Building and publishing the week
/app/scheduleLaying out shifts, seeing the labor cost as you go, filling gaps, and what publishing actually does.
Building it
- 1Open Schedule and pick the week.
- 2Add shifts — a day, a start and end, and a crew.
- 3Assign a person, or leave it open if you don't know yet. Open shifts are visible as gaps rather than hidden.
- 4Watch the labor cost total as you go. It updates as you assign, which is the moment you actually want to see it.
Publishing
An unpublished week is a draft nobody else sees. Publishing makes it visible to the crew and puts it on the morning brief. Publish early — predictability is a benefit you can offer for free, and it's the one seasonal workers ask for most.
Filling an open shift
For an open shift, Fairway can suggest who to ask. It looks at who's available, who's under their hours, who holds the certification the work needs, and what the weather is doing, and it ranks them with a reason attached.
Nothing is assigned automatically and nobody is contacted for you. You get a ranked list with the reasoning shown, and you make the call. Every suggestion is labelled as one.
Still can't fill it
Post it to the shared labor pool and nearby courses will see it. See The shared labor pool.
Questions
Does the crew get notified when I publish?
The published week shows up for them immediately and appears on their brief. You can also have it posted to your crew's chat room automatically.
Can somebody see next week before it's published?
No. That's the point of the draft state — you can rearrange all you like without anybody planning their week around a shift that's about to move.
Can I subscribe to my shifts in my own calendar?
Yes. There's a personal calendar feed you can add to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook. See API keys, webhooks and calendar feeds.
Tell us what's missing and we'll write it. Help that doesn't cover the thing you came for isn't help.