Strut’s staff scheduling workspace helps authorized managers plan shifts and publish a schedule the team can follow. Employees see their published schedule, while managers keep draft changes separate until they are ready to share them.
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Week and month views
Draft and published shifts
Reusable shift templates
Schedule update messages
Coverage
Start with the technicians and service advisors assigned to the shop. Build shifts with start and end times and planned meal breaks, then review coverage across the week or month. Reusable templates help with recurring shift patterns without making every week a copy of the last one.
Publication
Managers need space to prepare a schedule before employees rely on it. Strut separates draft planning from published shifts. Review the intended recipients and schedule update message when publishing. SMS delivery depends on messaging setup and recipient eligibility; publication is not a guarantee that a text has been delivered.
Daily operations
A shift says when someone is expected. A clock record says when they worked. Keep both visible in the time workspace and review attendance separately from the plan. Customer appointment scheduling remains its own workflow for booking vehicle visits and organizing shop capacity.
Buying questions
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Time is an opt-in feature and is off by default. Ask the Strut team about enabling it for your company during a demo. Access also depends on your subscription, shop membership, and assigned permissions.
Staff scheduling plans when employees work. Appointment scheduling plans when customers bring vehicles in. Use staff shifts to organize coverage and the appointment calendar to organize customer visits.
The personal schedule is based on published shifts. Draft planning and team schedule controls are reserved for users with the relevant management capabilities.
Strut supports schedule update messaging, including SMS when the company setup and recipient preferences allow it. Review recipients and delivery status; a published schedule and a delivered message are separate states.
No. Scheduled shifts describe the plan. Clock events, breaks, and approved corrections provide the attendance record used in timesheet review.
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