You have never seen reporting so easy yet so advanced. Deputy upsets the global scheduling scene yet again.

Deputy seem to upset the status quo monthly now recently releasing what I believe is the most advanced cloud reporting ever seen. No wonder Deputy is a company that so many people follow and now with over 40,000 customers globally this must be the most used scheduling software on the planet

One of the most common questions for any cloud software today is how can I get a report of the information I want, until today all companies gave you some standard reports, some let you add and remove a few columns but do not let you export the data you have selected for your report.

Reporting has never been easier and never been so advanced at the same time.

If you are still running spreadsheets for your scheduling it is time to change

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Time & People announced Deputy Partner of the year 2017

I received this question recently…

I have already evaluated Deputy. According to my staff I am unable to run two rosters (one for Kitchen and one for Floor) in my restaurants without having two ipad time clock kiosks at each site. The alternative was to have the kitchen and floor rostering combined so that I can have just the one ipad kiosk on site. It is a strange restriction that your competitors have managed to avoid.

After speaking with the customer and getting a full understanding of the issue we discovered….That this was simply a misunderstanding as the software is more than capable of handling unlimited departments on a single iPad kiosk.

The most popular way for employees to sign in & out globally with Deputy scheduling software is to use existing smart devices. Most employees today either have an iPhone or an android phone, each employee can use their own phone, download the Deputy app and start signing in and signing out. Employees can also see their own schedule, apply for leave, or simply build in future availability so that the person completing the schedule is automatically notified of the employee’s intentions.

Perfect for uni students, casual staff, employees who work in multiple locations. You can even post where you are when you are unavailable as seen below letting your boss know you are a hard worker….

What about the ability to pick up extra shifts when you are available? How easy is this? see an open shift, take an open shift

Since Xero was released in 2006 they have been taking MYOB customers by the thousands. MYOB have tried to stem the flow but it has been difficult with Xero having a massive head start in the cloud. There are many reasons that Xero has been successful, hundreds of partners have all contributed to the movement of MYOB customers moving from MYOB to Xero.

One of those partners Deputy rostering and time and attendance software has had a direct integration into Xero for a number of years. Every week that customers sign up for the Deputy rostering and time and attendance software I am asked which payroll should I look at that will work well with Deputy. The answer has always been the same Xero is the best payroll fully integrated making the connection between both systems simple.

MYOB customers now have the opportunity to also directly integrate into Deputy rostering and time and attendance software with the release of the integration into MYOB AccountRight Live. I know that many MYOB customers will be happy with this release, some have waited a long time. Will this stem the flow of MYOB customers to Xero only time will tell. The good news the business is you can now take your rostering and payroll into the cloud fully integrated without too much effort.

full instructions are inside the Deputy rostering  time and attendance software to set up your integration into MYOB. Existing customers can call 1300 800 077 for any assistance.

if you are thinking about Deputy rostering and time and attendance software and you have MYOB AccountRight click below to book in a demonstration or simply start a 30 day trial and you will be able to connect your payroll.

Imagine having the ability to build your schedule, notify your staff automatically of their scheduled times for the upcoming week and any shift not picked up by an employee and confirmed could automatically become an open shift for the next suitable qualified employee to fill.

This functionality has been a long time coming and only available to companies prepared to spend tens of thousands of dollars on sophisticated complex scheduling systems.

You can now have access to this functionality in your business saving your schedule is hours and hours each week confirming who is going to be able to fill your shifts so that the work gets done

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I have been involved with award interpretation of time and attendance systems for more than 15 years. In this time I have seen some products that are not capable of completing the award interpretation correctly yet they are sold every day. I have seen these systems where the configurations is taken offshore to lower cost off shore configuration where the award configuration is completed and the people are paid less than $10 per hour while local companies are charging customers thousands of dollars. I have seen companies then come back to charge the customer more money to complete the award interpretation configuration that was never done correctly in the first place.

I have seen low-cost systems and high end systems costing tens of thousands of dollars, even hundreds of thousands of dollars all fail with the award interpretation.

Don’t let this situation happen at your company.

While it is okay to outsource many functions overseas including some basic admin functions at MyVirtualWorkforce.com.au‎ or outsource some excel spreadsheet work to www.elance.com.au it is not okay to outsource the award interpretation based on your companies EBA or award.

It is not that you could not train a person to configure awards this process is fairly straightforward once you have all the correct information at hand. The challenge is getting all of the information correct in the first place to give it to a person to complete the configuration.

Customers often ask why do we put so much time into getting the award interpretation configuration correct from the start.

A recent example where during the analysis of the awards prior to the configuration process an overpayment was discovered in the existing manual system that amounted to around two dollars per employee. The clarification of the calculation triggers ended up with company lawyers confirming the correct calculation to be used. With the changes made to the calculation this two dollar per employee error had to be calculated weekly across 500 employees, you do the sums.