4. Operate: opportunities, shifts and attendance
Instant Book, or request to book?
Plan required: shifts and reservations need Vome Pro or above. Overview Approval for an opportunity is what lets somebody see and reserve its shifts. Instant Book decides what happens in the moment they reserve one. Those are two different questions, ...
The three shapes an opportunity can take
Plan required: shifts need Vome Pro or above. The shapes below all describe how opportunities and shifts fit together. Overview There are three sensible ways to arrange your work in Vome, and the difference between them is not cosmetic. Before you ...
Hour claims: letting people log their own hours
Plan required: hour claims sit alongside the schedule, which needs Vome Pro or above. Overview An hour claim is the person telling you what they worked, rather than a system watching them do it. It is the right tool wherever there was nothing to ...
Public, semi-private or private?
Overview Visibility answers one question: who can find this opportunity in the first place. It is not the same as the recruitment workflow, which decides what happens once somebody has found it. Both can stop a person getting through, and when an ...
How should people check in? Kiosk, QR code and geolocation
Plan required: attendance tracking relies on people being scheduled onto shifts, which needs Vome Pro or above. Overview Hours have to come from somewhere. There are three tools for capturing them on site, and most organizations end up running two. ...
What are shift policies, and which do I need?
Plan required: shift policies rely on people being able to reserve shifts, which needs Vome Pro or above. Two specific parts of a group reservation policy also need Enterprise, and section 7 says exactly which. Overview A shift policy is a reusable ...