When you create a booking in Aquipa, shifts are automatically generated from the booking’s start date, start time, end date and end time.

The generated shifts provide a starting point. Booking managers should review them and make any changes needed to reflect how the work will actually be performed.

Aquipa uses the start and finish times entered on the booking to create shifts across the booking period.

For example:

Aquipa will create:

In this example, one shift is created for each day of the booking using the same start and finish times.

Aquipa checks the duration between the booking’s daily start and finish times.

When the duration is more than 12 hours, Aquipa automatically divides it into two shifts of equal length for each applicable day of the booking.

For example:

Aquipa will divide this period into:

These two shifts will be created for each applicable day within the booking period.

When the duration is 12 hours or less, Aquipa creates one shift using the start and finish times entered.

Important: The automatic split creates two shifts of equal length. Review the generated shifts if your actual day and night shift times are different.

Bookings that run overnight may require additional review.

For example:

Because 12:00 pm to 12:00 am is exactly 12 hours, Aquipa will create one 12-hour shift for each applicable date:

However, this may not reflect the actual work arrangement.

For example, the booking may require continuous coverage using alternating day and night shifts:

In this situation, you will need to edit the automatically generated shifts and add the missing shifts.

Important: Always review shifts when a booking runs overnight, requires continuous coverage or uses alternating day and night shifts.

To edit the shifts on a booking:

When editing a shift, check that the start date, start time, finish date and finish time are correct.

To add another shift:

This is useful when the booking requires additional day shifts, night shifts or continuous coverage that was not included in the automatically generated shifts.

A booking can include more than one service.

When you add another service to a booking, Aquipa will ask whether you want the new service to inherit the shifts of an existing service.

This can save time when both services are required during the same shifts.

From the shift editing window, each service appears as a separate column. Use the toggle for each shift to control which services are required.

A shift can apply to one service, multiple services or all services included in the booking.

Use the service toggles to control which services are required during each booking shift.
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Review the shifts to confirm that: