Ento Software: Overview – Features – Pricing

Overview Presentation

Ento is a web-based employee scheduling and workforce management software. It is an easy-to-use software for managers who need a flexible scheduling and attendance application. Companies who employ part-time or casual employees can have a difficult time organizing and managing shifts to make sure that there is always someone who will cover a shift and do the work. Posting a schedule of some sort on a board or even using a spreadsheet is a poor way to manage employee schedules or a business in general. Switching to a cloud employee scheduling software not only saves time but also allows for efficient resource management and schedule planning.

Features, Benefits, Strengths

• Employee Scheduling and Workforce Management ‚Äì Ento web-based software enables users to spend less time scheduling employees with templates and drag-and drop technology. Users can build schedules quickly and easily with the system’s automatic calculations of labor costs. It provides warnings, allows notes, and can even send employees emails or SMS to acknowledge their shifts. Several views are available to make sure all shifts are covered and evenly distributed among employees. It is powerfully designed and built to cater to large head count of up to thousands. It also provides real time cost reports and insights with up to five levels of management and reporting hierarchy configurable for the user.
• Time Tracking and Vacation Management ‚Äì This employee scheduling software also allows for precise time capturing and tracking using a time clock app that uses facial recognition technology. Businesses that do not have a headquarters can use its GPS-tagged time-in feature. Employees can managed their timesheets using their iOS and Android devices. Also, managers can control who can adjust timesheets, which can also be exported as needed. It also enables users to have better control of managing and tracking vacation requests and unavailabilities. It has the tools to handle the full lifecycle of vacations, from requests to accruals to payroll exports.
• Team Communication, Employee Area, Payroll Integration and more ‚Äì Ento workforce management software also has the ability to broadcast messages via email or SMS to ensure that communication is clear with everyone. It also allows for collaboration such as document sharing and general discussion. Employees have access to their schedules through their mobile devices which they can in turn sync with their calendar. They can even arrange their own shift changes. Requests, approval and confirmation are all pre-checked and automated. In a click of a button, timesheets can be integrated with payroll, accounting, and HR applications and services such as Xero, Quickbooks, MYOB and others.

Pricing

Ento pricing is based on the size of the team on a per employee per month basis. For example, with scheduling, time and attendance features, it costs $4 per employee per month and an optional added cost of 3 cents per SMS when used in the US. This price becomes $6 +3 cents when Enterprise support is added to the service, which includes a dedicated account manager, advanced reporting hierarchy, 99.95% uptime SLA, scheduled sync file transfers, and advanced compliance reporting. A 21-day free trial period is also offered.

Social Network Presence

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+

Target Market

Ento web-based employee scheduling and workforce management software is for businesses and organizations of tens to several thousands of employees. It can be used in any industry, ideal for retail stores, restaurants, cafes, bars, community- or council-based organizations, and the health and healthcare industry. It can manage a mix of regular, contractual or casual, full-time or part-time employees.

Supported Language

English

Some of their Clients

Clients include Bakers Delight, WorldVision Australia, Ivory Tavern, Fringe Festival, and IGA New South Wales.

Testimonials

Rebecca Jackson of Bakers Delight who manages 90 employees across four locations stated that Ento helped them save time and money while saving them from stress. Employees are able to enter their own timesheets, export to MYOB accounting software, include bank payments and email payslips in less than 30 minutes.

Mark Foster of WorldVision who manages more than 400 employees in over 55 locations specifically mentioned features such as the ability to fill out unavailabilities and send SMS Broadcast as time and money savers.

Why Ento

There is much to consider when organizing employee schedules, and the complexity increases as the number of staff increases. Ento is a flexible and scalable solution that is ready to grow with the business or organization. It is a centralized tool that not only automates many business processes such as employee scheduling but also provides insight to schedule, costs and other data that can increase efficiency, productivity and/or profitability.

Company Info

Ento is a service of Marvel Internet Group, a web development and marketing company based in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. In 2009, Aulay Macaulay, founder of the company, decided to build a scheduling system as a little side project. In the next couple of years or so, succeeding versions and an enterprise version were developed. In 2012, more features were added, and other members of the company joined Aulay to become full time on the project, which relocated to Melbourne, Victoria. In the following years, more features were added, and in May 2015, Ento was launched globally.

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