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. Switching it on asks everyone already on an upcoming published shift; switching it off clears their answers.
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 a link to the shift, 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 they clock in, or 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 managers who staff that shift's location and links to the shift so you can reassign in two clicks. The reason, if you ask for one, is on the person's assignment. 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.
Where to Go Next.
The pages that sit next to this one — and the documentation when you want the detail.
Notifications
Cancel, swap, or decide leave — the people affected hear about it in the app, by email, and on their phone. Each person sets how much email.
Notifications
Audit Trail
Every record keeps its change history — who changed what, when, old value and new.
Audit Trail
Automatic Assignment
The shifts are there. Let Shiftavo work out who fills them — legally and fairly.
Automatic Assignment
Schedule & Coverage
Plan shifts on a calendar, apply templates, and watch the coverage grid go green. Compliance flags surface as you plan.
Schedule & Coverage