Scheduling Calendar Software for the Retail Industry

Whether you are in a department store, discount store or specialty store; in a traditional brick and mortar or selling on-line - scheduling and planning headaches for projects, people, events and resources are significant.

If you recruit, hire, train, assign, manage and schedule retail staff, you understand that having your people positioned to meet your organization's needs is mission critical. Your scheduling software must allow you enough flexibility and versatility to get your job done. You understand the need to use a scheduling calendar that can handle everything from planning seasonal events and promotions; tracking orders and merchandise deliveries or scheduling site visits and training.

"It overcomes the difficulty in finding a calendar software product at a reasonable price that was flexible enough for different businesses - Like the page appearance; Flexibility to suit MY business needs and layered schedules".
David Ivens, Dragonfly Contemporary Designs

Take a Quick Tour of The Calendar Planner calendar software and click on headings below for more detail:

• Detailed notes...
  Attach notes to items and/or events, before or after they are scheduled in your calendar software to capture important project details. Improve collaborative outcomes with notes on related issues like customer preferences, vendor information or employee issues and use day notes to record discussions, meeting results and create to-do lists or assignments for staff.
• Calendar Software Smart Scheduling; Show/Hide; Powerful views...
  Employee scheduling and tracking for retail requires scheduling software with both power and flexibility to handle changes. Unlike any other scheduling calendar The Reel Logix Calendar Planner will automatically schedule complex recurring items around off off-days that you set. Resize day columns to maximize screen use or hide entire days to show schedules for your part-timers.
• Share Calendars on a LAN and publish web calendars...
  Publish schedules in a web calendar so others are aware of project details and assignments. Coordinate the activities of multiple resources involved in one project, by combining all calendar schedules into one.
• Manage the unexpected and communicate changes...
  Things happen quickly in retail so stay on top of schedule changes with calendar software features like Linking and Push/Pull. Use Unlimited-Undo to run staff scheduling scenarios. Save time and increase productivity by quickly rescheduling items through simple Drag/Drop capabilities and spot conflicts immediately with color coding. The Calendar Planner scheduling software supports planning, organizing and coordinating events, projects, people and resources at all levels in retail. Communicate latest changes in retail schedules through printed schedules, saving and editing on a LAN or through a web calendar.
• Auto Count Weeks...
  Automatically count weeks worked or weeks remaining in any period that display each week as a banner or weekly labels, that automatically update as your schedule changes. Great for tracking store promotions, sales campaigns, holiday periods, or any time period that you need to monitor.
• Choose Styles and Colors to make schedules easy to read...
  With rapidly approaching deadlines and time sensitive decisions to make -- this scheduling calendar allows users to set color schemes both in the Item List and the calendar to communicate project urgency. Color coding in The Calendar Planner to help identify and assign retailing project priorities is even more valuable since users can Hide/Show only what is needed. See at a glance where and how resources are being deployed and track staffing schedules to meet your needs. Print or publish web calendars.

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If you are looking for a scheduling calendar for event planning, managing your people and to complement project management software for any size retail operations - The Calendar Planner is a great option.

See who some of our clients are and what they say about how the Reel Logix scheduling calendar software supports the way they work! Questions about how The Reel Logix Calendar Planner can help? Contact us