Adding Shifts to your opportunities

Utilize shifts to effectively manage opportunities by allocating time, date, or task. Shifts can be organized as single-event or ongoing, providing flexibility and efficiency.  Check out this video as well

This article covers:

• Single event shifts
• Shifts for ongoing opportunities
• Managing shifts in the View All Connections page

Single-event shifts

If your opportunity is a single event, select Yes and enter the Start/ End Date as well as times, if it applies. Specific-date opportunities can only accept shifts occurring on or within the dates of the opportunity.

To set up a repeating single-event shift, edit your opportunity’s frequency by week or month.

Note: the above only becomes available if the date range spans more than one week.

Shifts for ongoing opportunities
If your opportunity does not have a specific date, it is considered an ongoing opportunity. For ongoing opportunities, select No and proceed to add your shift schedule.

If the ongoing opportunity requires repeating shifts, select Add Shift and Repeats. Select whether the shift should be repeated weekly or monthly.Note: Repeating a shift makes it easier to set up shifts, but the volunteer can sign-up for each shift date separately. They are not required to sign-up for all dates.

If you don’t add dates for your ongoing opportunity, it will appear as a general timeframe.

Please note: the maximum number of shift volunteers needed cannot exceed the opportunity's estimated number in the Details section.

Ongoing opportunities will be active for 90 days after publishing.

Managing shifts in the View All Connections page

If you're viewing all opportunities, the connections on the page will note that the volunteers have chosen one (or more) shifts. Select View to see the shift times they've signed up for!

You can also select to view an opportunity with shifts and the shifts information will appear on the page.

Note: If you change or delete the shift, the information will no longer be available on the View All Connections page