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Author: Ian Stewart An essential part of producing staff scheduling software is quality assurance. That means to say that software companies must assure themselves that their scheduling software has an acceptable level of bugs before...

Author: Jeff Morris OK, so you’ve got a great scheduling system, a fantastic skilled, motivated workforce, and enough business to keep everyone busy for a long time. Now, how do you get the word out...

One of the newest features we’re adding to Scheduler Xpress is bulk updates. Bulk updates allow a supervisor to modify any number of fields belonging to many different shifts at once. Let’s take a look...

Author: Geoffrey McLennan In previous blog posts, we have detailed our progress in our Labor Forecasting tool, which is currently in its Beta phase. This tool has features that allow users to create events that...

Authors: Gillian Leung and Godot Bian Have you ever found yourself waiting for apps to load? While data traveling between servers is measured in milliseconds, in today’s fast-paced world, we find ourselves tapping our fingers...

Step 1: Make sure your product name is visible! Your product name is one of the first things that needs to be there.                   Step 2: Include...

Schedule Xpress UI Preview Author: Merry Chen Celayix is working hard to bring you the new Visual Scheduler with a completely brand new interface design and user experience. We want to make scheduling easy for you....

In the past, we wrote about how we are migrating our software from a desktop interface to a web interface. We are also migrating our technology from Celayix-hosted computing to cloud computing. What is the...

Today’s world is constantly on the go, and many businesses run 24/7.  In this type of competitive environment, you need something that separates you from the competition. There is a requirement for many businesses to...

With the change from concurrent user to named users, clients now have the ability to have multiple logins with the same credentials throughout eTime and Time Xpress. In situations of turnover, repurposes existing users can...

Author: Gurpreet Banwait Anyone that has come into the office, loaded up their computer and seen the “blue screen of death” knows that it’s going to be a long day. The first thing you attempt...

Author: Victor Reyes Biometric verification is any means by which a person can be uniquely identified by evaluating one or more distinguishing biological traits. The oldest form of biometric verification is fingerprinting. With the advent...

WHAT IS PBJ? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will soon be requiring all nursing facilities to submit staffing information electronically. The CMS has instituted a system for providers to electronically submit their...

An advanced employee scheduling software, such as Celayix eTime Xpress, addresses many of the challenges and complexities of scheduling employees, fulfilling client contracts, reducing labor costs, and optimizing resources. Quick and powerful tools allow schedulers...

The desktop – laptop – mobile device trinity has been a common sight at school and in the workplace for the past decade. A person may have a desktop at home for personal use, a...

Authors: Gillian Leung and Godot Bian Our new Voice Xpress application utilizes two database technologies from Amazon; DynamoDB and SimpleDB to meet our performance and workflow requirements. Within the application, DynamoDB stores session information and SimpleDB stores the logging...

Author: Jeff Morris What is a workflow? A workflow, in simplest terms, is a series of steps which must be followed in a particular order so that an objective is met. There are many workflows...

The modern IT world has high standard requirements for business data storage and data processing technologies. Business data must be available 24/7 for processing and analysis and it must be secured from unauthorized access. To protect...

This is the latest in a series of occasional blogs about functional areas of eTime Xpress that you may see, but you don’t know why it’s there or what you would use it for. I’ve...

Celayix is working hard to bring you the new Visual Scheduler, with a completely brand new interface design and user experience. We want to make employee scheduling easy for you. You can expect all the...

In scheduling software, a shift is the basic building block of a schedule. A shift has many built-in attributes to support the classification, planning, and retrieval activities. Typical attributes are employee, customer, site, service and...

When humans interact with computer programs, they use different interfaces for the application: the graphical user interface voice user interface like Apple’s iPhone, iPad Siri or  Google voice search phone-based interfaces, like Celayix Voice Xpress...

Author: Ian Stewart Imagine the following scheduling scenario. You have a number of open shifts and you want to schedule employees to them. Your business is open on weekends, so different employees have many different...

Author: Ante Beslic One of the most challenging and deep-influencing tasks in today’s applications is to improve user interaction. When I say improve, I mean simplify. A wise man once said: “If you can’t explain...

As technology continues to permeate into every facet of modern life, information security has become a big concern. At Celayix, we take account security seriously and keep our security practices up to date to industry...

If you work shifts and you are planning a vacation, have an emergency family situation, or you have a last minute appointment with your doctor, there is no need to worry. In Team Xpress, just...

Oregon’s proposed “predictive scheduling law” is currently at the epicenter of the workers’ rights movement. The goal of this is to allow workers to have a more stable and predictable work schedule. The law is...

In a previous blog post, we talked about our pending Event Template feature and how it can be used in the Hospitality industry. This feature has just been released with our recent product, Time Xpress....

One of the tasks that someone at your company will need to do for payroll and billing is calculating the hours that employees have worked. This usually involves reviewing the employee attendance data and matching...

Buddy punching is a time & wage theft that is common amongst hourly workers. An employee gets another employee to punch the time clock for him (or her) because they are late or absent. This...

Celayix is proud to announce the release of Time Xpress, our new supervisor portal. With Time Xpress, supervisors have the ability to manage employees and make adjustments on the go from a desktop or mobile...

What are they? In a nutshell, a schedule template is a way of re-using the current schedule at any time in the future. Why would I want to use them? Nobody likes doing the same...

Author: Gavin Petch, Implementation Specialist In this day and age, the demands from customers is ever changing, therefore you want a software suite that can adapt to your business needs quickly and easily. We believe...