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Roster building & demand planning — found from sitemap — Shiftbase
Checked for Shiftbase on 1 Oct 2026
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- https://help.shiftbase.com/auto-scheduling
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- 1 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC
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Auto scheduling plan requirement Report an error
“A Premium plan*. Auto-scheduling is a Premium feature. The “Add schedules” permission for the department you’re scheduling.”
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Auto scheduling description Report an error
“Auto-scheduling fills your required shifts for you. Instead of dragging every shift onto an employee by hand, you mark which shifts are required, choose what you want to optimise for and Shiftbase’s AI proposes a complete schedule.”
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Auto scheduling no auto publish Report an error
“Nothing is ever published to your employees automatically.”
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Auto scheduling inputs Report an error
“Required shifts for the department and week (the demand it’s trying to cover) Employee availability and unavailability Approved absences Contract hours and how many hours each employee is already scheduled for Plus/min (overtime) balances Skills, matched to the skills a shift needs Your account’s scheduling rules”
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Optimisation goals Report an error
“Profit: Minimises labour cost. Balanced: A balanced mix of cost, coverage, and fair distribution of hours. Employee: Prioritises employee preferences and satisfaction.”
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Draft summary metrics Report an error
“Total labour cost: Estimated total labour cost of the proposed schedule. Productivity: The amount of revenue generated for every hour worked by your employees. Average hourly wage: Average hourly wage across the scheduled employees. Labour cost percentage: Labour cost as a share of expected turnover.”
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Forecast step optional Report an error
“If you have permission to view it, this step shows the forecasted turnover for the department and week.”
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Recommendations single shift Report an error
“Open the required shift and click on the ✨ Recommendations tab. Here, you will find employees who are recommended. Click on the Why? button to see reasons why this employee is recommended.”
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Auto scheduling settings location Report an error
“Auto-scheduling follows a set of account-wide rules you control under Settings > Schedule > Auto-Scheduling.”
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Setting max weekly hours Report an error
“Maximum weekly hours 50 hours No employee is ever assigned more than this many hours in a week.”
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Setting max flex weekly hours Report an error
“Maximum flex weekly hours 40 hours A separate weekly cap for employees on flexible or zero-hour contracts.”
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Setting max extra weekly hours fixed Report an error
“Maximum extra weekly hours (fixed contracts) 0 hours How many hours beyond their contract a fixed-contract employee may be assigned in a week. At 0, they’re never scheduled beyond their contracted hours.”
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Setting max hours per day Report an error
“Maximum hours per day No limit Optional daily hours cap per employee.”
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Setting max shifts per day Report an error
“Maximum shifts per day No limit Optional daily shift-count cap per employee.”
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Setting availability handling Report an error
“Availability handling Soft Whether stated available times are a strict requirement (Hard) or a preference the solver tries to honour but may override (Soft).”
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Setting unavailability handling Report an error
“Unavailability handling Hard The same choice for times an employee marked unavailable. Defaults to strictly respected.”
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Setting blank days unavailable Report an error
“Treat days with no availability info as unavailable Off Off: a blank day counts as available.”
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Setting team preference Report an error
“Team preference Hard Whether an employee can only be assigned within their own team(s) (Hard) or the solver may cross team boundaries.”
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Availability entry points Report an error
“Employees set their availability in the mobile app, the web calendar, or the employee-management screen.”
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Auto scheduling absence read only Report an error
“Auto-scheduling only reads your availability and absence data. It never creates, edits, or approves absences, and it never publishes the schedule to employees.”
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Related features Report an error
“Copy Schedule is the manual alternative. Use Copy for stable, repeating schedules; use auto-scheduling when demand varies, and you want the system to optimise around your rules.”
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