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Rota & time

Building and publishing the rota

Add shifts, keep an eye on labour cost, and publish the week so your team knows when they're working.

Team leaders & managers
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Adding shifts

  1. 1Tap Rota and pick the store and week.
  2. 2Tap the + in a person's row on the right day.
  3. 3Type the Start and End times. You can type 9, 930 or 17:30.
  4. 4Add a Role / note if you like, such as "Front of house".
  5. 5Tap Add shift. To give the same person a second shift that day, tap Save & add split shift.

Late shifts that finish after midnight are fine. Just enter an end time that's earlier than the start.

Changing or removing a shift

  1. 1Tap the shift.
  2. 2Change the details and tap Save, or tap Delete to remove it.

Borrowing someone from another site

  1. 1Tap Import Team Member.
  2. 2Tap Add next to the person. They appear on this week's rota only.

Labour and sales

Below the rota you'll see estimated and actual labour, sales and labour %.

  • Tap the Labour target to set the % you're aiming for.
  • Type Estimated sales for each day to see your forecast labour %.
  • Actual labour comes from the time clock. Actual sales can be typed in or come from End of Day.
  • If someone has no pay rate, you'll see a warning. Their hours count as £0 until a rate is set.

Publishing

  1. 1When the week is ready, tap Publish schedule.
  2. 2Everyone with a shift gets a notification, and it's posted in the store's chat.
  3. 3To make changes privately, tap Unpublish.

Staff can't look ahead to next week until you publish it.

Setting where staff clock in

  1. 1Tap Set location on the rota page (admins only).
  2. 2Search the address or drop a pin, set the Geofence radius, then tap Save location.

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