﻿Managing a team of hourly-paid employees can be a challenge. At short notice,
you may need to replace team members who are sick, arrange shift swaps,
manage requests for time off, and much more. All that’s on top of tracking timesheets
and ensuring everyone gets paid the right money at the right time.
Employee scheduling software makes it easy to schedule the open shifts of hourly employees.
The software may also auto-assign shifts, automate notifications for new schedules,
and provide clock-in and clock-out options.
In this video, we’ll look at the best employee scheduling software available on the market.
Let’s get started. 1. Buddy Punch
Buddy Punch is a leading time clock and employee scheduling software
suitable for businesses of all sizes. Its employee scheduling app is made with both team
members and managers in mind. The platform lets you unlock streamlined employee shift scheduling,
add and save schedule templates, and handle all your staffing with automated timesheets.
With the drag-and-drop functionality, you can easily manage schedules and notify your team of
upcoming shifts or changes. And when something unforeseen occurs, you can easily track time or
swap shifts within a few button clicks. Employees can view their schedules anytime.
You can send notifications to one person or department, or to your entire staff.
The platform lets you automatically limit when and where an employee can punch in
real-time through features like geofences or punch limiting to a time of day.
You can schedule smart with its availability feature so you know ahead of time when your
employees are able to work. Export reports in Excel, PDF, or other formats for an overview of
where you could be saving on labor costs. Buddy Punch also provides apps for both Android
and iOS devices to help your employees on the road or out in the field track their schedules
and log their time. Push notifications and email notifying leave management in control,
even when employees work remotely. If this sounds appealing, Buddy Punch also
offers our audience a 14-day free trial where no credit card is required.
2. monday.com monday.com is a
flexible Work OS system that makes it easy for users to organize and track any process through
their customized data dashboards. Their system comes with 200+ templates,
including a weekly work schedule template, that can be adapted to your business needs. All of
their data dashboards can also be visualized in a variety of formats with just one click, including
a calendar view or Gantt chart format. Monday.com is a straightforward and low-cost
way to streamline your scheduling process. You can even include automation to notify your staff
as soon as a new schedule is posted. Another helpful feature is the ability to
share the schedule in “read-only” mode, so you can ensure no alterations are made. You
can also search schedules for unique details or employee names, add customized labels,
or break schedules down into as many groups and subgroups as you need.
To further enhance your planning processes, Monday integrates with a wide range of other
communication and productivity tools including Excel, Google Calendar, Slack, Microsoft Teams,
Outlook, Zapier, and others. Pricing for monday.com starts at
$8 per user/month. They also offer a 14-day free trial for the premium plan,
as well as a free forever plan with limited features for a maximum of two users.
3. Connecteam Connecteam
is best for those who need to go beyond employee scheduling. It includes solutions
for task management, communications, employee training, and more.
With Connecteam, you can create schedules in just minutes and share them right away
with your team in one click. You can rearrange items by dragging
and dropping them into place and create open shifts for your employees to take. In one glance,
you’ll be able to see which of your people are unavailable, sick, or exceeding their limits.
When there’s a change in employee shifts, they’ll get notified through push notifications and
you’ll get notified as well whenever they accept, reject, or complete tasks.
Since Connecteam has a mobile app, you have access to all your data while you’re on the move.
The Time Clock feature gives you real-time visibility of your workers’ clock-in and clock-out
information with GPS location tracking. Not only does this help with monitoring employee
availability, but it also helps your payroll department streamline its process. The platform
flags auto-breaks, overtime, double-time, daily limits, and other crucial data.
Connecteam also gives you the ability to create any type of form through a simple drag-and-drop
editor which is ideal for operations that require checklists or paperwork.
The platform lets you create tasks, attach files, create subtasks, set up due dates, and more. All
task assignees are given notifications. There’s also a communication app that lets
your team talk with one another using the same platform. It’s great for making announcements,
sending newsletters, or simply keeping each other in the loop
about projects they’re working on. And below this video is a link to a 14-day free
trial that will let you explore all Connecteam products and features for unlimited users.
4. Soon Soon is a cloud-based
scheduling and collaboration tool for customer service teams. The platform provides tools for
managing employee schedules, team communications, time off, events, employee availability,
roles, time and attendance, and more. Soon allows businesses to implement flexible
self-scheduling rules in order to provide teams with the freedom to manage their own time.
With Soon, customer service teams can schedule events and tasks and assign
them to team members based on experience, skills, availability, and more.
Employees and managers are able to view a shared team calendar and view daily,
weekly, and monthly schedules. The team management tools within Soon
allow managers to approve or deny leave requests, configure user groups and roles, track employee
time and attendance, and capture timesheets. In order to boost team engagement and
productivity, Soon allows users to personalize their own schedules and communicate effectively
using individual and shared inboxes. Employees are also able to change or swap
their shifts with other team members via conversational change requests.
5. Zoho Workerly Zoho Workerly's employee scheduling
software enables agencies to manage their client and temp database, schedule jobs based on client
requirements, generate timesheets and send out invoices all within a single interface.
It enables administrators to create, copy, clone, and send timesheets to workers with details,
such as worker names, total working hours, job details, and time logs.
Zoho Workerly's scheduling calendar allows staffing agents to view and
organize temporary workers, clients, and jobs on a centralized platform.
Recruiters can generate, store and send invoices to candidates upon job completion and
track payment processing status. Additionally, the temp portal lets end-users view, accept,
or decline jobs assigned to them. Zoho Workerly comes with an API, which
enables businesses to integrate with several internal and third-party solutions.
It also provides iOS and Android mobile applications, allowing employees to manage
operations remotely. It is available on monthly subscriptions and support is
extended via FAQs, documentation, email, video tutorials, and live chat.
So these are the best employee scheduling software available in the market.
If you are undecided about which tool to choose, in the video descriptions you’ll
find free trials and the latest discounts to all of these platforms, so I highly recommend
checking them out and doing your own research to see which platform suits your needs best.
Thanks for watching, and see you in the next video.