2. Global platform settings

Now that we’ve had a quick tour of Ameego, let's begin setup by customizing your restaurant's global settings.

Navigation: Login Menu (Click on your name at the top right of Ameego Manager and then choose 'Settings').

After selecting 'Settings' you can review your current settings as shown below. If you need to make any changes, click the 'Edit' button at the bottom of the page.

Store Hours:

• • • Hours of Operation: Set these to the times your restaurant is open to your guests for each day of the week. These times will be visible when creating your schedule floor plan for each day of the week.
    • Earliest shift start time: This setting controls the earliest time of the day that you will be able to schedule a shift and the earliest time a shift will be displayed in Time & Attendance. Be sure to consider those occasional early start times in your restaurant.
    • Latest shift start time: This setting controls the last time of the day that an employee's shift can be scheduled to.
    • PM start: This setting will determine what the PM start time is for sales and labour reporting. 

Schedule Settings:

• • • Show end times: Would you like hide your shift end times from your staff? Uncheck this to hide your scheduled end times. You will still see the shift end times in Ameego Manager.
    • Hide wages on the schedule: This setting controls the visibility of the employees hourly wages on the Ameego Manager schedule page. The default settings will display the employees wage on each shift tile. Uncheck this setting if you do not want this information viewed by someone within the vicinity. 
    • Daily Overtime: What are your region's daily overtime parameters? Enter the number of hours that would equate to daily overtime at your restaurant. No daily OT in your region? Set it to the maximum hours you would want to schedule a person to work in a day. Ameego's One Touch scheduling will follow this parameter to prevent scheduling an employee overtime. Note: Do not set this to 0 if you do not have daily overtime. This will prevent One Touch from assigning any shifts.
    • Weekly Overtime: Set your regions weekly overtime parameter here. Ameego will observe this settings to be used on the schedule as well as the dashboard section called 'Weekly Overtime Watch'. Ameego's One Touch scheduling will follow this parameter as well to prevent scheduling an employee overtime.
    • Minimum shift gap: The setting will determine the number of hours that must pass before One Touch assigns another shift to the same employee. If you need to schedule an employee 2 shifts back to back, then set this to 0.
    • Preferred sales metric: Do you use your gross or net sales to calculate labour?

Break Settings:

• • • Break rules: Do you ensure every employee takes a certain unpaid break once they work a specific amount of hours? By creating a break rule(s), Ameego will automatically deduct the amount of time of the break rule when calculating the cost of a scheduled shift. Break rule 1 and 2 will work together when applicable. If a break rules are not the norm in your restaurant then leave both break rules set at 0.
    • Enable break rules for actual labour: If you want Ameego to calculate the unpaid break on actual labour shifts (Time & Attendance) then change this setting to 'Yes'. If your employees already clocks out/in for breaks, then uncheck this setting.

Time Clock Settings:

Please note: These settings are only available if you have the Ameego Time Clock Module.

• • • Time Clock Punch Buffer: This is the amount of time that an employee can clock in before or after their scheduled start/end times without requiring a manager override on the Time Clock.
      • You can apply a separate buffer (or no buffer at all) for the end times if desired. Click the check box called 'Use Separate End Punch Buffer' and set the end time buffer as required.
    • Time Clock Punch Round: Ameego will round the punch in/out times to the nearest value of this setting.
      • You can apply a separate rounding factor (or no rounding at all) for the end times. Click the check box called 'Use Separate End Punch Rounding' and set the end time rounding as required.
    • Enable Break Approval: Enabling this setting will require management approval (override) for all employees to clock out/in for all breaks. 

Ameego Anyware Settings: 

• • • Show Contact Page: When disabled, 'Regular Employees' will not have the access to the 'Contacts' page in Ameego Anyware. 
    • Inbox Visibility:
      • Limited Visibility: Users with the ‘regular employee’ permission level will NOT have the ability to send messages to other 'regular employee' staff members. They are only permitted to send messages to users with ‘Manager’ and ‘Supervisor’ permission levels and can respond to a message that was sent by a user with 'Manager' or 'Supervisor' permission level. They cannot see responses sent by other 'regular employee' users in the same message. 
      • Full Visibility: Users with the permission level of ‘regular employee’ will be able to use the full functionality of the Ameego Inbox. 

Okay, now let's set up your departments & department groups!

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