Tutorials

Reading these short tutorials is a quick and efficient way for you to get started with our Snap Schedule employee scheduling software.

Using a Customer-Hosted Database with Snap Schedule 365

How it works: Snap Schedule 365 is deployed on the reliable Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform, with an additional Microsoft Azure Government deployment dedicated to serving US Government entities. This choice of deployment ensures the software’s high availability, scalability, and redundancy, which are essential for meeting critical service level expectations. By leveraging the powerful capabilities of the Microsoft Azure cloud computing infrastructure, Snap Schedule 365 incorporates a robust foundation for… Read More »Using a Customer-Hosted Database with Snap Schedule 365

Using Custom Fields With Your Data

Snap Schedule 365 gives you the ability to define all sorts of schedule-related data, but there are still instances when you need to input scheduling data that Snap Schedule 365 does not directly support. To capture this requirement, Snap Schedule 365 lets you define new fields for your schedule data. Up to ten text fields, five date fields, five numeric fields, and five checkboxes can be defined for each schedule… Read More »Using Custom Fields With Your Data

Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365 ERA

IMPORTANT: All information in the following screenshots contain sample data that should be replaced with information specific to your ADFS configuration. Example server: Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ ADFS 3.0 @ adfs.ad.snapschedule.com How it works: Employees use employee codes and passwords to log in to Snap Schedule 365. However, your company policies may require these users to log in from your organization instead of directly into Snap Schedule 365. Therefore, you… Read More »Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365 ERA

Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365

IMPORTANT: The information in the following screenshots contains sample data that should be replaced with information specific to your ADFS configuration. Example server: Windows Server 2012 R2 w/ ADFS 3.0 @ adfs.ad.snapschedule.com How it works: Schedulers enter user names and passwords to log in to Snap Schedule 365. However, your company policies may require these users to log in from your organization instead of directly into Snap Schedule 365. Therefore, you… Read More »Using Active Directory Federation Services for Single Sign On with Snap Schedule 365

Test Drive Snap Schedule Premium

Welcome to your test drive of Snap Schedule Premium. In the next few minutes, I’ll show you how to install the software, set up your free trial, and start exploring. If you haven’t already done so, please go to www.SnapSchedule.com, and click on “Test Drive.” On the sign up form, enter your contact details, choose a “company code” (that is, a name to identify your company), select a username and… Read More »Test Drive Snap Schedule Premium

Maintaining Complete Employee Data

You can use Snap Schedule Premium Employee Scheduling Software to maintain complete information about your employees. If you already maintain employee data elsewhere, you can go to the File section, and import this data from Intuit Quickbooks or MS Excel. If not, just go to the Manage section to define all sorts of Employee Data, including your individual Employees, the Positions they fill, their Skills and certifications, and more. “Positions”… Read More »Maintaining Complete Employee Data

Payroll and Pay Incentives

Use Snap Schedule Premium to plan your payroll and pay incentives, like on-call payments, overtime pay, and more. You can go to the Manage section and click on “Employees,” for a list of your staff. Double-click on an employee to set basic details, including their hourly wage. Then, click on “Settings” and go to the “Default Settings” tab, to define your rules for overtime pay. Snap Schedule Premium handles all… Read More »Payroll and Pay Incentives

How to e-mail work schedules using your Gmail account

The E-mail Schedule wizard in Snap Schedule lets you e-mail work schedules to all or selected employees. Each e-mail can contain the employee’s personal schedule or schedule information of all selected employees. You have the option to include an iCalendar formatted file that contains the employee’s personal schedule as well, so your employees can import their schedules into their calendar programs or PDAs. To e-mail work schedules to your employees… Read More »How to e-mail work schedules using your Gmail account

How to e-mail work schedules using your Yahoo! email account

The E-mail Schedule wizard in Snap Schedule lets you e-mail work schedules to all or selected employees. Each e-mail can contain the employee’s personal schedule or schedule information of all selected employees. You have the option to include an iCalendar formatted file that contains the employee’s personal schedule as well, so your employees can import their schedules into their calendar programs or PDAs. To e-mail work schedules to your employees… Read More »How to e-mail work schedules using your Yahoo! email account

How to send employee work schedules via a text message

If your employee has a cell phone with short message service (SMS), also known as text message, you can send work schedules from Snap Schedule directly to that phone. To send SMS text messages to a cell phone from Snap Schedule, you will use the same Email Schedule Wizard that you use to send out standard emails, however, you will send the email messages to the email address associated to… Read More »How to send employee work schedules via a text message