Staflexx Freeze Planned Cost Functionality

Freeze Planned Cost functionality has been added to capture labour cost baselines at publication stage, enabling comparison against actual and live operational performance.

Roles impacted:

Managers / Supervisors
Finance / Payroll Teams
Operations Teams

Value this change will add:

Establishes a fixed labour cost baseline for analysis and reporting
Enables comparison between planned and actual labour costs
Improves labour budgeting and financial visibility

Change Details:

Introduced Planned Cost functionality within the scheduling workflow
Planned Cost captures labour cost values at the point of schedule publication by a designated user
Enables comparison between Planned vs Actual cost
Planned Cost can operate independently or alongside Live Staff Cost and Sales Sync functionality

Super Admins can choose who are allowed to Freeze the Planned Cost

Designated users will be able to Freeze the Planned Cost when they Publish the schedule

Scheduled Cost will then be recorded as the Planned Cost

Any changes made to the schedule after Planned cost were recorded, will only affect the wage cost

Assumptions & Limitations:

Planned Cost values remain fixed until published again by the designated users
Configuration permissions must be managed by administrators
Planned Cost calculations depend on the published schedule structure at the time of capture

Impact:

Improved labour cost planning and forecasting
Better visibility into labour performance against planned values
Stronger financial analysis and operational decision-making

Support:

In case of any queries related to this change or any issues faced moving forward, please contact us on productsupport@wenodo.com