Elevate your business with smart labor management
Streamline your HR and operations with a full suite of powerful, easy-to-use tools made for busy people like you
What We're All About
TimeForge is more than best-in-class scheduling software, it’s also a full labor management platform designed to save your business time and money. We don’t think labor management should be hard. That’s why our software takes care of the tedious “small stuff,” so that you can focus on the things that matter. Learn more about our award winning retail labor management system, sign up for a free trial, contact us, or schedule a live demo to quickly find out how our 14+ years of experience and cutting-edge tools can keep you and your team on the same page.
Our Solutions
TimeForge has two mobile apps, both completely free: one for employees and another tailored for managers. Teams love our apps because they make it easy to stay in communication and on top of busy schedules.
With the employee mobile app, staff can request time off, view schedules, swap shifts, and check their timecards. The app supports clock-ins, clock-outs, lunches, and breaks, too! With the manager mobile app, leadership can engage with real-time sales and labor data, edit schedules and time punches on the fly, and identify coverage gaps easily.
TimeForge has smart tools for every stage of the employee life cycle, from hiring to onboarding, staff scheduling, time keeping, task management, team messaging, and more. Our platform isn’t just scheduling software, it’s a full workforce management (WFM) solution designed to keep you sane.
One area in which TimeForge really excels, for example, is labor precision. Our software can quickly identify how many people you need, when you need them, and where you need them. Powerful proprietary algorithms ensure you meet your labor targets and stay within your labor budgets.
California employment law too complex? Need help with predictive scheduling in Philadelphia, perhaps? Trying to figure out how to enforce meal periods so that your employees take the breaks you’re giving them?
TimeForge has automated tools for all of the major compliance headaches you’re tired of. With break enforcement, you can eliminate costly penalties in a cinch. In cases where staff need to work back-to-back shifts, TimeForge can automatically compensate them according to rules you define, thereby saving your business from expensive fines and regulatory fees.
In the current employment situation we are facing it is a great tool to help us become more efficient and try to do more with less. Helps keep track of our labor percentage real time so we are far more proactive in decision making. Excellent help desk that gets back to you.
TimeForge is intuitive and extremely user friendly. We love the AI technology that helps us make timely data driven decisions on one of our highest operating expenses. Labor scheduling and management can be very complex. We appreciate all the automated features that helps us stay aware of our blind spots and keeps us focused on our Guests. We also love that we can automate and track progress on punch lists, take performance notes, manage our food safety certifications by shift and more! It's evident that this software was built with the end user in mind.
TimeForge has been a game changer in our company with scheduling and labour management. It is allowed us to refine our processes for scheduling and to assess business volume levels right down to the details we were never able to get to you previously.
We weren’t kidding! With TimeForge, there’s no need to cobble together multiple labor management systems to handle different parts of the employee life cycle. Our software does it all and ensures that your POS and payroll integrations are always in sync. That means centralized records, always there when you need them – without the hassle of manual data entry between platforms.
Here are a few of the many things our software can do for you:
The employee life cycle starts with a compelling job post, but it doesn’t end there. With TimeForge, design and publish job postings, track your applicants, and then hire the best candidates with a single click.
Save time with templates
Design a job posting once, save it as a template, and reuse it again and again. With TimeForge, there’s no need to recreate the wheel every time you hire a new cashier or wait staff.
Identify and hire the best candidates
Easily create applicant tracking workflows for your job positions to keep things consistent. Ensure that each candidate goes through the same interview and application process.
Skip the manual data entry
When you hire a job applicant in TimeForge, our software automatically transfers their application details and fills out their employee profile. Easy!
TimeForge HR is a complete, fully-integrated online document storage and employee record system. That might sound like a mouthful, but our software is as easy as cake.
Streamline your HR processes with online docs and forms
Quickly and easily share documents with one or more employees. Use our integrated forms or your own form-fillable PDFs to collect necessary signatures and acknowledgements. Documents live in the cloud, so they’re always there when you need them.
Track training requirements, licenses, and certifications
And more than that: get automatic alerts when any of these things are about to expire. You can also enforce any license or certification so that your employees can’t clock in or be put on the schedule without them.
Manage holiday pay easily
Create Holiday Calendars to automatically pay employees overtime according to company policy or state laws. Custom leave policies, pay rules, break rules, age rules – TimeForge can handle it all, no matter how complex.
Tracking paid and unpaid breaks is a pain for restaurants and retailers, especially if you’re in a highly regulatory state like California. But it doesn’t have to be. TimeForge has had secure scheduling and fair workweek figured out for years.
Get instant alerts about compliance issues
Stay out of hot water by making sure you’re compensating your staff for overtime, split shifts, and clopens. In addition, TimeForge can alert you of compliance issues as you’re scheduling, so that you don’t make costly mistakes.
Enforce meal periods and breaks
Quickly schedule breaks and meal periods, and then enforce those schedules. Or, simply let staff take breaks as needed. Don’t get hit by heavy fines because you failed to pay your workforce for missed lunches or required breaks.
Automate PTO and holiday pay
Create Holiday Calendars to automatically pay employees overtime according to company policy or state laws. Again, you don’t want to get slammed with heavy fines because you failed to record hours as overtime.
Every employee schedule created by TimeForge reduces labor costs and increases profits. Quickly and easily create schedules that meet your projected sales and labor targets while staying within your labor budget.
Automatically assign shifts
Why spend hours creating an employee schedule when it can be done in seconds? Our AutoScheduler™ system assigns the best shifts to your staff in mere seconds.
Build schedules from templates
Easy templates mean managers can skip the tedium of recreating the same schedule each week. Even better, our forecasting engine builds entire schedules based on your projected labor needs. Voila!
Keep employees happy
Allow employees to pick up open shifts, as well as swap shifts with their coworkers quickly and easily. Then, review and approve their requests.
Keeping track of employee hours doesn’t have to be a time consuming chore. TimeForge makes it easy to track and edit attendance from one centralized dashboard.
Manage employee overtime
Set pay rules for your entire company, specific positions, or individual staff members. Keep tabs on overtime expenses and stay compliant with state and local labor laws.
Enforce your schedules
When you use TimeForge attendance and scheduling together, you have the power to enforce your schedules. Set grace periods to allow early or late clock-ins and prevent employees from riding the clock.
Clock in and out – your way
TimeForge offers multiple ways for staff to clock in and out, including fingerprint timeclocks and using our mobile apps. You can even restrict clock-ins so that they can only be done on certain networks or at specific computers.
TimeForge has a fully-integrated log book, called the Daily Log, that can help you track important details across your enterprise. Never lose information again.
Stay on top of the day-to-day
The Daily log helps managers stay on top of daily operations. Use it to log customer feedback, set time for training with staff, report spills or equipment problems — pretty much anything! It works just like a three ring binder, except you can access it anywhere. And unlike a paper log book, it can never be lost, stolen, or damaged.
Get 3 log books in one
The Daily Log is actually three log books: a manager log, a staff log, and an audit log. The audit log is great because it’s automatically populated by important changes and events in TimeForge, such as when you post a schedule or modify a time card.
TimeForge provides several efficient means for connecting with your workforce no matter where you are. We understand how important it is to get the message across.
Send a message to one employee or all
Make an announcement to your entire company or location, or just the people you specify. Let your team know about big business changes, new rules or procedures, or adjustments to operating hours.
Call, email, or text at the tap of a button
Have the TimeForge mobile app? Simply open an employee record and tap a button to call, text, or email them. Yep, it’s that easy!
When you have the right tools at your fingertips, you can spend less time in a back office and more time on the floor. TimeForge has over 140 prebuilt reports that you can access, print, or email to yourself in just a few clicks.
View sales and labor data from anywhere
Integrate your point-of-sale to bring your sales data directly into TimeForge, where you can make use of robust reporting tools and email alerts. On top of that, access your data from anywhere — all you need is a browser or a mobile phone.
Make informed decisions
Track your sales and labor costs together to make informed decisions crucial to your business. See visually whether your sales are lining up with what you expect. Review sales and labor by hours, cost, or shifts, and look at time punches to compare budgeted labor to actual labor.
Build your own custom report in seconds
Pick your report type (sales, labor, employee, etc.), then choose the data you want to see. It’s as simple as that. Or, choose from one of many prebuilt reports for schedules, labor, sales, and more.
With TimeForge’s built-in task management and team execution features, keeping up with everyday but essential tasks becomes a breeze. Create checklists for anything that matters to your business.
Manage one-time or recurring tasks
Assign one-time or recurring tasks to employees and be alerted when tasks are completed — or when they’re not. This feature is great for regular inventory and maintenance checks, weekly or monthly training, and more.
Keep your employees and customers healthy
One great use for our task management solution is that it can help your team stay on top of regular hand washing and sanitizing. Was a station out of hand sanitizer? Flag the item for follow-up and get timely notifications.
With TimeForge’s forecasting engine, you can take your labor optimization to a whole new level. Our AI and machine learning algorithms generate automated labor forecasts that are 98.87% accurate! Best of all, you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to use them.
Generate schedules with perfect coverage
Our AI-driven software automatically generates great schedules in minutes based on past sales. It can even do this weeks out, which is important if you live in a state with fair workweek or secure scheduling rules.
Get insights for specific locations or the whole enterprise
Our forecasts provide a granular view of your data in 15-minute increments, which means you can really get a fine-grained picture of what’s happening at each of your locations.
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Let's talk about your business.
TimeForge is supported by a rockstar customer success team. Each one of us wants to see your business thrive, which is why we will happily show you a live demo of our software in action – tailored to your specific business needs.