas (such as California, New York, Florida, parts of Canada, and most of Europe), managers must carefully monitor employee meal and break periods to ensure that employees take the appropriate breaks during their scheduled shifts. In some areas, managers must remember to get employee signatures, proving that breaks were actually given. Failing to follow these regulations will land a business into serious legal trouble. TimeForge Scheduling provides an advanced Break Rule Module which provides meal and break period guidelines for management based on the scheduled shifts for the employees and several reports can be printed to provide necessary documentation. Let TimeForge do the hard work with meal and break period tracking!
Minor and Senior Age Rules
Never again worry about scheduling minors to work! TimeForge Scheduling includes an Age Rule Module that tracks age appropriate rules for all employees, including minimum and maximum hours per week or day, and times that employees are allowed to work (such as weekends during the school year, and weekdays during summer or holiday breaks). TimeForge Scheduling automatically calculate when these employees can or cannot work – and your management staff can set them one time, and not worry about it ever again!
Instant Return On Investment
TimeForge Scheduling has been built from the ground up to ensure a fast Return On Investment for your business. Managers can generate schedules within minutes (not hours), employees are notified of their schedule on a continual basis, and your staff can spend less time on scheduling, and more time on “the floor”, working with employees and ensuring customer satisfaction.
How it works – Dinerware POS and TimeForge
TimeForge is a web-based system that becomes a direct extension of your Dinerware POS software. During the day, Dinerware and TimeForge “synchronize” information that is necessary to manage the labor at your business. Sales data and time and attendance information is sent to TimeForge, and schedule information is sent to Dinerware to provide a seamless and easy to use workforce management solution. Access to TimeForge data is provided for employees and managers through an easy to use web interface, Facebook, or a compatible smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone).
Increase your Restaurant Profits
TimeForge will increase profits at your business with improved labor cost controls. Directly monitor and control labor costs and stop employees from riding the clock or clocking in early for scheduled shifts when combined with Dinerware POS. Enforce the labor schedule with the click of a button. Indirectly control labor by reducing turnover and improving retention stop spending money training employees! Improve the bottom line with an instant Return On Investment.
Text Messages, Facebook, and Online Communications
Employees stay happy when kept in the loop! Retention at your business will stay low when staff members know what is expected of them, and can schedule both their personal and their work lives. Using TimeForge, employees can use TimeForge to swap shifts with coworkers, change availability, view their time card, or request time off. Employees also receive email and text messages about any schedule changes. Staff information can be viewed using the TimeForge website, a smartphone (such as an iPhone or Blackberry), or Facebook!
Fast Restaurant Employee Scheduling
Employee schedules your way! Build schedules every week, bi-weekly, or monthly. The back of house and front of house can use the same schedule, or separate schedules. Use departments, add rules for scheduling minors or seniors, and input required certifications. The TimeForge AutoScheduler™ learns how managers and supervisors build employee schedules, and automatically creates schedules that adhere to the best labor management techniques while reducing labor costs.
Employee Schedule Enforcement and Remote Monitoring
With TimeForge, management has the tools necessary to monitor when staff members are clocking in and out. Staff members can be required to clock in and out of Dinerware within a “grace period”, providing managers with a one-click override when your business requires more staff on the clock. Management can monitor who is clocked in with the use of RSS feeds, a compatible smartphone (such as a Blackberry or an iPhone), or through Facebook.
Compare Employee Schedules and Attendance to Sales
TimeForge synchronizes sales at your business, employee schedules, and staff member attendance. The TimeForge sales module accurately forecasts the upcoming sales, and can predict usage needs for Dinerware menu items as well! Use the forecasted sales figures to manage employee time off and changes to availability, order inventory items, and schedule for future needs.
Two Products, One Database
TimeForge calls and reports directly to your Dinerware system, and positions, employees, attendance, and sales are automatically synchronized between Dinerware POS and TimeForge – no duplications and nothing extra to back up. Need to make a change? Just change it in Dinerware, and the changes are automatically sent to the TimeForge website during the next synchronization! TimeForge extends the capabilities of your Dinerware system and there is no duplicate functionality.
Instant Return On Investment
The TimeForge-Dinerware Bridge is built from the ground up to ensure a fast Return On Investment for your business. Managers keep track of labor costs through payroll reports, schedule enforcement, and fast employee schedules. Employees are always in the know, and can help build schedules by being in the loop and providing constant feedback. When integrated with Dinerware, TimeForge improves business profits and increases retention while reducing turnover.
TimeForge is a web-based system that becomes a direct extension of your Dinerware POS software. During the day, Dinerware and TimeForge “synchronize” information that is necessary to manage the labor at your business. Sales data and time and attendance information is sent to TimeForge, and schedule information is sent to Dinerware to provide a seamless and easy to use workforce management solution. Access to TimeForge data is provided for employees and managers through an easy to use web interface, Facebook, or a compatible smartphone (such as a Blackberry or iPhone).
Increase your Restaurant Profits
TimeForge will increase profits at your business with improved labor cost controls. Directly monitor and control labor costs and stop employees from riding the clock or clocking in early for scheduled shifts when combined with Dinerware POS. Enforce the labor schedule with the click of a button. Indirectly control labor by reducing turnover and improving retention stop spending money training employees! Improve the bottom line with an instant Return On Investment.
Text Messages, Facebook, and Online Communications
Employees stay happy when kept in the loop! Retention at your business will stay low when staff members know what is expected of them, and can schedule both their personal and their work lives. Using TimeForge, employees can use TimeForge to swap shifts with coworkers, change availability, view their time card, or request time off. Employees also receive email and text messages about any schedule changes. Staff information can be viewed using the TimeForge website, a smartphone (such as an iPhone or Blackberry), or Facebook!
Fast Restaurant Employee Scheduling
Employee schedules your way! Build schedules every week, bi-weekly, or monthly. The back of house and front of house can use the same schedule, or separate schedules. Use departments, add rules for scheduling minors or seniors, and input required certifications. The TimeForge AutoScheduler™ learns how managers and supervisors build employee schedules, and automatically creates schedules that adhere to the best labor management techniques while reducing labor costs.
Employee Schedule Enforcement and Remote Monitoring
With TimeForge, management has the tools necessary to monitor when staff members are clocking in and out. Staff members can be required to clock in and out of Dinerware within a “grace period”, providing managers with a one-click override when your business requires more staff on the clock. Management can monitor who is clocked in with the use of RSS feeds, a compatible smartphone (such as a Blackberry or an iPhone), or through Facebook.
Compare Employee Schedules and Attendance to Sales
TimeForge synchronizes sales at your business, employee schedules, and staff member attendance. The TimeForge sales module accurately forecasts the upcoming sales, and can predict usage needs for Dinerware menu items as well! Use the forecasted sales figures to manage employee time off and changes to availability, order inventory items, and schedule for future needs.
Two Products, One Database
TimeForge calls and reports directly to your Dinerware system, and positions, employees, attendance, and sales are automatically synchronized between Dinerware POS and TimeForge – no duplications and nothing extra to back up. Need to make a change? Just change it in Dinerware, and the changes are automatically sent to the TimeForge website during the next synchronization! TimeForge extends the capabilities of your Dinerware system and there is no duplicate functionality.
Instant Return On Investment
The TimeForge-Dinerware Bridge is built from the ground up to ensure a fast Return On Investment for your business. Managers keep track of labor costs through payroll reports, schedule enforcement, and fast employee schedules. Employees are always in the know, and can help build schedules by being in the loop and providing constant feedback. When integrated with Dinerware, TimeForge improves business profits and increases retention while reducing turnover.