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DOHOPS FEATURE

Smart Scheduling — Build Two-Week
Schedules in Minutes, Not Hours

Template-based schedule building, employee availability management, mobile shift swapping, and auto-notifications — all designed to reduce turnover, prevent overtime, and give managers their time back.

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Why Scheduling Quality Equals Retention

62% of QSR operators say labor is their most pressing challenge. The industry faces approximately 74% annual turnover, with only 54% of new hires reaching the 90-day mark. And every time an employee quits, it costs $1,500 or more to recruit, hire, and train their replacement.

What causes employees to leave? Compensation matters, but research consistently shows that scheduling predictability is one of the most controllable factors in hourly worker retention. When employees receive their schedules less than 72 hours in advance — which is the norm in many franchise operations — they can't plan childcare, second jobs, school schedules, or their personal lives. The resulting frustration and instability drive them to competitors who offer better scheduling practices.

The data is clear: operations that provide schedules 72+ hours in advance see turnover drop by up to 40%. And manual scheduling with spreadsheets or paper leads to 15% higher labor costs compared to template-based digital scheduling. DohOps addresses both problems: faster schedule creation for managers and earlier schedule visibility for employees.

40%
Turnover reduction with 72+ hour advance schedule notice
15%
Higher labor costs from manual roster scheduling
5–10 hrs
Per week that managers spend building schedules manually

Key Scheduling Features

Every feature is designed to make scheduling faster for managers and more predictable for employees.

Template-Based Schedule Building

Stop building schedules from scratch every week. Create schedule templates that match your typical staffing patterns — weekday morning, weekday evening, weekend rush, overnight — and apply them with a single tap. The template pre-fills the schedule with the right number of employees in each role for each time block.

From there, you adjust for the specific week: swap employees based on availability, add coverage for expected busy periods, and reduce staffing for known slow times. What used to take 5–10 hours per week takes minutes — and the consistency of templates means fewer scheduling errors and better coverage.

Templates are sharable across locations. If you operate 10 convenience stores with similar traffic patterns, build one template and deploy it to all 10 — then let each store manager make local adjustments.

Employee Availability Management

Employees set their availability directly in the app: which days they can work, preferred shifts, maximum hours per week, and time-off requests. The system respects these preferences when managers build schedules, flagging conflicts before the schedule is published.

Time-off requests are submitted through the app with a clear approval workflow. Managers see pending requests in context — alongside the schedule, so they can assess coverage impact before approving or denying. Approved requests automatically block the employee out of schedule templates for those dates.

For employees in school or with second jobs, the availability system is essential. When the schedule respects their life constraints, they stay. When it doesn't, they leave — often without notice.

Mobile Shift Swapping

When an employee can't work a scheduled shift, they post it to the shift swap board. Other qualified employees see the available shift, claim it, and the swap is processed — either with automatic approval (if you've enabled it) or manager approval. The entire process happens in the app, without phone calls, text chains, or manager intervention.

Shift swaps are one of the biggest time sinks for franchise managers. A single no-show triggers a cascade of phone calls to find coverage. With DohOps, the employee who can't make it posts the shift, the system notifies qualified replacements, and someone claims it — often before the manager even knows there was a problem. Gamification points incentivize shift pickups, so there's always someone willing to claim.

Auto-Notifications

DohOps sends automatic push notifications for every scheduling event that employees need to know about:

  • Schedule published: Employees receive an immediate notification when their schedule is posted for a new period.
  • Shift changes: Any modification to an employee's schedule triggers an alert — whether it's a time change, location change, or cancellation.
  • Upcoming shifts: Configurable reminders before shifts (24 hours, 2 hours, 30 minutes).
  • Open shifts: Qualified employees are notified when shifts become available on the swap board.
  • Approval updates: Time-off requests and shift swap requests receive instant approval/denial notifications.

These notifications eliminate the "I didn't know I was working" excuse and the "I never saw the schedule" problem. Every scheduling communication is documented and delivered directly to the employee's phone.

Two-Week Advance Publishing

DohOps defaults to a two-week scheduling horizon — the sweet spot between operational flexibility and employee predictability. Managers build two weeks of schedules at once, publish them to the team, and employees have visibility into their work schedule far enough in advance to plan their lives.

This isn't just a nice-to-have. Research shows that turnover drops up to 40% when employees receive schedules 72+ hours in advance. Two weeks exceeds that threshold by a wide margin, creating the kind of predictability that makes employees choose to stay.

Overtime Alerts

Unplanned overtime is one of the biggest controllable labor costs for franchise operators. DohOps monitors cumulative scheduled hours for each employee and sends alerts as they approach overtime thresholds — both during schedule building and during the actual work week.

At schedule creation: The system warns if a schedule assigns an employee more than their overtime threshold (typically 40 hours/week). This prevents overtime from being built into the schedule.

During the work week: As actual clock-in hours accumulate, DohOps tracks progress toward overtime and sends alerts at configurable thresholds (e.g., 35 hours, 38 hours). Managers receive enough warning to adjust remaining shifts before overtime kicks in.

For multi-location operators where employees might work shifts at different stores, DohOps aggregates hours across all locations — preventing the common scenario where an employee accumulates overtime by picking up shifts at multiple sites.

Scheduling for Multi-Location Operators

Managing schedules across multiple locations multiplies the complexity. Different stores have different traffic patterns. Employees may be shared across locations. A no-show at one store might be coverable by an employee at a nearby store who's off that day.

DohOps handles multi-location scheduling with a centralized dashboard that provides visibility across all your stores. Managers can view schedules side-by-side, identify coverage gaps across locations, and move employees between stores when needed. Templates can be shared across similar locations, and cross-location shift swaps let employees pick up shifts at different stores (with manager approval).

For area managers and district managers, the dashboard provides aggregate scheduling metrics: total scheduled hours by location, overtime risk flags, open shift counts, and labor cost projections for the upcoming pay period. This visibility enables proactive management — you see the problem before it becomes a crisis.

Integration With GPS Time Clock & Payroll

DohOps scheduling connects directly with the GPS time clock. When an employee clocks in, the system compares their actual arrival time against their scheduled shift — automatically flagging early clock-ins that might add unplanned hours and late arrivals that affect coverage.

Scheduled hours vs. actual hours are tracked in real-time. The workforce analytics dashboard shows the variance for each employee and each location, making it easy to identify patterns: stores where employees consistently work more than scheduled (indicating understaffing or poor schedule adherence) and employees who consistently clock out early (indicating engagement issues).

Schedule → Clock → Payroll
When DohOps scheduling and GPS time clock data flow into DohAssist payroll services, the entire labor cost chain is automated. Scheduled hours inform budget projections. Actual hours (GPS-verified) drive payroll calculation. Variances are flagged automatically. No spreadsheets. No manual reconciliation.

Frequently Asked Questions

Two weeks is the default recommendation, as research shows this timeframe significantly reduces turnover. You can publish further out if desired — some operators build four-week rolling schedules.

Yes — employees request swaps through the app, and managers approve or auto-approve based on your settings. The system ensures the replacement employee is qualified for the shift and not approaching overtime.

Yes — compliance rules can be configured for minor work hour restrictions by state. The system blocks schedule assignments that would violate these rules and flags existing violations during schedule review.

Yes — alerts trigger when an employee approaches weekly overtime thresholds, both during schedule creation and during the active work week. The threshold is configurable per location.

Data shows turnover drops up to 40% when employees receive schedules 72+ hours in advance. Predictable scheduling — combined with DohOps gamification rewards — creates an environment where employees feel valued and can plan their lives around their work.

Yes — the centralized dashboard shows schedules across all your locations. Templates can be shared between stores with similar staffing needs. Employees can be assigned to multiple locations and pick up shifts at different stores through the swap board.

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