Sling

[Tracerland11]

Hi everyone,

I am wanting to get everyone's feedback on scheduling apps. Currently, we use Homebase but their latest updates and continuing issues with syncing with Toast have made it a nightmare. I am looking at options to maybe switch but wanted opinions on which apps everyone uses and the pro's and con's that you have had. I was thinking sling originally, but after looking at the reviews on google play, I am thinking maybe its not good, Seems that it doesn't work very well for android users. What is everyone's thoughts on sling or other scheduling apps that can be integrated with toast?

[rcmck]

Okay, I don't have payroll but yeah it is basically top down like you described, but changes to jobs etc. do sync to sling automatically. Only thing you have to manually do is employee deactivations, they don't sync down. I don't mind testing, will test it on the next day we are closed and get back to you.

[rcmck]

So I tried the enforcement out after scheduling an employee for a job they don't have and they were still able to clockin at the scheduled time with the job they do have in the POS, without a manager passcode. 

[Tracerland11]

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I've had trouble logging in. I think that you also have to have schedule enforcement done in toast as well as in sling. see the screenshot. We've had trouble in the past with employees clocking in an hour or two before their shift just to get the extra money without doing anything. So that's a must to be able to have, not sure if you had both enabled or not. Thanks for looking into everything though. 

[rcmck]

Sorry, my reply may have sounded like I was having an issue, what I meant to say is that scheduling an employee with a job they don't have in toast  (one of your concerns) did not stop enforcement from working correctly, it allowed them to clock in at their scheduled time.

[Tracerland11]

Thanks again for being a guinea pig for me. I really do appreciate it. It seems that there is only a minor glitch on the schedule enforcement for sling, your employee was able to clock into a correct time for a shift but a wrong job title. While we have it set that they can't clock in unless it's A) 15 minutes before their scheduled time and B) the correct title for their designated shift. Is that something you can also test, do you have an enforcement of only allowing them to clock in so many minutes early? I am curious if they tried to clock in 30-60 minutes before the allowed time, like ours is set at 15 minutes before their scheduled time, if it would still allow them or if they would have to wait? Fixing a wrong job isn't as crucial as making sure they don't clock in for time they shouldn't be there just trying to milk the time clock, if that makes sense. 

Sorry if I am being a pain, I really do appreciate you testing these issues for me. It's helping me gather information before I take it to my boss to make a big change.