This year at Xerocon where all of the industry get together on the back of the accounting giant Xero the annual awards were handed out.

Add-on Partner of the Year The winning Add-on Partner will have demonstrated a high level of customer satisfaction and commercial success. We’ll also look for continuous improvement in areas like customer care, design, quality, functionality and technical innovation

Criteria • Be commercially available (no Beta versions) • Have verifiable users on both Xero and your product (orgs connected) • Technical: design, integration to the API & Xero products • Ease of doing business, customer feedback, customer advocacy. Rating on the Xero Community • Connections with Xero’s partner community • Evidence of customers using the product successfully to improve their operations and demonstrating that they would recommend the product to others.

Deputy have thousands of customers around the globe connected to Xero, well done Deputy on making such a hot product.

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

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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The development team at Deputy have really outdone themselves this time. As if the Deputy platform was not already good enough the developers have now taken the product into the stratosphere.

It is no surprise hundreds of customers are signing up every week to start using the Deputy rostering system. You can now manage your entire operation from your mobile phone. Plenty of people said this could not be done, but it is here and it is here now. If you are an existing customer simply update your app. If you’ve heard about Deputy but you’ve not yet started to use Deputy start a 30 day trial here.

With these recent changes you can not only roster from your mobile phone you can also approve time sheets no longer needing to be tied down to a PC in the office.

Some of the recent improvements this release include:

• Full employee scheduling
• See rosters for today or any day in future
• See past timesheets
• Copy shifts from day to day
• Publish weekly shifts
• Change shifts
• Add open shifts
• Delete shifts
• Approve timesheets
• Bulk approve
• Discard timesheet
• See weather of the day
• Notification swipe will take you straight to the item
• Fully responsive design for iPad and iPhone 6 plus.

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