Scheduling

Leave and unavailability events used to cover multiple days on the schedule; these have now been broken into events for each day for easier management and understanding of time used per day, allowing more awareness of shift availability.

Understanding what’s happening throughout the working day is important so your staff understand their responsibilities. We’ve added a new widget to the top of the mobile dashboard to ensure all employees are aware of your announcements at first glance. Additionally, the desktop Upcoming Events widget can now be interacted with to view more details of each event.

Fixed work patterns aren’t always perfect for every employee, especially if they have an irregular working schedule. With Shiftie, you can now override employee work patterns and adjust their days off. These irregular days off will count towards the employee’s leave allowance usage and even show in the Timesheets area.

Job role ordering adds additional structure to your online schedule and printed copies, ensuring everything is easily accessible and in the right place. No more time spent scrolling through the schedule trying to find employees; instead, they’re right where you’re expecting, ready to assign shifts.

Schedule events can be used to announce important dates and messages to your workforce. With this update, managing your events is even simpler, allowing you to assign multiple event types to the same event.

Shiftie has several settings to control the shifts that employees can view, including across different locations. This new setting lets you control whether employees can view shifts on schedules they don’t belong to, so you can choose to keep them separate or allow employees to see who else is working.

Managers now have the option to allow employees to take breaks during shifts that don’t have any scheduled. The clocked unscheduled breaks will be logged in Timesheets for managers to review.

The shift conflicts panel on the schedule provides schedule managers with improved visibility and control over potential shift conflicts. Each conflict can now be addressed directly from the scheduling interface, leveraging additional insights and shift management capabilities.

Assign shift areas to your employees' shifts and view all area allocations on the schedule to ensure optimal coverage. This feature makes sure that employees are allocated to the right place at the right time, enhancing visitor experiences.

Shiftie now allows shift managers to adjust shifts that started in the past. Shifts that have not been clocked into will be fully editable, while shifts that employees have already clocked into will be restricted with only the shift end time, tags, and notes able to be adjusted. This enables managers to tell their staff to come in earlier or later and add additional details at the last minute.

The create and edit shift form has been split into two tabs; basic and advanced details. From the basic tab, you can set the shift times, job role and location, as well as any breaks or allocated shift areas. The advanced tab lets you add additional details such as tags and notes. This cleaner interface smooths the process of scheduling shifts.

Shift managers can now schedule a whole week’s worth of shifts in one click! This simplifies setting up your schedules and allows you to build schedule templates faster. Additionally, you can duplicate employees' shifts and move them around the schedule for easier schedule management.

The create and edit shift form has been split into two tabs; basic details and shift breaks. Ultimately, the breaks tab will include the ability to assign shift areas for the scheduled employee. Sessions are ordered chronologically for easy management of breaks and areas.

A new shift details panel will provide more detailed information about each shift for employees and shift managers on both desktop and mobile devices. Quickly view all the information about a shift and act on it as necessary; no more guessing whether it’s the right shift to claim, edit, or approve.

A new schedule setting enables employees to claim open shifts on their days off and notify them that these shifts are available to pick up. Not a fan? This can be turned off so that staff can only claim shifts for the days they usually work.

Following Shiftie’s split of locations and schedules, shift templates will now be assigned to locations too. Fewer templates will be required for scheduling across multiple schedules, making it easier to find and assign prebuilt shifts for employees, including where they’re working.

We live by our motto: scheduling made simple. Creating shifts is even simpler with an improved flow to quickly pre-fill shift details and make minor adjustments before saving and publishing. A smoother shift creation flow for quicker and easier scheduling.

Improved organisation of shift templates in settings to easily find, edit or delete templates using filters and a search tool. Save time managing your templates to free up more time for applying them to your schedules.

Schedule announcements or business-closed events help to communicate busier or quieter days with your team to make informed schedule decisions. Creating more than one per day previously crammed the scheduling space, now you can toggle the events to optionally display what’s happening during the period in view. Announcements, business closed events and public holidays will still be visible in the schedule timeline headers for quick reference.

Shiftie has a wide range of tools to help you schedule your teams with ease however we understand that nothing can be perfect. This is why we have added the ability for you to export your schedules to CSV format to manage in your favourite spreadsheet software such as Excel. This will also help in times when you just have no signal and require a downloaded version to check on the go.