Availability

Plan Around What People Can Actually Work.

Availability captures when each worker can and can't work. Workers submit it from the app — by hour, by day, or by whole weeks — and can save recurring patterns so they don't have to re-mark every Tuesday off. Full-timers who are basically always available flip a single 'always available' switch instead — their approved leave and any time marked unavailable still count, in the checks as you assign, the coverage grid, automatic assignment and the shift marketplace. As you build the schedule, the calendar overlays availability on every potential assignment: green where the person is free, red where they've said no, grey where they haven't said. You stop assigning shifts to people who can't work them, and they stop having to remind you why they can't.

Two Sides

What Each Side Sees.

For Workers

Submit once, update anytime.

Mark hours, days, or whole weeks as available or unavailable. Save patterns that repeat — Tuesdays off, every other Sunday, no shifts before 10am. 'Always available' mode for full-timers who don't need to mark every week. Update from the app whenever life changes.

For Planners

Overlap visible as you plan.

When you assign a shift, the calendar tells you immediately whether the person flagged that slot as unavailable. Color-coded overlay: green where they're free, red where they're not, grey where they haven't said. Filter the calendar to show only available people for a given slot.

Preferred Hours

Can work is not the same as wants to work.

Alongside plain availability, a worker can name the hours they'd rather have — Monday and Wednesday mornings, say. Preferred hours are always a weekly pattern: tick the weekdays, set one time range, done. They never block anything, but they count. Assigning inside a preferred window is noted as you plan, and automatic assignment actively favours it over an equally legal alternative.