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ABC Roster

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Editors' Review

Download.com Staff Aug 1, 2011

Trying to create an employee schedule--especially when many of your employees are part time or have limited availability--can be an especially infuriating puzzle. ABC Roster is an easy-to-use program that can take at least some of the hassle out of this important managerial task.

The program's interface is attractive and fairly intuitive, with an optional wizard that can walk you through the steps of creating a schedule for the first time. We were surprised by the number of features that ABC Roster has; you can assign skill levels to each employee and set the minimum average skill level per shift, set the minimum and maximum number of supervisors per shift, and set parameters for the number of back-to-back shifts, hours worked per week, days off per week, and more. You can enter each employee's weekly availability and have the program automatically create the schedule, a pretty amazing feature for anyone who's ever driven herself crazy trying make employee availability fit scheduling needs. You can even enter each employee's pay rate and the program will calculate your anticipated weekly payroll expenditures. We loved it that ABC Roster lets you e-mail schedules to employees, too. The program comes with an extremely thorough PDF Help file that includes plenty of screenshots. Overall, we were quite impressed with ABC Roster, and we think it's a great choice for anyone who's sick of trying to create schedules manually and is ready for an easier alternative.

ABC Roster installs and uninstalls without issues.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 1.8.1

Version 1.8.1 has corrected crash when exporting or previewing schedules.

General

Release March 5, 2013
Date Added March 5, 2013
Version 1.8.1

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements Microsoft .Net Framework v2.0 or higher

Popularity

Total Downloads 7,788
Downloads Last Week 2
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Developer's Description

ABC Roster is a application especially designed to assist in the complex task of organizing employee shift schedules (also known as rosters) for small to medium organizations (mainly food and beverage departments, but it can also be used in other areas). ABC Roster aims to be time-efficient and user-friendly, providing the user with a convenient and intuitive way of creating rosters quickly. Main features are easy-to-use, intuitive user interface (just drag and drop employees onto shifts), manage employees' availability, days off, leave, events, bookings, the automated planner that can generate schedules for you, you can email the schedules to employees directly from the application, and you can export the schedules to Microsoft Excel, PDF and HTML documents.
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