Everything You Need to Optimize Retail Labor
From sales planning to schedule building, PlannerPuffin gives operators the tools to align labor with demand and maximize profitability.
Sales Planning
Target cascade from district to store with promotional calendar support.
Set company-wide revenue targets that flow down to districts, stores, and departments.
Create detailed weekly sales plans using historical trends, events, and seasonal patterns.
Break weekly targets into daily and daypart projections for precise staffing alignment.
Plan promotional events and their expected sales lift to adjust staffing proactively.
Compare projected sales to actuals in real-time with variance alerts.
Use past performance data to improve forecast accuracy over time.
Labor Budgeting
Earned hours from sales targets with budget-to-schedule alignment.
Automatically calculate labor hours earned from sales targets using your SPLH goals.
Compare budgeted hours to scheduled hours with gap and surplus indicators.
Set and monitor labor cost as a percentage of sales by location and department.
Predict overtime exposure before it happens based on schedule patterns and labor rules.
Get notified when scheduled hours exceed budgeted hours at configurable thresholds.
Roll up labor budgets from store to district to region for executive visibility.
Schedule Builder
Draft-to-publish workflow with coverage analysis and availability overlay.
Build schedules visually with drag-and-drop shift placement on a timeline grid.
See real-time coverage gaps and surpluses against demand curves as you build the schedule.
View employee availability, time-off requests, and preferences directly on the schedule grid.
Build schedules in draft mode, review with managers, then publish to employees.
Create reusable shift templates for common patterns to speed up schedule building.
Automated checks for predictive scheduling laws including advance notice and clopening rules.
SPLH Metrics
Real-time sales-per-labor-hour tracking with targets and alerts.
Monitor sales per labor hour across all locations with live data feeds.
Set SPLH targets by location, department, and daypart for precise performance benchmarking.
Configurable alerts when SPLH drops below target, enabling immediate corrective action.
Track SPLH performance over weeks and months to identify patterns and improvement opportunities.
Compare SPLH performance across locations to identify best practices and underperformers.
Investigate SPLH variances from company level down to individual shift performance.
Four-Wall P&L
Store-level profitability with Net Sales - COGS - Labor - OpEx = EBITDA.
See Net Sales minus COGS minus Labor minus OpEx equals EBITDA for every location.
Understand exactly how labor decisions affect your bottom line in real-time.
Monitor cost of goods sold alongside labor to get a complete picture of variable costs.
Track fixed and variable operating expenses allocated to each location.
Monitor EBITDA trends over time to gauge the impact of operational improvements.
Aggregate four-wall P&L from stores to districts to regions for executive reporting.
Approval Queues
Configurable workflows for time-off, schedule changes, sales plans, and shift claims.
Employees submit requests, managers approve or deny with coverage impact visibility.
Enable employee-initiated shift swaps with manager approval and skill/certification checks.
Publishing a schedule beyond its labor budget automatically routes to approval with the overage and justification attached.
Track and approve schedule modifications with audit trail and notification history.
Set up approval chains by request type, amount, and organizational level.
Managers approve requests from their phone with push notifications for pending items.
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