Features:

• Accidental double allocation of workers cannot occur
• Rates may be related to each shift position that break up the times and costs in an itemized list
• Shift times that have not yet been allocated to workers are clearly visible
• Accumulated hours of time between two dates may be displayed and exported to a financials package
• Workers can allocate themselves to shifts or view only their shifts online if allowed by the administrator
• Total shift times are based on administrator verification of time actually worked
• A break within a shift is allowed for
• The location where a shift is worked may have an allowance of time set for a period of days
• Powerful facility to search for people with special skills, eg, language, for a given shift
• Copying of groups of shifts to future times
• Bulk printing of shifts for posting in DL window envelopes
• Emailing of shifts
• Send SMS's of shifts to workers mobile phones.
• Each person who is a shift worker can have a number of positions that they can have when working on their shifts

A comprehensive set of administrative functions such as:

• Administrator controlled login of users
• Administrator can control the menus that are visible to users on a role basis
• Capacity to export/import the database to a local workstation under administrator control
• Can import personnel data from Access, Excel or similar databases
• Can export shift time data as Comma Separated Value (CSV) or XML file so that financials can be calculated

AceShift is available in two versions, AceShiftOne and AceShift.

AceShiftOne is a simpler version that you would choose if all your shifts are at the one location. A typical situation would be a call center.

AceShift allows for scheduling where:

• Your shifts are at multiple companies, each of which may have one or more addresses, and each address may have one or more locations within that address.

  An example would be a hospital with several campuses each at their own address, and multiple departments within each address where shifts are to be carried out.

  Another example would be a security company providing a service for many companies, each of which requires a service at one or more addresses in their chain, and possibly several locations (perhaps entrances) within each address.

  OR

• Your shifts are at street addresses directly (eg, people's homes)

Both versions provide for a worker not to be allocated to a shift such as:

• Time before/after a shift
• Recurring times when a worker is not available, eg, weekends, day/evening
• Non-recurring times when a worker is not available, eg, annual leave

System Requirements:

• AceShift has been tested for use with Microsoft Internet Explorer v6 or Mozilla Firefox v1, or later, as the browser user interface for both administration and users

LAN Server Requirements

• A computer capable of supporting the following:

• Firebird™ or MySQL ™ database. Firebird is the open source successor to the well proven Borland Software Corp InterBase database.
• Apache Tomcat as a container for Java Servlets and Java Server Pages

Platform supplied

Currently, AceShift is only supplied with an installation file for a Microsoft Windows environment.

It could be deployed on other platforms by separate downloads for each support package.

It has been developed using:

• Internet Explorer v6 or Mozilla Firefox v1 as the browser at a resolution of 1024 x 768.
• Apache Tomcat as the Web Server and container.
• Firebird or MySQL as the database. AceShift is supplied and configured for use with the open source Firebird database, but may be used with MySQL 4.0 Pro or later, together with the MySQL Connector/J 3.0 or later.