Staff and Crew Scheduling Software for Franchises

Scheduling staff for your franchise requires the ability to achieve a balance between meeting the needs of your customers and the needs of your employees every day. Your franchise's employee scheduling program must be a powerful management tool designed to streamline the process and free up your managers and supervisors to spend less time scheduling and more time attending to the business of running a business.

People everywhere love to go to franchise restaurants and other franchise businesses because of the standard that they can count on at any location. Still, franchises compete for customers every day, and adequate staff scheduling is critical to providing the kind of quality customer service that brings people to your establishment and keeps them coming back. ShiftPlanning scheduling software provides the customizable platform you need to match forecasted customer numbers with adequate staff.

Depending on the size of the franchise, most operate with various levels of management. The average franchise staff is comprised of the owner, manager, franchise/branch managers (where applicable,) marketing manager, customer service staff, online order and delivery agents, and customer support specialists.

ShiftPlanning addresses the special demands of franchise scheduling with:

Automated shift scheduling for every employee in every capacity.
Streamlined employee rotations.
Streamlined vacation scheduling.
Incorporated overtime and regulatory rules.

ShiftPlanning is used in the franchise business in multiple ways:

Sets up a separate schedule for trainees.
Easily creates separate schedules for every sector.
Gives individual schedule management to team or shift leaders.
Allows sector mangers to oversee and control the shift trades, vacations, open shifts, etc.
SMS notification system makes scheduling fast and easy.

Benefits:

Improve customer service by keeping adequate staff on hand at all times.
End unnecessary overtime costs.
Reduce employee turnover by scheduling around each staff member's individual shift preferences.
Reduce unauthorized absences.

Managers can remotely check on individual employees while they are clocked in, and monitor daily, weekly, and monthly attendance trends and labor costs through the ShiftPlanning website, smart phones and Facebook.

ShiftPlanning can integrate with your Point of Sale (POS) system to match attendance entries, tips and mileage, and enforce labor schedules with no any additional software. ShiftPlanning integrates with all Point of Sale systems.

ShiftPlanning is a total staff management solution for virtually any franchise, offering a seamless and intuitive approach to employee scheduling, attendance, time and payroll reports.

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Click here to find out more about what ShiftPlanning can do for your business. Since the custom set-up is free, you have nothing to lose except your old, costly scheduling process.