Deputy: Shift Schedule Maker

I’ve been using Deputy for over 10 years across my multi-location business, and it has consistently proven to be one of the most reliable and affordable tools for managing my team. We use Deputy every single day — for scheduling, timesheets, the kiosk app, the news feed, and tasks. It’s become an essential part of how we run our stores. The task feature in particular has been a huge upgrade from sticky notes; we’ve built custom opening and closing checklists that keep each location organized and accountable. Communication is seamless, and Deputy has made it easy for our team to stay connected across multiple stores. The only challenge I’ve encountered is with the journal feature. Because I value transparency, I set up a “phantom location” so all my store managers could communicate together as equals. The trade-off is that their journals — whether praise or constructive feedback — are visible to one another. While I love the transparency for most communication, I believe notes about areas for improvement should remain private. Even with that small limitation, Deputy remains a five-star system. It’s powerful, easy to use, and cost-effective for a growing team. I can’t imagine running my business without it.

I got a temporary seasonal job, and my employer had me download this app to clock in & out, and keep track of my time. Now that the season has ended and my employment is over, I no longer need the app. Now I have no way to delete the calendar it left behind, even though I delete the app. I called ‘Apple Support’ since I have an iPhone, and they said there is nothing they can do to help me unless I do a full reset of my phone. I don’t want to do that since I have another calendar (created & shared by not myself) that has future & past events that would be lost as well, and among other reasons such as my conversations that I want to keep for my ‘messenger’ would be lost too. I have suggested to ‘Apple’ that they should have a way of deleting a calendar that you no longer want to keep. If there was a way to delete before, I certainly don’t have one now. Very disapponted. Update: I was able to get a hold of ‘Deputy App’s’ support over the phone, and they are going to provide me with instructions on how to get rid of the calendar. Since I use ‘Google’s’ calendar app, I should be able to get rid of by going to my ‘Google Calendar’ on a regular computer. Now I know what I must do. Don’t know why I didn’t think of that myself. I must say the app’s support was very helpful. That is why I have changed my rating to 5 stars.

I would say this App is one of the best and most convenient I have ever utilized as an employee to receive schedules, see who else is working with is that day pr a few days even a week ahead of time and clocking in and taking breaks. It centralizes so much in such an efficient way. However this is not an app for micro-managing atmospheres. If that is needed for employers then this is not the app for you because the location when clocking in is not extremely accurate so there is need for lee-way there when employees may or may not be exactly at the location and still rolling into work. So that is one main concern Employers might have. They (employers) would probably still like that even though that is not pin-point accurate they are still able to require a more accurate clock-in time because clocking in is now simplified to the access of the employees phones rather than reporting to a Time Clock station. And once you "clock-in" then it's just simply putting your phone away and beginning your work. Ubër convenient and efficient!!