Findmyshift Reviews

Pros

We love the fact that you can add as many staff as necessary without paying per person, particularly as we use a wide database of freelance contractors, so we have may only use some of them on rare occasions yet we don't have to continually pay just to have their name sitting in the app.

Cons

The fact that you can't zoom in and out whilst viewing the calendar to be able to see several weeks at a time on screen.

Pros

We've been using findmyshift for years to manage the staff rota for our carehome. Being able to access it anywhere with an internet connection, make changes etc has been invaluable.

Cons

The holiday management within the software doesn't suit our industry very well, great for straightforward hourly rates for staff with hours that never change and where additional payments aren't a consideration but doesn't account for the fact that employees must be paid an average wage for their time off taking into account regular overtime, flat rate bonuses for shifts etc. As such, i need to keep a separate spreadsheet for this.

Pros

1. Good that you can see 20 weeks worth of shifts
2. Staff ability to access sheets via phone is really good
3. Reviewing past months/years is easy and a very useful function

Cons

1. Sometimes it's too easy to make mistakes i.e. moving a shift without knowing
2. Occasionally we need to have 2 background colours in 1 single cell (e.g. if someone is working an early but then also training in the afternoon) and this can be hard to achieve.

Pros

The price is very fair for the features it provides. The range of reporting is really helpful and as a whole it is really easy to navigate. the view is very clean and easy to find what you're looking for. having visibility of any time off being added is a real great tool.

Cons

I would like to filter by multiples of the same category e.g. several job titles (this may be possible but haven't figured it out yet). adding time off is a few clicks longer than it needs to be. It's a bit annoying when an employee changes their hours and you have to go through and update a few weeks worth with the new hours, A way of having a default shift pattern for each employee that you can change so it changes it for all future shifts.

Pros

Great flexibility between facility view and staff view. Different filters and preset filters allow me to tailor rota for different areas in hospital. Product support is excellent. New features added regularly.

Cons

I haven't managed to coordinate our leave cycle which runs from 1 April to 30 March with the leave reports which appears to take annual allowance from 1 Jan-31 Dec. It might be possible but haven't found feature yet.

Pros

The ease of adding in shifts and people, the fact that the admin can accept and confirm bookings. The option to add additional roles. The everyone can log in from home to see the rota, and that there is a message board function.

Cons

It is not very transferable between different devices, I often get complaints from the members who use the service with us that the layout is not understandable when read off of a iphone or ipad.

The reports function is useful, however I do find it hard to navigate and understand.

Pros

staff can access their rosters online through computer or smartphone app .
They are made aware of roster changes and updates through an automatically generated email , but you can chose to send if needed
all staff can see who is rostered on , so if they need someone to cover a shift they can see who is not rostered on .

Cons

I have not come across any major issues , is can sometimes be a bit slow to save changes

Pros

Can log in from anywhere to check and like wise for staff

Cons

When a staff member finishes and you put a final date in, or you remove that staff member, it removes them from all history. Would be useful to keep on, from that point back, so you could look back on shifts and see where that staff member was allocated.

Pros

Email notification of shift changes; visually

Cons

Should be able to enter a start date and end date range when entering Time off without having to select all the dates (e.g. 2 weeks). Should be able to right click and enter the date range, as oppose to having to view multiple weeks, or selecting the date entering one date of Vacation and them going back in and adjusting the end date.

Pros

Being able to have the rota per building or per employee, we use per employee base don our business needs. How easy and quick it is to book and enter times.

Cons

Holiday management
Uploads section and notice board need a lot of loving, not very 2018 more like 1999.
The Android/ iOS app could be improved massively.
Reports are not great or easy to use

Pros

What I like about this is that you can manage your availability in a given date without exerting to much efforts or going to excel file just to create/manage schedule. This software is basically can serve as your own secretary. If you are running a company you can manage your workers with the use of the software, you can put your schedule inputs that employee can see on their end when they log in on their own account that includes personal details of your employee that you can just pull up when you need it.

Cons

It sometimes takes time to load up especially if its a big input.

Pros

As the person assigned to create attendance and shifts for our employees, I had a hard time with time in and time out. I started using software that can offer Time Tracking features and found Findmyshift. It has helped our company greatly and it also has helped me, took a few things off my hands. It delivers what it advertises.

Cons

The features need more updates and more improvement. They are good and working now, but it feels like they can improve some more. Overall it's great.

Pros

The most beneficial factor of Find My Shift for my company is the scheduler. It is easy for my employees in the field to see their own schedule as well as the other employees they are to be working with. The ability to easily edit/swap schedules due to employee absences or terminations was also very appealing to us.

Cons

The least appealing aspect of the software is the overall appearance of the scheduler. I understand it is excel based, and that helps tremendously. But this is the only excuse I could give.

Pros

Flexibility of use - the different views of locations are great. I like being able to colour different locations - a simple thing, but very handy!

Cons

Speed of screen saving and loading - seems to take ages. Holiday days are also a bit problematic - visibility of amount of holidays staff have left is a bit tricky.

Pros

Enables us to work staff around our shift needs not the other way around
Easy to record absence, holidays e.c.t
Easy to schedule staff and change things around
Staff can be sent changes via text
User Friendly
Can colour code if needed
More then 1 admin can have access

Cons

The mobile app could be better
You can schedule a staff member in 2 locations at the same time, should not be allowed to do this

Pros

Once you learn the keystrokes (much the same as Excel) you can copy paste and edit shifts en masse with ease.

Cons

Payroll tax reporting is effectively useless in the UK as it cannot account for the rules governing personal allowance (tax-free amount) and NI. Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I'd love for that to be a useful feature.

Pros

I appreciate the simplistic nature of the scheduling software. It allows you to easily manage the schedule of your employees, especially if headquarters is a satellite be office employees there are multiple offices.

Cons

The mobile app could use some updating as it is not easy to read.
The only other negative is this is essentially a straight scheduling software. If you want to use it to manage client portfolios which overlap with employees schedules as is used in non- medical home care companies, this is not a holistic software to use.

Pros

We have a pool of associate staff and by using Findmyshift, we can instantly tell them all about availability of shifts, have a record of all emails sent to whom and have a very clear, visual representation of who is working.

Cons

The amount of automatically generated emails that are created every time that you make a slight change or edit.

Pros

Easy and very flexible to use staff and managers.

Cons

Not much I dont like about software to be honest

Pros

I found that using Findmyshift there were many options /tools. available.
The cost and the ease of use added to the overall experience.

Cons

Being able to see a long term schedule- the layout was difficult.
If there was an option to have the view similar to a calendar layout- that would be ideal

Pros

Very intuitive and easy to use; we're happy with ability to customise functionality and views to different staff roles. In addition, the smart device app makes it that much more accessible.

Cons

The only thing I can think of is limitation to view rotas always starting from Monday. If this could be more flexible to be able to view rotas starting at any day of the week, that would be ace, but by no means is this a major inconvenience.
Lower cost would always be a bonus!

Pros

I was looking for an online rota and this was around early days. I have been on the platform for over 6 years and thing it dose what it is suppose to do.

Cons

maybe some better functionality on the mobile version. but not a big deal

Pros

Functionality is superb with mobile applications available as well. Staff will no longer have the excuse for missing a shift. Easy to use and understand.

Cons

Although the cost is set per team / company, this is great if there are a thousand members of staff but expensive if you are just over the staff limit for the free version of 5 employees.

Pros

I love the feature to email & update staff with their current rotas

Cons

an automatic save would be helpful - not not necessary. not much else i don't like

Pros

Easy to use for employer and employees.

Cons

We use Excel to analyze our labor​ expenses. Sometimes there are reports we would like to have that is​ missing in the software.