HotSchedules

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About HotSchedules

HotSchedules is the hospitality industry’s most widely adopted intelligent scheduling software. Managers can cut their scheduling time down to 45 minutes or less with the intuitive drag and drop interface while maintaining federal, state, and local labor compliance with automatic and configurable scheduling rules. But a scheduling provider is just a glorified spreadsheet until there’s data behind it. Powered by Fourth Intelligence, HotSchedules integrates with your POS to generate labor and sales data so your managers schedule the optimal number of employees every shift. Historical data, weather, events, and more are all considered! When you're ready, publish the schedule and all employees will be notified via our app, rated the #1 business app for 5+ years. Employees love how easy it is to swap and release shifts, message co-workers, and request time-off. Their schedules also integrate with Google calendar! We’ll also ask them to rate their shift on a scale of 1-5 when they clock out, giving you much-needed insight into employee satisfaction levels. Larger organizations will also love the Above Store Console giving admins a bird-eye view into the performance of multi-location operations. And for a deep dive, there’s a myriad of reports available, the most popular including labor snapshots, OT alerts, and even the average time managers take to approve shift swaps. Our support team will help you uncover what reports are most important to your business and can set up automatic delivery on a cadence of your choosing. Further empower operational excellence with our digital Logbook allowing you to maintain control of your brand’s communications and operational procedures. Create mobile-first tasks lists, delegate to-dos, and assign follow-ups (use our 70+ pre-built templates if you’re not sure where to start). Eliminate communication breakdowns and Post-it note nightmares with digital store logs and staff journals, allowing you to easily store important information like store deposits, complaints, and employee incidents (great for performance appraisals!). And finally, ace health inspections with food safety compliance measures including recording wireless temperature readings and time-stamped verification of all compliance tasks. HotSchedules Time & Attendance solution ensures payroll accuracy, further maintains labor compliance, and reduces processing time. Equally important, it will prevent early clock-ins (also called time theft or buddy punching). Just with enforced punctuality and overtime alerts, HotSchedules saved a store .5% in labor costs, putting an additional $17,500 per store back into the restaurant! HotSchedules is also equipped with employee surveys, health checks, and many customization capabilities. Your team will not only be equipped with the industry’s most widely adopted scheduling software, but 24/7 support. In the spirit of making your lives easier, not harder, your onboarding process will include live trainings, an implementation team to set HotSchedules up for your unique needs, and a dedicated customer success manager who will never upsell you, only support you.
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HotSchedules pricing

HotSchedules does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. HotSchedules paid version starts at US$40.00/month.

Starting Price:
US$40.00/month
Free Version:
No
Free trial:
Yes

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HotSchedules Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.1
Functionality
4.3
Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Support
4.2
5 reviews of 455 View all reviews
Eldridge
Eldridge
  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 6/10/2020

Your Schedule On The Go!

Wonderful! I can easily access using the app from my phone a comprehensive view of todays roster and more! Helping me as a director plan a shift before I even get to work. Especially important to plan in my business because surprises arise frequently and daily. I can also easily request time off needed through the app, call, text, or even email my staff if needed to. Hot Schedules saves me and my company time, money, and helps our business to stay productive!

Pros

I really enjoy the convenience of being able to view your work schedule remotely and anywhere for that matter! Set up an email or a Gmail account and it's delivered right to your inbox! Gone are the days of having to call your employer or having to drive to your place of employment to view it on paper. "Your" time is valuable and let's be honest, none of us want to go to work on our days off for any reason!

Cons

I really and truthfully speaking have nothing negative to include with Hot Schedules. It's been a great software addition to our store and team! If someone did tell me that I had to pick out one feature that I don't care for, I guess it'd be the "How was your shift?" feature that pops up when logging on. That said, it's such a minor dislike and isn't really worth mentioning.

Sanford
  • Industry: Recreational Facilities & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 18/8/2023

Hot Schedules, Cool Features

Having used several digital time keeping applications I can say that HotSchedules is at the forefront of modern employer/employee workplace record keeping, communicating and problem solving. I have nothing to report aside from the intuitive and positive experience of using HotSchedules.

Pros

The PC design and Cellular App function perfectly together with real time updates and changes made to one instantly reflects on the other. Understanding and navigating HotSchedules easy on the eyes layout and page designs couldn't be better, though I'm sure they will continue to improve even the smallest details to a more perfect version. Reviewing current, real time updated scheduling information may be the core of this program, but the ability to send and receive messages detailing important changes, requests, responses between workplace colleagues is fantastic.

Cons

In my personal and professional experience with HotSchedules I have little to report as negative. Being employed in the mountains at a ski resort the only drawbacks were not directly related to the HotSchedules program itself. From time to time our frail internet connection could be compromised or overloaded by guest's access and use resulting in lat notification of implementation of system updates. Once again, in my experience, this was a result more so of an overworked or disconnected internet, not the HotSchedules program itself.

Gabriel
  • Industry: Restaurants
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 15/8/2024

Makes schedule easier and organize

Pros

Easier to share schedule, get new availability from my employees in real time, plan days off, approve or deny swaps, shift release. It's an amazing tool that facilitate the work.

Cons

It take some time to have a new user on, and sometimes my employees have problems that shows their account it's blocked (but works if they go on the browser incognito), or keep asking them to change password every day once they login.

Tory
  • Industry: Restaurants
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Features
2
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

1
Reviewed on 4/9/2024

Not a Good Restaurant Scheduling Platform for SMBs

Awful. Not tech-foward. Support responds quickly, but rarely with helpful information. Immensely overpriced. Don't waste your money on this.

Pros

It's scheduling capabilities meet the industry standards of required features.

Cons

Terribly overpriced (especially for Canadian customers) if you are using it unintegrated; lack of new features being added; an employee app that costs money; a cancellation policy that makes it hard to stop using service unless you time it smartly.

Alternatives Considered

7shifts

Reasons for Switching to HotSchedules

HS had better features at the time of decision making.
Eric
  • Industry: Restaurants
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
3

5
Reviewed on 23/8/2024

New comers

Been with them for 16 yrs in two companies and has progressed with updates every yr

Pros

Very easy to use as well as navigating through reports

Cons

Not much to say here besides better alerts

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