The Operations hub includes the following features: Time Clock, Job Schedule, Forms, and Quick Tasks. 

The Advanced plan gives you all the tools you need to manage your business easily, even as it grows. In short, head to the beach, sit back, and sip your piña colada! With customizations and bulk actions, you can run your team with minimum effort and get maximum results. Let's explore the value of the Advanced plan!

Customize the clock-in experience: Choose how your team clocks in and out to fit your business needs while keeping your operations running smoothly.

Location-based employee tracking: Now, employees will know if they are required to be in a specific location in order to clock in. Our Time Clock displays a map, making it easy for them to see where they are located in relation to the geofenced area.

Identify the gap between scheduled hours and actual worked hours: When you review your employee's timesheet, a column highlights the difference between the scheduled and actual worked hours. If you click on it, you can compare these times and, if needed, even chat with the user directly from here to warn them.

Simplify and automate payroll: Make payroll a breeze by allowing your employees to submit their timesheets when they’re ready. You can then review and approve their timesheets, and then you're done. With just a few clicks, you have finalized payroll, avoided any mistakes, and ensured everyone gets paid correctly and on time.

Then, admins can filter their view of their timesheets so they only see those that have been submitted by the employee. Enter each, review their worked hours and any approved time off they have, and ensure everything is accurate and ready. To finalize the process, approve their timesheets.

The employee will instantly know their timesheet has been approved.  

✨ Learn more about this capability by clicking here. 

Customize your timesheet exports: Add or remove columns and adjust their order to match your reporting needs, ensuring you stay on top of both legal and company policies without the headache.

Save time and effort with import capabilities: Skip the hassle of entering manual data! Easily import job and shift information from an Excel file, saving you time and effort, and getting your team set up in no time.

The same goes for shifts. Let's say that you are switching from an outdated software to Connecteam. You can easily import the shifts in bulk, transferring all employee schedules in just a few clicks without the need for manual entry. 

✨ Click here to learn more about importing shifts and here to learn about importing jobs.

Avoid miscommunication and scheduling errors: Let employees set their unavailability and work preferences so you can schedule them when it works for both of you. This helps avoid scheduling conflicts and keeps everyone happy and in sync.

With a single setting, your scheduling process becomes much easier, as illustrated below. You’ll know in advance when employees are unavailable due to personal reasons, like doctor’s appointments, and when they prefer to work—helping you create a schedule that works for everyone. 

 ✨ Learn more about this capability by clicking here.

Simplify shift swapping: Give employees the freedom to swap shifts with qualified and available coworkers, reducing no-shows and last-minute scheduling headaches. This feature ensures 100% shift coverage while keeping everything running smoothly.

Streamline the process of approving open shift requests: With a simplified process, employees can only claim shifts they are qualified for, while admins maintain control by approving or declining requests. This approach ensures compliance with labor laws, minimizes scheduling errors, and keeps operations running smoothly.

The admin can review the requests and approve or reject them, confident that only qualified employees have claimed the shifts.

Save time with efficient schedule planning: Create a single shift, a daily schedule or a weekly schedule and then save it as a template and use it as many times as you need in the future. You can access all the templates from the same place on your schedule. Drag and drop the one you need directly onto your schedule and enjoy the simplicity and efficiency of the scheduling process.

The same applies to recurring shifts. For jobs that occur regularly—whether daily, weekly, or monthly—you can create a single shift and set it to repeat.

✨ Click here to learn more about schedule templates and click here to learn about repeating shifts.

Foster better communication and planning with clients: Easily share a live link to your schedule with clients or third parties, giving them a clear view of planned employee work hours and job completion timelines. This keeps everyone on the same page and helps maintain strong business relationships.

Encourage honest feedback with anonymous forms: When filling out a form, the employee will instantly know if it's anonymous. So certain sensitive topics, such as giving feedback on managers or shift supervisors, are ideal instances when making the form anonymous will be beneficial.

It will encourage better feedback and more frequent entries.  

Ensure employees provide all the data you need: Make important fields, such as employee or client signature, mandatory.

This way the employee will not be able to submit their entry unless they complete it, as illustrated below.

Ensure Image Accuracy and Authenticity: Decide whether employees can upload images from their camera, photo gallery, or both when submitting forms. This control helps maintain the quality and trustworthiness of the images submitted, ensuring you receive accurate visual documentation.

When the user reaches the checkpoint and takes the picture, they won't be able to upload it from their gallery; they will need to capture it live using their camera.

Remind employees to submit forms on time: Automatically send reminders to employees to submit their forms on time. No more chasing them down—this feature ensures timely submissions without any extra effort on your part.

The remind can either be recurring or a one time reminder. If you need a form to be completed by a certain deadline, it's important you set these reminders. All employees who haven't submitted the form yet, will be notified.

Control who has the power to create and assign tasks within the company: Ensure that only the right people can create and assign tasks within your company. This promotes accountability and ensures tasks are managed by those who understand the context and priorities.

Save time while managing your company's tasks: Effortlessly manage tasks for your team using the quick actions menu. With just a click, you can remind users to complete a task, mark them as done, duplicate, or archive them. This streamlined approach saves you time and keeps everything organized.

Create recurring tasks: Set tasks to repeat automatically, ensuring important activities are completed on schedule. This feature helps maintain consistency and keeps your team focused on their priorities without missing a beat.