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The advent of the employee scheduling tool, BusyBeeManager has made staff scheduling easier than never before. You are no longer required to make employee work schedules on paper, in word documents, or excel spreadsheets. All you need to do is to 'create' a BusyBeeManager account and make efficient schedules for your business, in minutes.

This section will show you how to accomplish just this with BusyBeeManager. If you are new to BusyBeeManager - then watch the videos from above - if you seek help in setting up your new account then we suggest you watch the videos from below and up.

Automatic Employee Scheduling

One of the most significant features of BusyBeeManager is automatic employee scheduling with the auto assign functionality. The functionality is simple: BusyBeeManager knows your staffing needs and has no problem remembering who can work which days as well as who can fill in which positions. So to build the schedule for at week, all you need to do is select your weekly schedule and click on autoassign. Busybeemanager will create a schedule taking each employees priority into account, their vacations and promised working hours - to create the optimal schedule. You can of course reuse schedules / modify existing schedules if you want to. You have the power - we just help you realize it.

Define staffing needs

You have probably already made this exercise in either Excel or with pen and paper. The questions is which type of worker - which role - do you need to work when? Maybe you need a manager every day from nine to five and two waiters for the whole day overlapping around lunch time? Your staffing needs will most likely be similar from day to day and from one week to another. To support this; BusyBeeManager supports working with weekly templates so you can easily build up and reuse your generic staffing needs.

Manage employees

To complete the scheduling jigsaw you need to know who can work when - and with today's workforce that can often be quite a challenge. Some of the workers only do part time, others study and can only work specific days and may be competent to fill in only one type of shift - and in the middle of it all - they ask for vacation. BusyBeeManager helps you keep track of it all and leverages this for you in the scheduling functionality. This will help you make error free schedules and improve employee satisfaction.

Customize settings

Define which roles you have amongst your staff. If you own a restaurant you might have a manager, a head-waiter, a waiter, a chef and many other roles. For any another type of business, the scope of the roles will change, though the concept remains the same. Only open monday to friday? Only open from around lunch time? You can customize this in BusyBeeManager. Don't clutter your schedule with irrelevant time slots. Moreover; whether you are U.S. based or a european citizen - BusyBeeManager can help you in your scheduling. Do you write dates like dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy? Does your week start monday or sunday? This can be customized.

Advanced:
Save schedule as template

Have you ever searched through your old files seeking the schedule from the city festival last year? Or from last summer when the cruise ships came in and the whole city was bustling with customers? With BusyBeeManager you will never have to go through your old drawers for last year's schedule. Full history is just a click away and you can easily create a template from your old schedule. Merely click 'Save as template' and you can reuse the old schedule.

Advanced:
Manage departments

Whether you have multiple departments under the same roof or have multiple locations for your business - BusyBeeManager can help you deal with the employee scheduling across all departments without the employee schedule becoming a mess. Learn how easy it is to manage departments and scheduling across these. You can even use the same employee base or parts of it for every department or location. BusyBeeManager will make sure you avoid mistakes and double bookings.