Top 5 Rostering & Time Management Apps

With so many time management apps out there these days, it’s hard to find the perfect one to suit you.

So we can help you make the choice easier, here are our top five picks for rostering and time management integrations. Each one offers something different, so you’re sure to get one that feels right for you.

Deputy: A complete staff management toolkit

With Deputy, you’re able to create rosters based on hard sales data, so you always have enough staff on during your rushes. You can also view your estimated staff wage costs before your rosters are published to make sure you’re staying on budget.

Once they’re ready to go, notify all staff via email or SMS, so everyone knows their upcoming hours. You’ll also have:

• A drag-and-drop interface
• Staff cost forecasts
• An employee communication tool for availability, roster changes and shift swaps
• A clock-in function with geolocation to see who’s working when and where

You’ll give your staff more accountability and reduce inflated hours. Deputy works offline, too, and saves up to 24 hours of activity until you’re back online.

Deputy is a smarter, fully-featured management platform to help you save time and money, and take the headache out of managing your staff.

BoxSuite: Designed by HR for HR

BoxSuite is a web-based rostering tool designed by HR people for HR purposes, so you know you’re getting something good.

It’s intelligent and easy-to-use. You can create, manipulate, and manage your rosters the way you want with fully-customisable settings. You’ll also have:

• Staff cost forecasts
• Up-to-date award interpretation
• Payroll platform integration
• An employee communication tool
• A web-based timeclock.

With BoxSuite, you’re able to see a real-time cost analysis from your POS, meaning you can see staff costs for the day or week, or projected staff costs, whenever you need.

BoxSuite’s employee communication tool means you can always contact your staff, whether it’s by SMS or email, or through BoxSuite’s in-app notifications. There’s no reason your staff won’t know when their new roster is available!

BoxSuite does all the heavy lifting for you—it helps you fill, swap, and manage your staff shifts by determining who’s available, and even sends out the notification for you too.

Ento: The rostering tool for any business

Ento is a lightweight, user-friendly rostering and attendance tool that’s easy to use for both staff and management. Even better, it’s scalable for any business, whether you’ve got one employee or 1,000.

Among its features are:

• A drag-and-drop interface
• Roster template creation
• Up-to-date award interpretation
• Payroll platform integrations
• An in-app employee communication tool for availability, roster changes and shift swaps
• A clock-in function with geolocation to see who’s working when and where
• Automatic cloud-based backup.

Ento’s onboarding process is where this tool really stands out. Ento’s paperless onboarding procedures for new starters means all their information can be filled out through the app—no more messing around with piles of paperwork.

Digital contract signing makes things even easier. It’s a safe, secure, more efficient way to welcome your new staff.

Tanda: Rostering and time management with a twist

Tanda is an integrated rostering and time management app with a few twists to keep things fresh. Its features include:

• A drag-and-drop interface
• Roster template creation
• Up-to-date, automatic award interpretation
• Payroll platform integration
• A timeclock.

Tanda’s timeclock syncs to your POS to capture your employees’ logged hours accurately, and you can track who’s working, when.

But here’s where it gets really cool: the clock-in selfie feature means your staff take a photo of themselves when they clock in, so you’ll get an image of your staff on each shift. This will help with staff recognition and reduce the instances of staff clocking in for each other.

This feature, as well as being a fresh take on the clock-in system, makes your staff more accountable for their hours.

Tanda’s got your back in more ways, too. Its smart software compares your staff clock-ins against your weekly roster, so you can ensure your staff hours are corresponding to their rostered hours.

Cached data means that even if your system goes down, Tanda still tracks your staff hours, so you don’t lose a thing. Live tracking lets you see your staff wage costs in real-time.

Zuus Workforce: Work smarter, not harder

With Zuus Workforce, you can use your sales and customer data to forecast your venue’s activity so you can accurately get the right number of staff on at the right time. Zuus can tell you how many staff you’ll need for every 15 minutes of the day. Pretty smart, eh?

A graphical display of customer demand versus your labour helps you see where you’re under- or over-staffed. With your staff labour details available in real-time, you can adjust your schedules accordingly.

Other features include:

• An employee communication tool for availability, roster changes and shift swaps
• A clock-in function with geolocation to see who’s working when and where
• Payroll platform integration.

So what do you think? While there’s enough fresh features in there to keep things interesting, if you’re still unsure of which rostering and time management app will work best for you, contact us today!

We can help you go over what you want to get out of your system, what features will work best for you, and discuss how you can tighten up your staffing.