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Leave requests and holiday
Where requests for time off arrive, what the review shows before you decide, and booking leave for somebody yourself.
OperationsA 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.
OperationsStaff availability
Which days people have said they cannot work, how it shows on the rota, and recording it for somebody yourself.
OperationsExporting hours to payroll
The four formats, what is in the file, and what Paddl deliberately does not do.
OperationsApproving 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.
OperationsPublishing a rota, and what the notice counter means
What staff see when you publish, and why Paddl records how much notice each change gave.
Mobile AppClocking in from a shift
Starting a shift from your rota, what the location check does, and what happens with no signal.
OperationsThe rota and closed sites
What happens to shifts and alerts when a site is shut for a refurbishment or a holiday.
Mobile AppSeeing your shifts in the app
Where your rota lives in Paddl Assist, and what the times mean.
OperationsBuilding your first rota
Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.
OperationsEligibility warnings on the rota
What each warning means, and why Paddl warns you rather than stopping you.
OperationsWhat 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.
OperationsRoutines 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.
Team ChatOpen 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.
Team ChatGroups, channels and direct messages
Make a group for a project or a team, mute what you do not need, and understand why some channels cannot be left.
Team ChatTeam 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.
Account & BillingSwitching Modules On and Off
Choose which parts of Paddl your business uses under Settings > Modules, and what happens to the pages, alerts and Ask Paddy when one is off.
OperationsMapping Square locations to your sites
Pair each Square location with the Paddl site it feeds, and what happens to the locations you leave unmapped.
OperationsThe labour cost report
What the rota will cost against what the approved hours cost, by site, person and day, and as a share of sales.
OperationsScheduling checks around service
The routine editor shows the quiet windows in each site's day so a check lands in a lull, not the lunch rush.
OperationsHow accurate is the forecast, and when it says no
How the accuracy figure is measured, what moves it, and every reason a site can have no forecast.
Getting StartedFinding Your Way Around
The sidebar and its sections, searching for any page, the Settings home, the bar at the bottom of a phone screen, and what the colours of Paddl's messages mean.
OperationsWho 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.
Alerts & NotificationsNotification Settings
Choose what notifies you and how, set quiet hours, and get a message to the whole team.
Alerts & NotificationsUnfilled shift alerts
When Paddl tells you a published shift has nobody on it, how the till changes the order, and how the alert clears.
TroubleshootingThe till is not syncing
Work through a Square connection that shows an error, was revoked, or has stopped sending takings.
OperationsLetting Paddy suggest a week
Ask Paddy to draft a week of open shifts against the demand band and your labour target. It never publishes.
Alerts & NotificationsWhy 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.
Compliance & Food SafetyRecords: Checks, Reports and Evidence
The three kinds of record Paddl keeps, where each one lives, and what a dot or a missing row is telling you.
OperationsWhat the till sync brings in
What Paddl reads from Square, how often, how long a day keeps settling, and which features each figure feeds.
Alerts & NotificationsUnderstanding Alerts
What Paddl alerts mean, how they are raised, and how to clear them before an inspection.
Getting StartedAdmin Panel vs Mobile App
When to use the admin panel and when to use the app, and how managers move between them.
OperationsThe 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.