SIDES Staff

Keeping shifts and payroll under control: Staff planning for hospitality

SIDES Staff Management combines shift planning, digital time tracking, and payroll preparation into a single all-in-one system. Data-driven, automated, without Excel chaos.

Shift planning in the hospitality industry takes more time than it should

‍In the hospitality industry, shifts change rapidly: sick leaves, holidays, peak times, weather, delivery volumes, and last-minute absences disrupt even well-planned schedules.

Schedules are created in Excel or on paper

Working hours and breaks are incompletely recorded

Payroll preparation wastes unnecessary time each week

Employees request shifts or changes

Too few staff during peak times, too many during quiet periods

Tax Advisor
Data arrives late or is unstructured

SIDES HR Management Features

Digital employee file

Digital employee file. Manage master data, wages, working hours, and absences centrally in one employee profile. This allows you to quickly find all important information and reduce manual coordination.

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Digital employee file. Manage master data, wages, working hours, and absences centrally in one employee profile. This allows you to quickly find all important information and reduce manual coordination.

Time tracking

Time tracking. Employees can clock in and out for shifts and breaks using the digital employee terminal. If necessary, times can be edited retroactively. The hours are automatically transferred to payroll preparation.

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Time tracking. Employees can clock in and out for shifts and breaks using the digital employee terminal. If necessary, times can be edited retroactively. The hours are automatically transferred to payroll preparation.

Analytics

Analytics. Evaluate working hours, deployment planning, and employee productivity in real-time. This allows you to see if your team is deployed appropriately for sales, order volume, and daily operations.

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Analytics. Evaluate working hours, deployment planning, and employee productivity in real-time. This allows you to see if your team is deployed appropriately for sales, order volume, and daily operations.

Online shift scheduling

Online shift scheduling. Create digital schedules and always keep track of who is working when. Scheduling for your hospitality business becomes clearer, more adaptable, and less dependent on spreadsheets or chat histories. Use past data such as sales, demand, or weather to plan staffing more accurately. This allows you to better cover peak times and avoid overstaffing.

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Online shift scheduling. Create digital schedules and always keep track of who is working when. Scheduling for your hospitality business becomes clearer, more adaptable, and less dependent on spreadsheets or chat histories. Use past data such as sales, demand, or weather to plan staffing more accurately. This allows you to better cover peak times and avoid overstaffing.

Payroll preparation

Payroll preparation. Wages stored in employee records and recorded working hours form the basis for preliminary payroll accounting, which you can send directly to your tax advisor via export. This saves time and simplifies the handover for month-end closing.

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Payroll preparation. Wages stored in employee records and recorded working hours form the basis for preliminary payroll accounting, which you can send directly to your tax advisor via export. This saves time and simplifies the handover for month-end closing.

Manage attendance & absences

Record vacation, sick leave, and other absences directly in the system. This allows you to identify early on if a shift is understaffed or if personnel need to be rescheduled. Send availability requests to your employees via email, SMS, or WhatsApp – the responses are fed directly into the system.

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Record vacation, sick leave, and other absences directly in the system. This allows you to identify early on if a shift is understaffed or if personnel need to be rescheduled. Send availability requests to your employees via email, SMS, or WhatsApp – the responses are fed directly into the system.

Centralized management for multiple locations

Centralized management for multiple locations. Ideal for chains and franchise businesses: Manage HR processes across all locations and create standardized HR procedures.

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Centralized management for multiple locations. Ideal for chains and franchise businesses: Manage HR processes across all locations and create standardized HR procedures.

SIDES provided fantastic support for our startup's market entry. The versatility of the application options is outstanding.

Katja Wissel

Managing Director at Mario’s Eis und Pizza

With the continuous innovation and quality of the SIDES software solution, we have been able to focus entirely on our growth and day-to-day operations.

Manfred Lugmayr

Chief Marketing Officer at burgerme

The software makes it possible to process significantly more orders with less staff of any kind (takeaway, delivery, dine-in, etc.).

Frank Kleine

Managing Director of shizoo

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Use staff management with these SIDES modules

Store Management

SIDES Stores

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With Store Management, you as a franchise manager have full control over your restaurants and delivery services. Standardize processes and save time.

  • Comprehensive performance analysis
  • Central management of items & master data
  • Easily add new locations
  • Monitoring Sales & Delivery Times

Reports

SIDES Insights

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With our statistics tool, you can accurately review and optimize key figures such as delivery times, sales, profitability, employee performance, and customer data at any time. For maximum performance of your stores.

  • ‌Real-time overview of the entire business
  • Access and control over all locations
  • Profitability & Productivity Analysis
  • Cost of Goods Analysis

Great Value

Complete package available

Combine all services and save up to 20% with a bundle package.

What you need to know about the SIDES Kitchen Manager

FAQ

SIDES HR management supports you with staff administration, shift planning, time tracking, absences, payroll preparation, and reporting. This allows you to manage your HR processes centrally instead of using Excel, paper lists, or fragmented tools.

With SIDES, you can plan shifts digitally and keep track of availability, working hours, and absences. This allows you to better align your team with peak times, quiet periods, and last-minute changes.

SIDES does not handle full payroll processing, but it does support payroll preparation. Working hours, breaks, and stored wage data can be structured and exported for your tax advisor.

Yes. Vacations, sick days, and other absences are recorded directly in the digital HR management system. This helps you avoid scheduling conflicts and identify staffing shortages earlier.

Staff scheduling is suitable for restaurants, quick-service establishments, delivery services, ghost kitchens, chains, and franchise systems – especially when multiple shifts, part-time staff, or locations need to be coordinated.

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