scheduling
Deliver for your customers with smart scheduling
Customize schedules based on demand, employee certifications, and hundreds of other data points to best serve your customers—and your bottom line.
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Scheduling overview
Staff with confidence
Ensure every shift has the right combination of staff and skill sets to exceed customer expectations with labor planning, customizable scheduling rules, and smart alerts.
Meet changing demand
Build schedules in line with sales forecasts and labor targets by analyzing sales data, foot traffic, and other third-party data.
Enforce custom rules
Create and automatically enforce custom policies to fit your company’s precise needs and build your own rules for staffing.
Stay on top of staffing
Receive real-time alerts when employees clock in late or miss shifts entirely, or set up a points system to track attendance.
Labor Costs
Don’t overpay or over-staff
Easily track the impact scheduled shifts and changes will have on your budget. Flag shifts that result in overtime or extra pay and route them for additional approval.
Compliance checks
Safeguard your business from compliance risks
Rippling automatically enforces overtime, meal breaks, and other federal, state, and local labor laws based on each employee’s work location. We’ll even notify you if you miss a break when building a schedule.
Schedule Builder
Create complex schedules in minutes
It’s never been easier, or faster, to build out work schedules, thanks to intuitive controls and real-time visibility into staff certifications, availability, and more.
Drag and drop functionality
Copy and paste shifts
Set schedule patterns
Plug breaks into schedule
Employee Retention
Reduce turnover with flexible scheduling
Make it easy for employees to provide their availability and shift preferences, and simplify shift-swapping via the Rippling mobile app.
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Built different
Analyze, automate, and orchestrate anything
Rippling takes a platform approach—building products on a single source of truth for all the business data related to employees. This rich, flexible data source unlocks a powerful set of capabilities.
Permissions
Automatically govern what each person in your company can see, do, and access.
Policies
Build custom policies that enforce your business’s unique rules and procedures.
Workflows
Automate virtually anything with hyper-custom triggers and advanced workflow actions.
Analytics
Make better decisions faster with real-time, unified data in an easy-to-use report builder.
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FAQs
What is employee scheduling software?
Employee scheduling software is a tool that allows managers to create, assign, and adjust work schedules for employees, providing real-time visibility and compliance with labor laws.
How does work schedule software improve productivity?
Work schedule software improves productivity by allowing managers to create, assign, and adjust schedules in real-time, helping your business meet operational needs and maximizes productivity. It also provides your employees with visibility into their schedules and the ability to request changes, which enhances communication and reduces scheduling conflicts.
How does Rippling simplify scheduling for my business?
Rippling simplifies scheduling for businesses by integrating scheduling with time tracking, payroll, and compliance management into a single platform. This eliminates manual work, ensures compliance with labor laws, and provides real-time visibility into labor costs.
What are the benefits of using shift scheduling software?
The benefits of using shift scheduling software include efficient shift management, employee flexibility, real-time schedule tracking, extra compliance safeguards, operational efficiency, and flexible staffing.
How does Rippling help my business manage labor costs?
Rippling helps businesses manage labor costs by centralizing workforce management, keeping your business compliant and reducing penalties, providing real-time data on attendance, hours worked, and labor costs, enabling them to adjust staffing levels to match labor needs, and automating manual processes.
What features should I look for in employee scheduling software?
When searching for employee scheduling software you should look for solutions that help you stay compliant with local labor laws, meet operational needs, provide employee visibility and flexibility, make it easy for your managers to track availability, and integrate with time and attendance software.