Shift Schedule and Easy Shift Scheduler For Excel Software for Windows

Easy Shift Scheduler for Excel
$99 - Shift Schedules

Specify your daily shifts and then assign them to up to 25 people using drop-down menus of available shifts. Shifts are removed from the menu as they are assigned and when the menu is empty you are done. Created to schedule nurses, but can be used to schedule anyone to daily shifts and it keeps track of shifts for 3 different groups. Employee vacations can be entered and you are prevented from assigning shifts to employees who are on vacation.

The Easy Shift Scheduler saves you scheduling headaches and time by allowing you to simply specify your daily shifts and then assign them to up to 25 people using drop-down menus of available shifts. Shifts are removed from the menu as they are assigned and when the menu is empty you are done for the day. Repeat a few times and before you know it you have easily created a 2 week schedule. The program keeps track of shifts for 3 different groups of employees and was created to schedule nurses, but can be used to schedule anyone to daily shifts.

Up to 10 vacation periods for each employee can be entered in the vacation table and you are prevented from assigning shifts to employees who are on vacation. Outputs include individual and team schedules, an employee hours summary, a file that you can e-mail to selected employees and a file that you can import into your Outlook Calendar, PDA or Smart Phone so your schedules will always be available for easy reference.

The Excel spreadsheets are available in sizes to schedule 25, 50 and 100 employees and can be downloaded from our website and used on a free trial basis for evaluation. Other easy-to-use spreadsheets to schedule your people to daily tasks or daily hours are also available.

Spreadsheets for other scheduling applications are available at the website.

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Shift Scheduler for Excel
$29.99 - MakeSchedules.com

Shift Scheduler is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that creates employee schedules, and tracks the number of hours that have been scheduled. It's perfect for small businesses or departments where the manager is presently creating shift schedules with paper and pen, and for those who do not need the bells and whistles of more expensive scheduling solutions. How does it work? Just follow the instructions in the spreadsheet. Here's a short tutorial to demonstrate just how easy it is to use: 1. The first thing you do is enter the names of the people you will be scheduling. This is done in the workbook named "Employees." 2. Go to the "Week 1" work book. 3. Describe your shifts in column A. 4. In Column B and C, enter the times that the shifts begin and end. 5. Then, click on any grey-colored cell to assign the shift to an employee. Cells that remain grey will be "greyed out" on the printed schedule. 6. Print your schedule. That's all there is to it! Will it estimate wages? The scheduler tracks the number of people-hours that you have scheduled in cell B2. If you enter your average hourly wage in cell B3, the scheduler will provide a ballpark estimate your payroll. It will not provide a full-featured Can I modify it? Yes! Modify it all you like in Excel. Upon your purchase, we will email you a link to download the unprotected version of the spreadsheet, which you can modify.

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Schedule Multiple Shifts Automatically
$199 - Shift Schedules

The Shift Schedules S2-10-50 Excel spreadsheet automatically assigns up to 50 people to up to 10 shifts per day in response to your scheduling needs and your employee's preferences and qualifications. The program automatically assigns days off and creates schedules for up to a month. The spreadsheet produces individual and group schedules and comes in sizes for 6, 10 and 20 shifts for up to 500 employees. It also creates a vCalendar file to transfer schedules to your PDA, Smart Phone and Outlook Calendar. Microsoft Excel or compatible spreadsheet program is required. During the free trial period restrictions apply with respect to the number of schedules displayed. The companion S2-Shift Maker can convert your sales, or other time-dependant employee needs, into schedule shifts for a one week period. It also schedules employee breaks during periods of slack activities.

Spreadsheets for other scheduling applications are available at the website.

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Shift Scheduler Continuous Excel
$68 - Bizpep

The Shift Scheduler will build a roster structure to your specifications, allocate staff automatically, and generate a printable roster, all at the click of a button. It is compact and user friendly allowing you to add staff and shifts (maximum 150) with ease. Default values for continuous shifts mean that the only shift data required is the start date/time and length for the first shift, everything else is automated. For non-continuous or varying shifts you have the capacity to overwrite default data and structure shift settings to suit your specific requirements. Constraints you can apply when allocating staff include the maximum hours a staff member can work within the roster period, the maximum continuous work hours, the minimum break between shifts, and the maximum number of days in a row that can be worked. You can also set a Yes or No work status to define a must work or must not work requirement. Your roster is printed using standard Excel commands or using the Format Print function to build a compact and easy to read roster schedule table. The Next Roster function allows you to roll roster details into the next roster period to quickly build consecutive rosters.

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12 Hour Schedules for 6 Days a Week
$129 - Shift Schedules

An employee shift scheduling package that including 110 different 12 hour scheduling templates to cover 1, 2 or 3 shifts a day for 6 days a week. Quite often businesses need to add or subtract staff to accommodate a growing or shrinking business and need a scheduling solution to reflect their new staffing levels. These templates can be used to provide any number of people per shift and can quickly and easily accommodate changing staffing levels. The templates display weekly tables that clearly show days and shifts worked by each person each week. All of the templates are set up to rotate the days off for each person, and everyone is treated in a fair and impartial manner regarding shifts worked and days off each week. Usually more than one template can be used to provide the coverage that you need giving you the opportunity to present a number of different scheduling options to your managers and employees for their consideration and approval.

While most of the templates average about 40 hours a week, they vary between about 29 and 54 hours a week, giving you lots of choices to fit your staffing needs with available personnel. And, those templates that don?t have about 40 hours a week provide a good framework for you to add and delete weekly shifts to match your unique daily staffing requirements.

The scheduling templates are configured to work seamlessly with our Series 3 Rotating Shift Schedulers for creating schedules of up to 52 weeks while providing vacation scheduling and overtime management tools as well as several scheduling outputs including a file to transfer the schedule to your Outlook Calendar and the ability to automatically e-mail schedules to your employees.

Other scheduling packages are available at our website for 8, 10 and 12 hour shifts for 5, 6 and 7 days a week.

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12 Hour Schedules for 7 Days a Week
$129 - Shift Schedules

An employee shift scheduling package that including 79 different 12 hour scheduling templates to cover 1, 2 or 3 shifts a day for 7 days a week. Quite often businesses need to add or subtract staff to accommodate a growing or shrinking business and need a scheduling solution to reflect their new staffing levels. These templates can be used to provide any number of people per shift and can quickly and easily accommodate changing staffing levels. The templates display weekly tables that clearly show days and shifts worked by each person each week. All of the templates are set up to rotate the days off for each person, and everyone is treated in a fair and impartial manner regarding shifts worked and days off each week. Usually more than one template can be used to provide the coverage that you need giving you the opportunity to present a number of different scheduling options to your managers and employees for their consideration and approval.

While most of the templates average about 40 hours a week, they vary between about 34 and 56 hours a week, giving you lots of choices to fit your staffing needs with available personnel. And, those templates that don?t have about 40 hours a week provide a good framework for you to add and delete weekly shifts to match your unique daily staffing requirements.

The scheduling templates are configured to work seamlessly with our Series 3 Rotating Shift Schedulers for creating schedules of up to 52 weeks while providing vacation scheduling and overtime management tools as well as several scheduling outputs including a file to transfer the schedule to your Outlook Calendar and the ability to automatically e-mail schedules to your employees.

Other scheduling packages are available at our website for 8, 10 and 12 hour shifts for 5, 6 and 7 days a week.

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