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How to plan your crew

Schedule staff based on availability.

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You schedule your crew in a daily, weekly, or monthly overview, or per event. You decide for yourself which roles to fulfil, how to schedule staff and how to keep them informed.


Add a crew member

Before you can start planning you crew, you first need to have crew members in Stager. You can add a crew member at Crew - Crew members - + New crew member.

Add their first name, last name, and email address, and they will receive an invitation mail where they can activate their account.

After sending the invitation email, you can fill in further details about the crew member, including assigning skills, roles and team to the crew member. Read more about this here.

Teams, roles and skills

To best plan your crew, you must also have created your organization's teams, roles and skills. You can configure all of this in Settings - Crew. Read more about this here.


Creating shifts

Once you have set up your crew, teams, roles, and skills, you can start planning. You create shifts for an event in the Crew schedule tab of an event.

Click on the yellow + New shift button to create a shift, and specify which role, start time and end time you want to add. From here, you can start planning.


Planning

There are three types of planning:

  • None; As the planner, you choose who works which shift. You choose the name and save.

  • Availability; You set up shifts on availability. Crew who can work in a role (who have the relevant checkmark in their crew member profile) log in to the Stager app and indicate if they are available. You can always check later on, and choose someone who is available.

  • Direct; The planner opens a shift immediately. Crew members log in to the Stager app and take this shift. There is no longer any need for a planner and the shift is completed immediately.

For more information on how your crew members can use the Stager app to take shifts, visit this help center article.

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