How to plan a recurring shift

How to plan a recurring shift#

For: Manager You’ll need: A position and a location.

Describe the recurrence pattern once — daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly — and Shiftavo generates every occurrence in the location’s timezone (DST-safe).

Open the create form#

  1. Go to Planning → Shifts and click ‘Add new shift’.

  2. Fill in position, location, area, start, end, and notes — see How to add a shift.

Turn on recurrence#

  1. Tick the ‘Recurring’ checkbox. The recurrence sub-form appears.

Pick a frequency#

  1. From the ‘Frequency’ dropdown, choose ‘Daily’, ‘Weekly’, ‘Monthly’, or ‘Yearly’.

  2. The form swaps in the right options for that frequency.

Set the interval#

  1. In the ‘Repeat every’ field, enter how often the pattern repeats — 1 means every period, 2 means every other, etc.

Configure pattern (frequency-specific)#

  • Weekly — tick the days of the week (Mon, Tue, …) the shift should fall on.

  • Monthly — choose ‘On day N’ (e.g. the 15th) or ‘On the Nth weekday’ (e.g. second Tuesday).

Set the end condition#

  1. Choose ‘Never’, ‘After N occurrences’, or ‘Until a date’.

  2. If you chose ‘After N occurrences’ or ‘Until’, fill in the value.

Save#

  1. Click ‘Save’.

The series is generated; each occurrence becomes its own shift you can later edit, move, or delete individually.

Verify it worked#

The first occurrence appears at the start date and time you set, and following occurrences match the pattern.