Author Archives: jon@helloscheduling.com

Sync Work Schedule with iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook, and More

We’re incredibly excited to announce that you can now sync your work schedule with iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook and other calendaring software that support ICS/iCalendar  subscriptions (most calendaring applications do). Simply add your ICS link to your favorite calendaring software, … Continue reading

Give up and Pick up Shifts Now Improved

Last week we released the ability for your employees to give up their shifts.  Based on your feedback we’ve made an important improvement to the feature: Now when your employees give up their shifts, they are still responsible for the … Continue reading

“Employee Availability” Makes Creating Work Schedules Easy

Hello Scheduling is an easy to use work schedule program.   One of our most popular features, and something both managers and employees love, is the ability for employees to enter their availability. In Hello Scheduling, employees can enter their … Continue reading

Enabling Your Employees to “Give up” Shifts

Today we launched the ability for your employees to “give up” their shifts.  Don’t worry, this feature is turned off by default and does not replace shift swapping. Once your employee “gives up” his or her shift, it will automatically … Continue reading

Grocery Store Scheduling

Being a grocery store manager is tough. There are so many different departments, and scheduling all of them can be nightmare.  It takes a lot to keep your retail store workers in the right shifts at the right time. With … Continue reading

Scheduling Your Frozen Yogurt Shop

Whether you already own, or are considering opening a frozen yogurt shop, scheduling your employees is an important part of managing your yogurt shop. While your store might not require many shifts, one or two employees serving the yogurt and … Continue reading

We’ve Added “The Wall” for Easy Staff Communication

Here at Hello Scheduling we’ve been really focused on keeping teams in communication regarding their work schedules.   Today we’re happy to announce the release of “The Wall”!  It works exactly like facebook, and all team members can post to … Continue reading

Creating Employee Schedule Printouts

Over the last month we’ve added a number of features to make creating work schedule printouts even easier.  Hello Scheduling allows you the option of printing out either a calendar — like the one your see on the screen — … Continue reading

Filter Your Shift Schedules & Print Filtered Views

Hey Everybody! Today we released shift schedule filtering, making it much easier to view and print large employee schedules. You can easily filter the schedule to: See only shifts that you are working See only unscheduled shifts See only shifts … Continue reading

Auto-Scheduling. Create Employee Schedules in Seconds

In December we quietly launched the ability for you to schedule your employees automatically.  We’ve been tweaking the feature over the last few weeks, and now we’re ready to share it with you. Here’s a quick walkthrough video that will … Continue reading