ShiftForce Blog

Making Communication Easier

We've made a minor update to both the Home and Search sections of ShiftNote to make communicating with your team even easier! Before the update you could see entries that were unread or that were filtered based on a search, but you could not see the entire conversation thread that resulted from that entry.

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The ShiftNote Mobile Site Gets a Facelift!

We're so happy to introduce the ShiftNote mobile website, 2.0! We've completely redesigned the entire mobile version of ShiftNote, so that it is faster, easier to use, and loaded with most of the same great features available on the regular website. This includes viewing unread entries in the daily log, replying to and

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Give Us Some Love, and We'll Give You a Shirt!

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Tell us that you love us on Twitter, Facebook, and/or comment below, for a chance to win a beautiful new ShiftNote t-shirt! You've got until next Friday, the 12th to enter. We will pick 5 winners at random, and mail you out a shirt. If you give us love on all three websites - Twitter, Facebook and this

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Save money in restaurants

Money Saving Ideas For Restaurants

Saving money is at the top of everyone's to-do list! When you're running a business, it's especially important to run as efficiently as possible and save costs wherever you can to maximize profits. It can be difficult to find ways to cut cost when you are trying to please customers and employees alike. To come up with the best money saving ideas for

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Issue with Replying From Daily Reports

Currently ShiftNote users are unable to reply from a log post in the Daily Report email. This is because of a third party DNS issue, and unfortunately we do not have a time line on when this should be fixed. We apologize for the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation. In the meantime, you can still reply to log posts by going directly to the ShiftNote website.

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accountability

Accountability, Cash Count and More - New Features This Week

We've added some brand new features to all ShiftNote accounts that will help keep your team on track and accountable for the things that are going on in your business. With our new tools, you can show that you've read your team member's notes, and in return see who has read

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4 Ways Your Restaurant Could Use A Mobile App

There's no denying that the boom of the smartphone age is changing the way we live and do business. More than 80% of smartphone owners are using their phones to access the web, yet only 4.8% of retailers have a mobile-based specific website. 80% of people will search for a

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5 Contest Ideas to Run With Restaurant or Retail Staff

Whether you're a part of a restaurant or retail store, your staff is the face of your business. Staff that is happy, knowledgeable about your products, and eager to please the customers, will ultimately result in increased sales and customer satisfaction. A great way to get your staff

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ShiftNote Outage

We had an outage last night between 11:33 pm and 12:12 am CST.  The outage was caused by a issue our hosting company had at one of their data centers.  Here is what our hosting company said:

At approximately 12:33AM ET we experienced a power failure in our Newark, Delaware DC4 datacenter where possibly some of your infrastructure is located or services hosted. The power

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