On Duty Police Scheduling Software supports virtually any scheduling approach that is based on repeated cycles. A schedule cycle in On Duty can be anywhere from two days to 112 days (16 weeks).

Schedule cycles, referred to in On Duty as schedule patterns, can control shift rotations.  For example, if your employees work 4 weeks on the day shift, then 4 weeks on the night shift and then back to days again, you can set this pattern up in On Duty.  On Duty's Scheduling Wizard will make it all work perfectly.

Of course, you probably have different schedules for different people. On Duty allows you to have an unlimited number of schedules.

Most agencies have groups of employees who work on the same days. On Duty allows you to create schedule groups to simplify your scheduling. You can have all of your employees in groups, or you can have a mix of some employees with their own unique schedules and others scheduled in groups.

Even if somebody is in a group, you can customize their schedule by overriding the schedule generated by the wizard.  You can easily add vacations, planned leave, or overtime shifts. You can even re-run the wizard just for one employee if that employee changes groups or schedule patterns.

When you change somebody's schedule, On Duty asks you for a reason. If the reason you choose is associated with a time category (sick, vacation, overtime, etc.), the employee will be flagged automatically for review and adjustment of the appropriate time balances. Employee time information can be exported to a spreadsheet for easy transfer to your payroll system.

On Duty makes it easy to set up your schedule. Setting up schedule patterns and groups can be done in a matter of a few minutes. Once you've set up your patterns and groups, they will probably never need to be changed.

What about shifts? On Duty allows you to set up as many shifts as you want. Shifts can be any length up to 24 hours. Shifts that span midnight are just fine with On Duty. Overlaps are okay, too.

Some agencies rotate days off periodically.  For example, one agency we work with schedules 4 weeks at a time. Everybody works 5 days on and two days off. After 4 weeks, each group rotates its days off by one day. On Duty provides a rotation wizard that allows you to easily rotate all or some of your groups. It even remembers how much you rotated each group the previous time, making subsequent rotations happen with just a click of the mouse button.

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The Automatic Scheduling Wizard takes you through a series of simple screens where you designate which groups or individual employees you would like to schedule, and how far forward you would like to schedule.  In a matter of seconds, the scheduler is off and running.  You can schedule a year in advance, if you'd like.  At a later time, you can run the scheduler again to incorporate any changes that affect the schedule.