Sling

Vorteile

We love the time off request- the ability to do it by day or by the hour is a great feature for our type of work where employees are scheduled by the hour. We love how you can see if it has been approved or is pending, and the notifications to all management when a staff requests off is a great feature to keep everyone in the know!

Nachteile

We are working with the free version only, so under 50 employees, but we do have seasonal hiring, so in the summer months we go over that number. We make it work, but it would be great to have flexibility to sometimes go over that number if needed to keep it a free user system.

Vorteile

Relatively straight forward to use. Can see overall view of upcoming shifts and easy to clock in/out with adjustments if needed. Also like the feature of seeing how many hours were worked each week so invoicing can be accurate.

Nachteile

No features I didn't like. I hardly used the chat function but did notice when it was being used, for example, for reporting sickness, there'd be multiple chat threads when maybe it could be populated in one stream?

Vorteile

Easy scheduling for employees and time off requests

Nachteile

Limited in its uses. No ability to train inside the app

Vorteile

works like a charm. great product for staffing needs

Nachteile

you can not see what location the employee is at on the app

Vorteile

It is very easy to plan and share the schedule to the employees.

Nachteile

There is nothing that comes to mind, everything work just fine.

Vorteile

Easy of use, quality service and no down time.

Nachteile

nothing, great program and offers a lot for the money

Vorteile

It made the tasks of scheduling workers and communicating with them much easier

Nachteile

It's a little bit expensive, otherwise not a lot of downside

Vorteile

Love the fact that I can look out months out to see who I have off and when. It let's those who are on vacation know what their schedule is without calling the store. We can communicate with our employee's when we have a store meeting, if we have shifts

Nachteile

My one and only issue is the cost. As a General Manager of one store, the overall company does not pay to use Sling so I am responsible for the bill. I am sure though, that a company as a whole would not have an issue with the cost.

Vorteile

Having access to all the things I'm into anywhere I go.

Nachteile

Sometimes it can freeze up or have some minor UI bugs.

Vorteile

We use Sling for team chat and mobile access. I like the software.

Nachteile

I have nothing to complain. Mobile access is nice.

Vorteile

Fast and easy set up. Very easy to configure and use.

Nachteile

There is a problem with resending invites to join if you create a user without the correct contact details - email or phone number. Can be worked around.

Vorteile

1. Communication Tool2. Optional parameters3. Integrates with my POS4. Easy to set up repeating shifts

Nachteile

There is not anything I do not like about Sling.

Vorteile

The mobile app is what makes this package great. My employees love the push notifications when new shifts are posted.

We have a variable schedule and a student workforce. Our MO is to post available shifts when we need people to work. Sling! lets our students apply for as many or as few shifts as they like. We can then approve individuals to put our team for the day together based on the skills of those who have applied and the needs of the tasks at hand.

Nachteile

There is no view available that visually groups like time blocks into shifts.

Our shifts don't follow a set schedule, but we often need more than one person to work the same time block on a given day. There are now several features to help you save time when scheduling things like this. For example, you can copy shifts to avoid having to enter all of the same details multiple times, and you can select several different positions when creating a shift, but once created, each person shows up as their own event on the schedule.

If I've got a half dozen different people working for each of four different time blocks on a single day, the calendar starts to get a little overwhelming with 24 separate events represented. If there was a way to group like time blocks into shifts with multiple employees assigned, this example would be down to 4 separate events, which is much easier to quickly get your head around.

Vorteile

The scheduling works phantastic and is easy tu use. The mobile application is always syncronized, so people know immediately when things change. The interface is clear and well optimized. A great tool for everyday´s work.

Nachteile

It works only online, no cache used on mobile apps. So when you don´t have mobile coverage, no data shown. Sometimes old data are better tha no data.

Vorteile

Easy scheduling for a mid size team. Love the newsreel section to keep the team up to date on company information

Nachteile

No complaints at all. Love this application

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Vorteile

This software program was very easy to establish for our company. Since we travel frequently, it makes it very easy to assign locations to our employees. It also allows me to enter different time zones to help with getting them to work on time. Scheduling is done with a breeze as you can fill out for the whole week a repetitive shift. Labels and tags work great for payroll purposes. Reports are easy to pull and allocate for regular hours worked, overtime and double-time. Great way to communicate to all employees if projects change while they are out in the field.

Nachteile

Would like to have double-time calculated after the sixth day worked

Vorteile

I love the fact that this software saves me so much time compiling a schedule. I can create recurring shifts when I know that the same team goes to one of our satellite locations.

Nachteile

I utilize the free version because the company didn't need all of the bells and whistles that came with the paid versions.

Vorteile

This is so easy to use and communicate with your staff, my favorite function is that staff can switch shifts and I just hit approve, no more 10 texts, the scheduling is very easy to do and I can even do it from my phone!

Nachteile

I cant find anything negative, every age group has easily learned how to use this app

Vorteile

Sling offers the flexibility to schedule and track staffing for irregular events (catering) with ease. I can also track actual hours worked vs my budget and schedule. Tremendously helpful. Their support has been very responsive, too.

Nachteile

Not much I would change! The only issue my team and I have experienced is that the notifications can be excessive, e.g. if I post a month work of events, staff who are eligible for multiple positions will get dozens of notifications. It'd be nice if there was an option to get a notice of updates, but a digest of the details.

Vorteile

Ease of use, instant notification to my staff of changes in the schedule, and making my staff responsible for making those changes.

Nachteile

If you could give the option of having the work week go from Sunday to Saturday, instead of only Monday to Sunday that would be awesome.

Vorteile

Sling makes employee scheduling and overtime tracking a breeze. Our team members love the ability to receive instant notifications of their assigned shifts, and our organization benefits from being able to distribute our workforce more strategically to maximize production and reduce loss.

Nachteile

Sometimes it is difficult to shortlist relevant shifts and employees when setting schedules for multiple locations, especially in cases of particular employees working in more than one location.

Vorteile

Easy to quickly see schedule, Digital sharing among employees, Adjustments are quick and immediately seen, User friendly, High quality app

Nachteile

All changes have to be approved by an administrator, it would be convenient if my employees were able to trade shifts themselves without the approval. I wish there was a "low priority" setting that would allow this change. There were some difficulties using the software between different phone providers depending on how good the service was in the area.

Vorteile

Notiing.

Nachteile

Can not talk to anyone no customer service it stinks

Vorteile

The ability to completely get away from paper scheduling for my employees is great, and if a change is made they are all alerted through the website and mobile app. No matter where I am, I always no who is scheduled and can use my phone or tablet to manage all of it.

Nachteile

It is a bit cumbersome to copy and paste multiple weeks of schedules at a time.

Vorteile

We utilize another system for time in/out, and payroll. This is a great addition for scheduling. It allows our team to put in request off times, and it's easy to see within the scheduling system. We use the free version.

Nachteile

I wish the free version allowed me to track call offs.