Enabling AI forecasts

If you use Staff rotas, you can enable AI Forecasting to produce more accurate sales forecasts at the click of a button. 

Our AI model uses your venue's historical sales and bookings information, along with your covers booked in for the sales period you are forecasting, to produce your sales forecasts. The AI will generate:

1. Daily forecasts for viewing wage percentages on the Wages tab and the Forecasts tab of your rota
2. Hourly forecasts for aligning your staff levels to your sales trends on the Optimise Rota tab
3. Department-level forecasts, where you have set up departments and linked sales to them.

Note: You need at least 14 days of sales history to generate AI sales forecasts.

To enable AI forecasting, log in to your back office and select Staff scheduling > Staff rotas from the left-hand navigation. 

Click on the Forecasts tab.

You will see the Enable AI Forecasts toggle on the right-hand side, above the sales forecast boxes. Toggle this to On.

The Change week button (used to select a historical week to base forecasts on in manual forecasting) will be replaced by a Generate Forecasts button.

This button can now be used to generate your forecasts for each week.

Note: If this is the first time you have enabled AI forecasting, it can take up to 15 minutes to train the model before you will be able to generate your first forecasts.

Once generated, your forecasts will be used for the hourly trends displayed for each day on the Optimise Rota tab.