A shift can be in one of two states: draft or published. Drafts are only visible to managers — your team doesn't see them and won't get notifications. Published shifts go out to everyone.
How to publish
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- On the Schedule page, build out your week. Every shift you add starts as a draft (shown with a dashed amber outline).
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- When you're happy, click Publish week in the top-right. We'll show you exactly what's about to be sent so there are no surprises.
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- Confirm. Everyone with a shift in the published range gets a notification — push, email, or SMS depending on what they have turned on.
What if I publish a mistake?
You can edit or delete a published shift the same way as a draft — open the shift, change it, save. If the change affects someone, they'll get a "schedule change" notification telling them what shifted.
If you published the WHOLE week by accident and want to roll back: open each shift and either delete it or change its state back to draft. We don't have a one-click "unpublish week" on purpose — too easy to delete real work by accident.
Predictive scheduling laws
If you're in a city with Fair Workweek (NYC, Seattle, Oregon, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.) and you publish a shift with less than 14 days' notice, you may owe predictability pay. We flag this on the compliance page and on the shift itself — but the obligation to pay is yours, not ours.