Hi Dale, Thanks for your feedback.
While I understand the point you are trying to make, most of the features you have mentioned do not really fit with the vision we have for this application, or our target market. Think about your typical cafe, retail store or restaurant. 10-20 part- time staff and one busy business owner / manager in charge of rostering. Every week they have to sit down with excel and build a roster based on last week’s roster, what they know about the employee’s preferences and a handful of sticky notes with time-off requests sprawled on them. After that, they need to make sure everyone knows what shifts they are working and process all the last minute changes. All this takes time, time which can be saved using JustRosters for like 15cents per staff per week. That being said, some of the points you have made are being actively developed, (see http://www.technation.com.au/2009/03/04/justrosters-rostering-made-simpler/#disqus_thread). Cheers, Aulay Dale Hurley wrote: > Hi Aulay > > > > Some things that are needed for all roster tools: > > > > > Abiltiy for staff to swap shifts (admins able to disable and enable, auto and > manual approval) > Rules to alert to when staff are being rostered for too much time causing > them to earn extra overtime > Able to forecast projected needed staff volume based on historical data > Skills base auto rostering. Staff should have skills allocated to them and > the resource planner should be able to use historical data (i.e. last year's > roster + roster adhearance) to auto fill the roster and then tweak the > roster. Auto filling should be subject to factors the resource planner can > manipulate such as cost vs. skill > API to integrate with payroll, reporting, and other software which > organisations want to use > Click, drag and drop interface > When someone is unable to make it in for their shift an auto alert of the > possible canidates again based on cost vs skill (I have not seen this in > rostering SW before but is needed) > > > Have a look at some of the roster tools they use for call centres. eWFM from > Aspect is a great example. If someone was willing to replicate the eWFM > software for retail they wil have a lot of business. > > > > Dale > > > > > > Mar 2009 23:04:34 -0800 > > Subject: [SiliconBeach] New Aussie start-up - JustRosters > > From: au...@marvelig.com > > To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > > > > > > Hey everyone, > > > > The team and I have just launched a new start-up called JustRosters > > (www.justrosters.com). > > > > JustRosters makes the creation and distribution of staff rosters > > easier, faster and more accurate. With it you can: > > > > - Create, print and export professional staff rosters from scratch or > > from previous rosters. > > - Have your staff SMS'd or emailed their upcoming shifts, or shift > > changes; automatically. > > - Let your staff can log on to make time-off requests for your > > approval. > > > > If any of you guys and girls have the time to check it out and post > > some feedback that would be awesome. There are some print screens, a > > screen cast and even a free trial - depending on how far you want to > > dip your feet in :-) > > > > Thanks, > > > > Aulay > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Find out what’s new with your friends Download the new Windows Live Messenger > http://download.live.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
