Employee Scheduling Overview
Snap Schedule Employee Scheduling Software provides visual employee scheduling tools,
shift scheduling ease, a powerful feature set, and reporting power. It can help
eliminate scheduling conflicts, reduce overtime and over/under staffing, and lower
the administrative costs associated with staffing, scheduling, managing employee
work schedules. Its Office 2007 style interface, drag-and-drop scheduling, and automatic
schedule generation let you easily create optimal shift schedules for your employees.
Snap Schedule's innovative multi-view schedule planner gives you multiple vantage
points to view and interact with employee schedules and proactively manage daily
staffing. Substantially reduce the time and the paperwork required to schedule,
track, and assign employee vacation and time off requests. Snap Schedule keeps you
up to date on who’s not coming in to work and why. It’s comprehensive reports provide
details on labor costs, planned vacation and time off hours for any time period
you select.
Intuitive, easy to use software
You already know how to use Snap Schedule, thanks to its Microsoft Office 2007 user interface style. Commands for tasks you frequently perform are logically organized and plainly visible in the Ribbon. Color coded shifts, time off reasons, and staff positions make it easy to organize assignments and identify shift patterns.
Multi-view employee scheduling
View assignments and schedule employees from three different vantage points. The Daily view shows all shift and time off assignments for each employee for each day in the specified period. The Shift view shows employee staffing for each shift along with coverage summary for each job position. The Calendar view presents work and time off assignments for each employee similar to a calendar or monthly planner.
Automatically generate work schedules using user-definable and pre-designed schedule plans
The Auto-scheduling Wizard saves time and speeds up employee scheduling tasks. You can easily model and generate any fixed, oscillating, staggered, mixed, and rotating shift schedule with user-definable schedule plans. Use built-in visual tools for shift rota design. Preview the generated work schedules and make changes as necessary before committing to the database.
Print, export, and email work schedules to employees
Automatically e-mail roster schedules. Print Daily, Shift, Calendar schedule spreadsheets, and shift assignment reports to communicate schedule information to management and employees. Easily publish shiftwork plans, work schedules and any report in PDF and a variety of other formats.
Easy drag and drop employee scheduling
Drag & drop to easily assign shifts, mark time off, move or copy assignments. Split shifts, multiple shifts, paid time off, unpaid time off and on calls are all supported. Snap Schedule automatically checks and alerts you to any employee scheduling conflicts.
Schedule unlimited number of employees, shifts, and time off requests
No limits on the numbers of employees, positions, shifts, locations and assignments you can create. Define skill sets and authorized work locations for each employee and keep track of employees' availability and work hour preferences.
Create a sample schedule at anytime to explore the program features or adapt it to your business needs. Several sample work schedule templates are available for police, security patrol, fire department, 911 emergency dispatch, work crew, call center, volunteer, fund raising, restaurant, and nurse scheduling applications.
Select best employees for shifts based on availability, labor cost, work hour limits, seniority and other criteria
Simply specify your criteria and Snap Schedule will present a list of qualified employees for your shift planning purposes. You can fill a shift with the best available employees who meet your specific criteria.
Extensive reporting capabilities
Reports are active, meaning you can drill-down on embedded hyperlinks for more details, include or exclude specific information, and make changes to the underlying data. Customize standard reports to fit your needs and save them for future use. Preview report data before printing. Export report data to Excel, PDF, RTF, and many more popular formats.