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 → Planning list and click ‘Create’ → ‘Shift’.

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

  1. Tap Shifts in the bottom bar, then the team icon in the top bar for ‘Team schedule’. Tap the add (+) button — floating on Android, in the top bar on iOS — and choose ‘Create shift’.

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

Turn on recurrence#

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

  1. Turn on the Repeat shift switch. The recurrence fields appear under it.

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.

  1. Tap Frequency and choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

  2. The fields below swap to the ones that frequency needs.

Set the interval#

  1. In the ‘Every’ field, enter how often the pattern repeats — 1 means every period, 2 means every other. The help text under it reads “Repeat every N days, weeks, months, or years.”

  1. In Repeat every, type how often the pattern repeats — 1 means every period, 2 means every other. The unit next to it follows the frequency (day(s), week(s), month(s), year(s)).

Configure pattern (frequency-specific)#

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

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

  • Weekly — tap the day pills (Mon, Tue, …) the shift should fall on; tap again to unselect.

  • Monthly — tap Monthly and choose On day (then fill Day of month — e.g. 15, or 1,15 for two days) or On the (then pick a position — First … Last — and a Day, which can be a weekday or Day / Weekday / Weekend day).

Set the end condition#

  1. In the ‘Ends’ group, choose ‘Never’, ‘Until date’, or ‘After N times’.

  2. If you chose ‘Until date’ or ‘After N times’, fill in the date or the number.

  1. Tap Ends and choose Never, Until date, or After N times.

  2. For Until date, tap End date and pick one; for After N times, type the number into Occurrences.

Save#

  1. Click ‘Save’.

  1. Tap Save in the top bar (Done on iOS).

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.