Make a lasting impression with hospitality scheduling software

Hospitality scheduling software is a suite of tools that can help managers organize and direct their team so that customers, clients, and guests feel welcome and their experience meets the business’s high standards.

Hotels, resorts, restaurants, theme parks, and cruise ships (just to name a few) can benefit from integrating scheduling software into their workflow thanks to solutions for:

• Complex shift scheduling
• Integrated time tracking
• Labor-cost control
• Overtime control
• Quick and easy communication
• Cloud-based distribution
• Clock-in/clock-out control
• Multiple-location administration
• Geofencing
• Task management

The best hospitality scheduling software — like Sling — incorporates all of those elements (and more) into one powerful app that can help maximize the productivity and efficiency of any hospitality team.

To build an effective employee schedule, consider scrapping the old 9 to 5, Monday through Friday strategy.

Instead, schedule an “anchor” employee (typically one of your best or one with the right skills and experience) in each shift first and then schedule other team members around them.

This helps ensure that you have the team members most suited for each shift — perhaps peak check-in or check-out times — working when you need them most.

To facilitate this unique way of building a staff rota, use your scheduling software to tag employees with specific qualifications and then set eligibility requirements for each shift.

Sling comes with a built-in time clock app that turns any phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop into a time-tracking station.

Once you give your team members access to the Sling app, everyone will have the ability to start and stop their time on any device with a single click or tap, whether they’re in the office or on the road.

You can then monitor work hours with your Sling app, import each person’s work hours to one of many reports, and even integrate your time tracking into other common programs to make your workforce management and payroll as streamlined as possible.

Yes! It doesn’t matter if your team is spread across two locations or 200, the Sling hospitality scheduling software can help you keep everyone organized, on task, and under control.

Sling comes with tools to help you:

• Assign tasks and monitor employee progress
• Filter schedules to find the information you need
• Communicate with one person, a specific group of people, or everyone regardless of their location
• Create reports by location or region to gain valuable insight about your operation
• Manage payroll
• Control labor costs
• And much more

Sling’s geofencing feature allows you to set virtual borders around a specific location (or locations) so employees can only clock in once they’ve crossed inside that boundary.

Similarly, Sling’s geofencing feature makes it possible for you to set up the system in such a way that it automatically stops tracking time when a team member crosses outside the boundary you’ve set.

This powerful feature makes it easier to control where your employees work and helps you cut down on both intentional and unintentional time theft.

One of the best ways to control labor costs is to set your scheduling software to monitor labor budgets, employee work hours, and pay rates so you can keep shift expenses as low as possible.

After you set a budget and input the requisite employee information, watch the bottom line for each shift as you add team members to the schedule.

Sling makes this process even easier by showing you real-time costs for each shift and notifying you if a shift exceeds the labor budget. With those tools in play, you won’t have to go back and forth trying to find the right combination of employees to keep expenses low.

Whether you manage a hospitality team of 10 in a single location or a team of 100+ across multiple locations, Sling can help you keep everything running efficiently.

Sling’s powerful workforce management tools make it easy to:

• Build effective schedules in less time
• Organize shift trade request
• Allow your employees to sign up for available shifts
• Manage time off
• Coordinate availability
• Track employee hours (on both stationary and mobile devices)
• Reduce absenteeism
• Minimize late arrivals
• Control labor costs
• And much more

Right now, you can get all of the essentials to help you organize and optimize your workforce and handle internal communication for an unlimited number of users and locations for free with just one click.