Shift Planning in the Cloud? Explore TULIP’s Feature

This is a dedicated attendance module within our TULIP platform. Alongside interactive shift planning, it offers traditional attendance tracking, absence approvals, and payroll export – all in compliance with local regulations. With TULIP, creating a shift calendar is quick and effortless.

Key Features of Shift Planning in TULIP

• Automated Compliance Checks: Ensure adherence to legal requirements, including mandatory breaks, shift length, and more.
• Absence & Attendance Management: Easily track absences and other attendance details.
• Employee Tagging: Plan shifts based on employee skills, certifications, or characteristics. For example, you can tag employees by language proficiency and always ensure the right skill set on each shift.
• Cross-Month & Cross-Year Scheduling: Seamlessly plan shifts across different time periods.
• Web-Based Interface: No software installation required. Manage everything online via computer, mobile, or tablet.
• Customizable Access: Decide whether managers schedule shifts or allow employees to manage their own.
• Simplified Process: Eliminate the need for complicated Excel macros or manual updates for legal changes. With TULIP, shifts are planned in minutes, and we handle the rest in the background.
• Real-Time Notifications: Employees receive email alerts whenever their shifts are updated.

For more information on the shift scheduler, check out our previous press release announcing its launch.

Press release, TULIP Solutions

Cloud platform TULIP extends its time & attendance management system for a new module ‘Shift plan’. Now available, for retail, manufacturing and gastro companies, we bring you a new sophisticated tool for attendance management of their employees.

The online shift plan is a completely new feature for the CEE region. “Yes, many time & attendance management systems have a shift plan, but almost none are in the cloud. Employees are usually forced to install some software onto their computers. With TULIP, they will just get an access name and password for a web portal and can immediately start working with the system. No additional applications, software or hardware are required“, says Viktor Mečiar, TULIP Solutions’ managing director.

How does the shift plan in TULIP work?

The system works via pre-defined calendars. ”We set up different calendars based on the agreement with the client. Every calendar has parameters like its cycle’s length, shift regime or weekly fond. The System automatically generates a shift plan for an employee based on the selected calendar. A shift plan can be manually updated. Of course, everything must follow the legislation and our system provides an automatic check,” Viktor Mečiar says.

The shift plan in TULIP also provides other functions which elegantly control employees’ work organization. The shift manager can “tag” other employees and filter them via these tags (tags are also created by the manager). The manager can additionally assign subordinates to different teams. Everything is simply selected by colours, so using TULIP can still be friendly and intuitive, even in this sophisticated version.

TULIP also provides simple negative attendance management (absence management). It can be connected to the payroll software and export data for payroll processing. TULIP does not provide any hardware devices; therefore you cannot track employees’ attendance via cards or biometry. TULIP Solutions has been developing the online platform since 2012, and today it is used by more than 550 companies spread over 16 countries in the world.