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Deputy, Square launch digital business management platform

May 17, 2016

Deputy, a global workforce management solution, has partnered with Square to create a digital business management solution for restaurant owners and retailers. It allows customers to integrate business sales and labor costs from Square with staffing and timesheet management, creating total visibility and control into key functions of business management, according to a company press release. The data can be accessed from any location via a smartphone, laptop or tablet.

By integrating Deputy with Square, business owners and managers can:

• Integrate sales and labor costs from Square into Deputy for a realistic view of business performance.
• Alter employee scheduling based on the highs and lows of business.
• Seamlessly track and monitor employee overtime, late clock-ins and tips.
• Organize scheduling in real time based on employee availability and time-off requests in the cloud.
• Easily share schedules via email, SMS or push notifications to other smartphones via the Deputy app.
• And update employee timesheets from Square based on employee overtime and instantly process payroll with virtually any payroll service provider.

"Today's news reveals how Deputy's partnership with business software providers such as Square, is radically transforming the way companies manage their workflows and employees in the cloud," said Jason Walker, president, Americas for Deputy. "By connecting the dots between workforce management and business sales, our customers now have insights into the inbound and outbound of their cash flow, so they know exactly how their business is performing from any location. This is particularly valuable for retailers and restaurants, who struggle to accurately forecast the number of hourly workers needed during peak and off-peak business times." 

Dale Fewson, managing director of Essence of Coffee, a coffee roaster in Rapid City, South Dakota, uses Deputy and Square to manage his entire business via his smartphone. By integrating Deputy with Square, Fewson said he has a more accurate view of his business performance in real time, based on sales and payroll.

"In just a few weeks of utilizing Deputy's Square integration, I have significantly cut down my time creating and recreating employee shift schedules, said Fewson. "Deputy's solution has given me my time back to do what I love: roasting high- quality, beautiful coffee beans."