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How to Add Schedules
How to Add Schedules

Assign schedules for specific people to do the work you need them to do for your customers and their locations

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We suggest to create schedules in Chronotek to know where employees are, ensure that your jobs are covered, and for proper job costing. However, schedules are optional.

Once you've created a job, you can add a schedule.

How to Add a Schedule in Chronotek Pro

Go to the recurrent Schedule Wizard '+' from 2 ways:

  1. Click on Jobs menu item and select your job > open the Schedules tab

    OR the easy way...

  2. From the Schedules menu > click on the job name > this takes you directly to the Schedules tab

Using the + Schedule Wizard:

You can schedule many shifts/teams to a job. Think of a day shift/team and night shift/team. Let's get to it. (And remember, you define the 'Job' as the work or contract you are tracking that people are clocking into.)

  1. select the Team/SHIFT or + Add Shift

    (more than likely you will be adding this schedule to a Shift/Team that was set up initially with the job - in this case, the A Team.)


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  2. (Optional) select a Position

  3. Choose the weekly recurring days

  4. Enter your scheduled duration, start and end times, and when you want late and no-show alerts.

The "Any Time" Shift Option

Notice also that you have an "Any Time" option. In this case, you don't have to schedule a start time, but you can set the no-show alert to a specific time of day. Let's go with the Any Time option. We love flexibility, right?

Assign a Person to the Shift

Next, you'll assign a person to the schedule.

Schedule a Pay Code Override

This part saves admin time on payroll day. Assign the pay override to the schedule and the matching time card adopts that pay code.

Example: Dennis Tester makes $16.15 an hour, but you can create and apply a custom pay code override for each shift you create. See the next two screens.

If this shift is for floor waxing, in which employees get a $5 per-hour bump, you can schedule it with the floor waxing pay code, and our payroll exports will break these hours out from the employee's regular pay hours. The same rule applies if this is a weekend shift in which employees get paid more. You can create a weekend shift pay code with the dollar amount differential. Cool, right?

Let's Build the Schedule

The system tells you of any conflicts that person might have. If everything looks good, you'll Build the schedule.

Finally, you have the options to Build your next schedule, Copy the same schedule for another employee, or click No, I'm good and exit.

You're all set!

Find more answers to common questions in our Help Center. 😊

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