Automatic Approvals for Open Shifts

This article is for shift supervisors, managers and business administrators. This feature is available only for Professional accounts.

When using "open shifts" to give more flexibility for employees, shift supervisors may want to further simplify the overall process of assigning and publishing schedules. Automatic approval of requests for open shifts is an option available in Business Settings under the "Workflows" section.

Here is how the automatic approval works:

The biggest difference between manual and automatic workflow is that shift administrators do not need to approve shifts and publish the schedules. The whole process is handled by the workflow automatically.

The workflow checks for new open shift requests regularly (but not immediately after an employee has submitted a request, so they have time to change their mind).
If multiple employees has requested the same shift, the shift will be assigned to the first employee to request it.