Sling

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This software was easy to use and implement, intuitive, colorful, well labeled, directive, fluid, and flexible. There are a lot of options available and it offers a lot od customization during both set up and operation. I especially loved that the process to
use sling, and the web application, was fast and understandable trying to get a small start up off the ground has me already spread thin on time and money, so sling really packs a punch for it's cost, which literally made my jaw drop, unparalleled!

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The company website (not the web application itself) was cumbersome and their prose was annoyingly perky. Seeing as they rambled on and on in long, overly adulating paragraphs about each one of their features, by the time I got to the "what's included in all packages/price points" section, I was a little disappointed about all the features not included (successful marketing ploy) but disappointing nonetheless.

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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!

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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.

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I was not a fan of this product for the most part

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It is not user friendly and has very limited capabilities.

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The best thing about Sling is the ease of use. It is very user friendly and easy to understand.

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I don't like how easy it is for the staff to send out messages to everyone in the building.

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Super easy to create recurring schedules for the team, keep track of time off requests, and fill in gaps in scheduling when necessary.

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The only thing I wish Sling could do is copy singular shifts and "paste" them somewhere else. The app/website offers a repetitive function, but for the shifts that only re-occur occasionally this would make scheduling much more efficient.

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The timeclock system is very easy to use, and you can effortlessly apply filters to execute payroll and AR procedures.

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The customer service leaves a lot to be desired. Not all agents are bad [Thank you [sensitive content hidden] for saving us!], but most of the time the responses are generic, and provide no real solution.

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This software is very helpful for scheduling, tracking time punches, and reporting. Especially when integrated with Toast, Sling is excellent! The mobile functionality of Sling is also incredibly important and useful.

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The user interface in the mobile app leaves a bit to be desired.

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Allowing unavailability to be completely customized and overlaid with the schedule

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The inability to edit time off requests.

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

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

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I like that it is app driven and easy to communicate with coworkers.

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Setting availability is confusing as you have to do it either by week or specific day. It is easy to mess up. It also starts on Sunday not on Mondays.

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Being able to copy and paste the schedule weekly saves time when making a schedule. In my department alone I have 87 employees. The unavailability feature is great so that as managers we can ensure we are scheduling people when they are available. This reduces the amount of time we would need to make adjustments to schedules if we scheduled someone when they were not available.
The messaging and announcement feature is great so that we can send out a group message to get an announcement out to all associates. Also being able to send private messages to employees is great so we do not have to give our personal phone number out to all employees.

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Not being able to delete private messages. We can archive the messages but cannot delete them. We have to archive each one individually which is time consuming. Also when we want to delete an announcement we have to check two boxes and then hit delete. Would be better if we could just click on the announcement or multiple announcements and hit delete.

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I looked through several scheduling tools before settling on Sling. This included simple Excel sheets, Homebase, and When I Work. I settled on Sling because of the wide array of features for no cost and mobile app access. The mobile app experience, per my team, was easy and extremely convenient. I personally was impressed with the ease of the drag-and-drop scheduler.

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About the only issues I had with the software was the occasional challenge to invite a new user. We haven't used it in a while now, but the only problem was that it seemed hard to resend the invite email to download the app. That being said, I think it was only because there are a lot of features in the software, and it can be a little challenging to do once specific task simply because it can take a minute to find it.

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It is easy to see everyone’s work schedule and request time off. Also like the ability to message particular coworkers or groups of coworkers.

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I get lots of notifications on the mobile app.

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

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

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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

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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.

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It is very easy to use and navigate this app.

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This app glitches a lot and has to be reset.

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Sling is critical to the planning of deploying staff in a large scale environment of events. The ease of use for both users and managers alike.

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Nothing. Sling is an all encompassing app / Website that we use on a daily basis

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

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I have nothing to complain. Mobile access is nice.

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I love you can easily communicate with either a co worker to the higher management with just a few clicks.

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Nothing really. I loved the overall product experience.

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Sling makes it easy to implement, change, publish, and review schedules for 1 or more groups in the company. From the admin standpoint, it is extremely helpful and very easy to use.

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There seems to be a few functions that could be "grouped together" versus in different places as far as creating/ changing/ repeating shifts, but nothing that is detrimental.

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

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There is not anything I do not like about Sling.

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I like how easy it is to schedule employees

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It’s harder to use on my ipad than on my computer b ut still very easy to use

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The easiness of managing labour costs in real time.

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Not being able to manually put someone in as late if we don't use the "time clock" feature within Sling.

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Sling is easy to use app on your phone tells when you have to be at work and give notifications hour before shift. Easy to see who is all working And where they need to be.

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There not much of anything I dislike about this software

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I really appreciate that there is an accessible employee database. This feature allows me to not have to add every employee on my personal phone because I can reference the database for needed information. I also quite like the Newsfeed feature. We currently have different categories in which to post pertinent information. It is helpful in sharing information with the team when we are all not present.

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I do not like that when on my desktop, the Newsfeed will alert me about new posts but the alert will not go away after I review the posts.

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Sling has taken away the need for us to have a dedicated employee spend 15-20 hours a week on employee scheduling. We are a relatively small non-profit, and as such we have multiple employees who routinely have to work outside their specialty/field of expertise in order to keep us afloat. One area that we have consistently had issues with is scheduling and tracking employees and volunteers. With multiple sites and multiple managers, we were losing money because we were doubling up on many shifts. It was not until we implemented Sling that we were able to effectively manage our employees schedule to provide us with the most return on our investment and our customers with the best service.

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We started out using the free version of Sling. Because we have less than 50 employees, this suited us fine at first, but there were options we did not have access to. We quickly realized that the limitations imposed by the free version could easily be solved by upgrading to the minimally priced premium version.

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This is great for tracking hours and making sure employees are getting those hours on the schedule and repeating shifts. You are able to continue for an entire year and it's easy to fix when employees have to shift hours due to life's little emergencies happening.
Being able to color code for each department is a wonderful plus.

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This is actually the hardest to figure out. i really haven't had any problems that couldn't be figured out in just a minute or two.

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Sling is very entertaining allows to to have various streams and choices of shows to watch on the app

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not much to dislike Sling is a very good app

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The ease of use for this app is great. It is very simple and your eyes are directed at exactly what you're looking for. Simplistic look is what I'm trying to say. Not just the looks are simple, though. It is very easy to navigate, review schedules, timecards, communicate with your team, etc.

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I genuinely can't think of anything off the top of my head.

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Transparent scheduling features, ease of use of the timeclock to report hours, and ability to modify reports through dates, locations, and employees.

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Customer service usually doesn't have an answer for you - although they are polite - I wish that some of these bugs we encountered were ironed out sooner than later.

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SLING is a very user friendly system that packs a powerful punch.

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Sometimes it locks up when trying to make corrections or changes.

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The ease all the staff can enter the dates they want to work, so schedules can be covered. Cuts down on phone calls of management to see who is available for uncovered shits and days.

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I would like the Staff- Off that day Days to be at the top of the Schedule so the person doing the scheduling would know who not to look for on that shift.

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Ease of use and functionality. The scheduling part was good and loved the way it dealt with leave and absence.

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Ui was not the best but it was not the worst one I've seen among all the scheduling apps.

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Free scheduling and easy to use, great for my small operation.

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There's nothing I don't like about Sling!

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Very easy to use, visually easy to read both in scheduling and time cards.

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Can't think of anything! Zero complaints from me!

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What I like the most about Sling is... I used to text message all of my employees to ler ask if they can work and then again to let them know when they are working! I no longer need to do that. They all know if they cant work they do the "Time Off request" if they can never work on such day they do "Unavailible" The natrue of our business are only events so we are somewhere different every event. Sling connects the address to the date as well. Its just been a total Game Changer a fee that we can afford!!

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This is a hard one! I really cant think of what I like least other than it needs to be intgrated with Apple Calendar, and the notification glitch I mentioned earlier.

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It's easy to use, it even gives text reminders for your shift if you enable it. There's a messaging system on it that allows staff to communicate.

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I wish there were more options for taking time off requests.

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Easy to use, clear color coded positions

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Labor management tools are lacking, would like to see some sales projection tools

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This platform is very easy to use. Time tracking, request days off, PTO, vacation time, swaps, I was able to do everything there, it is self-explanatory. And we were able to access it from our phones, works for remote work.

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Nothing negative to mention. Good platform.

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Sling is useful scheduling tool. As an employee, I like to be able to see available shifts, as well as be reminded of upcoming shifts. It's any easy way to communicate with co-workers, having all relevant employees able to see and message each other in one place.

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There are so many things that Sling can do, but I do feel that it takes some getting used to find and master all the features.

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Sling makes my scheduling task a breeze. I especially like: 1) being able to copy a previously posted schedule into a future period 2) employees being able to post unavailability 3) employees being able to make time off requests 4) employees being able to view who they are working with on a scheduled day 5) the ease in changing a schedule when a sick call comes in or an employee emergency happens

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I really can't think of anything I do not like about Sling.

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Easy of use, quality service and no down time.

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nothing, great program and offers a lot for the money

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Very user friendly and accessible for all employees

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Too much accessibility to all employees.

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I really like how easy is is to schedule people, put up available shifts for employees and the reminders so people know to come in to work. It makes my job easier and gives me some peace of mind.

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I have a couple issues.My least favorite thing is the mobile app, I said before it's just clunky and doesn't feel like a mobile app.I also need a way to view pdf's on the app without it downloading to your phone.And lastly it would make everything so much easier if I could have an hourly rate and a day rate option for employee's.That would solve all my issues and make me love using this scheduling system. I think I could even get some live music venues in the area to use it too because there isnt a program that does all of those things and your system is already really easy to use.

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Great software that ties into my pos. Free for staff makes it even better. Easy to use and easy to teach

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The only thing I can think to improve would be the ability to look over various saved schedule templates easily.

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

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

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Everything about this product streamlined what we were already doing in a way that increased productivity and decreased time bleed.

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It would be nice if it could be integrated easily into my Google suite as well. I still have to download spreadsheets and copy/ paste them into google sheets for my business.

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Our company uses the basic level of Sling for scheduling. It’s nice to creat reoccurring shifts, allow employees to submit requests off, put daily notes in and to be able to trade shifts (with managementa approval). Not really sure how I put up with my previous way of scheduling. Sling has made it a breeze.

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No cons on the basic level - maybe if we paid for it, there might be a con?…

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Easy to use and quick to learn. The payroll and time sheet feature are my favourite!

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Set up takes a little time. Adding employees when you first start up can be tedious.

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Sling Makes Employees Clock In. Employees Do Not Like To Clock In But We Can Make Them.

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Maybe A Few Videos Should Be Made Available If There Aren't Any Already.