
What to Look for in a Scheduling App

What to look for in a Scheduling App? Many businesses have realised how effective a scheduling app can be in managing their workforce and customer accounts. But with so many options available on the market, it’s difficult to know which to choose.
Which features should you look for in a scheduling app? How do you know which one is right for your business needs? Here are five key factors to consider when choosing and comparing scheduling apps for your business.
The number one reason that businesses purchase and use scheduling software is to make things easier. They want a simple, streamlined communication tool that they can download and use immediately, without a lot of set-up or instruction.
Everything we do at Planday is about making things easier, and our products are no exception. Businesses use our scheduling software because they know it will be easy and intuitive. Perhaps you are scheduling shifts for a busy hospital staff or assigning projects to a remote team of skilled workers. Our software will get you there with simple, easy-to-follow steps.
“Whether you’re a small hospitality business or a big care home with hundreds of employees, an easy to use communication tool is a vital key to your success. Our scheduling app allows managers and business owners to organise their people and departments easily and efficiently. No instruction manual required.”
Jacob Pyndt, Operations Director, Planday
If you are going to commit your business’s resources to any new tool, you want to make sure it works first. Specifically, you should be asking if other organizations have successfully implemented the tool for purposes similar to yours.
This is particularly true for a scheduling app. This software will affect your staffing, your resource allocation, and your payroll and compensation management. Those are things that you absolutely must get right in order for your business to offer great service to your customers and to retain your talent.
Planday is trusted by businesses all over the world to take care of their customers’ and employees’ needs. The Bronx Arts Ensemble brings arts education to over 100 schools in the Bronx and two in neighboring Brooklyn. They employ 65 arts instructors who travel to these schools to bring music, art, and theatre instruction to children who would otherwise have little exposure to these. But before they found Planday, they managed their organization with paper and pen. The end of the pay period was spent receiving and organizing dozens of faxes. Artists sometimes received incorrect paychecks, or no paycheck at all. Scheduling events was an organizational nightmare.
Now, with Planday’s help, their scheduling, planning, and payroll systems are exponentially easier to organize. What’s more, they have a vast amount of data available to them through Planday that helps them learn to manage their business more efficiently and successfully.
There are certain reports that we can get out of Planday that we never would’ve been able to assemble even if we had all the manpower in the world because the information simply wasn’t there in the filing cabinet,”
David Nussenbaum
Many more organisations around the world trust Planday to handle these important HR functions as well, including Slurp Ramen in Copenhagen, Enoteca da Luca in London, Best Western, CrossFit, and many more.
You might have begun looking for this software because you needed a scheduling solution. But what are its other features? When it comes to functionality, not all scheduling apps are created equal.
If you want an app that can do more to help you organize your business, look for these features:
Most business owners we know are pretty ambitious. If you’re looking to grow your business in the future, you want a tool that will grow with you in a seamless way. This is especially true if you want to grow internationally. Look for a provider who has experience handling large and small accounts in many parts of the world.
Planday has 180 employees of 29 different nationalities operating in six offices worldwide. Whether you operate a cafe in Copenhagen, a wine bar in London, or a fitness center in New York, we are ready to grow with you.
A scheduling app does you no good if you can’t integrate it with your other management tools. Look for an app that is connected to a variety of other tools and partners you already use or might have plans for in the future —that way you can be sure that it will work with the rest of your software.
Planday works with a range of payroll, HR, analytics and POS providers including Lightspeed, iZettle, Trevalis, ADP, Heartland, QuickBooks Online, Microsoft Dynamics / Navision C5, and many more to make running your business straightforward and smooth.
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