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<\/p>\nWe\u2019ve recently added a third scheduling option for your staff members: Time Off.<\/p>\n
In the days approaching the new year, we received plenty of feedback asking \u201cCan an admin block out multiple days for closures or vacations?\u201d Up until recently, you could, as an administrator, schedule staff members\u2019 working hours and lunches or breaks, but you couldn\u2019t explicitly schedule their time off in 30-minute or daily blocks. Now you can.<\/p>\n
You wanted a simple, obvious method of scheduling holiday time, an easier way to block out vacations and mitigate any logistical questions of the \u201cDid I just forget to schedule Larry, or is that the week he\u2019s visiting his parents in Ohio?\u201d nature. Making explicit time off part of SetMore\u2019s scheduling functionality keeps us closer to our goals of simple and clear. It might not seem like this is a big deal, but how uncomfortable is it to answer\u2014or make\u2014a phone call asking \u201cYou\u2019re scheduled to work. Where are you\u201d?<\/p>\n
Scary, right? Scheduled vacation time is one thing no staff member or business owner wants misunderstood.<\/p>\n
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Under each Staff Member\u2019s schedule (in your Settings tab), Time Off now sits as a quiet-yet-clear third option. You can schedule Larry\u2019s regular working hours, along with his breaks, just like before. Only now, when he schedules time off to help his parents celebrate their 25th anniversary, SetMore records his time off as, well, Time Off. You can set Larry\u2019s time off in blocks of days or blocks of time within a day, down to the half-hour.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s distinct from and much easier than marking Larry\u2019s Working Hours as \u201coff,\u201d painstakingly setting each of Larry\u2019s days off by using the Lunches\/Breaks function, or even clunkier, scheduling \u201cDon\u2019t Schedule\u201d appointments.<\/p>\n
Now when your employee or staff member requests time off, Time Off records it explicitly, without confusion. Give it a try next time Larry needs a break.<\/p>\n
-Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve recently added a third scheduling option for your staff members: Time Off. In the days approaching the new year, we received plenty of feedback asking \u201cCan an admin block out multiple days for closures or vacations?\u201d Up until recently, you could, as an administrator, schedule staff members\u2019 working hours and lunches or breaks, but…","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product","tag-updates"],"yoast_head":"\n