We’ve just added a feature that will help with managing vacation time. Here’s how it works. Let’s say the employee is going on a vacation to Mexico from Feb 20 – Feb 27 and they need to have it approved by a manager/supervisor. First, the employee logs into their account, clicks on the “Time Off” [...]

We’ve heard some feedback from a few of our customers and we kept hearing the same pains. We knew that availability needed to work better so we’ve spent some time doing exactly that. Repeating availability Availability that you can set once and have it automatically repeat every week. Here is what the new repeating availability [...]

We’ve had a few customers ask about having auto-breaks injected into shifts that are longer than (x) hours. For example, if you have a shift that is (x) hours long, have the system automatically inject a (x) minute break into the shift and calculate the labor cost and hours appropriately on the schedule. Here is [...]

With much anticipation, we’ve launched the 7shifts mobile app! This is a web-based app and works on the iPhone 3.0+, Android 2.1+ and Blackberry 6.0+. How can I access it? You can access the site the same way you would access your own account in the browser. You typically login to your account at http://yourcompany.7shifts.com. [...]

Some of you may have received an email a few days ago saying there was going to be some down-time at 10PM central on Wednesday night. The down-time was to add some updates to 7shifts. Wall We’ve always felt the wall was never really complete. We spent some time to bring it back to life [...]

A few people have contacted us and expressed some confusion with the supervisor role. This came as no surprise since we knew it wasn’t intuitive. With the feedback we received, it became clear it needed to be changed. Being assigned a supervisor role meant you were given some employer privileges but you were also an [...]

Ever since we opened shop in August 2010, we’ve had a free plan for smaller companies. What we realized is that most of our clients are smaller companies and giving away everything for free wasn’t allowing us to move forward as a small company. Because of the value we feel that 7shifts brings and the [...]

We’re proud to announce the ability to schedule multiple shifts per day. No more trying to squeeze in multiple shifts separated by a comma into one shift slot. Here is what it looks like to schedule multiple shifts. Add and remove as many shifts as necessary. The red buttons denote “unavailable”. Just like the old [...]

If you’re a customer of ours, then you’ve probably used the copy schedule feature. How it worked up until today, was that you could copy a schedule to another week and it would make it live right away. However, we realized that a lot of people were wanting to copy a schedule and make some [...]

When we first tell people about 7shifts, one of the first things they ask is “So, employees can take/trade shifts online?” and we’re used to telling them “It’s coming”. Well, it’s here! How this works Any employee can login and view their schedule. When they look at their schedule, they will see a button below [...]