Because people are a key resource for a small company, effective staff management is required for the business to succeed. AvailSuite provides a simple and intuitive way to manage staff - Scheduling Calendar. This unique feature clearly distinguishes AvailSuite from other small business management software.

You can effectively schedule both short-term and long-term tasks, because you can change time-scale from minutes to months via single mouse click. First, you can easily switch from day view to week view and to month view, using the selector at the top of calendar. Right-click on the hours scale lets you change the time scale to minutes, should you need that precision.

You can manage your tasks, schedule tasks for technicians, and entire service teams. If you need to distribute the work between several people, you can easily set filter to display just these people's tasks. You can also select to display the tasks in one calendar or display a separate calendar per person.

With a click you can display all the unassigned tasks. It is important list, because it ensures no task slips through the cracks and never gets done. Another click shows all the tasks that have not been scheduled to any exact time yet. This list contains everything you have postponed, and reminds you about what will have to be done soon.

There is a Recurring Task Wizard to assist you with scheduling activities that occur every week or month, or in some other, but still regular way. The Recurring Task Wizard is very flexible about the recurrence pattern you may set, like "every 3rd Friday each month", or "on Monday and Thursday every 2nd week".

AvailSuite's Calendar has all the point-and-click and drag-and-drop capabilities to make complex scheduling a breeze. You can move a task from one day to another day using the mouse. You can re-assign it from one person to another in a similar way. Resizing task bar will change the task's duration. Double-clicking on the task bar opens a screen with complete task details. Once the scheduling is done, you can print the daily job lists for everyone and get them started.

Using route management module, you can setup an unlimited number of routes. Then, you set a default route for every customer. Once it is done, efficient dispatching becomes easy. Every new work order is automatically assigned to the customer's default route. When it is time to schedule next week's services, you open "Work Orders by Route" view and assign orders to appropriate technicians, setting one or group of technicians per a route. All that is left is setting specific date (and time if required) for the services and you are done with dispatching.