We’ve just landed a feature that allows employees to put shifts in the shift pool and specify who they want to give their shift to. They can choose from a few different options. If that employees’ shift belongs to a specific role, say “Front desk”, it will give you the option to only notify and [...]

Picture this likely scenario: You were editing or creating a schedule and you got side-tracked or pulled into a meeting for several hours. You forgot to hit “Save” or “Create” to save your changes to the schedule. Now you come back and your session is expired! Meaning you were away from your computer for too [...]

We’re happy to announce that the Shift Pool is now included in the mobile web app. As an employer, you can approve and decline shifts from the app and employees can give away and take shifts. We’ve also made it faster. You can give it a try by visiting http://yoursite.7shifts.com on your mobile device (iPhone, [...]

As a manager, you’re probably used to getting those emails that require you to login to the system to approve a time off request or to approve a shift change. This is no longer the case. You can now approve or decline time off requests and shift changes right from your email! All you have [...]

We’ve recently added a feature that has been requested by quite a few of our clients: the ability to view a bar graph of scheduled shifts for a specific day. Here’s how it works: Go and edit an existing schedule. You will see a graph icon under the day. Once you click on that, a [...]

We’ve added the ability to upload profile pictures! To accomplish this, login to your account click on “settings” and you’ll see some directions on how to upload your picture. We’re using a third party company called Gravatar. It’s a service that specializes in handling profile picture uploads – also referred to as avatars. You will [...]

Having direct communication with your staff is important. Previously, the only way to do this was to post a message on the Wall or on the ‘Sticky’ Message. But what if you want to send specific messages to a specific department or a select group of people? Well, now you can with email messages! This [...]

We’ve added the ability to have the schedule auto-tally labor costs if they’re scheduled on a holiday. To enable holiday pay, go into “settings” then click on “holiday pay”. Normally, you would pay each employee time and a half (x 1.5) on a statutory holiday but you can fill in whatever you want. All holidays [...]

You now have the ability to drag a shift to another day or copy a shift to another day. Here’s how you can do it: Moving a shift to another day/employee Click and hold down your mouse on the shift. Now drag it to wherever you want to move it to. Copying a shift to [...]

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” [...]