Shifton

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Schedule Settings and Permissions

A detailed guide to Step 1 of the schedule creation wizard, covering week control, employee visibility, and the eight employee action permissions that contro...

Vacation Management

The Vacation Management module lets you track and manage each employee’s vacation days. You can set the number of vacation days when adding an employee...

Extending and Shortening Schedules

Change a schedule’s end date after it has been created — extend it to add more weeks, or shorten it to cut off days you no longer need. What Is T...

Emergency Shifts

Quickly fill urgent staffing gaps by creating high-priority shifts with bonus incentives and targeted notifications. What Is This? The Emergency Shifts modul...

Shift Templates

Create reusable shift configurations with pre-defined times, breaks, and colors. Shift templates save time when you manually add shifts to any schedule. What...

Activity

Track specific tasks and activities within employee shifts for detailed productivity and time allocation reporting. What Is This? The Activity module adds a ...

Load Demand

Plan staffing levels by hour using demand data. The Load Demand tab lets you define how many employees are needed at each hour of the day, then uses that dat...

Forecasting

Enable the Forecasting module to unlock the Load Demand feature — a staffing prediction tool built into the schedule creation wizard. What Is This? The...

Schedule Page Overview

Get familiar with the Schedule page layout — the top bar controls, left panel, and calendar grid that make up the core scheduling interface in Shifton....

Managing Projects

Organize your workforce by grouping employees and schedules into projects. Projects are the top-level containers that help you separate teams, departments, o...