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Efficient Security Guard Scheduling Software for Patrol and Protective Services

Streamline your security guard scheduling with Snap Schedule 365. Our software offers seamless management of shifts, time tracking, and team communication, tailored for security services. Experience enhanced efficiency in coordinating guards across multiple locations with real-time updates and robust reporting. Try Snap Schedule for optimal workforce management in the security industry.

advanced STAFFING management

Optimizing Shift and Time Off Scheduling

Navigate complex shift arrangements and time off, enable effortless shift trading, and ensure precision in meeting your scheduling needs, all within a flexible and user-friendly platform.

  • Identify best-fit employee candidates for open shifts
  • Automatically invite employees to open shift opportunities
  • Notify employees via SMS, in-app messaging, even voice calls
  • Employee acceptances instantly turn into assignments

PRECISION TASK SCHEDULING

Boost productivity with tailored task scheduling

Boost workforce productivity with advanced task scheduling, seamlessly assigning your employees to tasks within each shift and customizing timings for precise alignment with your requirements, enhancing overall efficiency.

  • Identify best-fit employee candidates for open shifts
  • Automatically invite employees to open shift opportunities
  • Notify employees via SMS, in-app messaging, even voice calls
  • Employee acceptances instantly turn into assignments

advanced STAFFING management

Optimizing Shift and Time Off Scheduling

Navigate complex shift arrangements and time off, enable effortless shift trading, and ensure precision in meeting your scheduling needs, all within a flexible and user-friendly platform.

  • Identify best-fit employee candidates for open shifts
  • Automatically invite employees to open shift opportunities
  • Notify employees via SMS, in-app messaging, even voice calls
  • Employee acceptances instantly turn into assignments

PRECISION TASK SCHEDULING

Boost productivity with tailored task scheduling

Boost workforce productivity with advanced task scheduling, seamlessly assigning your employees to tasks within each shift and customizing timings for precise alignment with your requirements, enhancing overall efficiency.

  • Identify best-fit employee candidates for open shifts
  • Automatically invite employees to open shift opportunities
  • Notify employees via SMS, in-app messaging, even voice calls
  • Employee acceptances instantly turn into assignments

Transform Your Security Guard Scheduling with Snap Schedule

Discover the ideal solution for security guard scheduling challenges with Snap Schedule. Tailored specifically to streamline workforce management in the security sector, our software simplifies shift scheduling and optimizes staff deployment. Benefit from time savings and reduced operational costs while enjoying a system that’s both comprehensive and easy to use. Trusted by businesses of various sizes in the security industry, Snap Schedule understands and effectively addresses the unique demands of security personnel scheduling, delivering a robust solution that enhances your operational efficiency.

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Key Features of Snap Schedule for Streamlined Security Guard Scheduling

No-conflict scheduling

Streamline your security guard scheduling with our system’s drag-and-drop and auto-generation features. It supports unlimited security officers and shifts, accommodating fixed, rotating, split, and multiple shift patterns, plus manages time off and on-call duties efficiently

Tasks & breaks scheduling

Effortlessly schedule multiple tasks, duties, and breaks of any length in a single shift. Ensure adequate coverage by skills, positions and proactively manage break and rest compliance.

Time clock & attendance

Clock in/out of work on a mobile device or via an on-site iPad. Record work hours, on-call, and attendance for accurate payroll. 

Leave & time off accruals

Set up different leave types, reasons, and accrual rates. Avoid accidentally schedule on-leave officers. Employees can see their leave balance and request time off on the go.

Automated shift callouts

Promote fairness, reduce grievances, and stay in compliance by enforcing callout rules. Receive and respond to callout and scheduling notifications via automated phone calls or SMS texting.

Labor cost control

Sum up in real time employees’ planned and actual work hours. Handle all types of regular, on-call, overtime, shift premium, and incentive pays. Generate time cards for payroll based on either planned or recorded work hours.

Extensive reports

Unlock the hidden value of workforce data with 60+ built-in reports. Uncover insightful labor patterns, trends, and outliers. Export data to various file formats such as PDF, Word, Excel, HTML.

Anywhere, anytime access

Security officers can access their schedules online, view leave balance, request time off, bid on, trade, pick up shifts, punch in/out, and update availability. Android and iOS employee scheduling apps are available.

Ensure shift coverage

Show the number of guards and surveillance officers scheduled in each shift by positions, skills, or reasons. Flag over or under staffed positions or skills while making shift assignments.

Schedule by skills / positions

Define skills/certifications and associate them with employees. Fill a shift based on the required skills and positions. Provide multiple options for identifying who are qualified to bid on open shifts.

Unavailability & preferences

Avoid scheduling conflict with up-to-date employee’s availability and leave balance. Employees can enter their availability and desired work hours.

Employee communication

Keep teams in sync and notify officers when work schedules have changed. Notify officers when open shifts are created and available. Alert officers when employees request time off, bid on an open shift, or accept a shift trade.

Frequently asked questions

What is employee scheduling software?

Employee scheduling software helps employees and schedulers manage the work schedule, by automating key processes and observing rules and parameters on behalf of the organization. Automating the process improves productivity for an organization by allowing the saved time to be used for other activities. Employee scheduling software empowers the employee in the process, allowing them to have more transparency into and interaction with the schedule making process.  Snap Schedule supports all types of businesses that face scheduling challenges, even ones with very complicated parameters.


What types of orgs are best suited to use Snap Schedule?

Snap Schedule was built to support organizations with scheduling needs that are difficult to meet manually. If your organization has a multi-site workforce, flexible demand for workers, labor law compliance, difficulty managing overtime, or a bloated employee scheduling process, then Snap Schedule would make a great partner. Snap Schedule supports Fire Departments, Police Departments, Construction Workers, Libraries, and many more types of businesses.Try Snap Schedule for free to learn how Snap Schedule can support your organization.


How do employees access their work schedules with Snap Schedule?

Employees are able to access their work schedules online on mobile, tablet and desktop devices through the Snap Schedule platform. Employees are able to request time off, punch in/out, shift trade, and more using the Snap Schedule platform anytime.

How many employees can I schedule with Snap Schedule?

There’s no limit to how many employees you can schedule with Snap Schedule. The platform scales up or down as your needs change, in order to provide the best support we can.