Ordering Staff for EventsM
If you don't have enough staff to run an event, get in more people from a staffing agency.
- Create an internal staff planning segment
In the external customer segment, enter the staff roles and their numbers. In the in-house staff planning segment, assign either your own staff or a staffing agency.
- Create an external
Order segment containing Service items.
- Right-click the order and select
Add in-house planning segment (Planning staff for events).
- Assign a supplier in the Role/Supplier column.
Note: The staff role must be enabled forPurchasing and have at least one active, linked
Supplier item with a price assigned to it.
- Create an external
- Create a purchase order from the in-house segment
Create a purchase order directly from the in-house planning segment, even without going through the purchasing overview.
- Click on
Purchasing in the top toolbar of the input window to directly trigger new orders or add to existing orders.
Note: The event date must be in the future. Orders from different suppliers must be created one after the other.
a) If no supplier is assigned, click onPurchasing >
Consumables and create a new order. The overview opens on the date of the event,
b) If a supplier is assigned, click onPurchasing >
Supplier> New order. The purchase order opens with the supplier, the event, the booked item and the required quantity pre-assigned.
c) If a purchase order already exists that you want to add to, selectPurchasing >
Supplier >
Purchasing >
Purchase order and add to the purchase order.
- If you want to place purchase orders for all segments of one event at the same time, click on
Event >
General before opening the orders or the purchasing overview.
- Update the in-house planning segment if you have made changes in the customer segment by clicking
Refresh > Reset item to sales item in the toolbar above the booked items.
- Click on
- Create a new rental order from the purchasing overview
In the purchasing overview for rental items, you can see all staff and inventory items that are required on the specified date, provided that:. - supplier items have been assigned to these items - both the items and the segment has been enabled for purchasing, and - the required quantity has been specified.
- Click on
Purchasing >
Rentals in the toolbar of the segment input window to open the purchasing overview for rental items. Alternatively, open the overview from the
Home tab by clicking on
Purchasing >
Rentals, if necessary with company details and a time period.
Note: The supplier selected in the in-house staff planning segment is NOT automatically pre-assigned in the order, but must be selected again when ordering from the purchase overview. - In the list of orders in the centre of the page, filter for
Staff items and select the item group Staff in the list of item groups on the right.
- In the list of suppliers at the bottom right, click on the Supplier you want to place an order with. The list of items displayed will then only show those items that the selected supplier has in their range.
- Click on
Apply values to adopt the required quantities as order quantities.
- Click on
Order to create a new purchase order.
- Click on
User Manual
- Creating a staff role
- Creating a staff member
- Setting up the shift planner
- Creating shifts for staff
- Planning staff for an event
- Sending shift offers to staff
- Recording work times for staff members
- Using the Online Shift Planning WebApp
- Ordering staff for events
- Using the Online Time Clocking WebApp
- Verifying work times from Online Time Clocking