Getting Started
Thank you for choosing Busy Bunny as a solution for your business!
This article will give you a quick introduction to the Manager app, across the following topics:
- Busy Bunny Access
- Store, Manager & Employee Management
- Scheduling Features
- Task Management
- Incident Reporting
- Settings
Accessing Busy Bunny Manager
Busy Bunny Manager is a mobile scheduling and time-keeping app for owners and managers. With Busy Bunny Manager, you can build schedules, track employee attendance and manage employees; all from your mobile device. The task management feature provides an easy, straightforward approach to managing, assigning and tracking task activity; while the incident reporting feature allows team members to directly report incidents to management in real-time.
To start, download the app.
Once downloaded, follow the steps on the app to register or refer to our guide on Logging In.
Busy Bunny Parts
Busy Bunny has two main players:
- Managers
- Employees
Manager
This is you. When you download Busy Bunny Manager app and register, you are the administrator for your store and the employees. As the manager, you can now add employees to your store and immediately start to schedule your employees.
You can manage multiple stores and employee across all your stores.
Employees
Employees are the crew members that work for your store and those that you'd like to schedule and time-keep through Busy Bunny. Setting up employees is very easy once you've set up your Manager account. To find out more on how to add employees, please refer to instructions on Add Employees.
We highly recommend that once you have employees setup, they are invited to download the Employee App that allows them to see their schedule and get notifications directly from you. To see how, please refer to instructions on Inviting Employees.
The thing that ties Manager and Employees together is the Store.
Store (or "Site")
Site refers to the physical location you are managing. Remember, there is no limit to the number of sites you can have in your network, or "company".
If you have only one store, you do not need to add or create one when you register your account. All you have to do is go into the store details to modify the name and to any additional details you wish to add.
If you have more than one store, you can create additional sites within your company and then add employees that work in the 1st, 2nd or both locations, and so on.
To find out more on how to manage your site(s), please refer to our Site Management help document.
Schedule
This is the main part of the solution.
Once you have the Site and Employees setup, you can start creating and sending schedules right away.
You will have the ability to:
- Calculate pay, including the options to account for breaks and over-time*
- Send schedules and request employee acceptance of them*
- Have employees clock in and out, and specify grace periods*
- Get notification when an employee goes on break and starts/ends a shift*
- Enable shift swaps to minimize coverage disruptions*
- Enable employee schedule visibility to keep your entire team informed*
- and so much more...
Tasks
Once you begin adding your employees, you can start creating and assigning tasks.
With task management you will also have the ability to:
- Track task details
- Upload photos associated with assigned tasks*
- Manage recurring tasks
- Create tasks that are unique to each store within your company
- Receive instant notification when a task is complete*
- Categorize tasks
Events
Event reporting capabilities allow your team to communicate those activities that impact daily operations in real-time.
With event reporting, employees can:
- Easily report activities directly to management*
- Upload corresponding images*
- Specify details and add comments*
- Adjust visibility of reported events*
Settings
Once you have your account and site(s) set up, be sure to go through all of your settings to ensure that everything is configured to your preferences.
Based on your business needs you have many options, including, but not limited to:
- Letting employees record their breaks*
- Enforcing schedule by giving clock in/out windows
- Allowing employees to accept and decline shifts*
- Making the schedule visible to employees within the employee app*
- Empowering employees to manage their own shift swaps*
- Establishing pay rules to account for different scenarios like breaks, overtime, holiday pay, etc...
- Various notifications settings
*Busy Bunny Employee App is required for active employee features. Please refer to the instructions on Inviting Employees for next steps.
Need additional help?
Should you still have questions and/or need additional assistance, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Phone: 818.303.4166