THE SHIFT + FIELD GUIDE
Set up once.
Find your rhythm.
A practical guide from your first roster to a connected calendar.
Choose the schedule you actually work
The first-run wizard guides you through country, organisation, roster, unit and Shift Times. Choose a built-in roster or a standard Monday–Friday schedule. Custom repeating schedules require Premium.
- Open Settings and confirm your Active Roster and Active Unit.
- Set the supported Early, Late and Night start and finish times in Shift Times. Overnight shifts continue into the next day.
- Browse other rosters freely: viewing a different roster does not change the active schedule used by alarms, statistics and calendar sync.
Find your way around the calendar
E means Early, L means Late, N means Night and R means Rest. Markers can identify annual leave, alarms, reminders, notes and overtime. Colours and borders can be adjusted in Appearance.
- Tap a date to compare other units.
- Long-press a date to open the complete day preview and add supported entries.
- Use the Help Centre’s live tour to see demonstrations of the real interface. The tour uses a temporary, read-only demo session.
Make work alarms work for you
In Settings, open Work Alarms. Choose the workplace terminology you prefer, then enable start and finish alarms and adjust the timing sliders.
- Confirm Active Roster, Active Unit and Shift Times first.
- Allow notifications and exact alarms where required. Check sound, vibration, lock-screen alerts and background activity; battery optimisation can affect delivery.
- Run the 10-second Test Alarm before relying on alarms. Review upcoming entries in Alarm Centre.
- Recorded overtime before a shift moves its start alarm earlier and omits Pre-Tour; overtime afterwards moves the finish alarm later.
Keep track of annual leave
Configure Leave Year, entitlement, carry-over and opening-balance adjustments on the Annual Leave screen.
- Long-press a calendar date and choose Add Annual Leave.
- Choose a full day, half day or date range, then save.
- Reopen the day preview to edit or remove leave. Check taken, planned and remaining counters.
- With Premium, Leave Optimizer searches your configured leave year for breaks where annual leave bridges non-working days. Suggestions use the active schedule, public holidays, existing leave, rest days and mandatory recovery.
Build a repeating roster · Premium
Open Custom Rosters, give the roster a name and choose a cycle length. Define the Early, Late and Night shift times.
- Select each cycle day and assign Early, Late, Night or Rest.
- Save the pattern, then set it as Active when you want it to drive your schedule.
- The dated editor starts at today and anchors the entered repeating pattern. Check the preview carefully before using its alarms.
- Reopen a saved roster to edit it. Duplicate names must be replaced, renamed or cancelled.
Record additional hours · Premium
Long-press a date to add overtime. Record start and finish times with an optional description. Overtime cannot overlap rostered working hours.
- Review or edit saved entries from the day preview.
- Look for the charcoal overlay: a full cell on a Rest day or the right half of a working day.
- Use Statistics to review overtime hours for the configured Leave Year and Calendar Year.
Copy your schedule to a device calendar
In Settings, enable Device Calendar synchronisation. Grant calendar permission, choose a sync period and select the shift, leave and reminder types to mirror.
- Choose 30, 60 or 90 days, or 12 months.
- The copy uses your Active Roster and Active Unit. Shift + remains the primary source and replaces its own managed events to avoid duplicates.
- Turning sync off removes managed Shift + events where supported. This is separate from Premium Home Assistant sync.
- You can also export an ICS file for compatible calendar apps. Review imported calendar details before relying on them.
Ready to connect your home?
Follow the separate pairing guide for Home Assistant.
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