Create a Schedule From Scratch
How to plan next week's schedule from scratch by navigating to the plan page, adding shifts, and publishing.
Copy and Modify Last Week's Schedule
How to copy last week's shifts as a starting point, make adjustments, and publish.
Labor Cost Per Hour
The plan calendar shows what each scheduled hour costs in wages — as a plain hourly rate. If you import your organization from Square, you'll see that cost as a percentage of projected sales instead.
Draft Employee Hours
As you plan shifts, the plan page shows a running total of scheduled hours per employee so you can balance the schedule before publishing.
Shift Time Validation
ScheduleLord prevents saving a draft shift where the end time is before the start time.
Suggest a Schedule Automatically
How to auto-generate a draft schedule that covers your location's operating hours, then review and publish it.
Plan a Week That Already Has Shifts
If shifts already exist for the week being planned, the plan page shows them on the calendar for context alongside any new drafts.
Plan Using the Staff View
The plan page can also show a table with one row per employee, like the published schedule's staff view — useful for spotting who isn't scheduled yet and adding a shift for them directly.
Save a Week as a Template
How to save a week's shift layout — jobs, days, and times, without who's assigned — as a reusable template.
Apply a Template to Another Week
How to use a saved template to seed a new week's draft calendar — the solver auto-assigns who works each shift as it's applied.
Update a Saved Template
How to fix a saved template's name or shape after the fact — applying it, editing the draft calendar with the same tools used to plan any other week, and saving the changes back to it instead of creating a new one.