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Unfilled shift alerts

When Paddl tells you a published shift has nobody on it, how the till changes the order, and how the alert clears.

Staff availability

Which days people have said they cannot work, how it shows on the rota, and recording it for somebody yourself.

Confirming and cancelling Paddy actions

Ask Paddy always shows you what it is about to do and waits for you to confirm. Here is how that works and what gets recorded.

What Ask Paddy can do for you

Ask Paddy can set up routines, book visits, draft paperwork, chase your team and build an audit pack. Here is what to ask for.

Admin Panel vs Mobile App

When to use the admin panel and when to use the app, and how managers move between them.

Why did my rota notification change?

With team chat switched on, some notifications become posts in a channel instead of a push to everybody. Here is what moved and what did not.

Open shifts and swaps in chat

Publish a week and the unfilled shifts land in the site channel as cards staff can claim, and a shift somebody cannot work can be given away from the thread.

A person at a glance

Click a name on the rota, Payroll, Requests or Reports to see their hours, pay, holiday and anything worth knowing, without leaving the page.

Routines and Checklists

See today's tasks across your sites, build recurring checklists with rich field types, schedule them flexibly, assign them, and change them later.

Notification Settings

Choose what notifies you and how, set quiet hours, and get a message to the whole team.

Handovers

Where handover and end-of-day reports live in the admin panel, how to acknowledge one, and what the Handovers module switches on.

Leave requests and holiday

Where requests for time off arrive, what the review shows before you decide, and booking leave for somebody yourself.

Who can see sales and labour cost

Sales are owner-only unless the owner lets managers in. Labour cost has its own switch. What each setting exposes.

Team Chat: the basics

Where chat lives on the phone and in the admin panel, which channels you get, and what happens to a conversation when somebody leaves.

The demand band on the rota

The strip under each rota day shows how busy the site usually is, hour by hour, from up to thirteen weeks of takings.

The rota and closed sites

What happens to shifts and alerts when a site is shut for a refurbishment or a holiday.

Publishing a rota, and what the notice counter means

What staff see when you publish, and why Paddl records how much notice each change gave.

Letting Paddy suggest a week

Ask Paddy to draft a week of open shifts against the demand band and your labour target. It never publishes.

Building your first rota

Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.

Approving hours and timesheets

Payroll lists every shift in the dates you pick: what the flags mean, how to correct a time, and what approving covers.

Seeing your shifts in the app

Where your rota lives in Paddl Assist, and what the times mean.

Checking your hours

Where to find what you have worked this period and whether your manager has approved it.