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See Your Profits Forecasted by Creating Schedules
See Your Profits Forecasted by Creating Schedules

Harness your superpower to know if you're jobs are forecasted to make or lose money.

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Written by CustomerCareTeam
Updated over a year ago

If you knew your car's timing belt would break while on vacation, you'd definitely replace it before you hit the road.

The superpower of seeing into the future would be great, right? Please keep reading.

The traditional mindset for creating employee schedules is so everyone knows the daily work plan. Advanced scheduling features also have no-show alerts to warn supervisors when employees don't show up. But...

Here's a groundbreaking concept that lifts your business to new heights -

Create schedules to see your job PROFITS FORECASTED.

The best-laid plans

For example, you get a $50,000 annual contract to clean a school building. You assign supervisors and hire employees to do the work, and off they go. When do you check back on their progress to see if you're making money? How do you know if you're making money? Because, as you know, the best-laid plans of mice and men...

What you've spent in labor costs to date is in the rearview mirror. You can only try to control future outcomes, but how?

You wonder if the same thing will happen next week. How do you get insight as to what is ahead- a few days out or further?

Schedules, yes, schedules.

The power of schedules

In Chronotek Pro, when you schedule people the plan is set:

  1. Employee pay rates

  2. Bonus pay codes, if applicable, such as weekend work

  3. Hours scheduled

  4. Order of jobs worked

When you feed the whole plan into the Pro machine, we can tell you what your profits (or losses) will be 12 months from now and every step along the way.

You see the future.

Let's pause because you don't want to miss point #2 above. You can create a weekend pay code that gives someone an hourly pay rate bump and make a schedule with that pay code. We forecast your job profits based on this scheduled higher pay rate.

You'll also uncover these gold nuggets:

  • Future overtime

  • Future travel time pay

  • Future average pay rate scheduled

The future - far and near

Seeing the future 6-9 months out is fantastic; you can adjust when necessary.

But seeing 3-4 days into the future is also valuable. Today is Wednesday, May 17, and the time screen shows 2 employees hitting overtime on Friday. This forecast is based on the actual hours worked this week + scheduled hours for the remainder of the week. Armed with this foreknowledge, I can adjust to keep these two employees under 40 hours.

Pretty spectacular, right?

Chronotek Pro didn't create the future, but it did invent the superpower to see it.

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