Even in a thriving economy, optimizing the workforce and reducing labor costs at convenience stores is an important task. Unfortunately, it is complex, time consuming, and tedious. And essential. Over-staff your c-store and you lose money. Under-staff your convenience store and you lose customers.
This process happens every week, and is complex, time consuming, and generally a royal pain. Unfortunately, it is also essential. Over staffing your convenience store will reduce profits - you will lose money. Under staffing your store will not allow you to meet customer demand, and customers will leave - you will reduce profits.
Here's an example: Many c-store managers spend hours creating a staff work schedule. The manager needs to consider a huge number of factors - employee availability, skill levels, time off requests, shift swaps, the need for 24/7 coverage, and busy or slow periods in the store. Then, the schedule must be communicated to all of the employees - bulk emails, or posted on the wall. When an employee gets ill, or requests time off, the schedule must be redone and then distributed back to the employees.
And that doesn't even take into account attendance monitoring or labor forecasting - vital steps in this economy for optimizing your convenience store workforce and reducing costs.
- Schedules can be built for one or many locations in seconds.
- Staff and management can record employee availability, time-off requests, and other key information about staff members.
- Approve and export payroll to many popular payroll providers - such as Quickbooks, SurePayroll, ADP, Paychex, and CompuPay - with a single click.
- Notify staff members instantly of any schedule changes or newly created schedules by email or text message - removing all employee confusion and missed shifts while reducing turnover.
- Notify employees of schedule changes or newly created schedules by email or text message - removing all employee confusion and missed shifts while reducing turnover.
- Enforce the labor schedule by stopping early clock ins and late clock outs - immediately improving profits.
- Remotely check on employees that are clocked in - using the web, Facebook, or a cell phone.
- Provide remote access for employees to view work schedules, review timecards, request time off, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.
TimeForge is also a powerful tool for workforce optimization and profitability for c-stores. TimeForge can also:
- Schedule employees with the strongest skills during the busiest times at your business, automatically if you use the TimeForge AutoScheduler.
- Be notified of potential labor shortages automatically for your c-store.
- Monitor your labor costs - in real time on the computer, Facebook, iPhone, or Blackberry.
- More than forty labor reports for monitoring labor costs, and reviewing schedule trends.
- Reduce your turnover - use your current staff more efficiently.
- Try out various "what-if" scenarios to visualize staffing changes - without losing your original schedule.
- Increase convenience store profits by 3-5%.
TimeForge is a complete labor management solution for convenience stores, providing one-click seamless access to employee scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll reports. Use the whole TimeForge product suite, or only the parts that your business requires.
Time is money. If you're still not convinced, read what other TimeForge users say about the time and money they've saved with this powerful employee management software here. Or sign up today for your free trial and see for yourself.
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