Among other challenging things, event planning requires a basic understanding of staffing requirements and sales projections or something in between.

Depending on the complexity and the nature of the event at hand, you can choose one of four versions of Excel templates that can help you simplify and better organize the whole process, namely Labor Scheduling Basic Version, Labor Scheduling Planner's Version, and Labor Scheduling Call Center Version, and Labor Scheduling Retailer's Version.

The latter version is designed to offer you a comprehensive view of the number of staff required based on daily projected sales figures. To put it plain words, you just have to enter the sales projects for each day of the event and the spreadsheet helps you determine the number of specialized personnel accordingly.

The first thing that you should be aware of concerning all version of the template is the fact that they require Microsoft Excel to be present on your computer's system. It is worth mentioning that they work with all versions of Excel from 2007 onward.

You can get started with this scheduling spreadsheet in practically no time as it does not require installation. Simply download Labor Scheduling Retailer's Version and launch it, just like any other Excel file.

Once launched, you are bound to discover a new tab within Excel's ribbon toolbar, named Staff Scheduler. The template's 'features' are well-organized in self-explanatory categories.

This said, it should not take too long until you figure out how to take advantage of everything Labor Scheduling Planner's Version has to offer. You can start by adding employees, defining their roles and operating hours. Just as easily, you can establish staffing plans, manage employee availability, schedule assignments or fully rely on the template to do all the hard work thanks to its auto-scheduling feature.

Labor Scheduling Retailer's Version is indeed a straightforward and efficient solution for labor scheduling. It is true that it is not as stylish or as practical as a stand-alone app, since it fully relies on Excel as a platform, by we cannot argue regarding its flexibility and overall results, which are by all means quite satisfactory.

Labor Scheduling Retailer's Version's capabilities recommend it for scheduling labor for multiple institutions, including restaurants, hospitals, call centers, nursing homes, and even hotels.