Convenience Store Employee Scheduling and Labor Management

By Anthony Presley

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.

Luckily, TimeForge can cut the time spent doing routine but time-consuming tasks like building a convenience store employee schedule from hours to seconds. And it gives you the tools you need to fine-tune your work force and reduce costs with attendance management controls.

Luckily, TimeForge can drastically improve the scheduling process while increasing profits at your convenience store. Scheduling time can be reduced from hours to seconds. And TimeForge gives you the additional tools needed to fine-tune your work force and reduce labor expenses with time and attendance controls.

And all of time required to build the schedule and make changes doesn't consider the enforcement of the labor schedule, monitoring attendance, and forecasting labor costs. All are vital in any economy to increase profits at a convenience store business.

But with TimeForge you can:

- Build employee schedules for one or many locations - in seconds.

- 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 schedules or schedule changes by text message or email - eliminating employee confusion and missed shifts while reducing turnover.

- Stop early clock ins and late clock outs or buddy punching to provide immediate labor cost controls.

- Provide remote access for employees to view schedules, review timecards, request time off, change availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.

- Provide remote access for employees to view work schedules, request time off, review timecards, change work availability, swap shifts with other staff members, and receive daily schedule alerts via email or text messages.

TimeForge does more than build effective, efficient employee schedules quickly for your convenience store. TimeForge is also a powerful tool in workforce optimization for c-stores. With TimeForge you can also:

- Automatically schedule employees with the strongest skills during your busiest times.

- Notify you of potential labor shortages for your c-store business.

- Monitor your labor costs - in real time on the computer, Facebook, iPhone, or Blackberry.

- Provide access to 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 store profits by 3-5% at each location.

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. - 32171

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