Documentation and help for the shift scheduling app
Overview: benefits, four-step start and the path through the wiki — the right starting point for anyone new to PlanFast.
The guided setup process: industry, departments, shift patterns, employees and AutoPilot in one pass.
Via access code or QR. Includes placeholder employees and merging when their account is added later.
Three phases — Creation, Publishing, Assignment — that run your schedule automatically.
Manual shifts and shift templates, series for connected shifts, algorithmic assignment and post-assignment changes.
The two dimensions of planning. Qualification warning on assignment.
Minimum rest time between two shifts — automatically considered by the algorithm.
★ Wish, ✓ Available, ✗ Not available — how employees set their weekly preferences. Admins can do it too.
Vacation and other absences as approval-based requests — submitted, accepted, declined or closed.
Sick leave with automatic shift handover for affected shifts — and how the team picks them up.
Hand over a shift so someone else takes it. Whole series too. With or without a swap.
Trade your own shift for that of another employee. Initiated by employees or by admin.
Worked hours — for employees on themselves, for admins on the whole team.