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1 controllable effortless employee requests affordability cost control web-based employee requests flexibility freedom painless scheduling ease of use daily reminders return on investment daily reminders more floor time employee notification streamlined painless scheduling AutoScheduler powerful organized simplicity reduce turnover

2 Welcome to the next generation of employee scheduling software To compete in today s marketplace your business needs to operate efficiently. Labor costs, which could be more than one-third of your expenses, are a commodity that must be managed continuously and diligently. To properly manage your staff, your management team needs to calculate labor requirements based on the needs of your business, your customers, and your employees. Every minute spent scheduling is a minute away from the floor. Almost 10% of the week is used to manage fluctuating staffing requirements. How much time do you spend making employee schedules? Most restaurant managers spend between 132 and 188 minutes of the week scheduling employees. Almost 10% of the week is used to manage fluctuating staffing requirements. Spreadsheets and stickynotes are not the answer to the problem. You need a dedicated solution to schedule your staff quickly and accurately. management and staff, reduces schedule related confusion, and provides comprehensive reporting for all of your locations. Our staff has worked with leading mathematicians to ensure that every schedule made in TimeForge reduces your labor costs. According to a recent survey, 53% of restaurants schedule their employees using the pen-and-paper method, which can take take up to seven hours each week. In fact, most managers who use a spreadsheet to assist with labor scheduling spend over three hours per week on employee scheduling. By using TimeForge, a schedule can be created in under thirty minutes, greatly reducing the amount of time that you and your management team spend away from the floor. TimeForge is 100% web-based software that can be accessed from anywhere in the world with Internet access. You and your employees can view current and upcoming schedules, run historical reports, and compare multiple locations side-by-side at any time. TimeForge sends automatic and text message updates to your employees about their work schedules. There are no extra computer programs to install, no software updates to manage, and no annual support contracts to renew. You need TimeForge is an easy-to-use software program designed to quickly create a balanced and effective schedule. TimeForge streamlines schedule creation, notifies employees of upcoming schedules and schedule changes, improves communication between

3 offers amazing features to make your scheduling process simple! TimeForge works hard to help you streamline the labor management and scheduling processes at your business. The software reduces the time that you and your management team spend scheduling employees, and optimizes employees notifications in an effort to save your business money. In fact, TimeForge can reduce employee scheduling time by as much as 98%. TimeForge takes employees, positions, pay rates, maximum hours, minimum hours, skill levels, seniority, shift requirements, work requests, day off requests, and the needs of your business to create the best schedule possible. Our proprietary AutoScheduler TM software has been designed with the help of leading industry experts, and can create a balanced schedule in seconds. The AutoScheduler TM tool will take employees, positions, pay rates, maximum hours, minimum hours, skill levels, seniority, shift requirements, work requests, day off requests, and the needs of your business into account to create the best schedule possible. Your team can provide schedule hints to the AutoScheduler TM and it can recalculate a new schedule, taking the hints into consideration, within seconds. Imagine no more sorting scraps of paper, trying to read log books, or managing employee call-ins! Our expert team of developers ensures that the TimeForge product is up to date with current scheduling technology so that your business can really compete in today s marketplace. We frequently add new features to the software, and because TimeForge is a webbased software program, these updates take place automatically there is nothing for you to install on your computer and no maintenance contracts to worry about. You will receive new features, new reports, and new improvements on a continual basis. And, if the features you would like for your specific scheduling situation are not in TimeForge, be sure to call, fax, or our support desk. We take customer suggestions very seriously, and your feature could be in the software in a matter of days! The software comes with several user-friendly wizards including a Setup Wizard to assist your team with the creation of a new account and a User Wizard to quickly add or remove employees. These wizards are complete with easily understood instructions and are designed to allow you and your management team to setup your entire business on TimeForge within a few minutes. After the initial setup of your company within TimeForge, our reliable support team is available to answer any questions that you might have.

4 With your business using TimeForge for all of your scheduling needs, your employees will always know when they need to work! Employees will receive daily s and text messages detailing their upcoming work schedule. The and text message frequency is controlled by the employee, and employees are immediately notified if schedule changes occur after the employee has been initially contacted. Employees can also access their schedules by logging into TimeForge at any time. The AutoScheduler TM software that empowers the TimeForge program is extremely flexible and very powerful. It has been designed to allow your employees to set their work preferences, including days and times they need to work, like to work, would prefer not to work, or need off. You and your management team will be able to approve or deny all employee requests, and TimeForge s AutoScheduler TM will take each of the schedule requests into consideration while generating a schedule. Did you know that one of the top three reasons that employees quit is because managers do not adhere to scheduling requests? Without TimeForge, managers at your company likely have to maintain requests for days off, sick days, vacation requests, shift swapping, and other changes to the schedule with little pieces of paper, manager log books, writing on the posted schedule, and sticky-notes. These papers are frequently lost, forgotten, or accidentally discarded. TimeForge streamlines employee requests and reduces the amount of time that your managers spend controlling employee absences. Properly managing employee schedule requests and absences can effectively reduce turnover within your organization. TimeForge was built by industry professionals who understand that reports are important to managing your business. There are more than a dozen reports available in the system, and we are continually adding new reports to allow you to monitor your labor costs and scheduling trends. Reports within the system monitor labor costs, shift pricing, average pay rates, and other analytics. Labor costs can be effectively compared to gross sales to provide comprehensive insight to labor percentages within your company. Other reports include employee contact information, daily labor-load charts, graphical costing charts, and a report displaying employee activities (when employees check their schedules, are ed, or text messaged). TimeForge streamlines employee requests and reduces the amount of time that your managers spend controlling employee absences. TimeForge has been built from the ground up to ensure a fast Return On Investment for your business.

5 Why should you use Enjoy fast and painless employee scheduling with TimeForge. You and your managers spend less time scheduling and more time on the floor working with employees and ensuring customer satisfaction. every day? Do you need to monitor your labor costs, build schedules quickly, improve staff satisfaction, reduce employee turnover, and spend more time with customers? TimeForge is the answer! Schedule Without Pain TimeForge is a fast Internet application accessible from anywhere in the world. Your managers can generate a complete schedule in minutes compared to hours with traditional methods. Every TimeForge schedule reduces your labor costs. Notify Employees Employees will always know when they need to work! TimeForge can schedules to employee s and send text message reminders to their cell phones. Employees can also access their schedules by logging onto TimeForge anytime. Your managers will also be able to see when employees were last notified! Balance Employee Requests TimeForge allows your employees to set their day and time shift preferences. TimeForge balances schedule requests and uses the preferences to generate the lowest cost schedule possible. Improve Staff Satisfaction TimeForge remembers requests for days off, sick days, vacation requests, shift swapping, and other changes to the schedule. No more losing little pieces of paper or sticky-notes and no more miscommunication with the employees. Monitor Labor Costs Reports are important to managing your business. More than a dozen reports are available, and we are continually adding new reports to help you monitor your labor costs and scheduling trends. Reduction in Employee Turnover Did you know that one of the major reasons for the high turnover in our industry is because managers do not adhere to scheduling requests? TimeForge can reduce employee turnover by managing and recording employee schedule requests and employee absences. Low-Price Web Based Software No software to purchase, no software to install, no software to upgrade, and no fees for support. You always have access to the latest version of the software, and you always have support. Instant Return On Investment TimeForge has been built from the ground up to ensure a fast Return On Investment for your business. Managers can generate schedules within minutes (not hours), employees are notified of their schedule on a continual basis, and your staff can spend less time on scheduling, and more time on the floor, working with employees and ensuring customer satisfaction.