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Retail scheduling software is the set of tools a manager uses to create shifts and organize employees to work specific hours, in specific jobs, on specific tasks. The more advanced apps handle complicated shifts for one employee or a hundred plus, multiple locations, task assignment and tracking, time tracking for a single task or a full day, labor cost control, a tight rein on overtime, cloud access, clock-in and clock-out rules, geofencing, and messaging to one person, a group, or the whole team. Shift Amp brings all of it into one place.

Build each shift around one or two anchor employees before adding anyone else. Those anchors usually have the experience and skills that give the rest of the shift something to work from. Set eligibility requirements on the first spot or two of each shift, fill those across the whole week first, then organize everyone else into the remaining openings. You can also let employees self-schedule or bid for open shifts through cloud-based group access. Even then, add an anchor or two before opening it up so you keep the right mix on every shift.

With the right tools, scheduling is one of the better ways to control and even reduce labor cost across your business. Shift Amp lets you set a labor budget and then shows what each shift will cost as you build it, and it flags you when the schedule approaches or passes the budget you set. No guessing, and no cycling through endless combinations of people to stay inside the number.

A digital time clock built into a workforce management app helps managers and employees alike. Shift Amp turns any phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop into a time-tracking station, so you can have people clock in at a single point of entry or on their own device. Everyone starts and stops their time, for a full workday or a single assigned task, with one tap wherever they are working. From there you can pull hours into reports and pass the data into other programs to keep workforce management and payroll streamlined.

Yes. Shift Amp separates schedules by location, filters them so you find information quickly, lets you message one person or a specific group or everyone regardless of location, assigns tasks and tracks progress, builds reports by location or region, manages payroll, and controls labor cost. You can also set geofences so employees cannot clock in until they are inside the boundary of the location they are assigned to, and use those same geofences to stop tracking time automatically when someone crosses back out.

Whether you manage a retail team of ten in a single store or a hundred plus across several locations, Shift Amp keeps everything running. You get faster schedule building, organized shift trade requests, open shifts your employees can sign up for, time-off management, availability tracking, employee hours on both fixed and mobile devices, fewer absences, fewer late arrivals, and tighter labor costs. Teams of up to ten are free forever, and it is $2 per user, per month above that, with every feature in both plans.