How to create and assign stations on the schedule
Stations allow you to assign employees to specific operational areas while scheduling shifts under a primary role.
Things to know
Important: Managers and assistant managers require the "Can manage roles" manager permission to create or edit stations. Managers can only update stations for the locations and departments assigned to their user profile.
7shifts stations allow account administrators to organize the schedule by specific sections of a restaurant floor layout. Stations can be assigned default numerical values or customized with specific location titles like a patio or a lounge area.
- Access to the stations feature may require an upgrade from your current 7shifts account plan.
- The heading color of a station on the Time Frame schedule view remains black.
Create a station
Admins and authorized managers can configure custom stations for specific roles through the account settings.
- Navigate to Settings, select Locations, Departments & Roles, and open the Roles tab.
- Click the pencil icon
next to the specific role targeted for station creation.
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Enter the custom station name in the station field, and use the + Add station option to generate additional station lines.
- Click Save to secure the new configuration parameters.
Caution: Deleting a station cannot be undone. Shifts created with a deleted station remain assigned under the same primary role but lose their specific station assignment.
Change the display order of stations
To alter how stations are organized visually within a department view, Admins must remove the configurations and rebuild them in the preferred sequential order.
- Go to Settings, click Locations, Departments & Roles, and select the Roles tab.
- Delete the existing stations that require a spatial layout change.
- Re-add the station units in the exact sequence you want them to appear across the dashboard views.
- Open the schedule editor, manually reassign the updated stations to each affected employee shift, and republish the schedule.
Assign stations to employees
Once stations are configured within role settings, scheduling managers can apply station properties to individual employee shifts.
- Open the Schedule page and click the plus icon to create a shift.
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Select a role that contains station parameters to trigger the station selection dropdown menu.
- Select the specific station assignment from the dropdown field and save the shift details.
Next Steps
Employees automatically view their assigned floor stations directly on upcoming schedules through both the mobile application and web browser dashboards.