Covering a Saturday, without the group chat

Drop it and the shift goes back to the open row. Hand it over and it moves to a named person. Swap and two shifts change places. Each one is a request with a state, and approving one that would double-book somebody is refused by the server rather than caught by whoever is reading the queue at eleven at night.

Time off, availability and cover requests arrive in the same place, with a count in the sidebar. Approve or decline, and the board changes. A hand-over approved on a published week does not put the week back into draft — it already happened.

One screen with their own week on it. Their shifts, the hours they said they can work, their time off, and a way to hand a shift to somebody.

What is not on that screen is not hidden by CSS — wages, the budget and everybody else's hours are never sent to it. Nothing there is an approval either; approving stays with the manager.

Staff accounts are optional. Somebody who never logs in is scheduled exactly the same way as somebody who does. When you do want to bring a person in, an invitation is a link that works once, expires in fourteen days, and replaces itself if you send a second one — there are never two live links to the same inbox.

The invitation is sent for you, and a published week reaches the people whose shifts moved.