Can You Have Too Many Features in Your Staff Scheduling Software?

July 1, 2020

Features are great when you need them, but if you’re not using some of the features but have to work around them, your scheduling software may be more trouble than it’s worth. This is a common complaint with many of the scheduling software options on the market today. Other common complaints include being complicated, difficult to set up, and tedious to implement.

Look for a scheduling software solution that can be configured to your needs now and can also change and adapt to meet the needs you’ll have in the future.

With so many options available, how do you know you’re selecting the right one to fit your needs? Let’s answer some of the questions you may or may not even know you have.

Customizable to Fit Your Needs

Your staff scheduling software should allow you the ability to turn on the features you want, but also the ability to turn off the ones you don’t need. With staff scheduling software by Schedule360, you can add or drop features at any time based on your preferences and scheduling needs. A scheduling software solution should be able to align with your current processes-it’s here to make your life easier, not more complicated.

Using our secure cloud-based application, you can create and adjust schedules in real-time to proactively align staff with demand to control and reduce labor costs, increase productivity, and maintain compliance.

The best software solution is one that is highly configurable and customizable to how you work and is designed to fit virtually any type of business. This isn’t achievable with an out of the box solution, as they cannot be configured to fit your exact needs. Every organization is special and unique and deserves their own customized solution.

Highly Adaptable and Open to Feedback

Software solutions should grow and become better with client feedback. Features should be constantly updating and improving in order to better suit the needs of its customers.

Here are just a few of the many favorite features we offer, and quite a few of them have been developed strictly due to customer feedback and requests:

Rules-Based Self Scheduling

Gives employees flexibility and independence while ensuring individual work targets are met and safe staffing levels occur.

Broadcast Shift Scheduling

Dispatch any last-minute scheduling needs to all qualified and available employees via text or email.

Reporting and Analytics

Our client dashboard provides a quick, concise overview of schedule and report statuses. Configurable reports allow schedulers to view scheduling data at enterprise, group, district, and facility levels and export to print or Microsoft Excel.

Payroll Compiling

Schedule360 is able to record all of the complex variables associated with your employee payroll, allowing you to compile a concise report for your payroll system or service and we integrate with your current processes for seamless adaptability..

Set Schedule Templates

Allows schedulers to build a recurring template for each employee by facility.

Class Scheduling

Admins can build classes into the system for employee sign-up. Keep credentials up to date with reminders and keep track of what credentials your employees carry, which ones are set to expire, and which ones have lapsed.

Able to Create Features Your Company Needs

Whether it’s rule-based self-scheduling, reporting and analytics, or the ability to set schedule template features, you need a staff scheduling software that can create and deliver all of the important features that you need most in order to streamline your entire scheduling process and optimize your staff.

The best staff scheduling software is one with unlimited scalability that is designed or configured to fit your exact needs, providing your team with only those scheduling features they need and eliminating those they don’t. Schedule360 has accomplished just that with an award-winning staff scheduling software that comes loaded with incredible features to help you simplify your scheduling tasks, not complicate it. Contact us today to see the Schedule360 difference for yourself with a customized demo of our scheduling software solution.