Know Who's Coming Before the Shift Starts.
Publishing a schedule tells your team what you'd like to happen. Shift acceptance tells you whether it will. Turn it on and every person you assign to a published shift is asked one thing: accept or decline. They answer from their phone in a tap. You see the responses next to each name — accepted, declined, or still pending — so a gap surfaces while you can still do something about it, not at the door on Saturday morning. It's a single setting, off by default. Leave it off and nothing changes; switch it on when you'd rather not assume a silent roster means a confirmed one.
Three Things You Stop Guessing.
Whether they saw it.
A published shift is a notification into the void. An accepted shift is a commitment with a timestamp. You stop chasing read-receipts in a group chat.
Who isn't coming.
A decline reaches a manager right away — with the reason, if you asked for one — so you fill the gap days ahead instead of an hour before.
Stale answers after a change.
Move a published shift's time, place, or role and everyone's answer resets to pending. Nobody is counted in for a shift they never actually agreed to.
Two Taps. From the Shift.
No new screen to learn — the response box lives on the shift they already opened.
Open the shift.
From their schedule or shifts list. A published, upcoming shift they're on shows a 'Your response' box, marked 'Pending' until they reply.
Accept or decline.
One tap. If your company asks for a reason on declines, the Decline button waits until they've typed one.
Pick the range, for a repeating shift.
An 'Apply to' picker answers for this occurrence, this and all following, or the whole series — so a recurring 'yes' doesn't mean answering the same question every week.
Change it until it starts.
An answer can flip any time before the shift begins. Once it starts — or once the hours are approved — it locks, so attendance history isn't rewritten after the fact.
A Decline Comes Straight to a Manager.
An accepted shift gets out of your way. A declined one finds you. The moment someone declines, Shiftavo notifies the company's managers — with the reason, if you turned that on — and links to the shift so you can reassign in two clicks. The rest of the team never sees it; it's between the person and the people covering the floor. The same response box doubles as an RSVP on company events and meetings: there it reads 'Going', and an optional event also offers 'Maybe' for people who genuinely don't know yet. That one needs no setting — it's always there on a general event. Shift acceptance is the part you choose, and you choose it per company, not per shift.
