Sometimes the capabilities of our spreadsheets are simply not enough.  When your business needs a more robust solution than our spreadsheets can provide, we suggest ShiftPlanning as one of the best options.  Although more expensive than our spreadsheets, it has a richer set of features and is more cost effective than some of high end solutions we have seen.

Some limitations of our spreadsheets are:

• No support for Apple OS X.
• No support for break scheduling.
• No support for multiple roles per employee.
  
• No support for schedulers who work in multiple locations.
• No access to maintain schedules from mobile phones or other devices that do not support Microsoft Excel.
• No support for work shifts that span midnight or for an employee working multiple shifts per day.

If you need support for any of these a free trial of ShiftPlanning could well be the answer.