Looking to get started on Schedule Xpress and gain a basic understanding of the features? We've got you covered!

This article will help you to digest the use of each feature and decide the benefits for you and your company.

This article will cover the following features in Schedule Xpress:

The Schedule

Employee requests

Reports

Messages (Chat feature)

Notifications

Manage people

Manage sites

Manage services

Settings

Switching between Celayix apps

My Account

Date range

Layout filters

Save, Undo, Redo, Refresh

Schedule Tools

Shift Tools

The Schedule tab is the most significant of the entire database. This module is the main purpose of why employers integrate this system into their day-to-day workforce management.

It can be formatted any way you like through modifying your schedule layouts.

The Requests tab is home to all employee requests. These can be:

Most predominantly, these will be time off requests, such as vacation or sick leave.

You can define your time off requests types in eTime Xpress' Time off codes. For example, vacation or sick leave.

You can read more about how these work in our Approving/Declining and Adding Time Off Requests article.

The Reports section is currently only being used for Audit Schedule Changes. You can read all about this in our Shift Change Audit Report article.

This report is great at understanding exactly which employee or user account created, updated or deleted a shift.

The majority of reports are still exported in eTime Xpress. You can find out more about Collating Reports in eTime Xpress.

Please be aware that we're anticipating that reports will become available in Schedule Xpress in the near future. However, just like the Export feature in your Schedule module, Time Processing has pre-defined layout filters which can be exported to produce reports.

The Messages tab provides the perfect platform for a user to communicate with anybody within the company's workforce. It has high capacity to store recent chats, which makes it easy to pick up on recent communications.

Note: You'll need to Contact Support to enable Messages.

This will bring up your Messages contact list.

You can find out more in our Messaging Employees on Schedule Xpress article.

The Notifications tab informs the user of any alerts or requests that they need to action or be aware of.

Your Notifications can be modified with filters so that the user only receives the ones they want to.

You can select which type of Notifications you receive by selecting specific filters.

You can also customize your Notifications settings in Settings > Branch features > Notifications. This includes:

The Manage people module is the hub of managing your entire workforce. This ranges from activating new employee accounts, archiving old accounts or generally updating details of anyone within the database. This is also used to manage users, who are the people in charge of operating Schedule Xpress.

It's essential that this is managed efficiently to ensure that the data being used for the schedule is reliable. It is divided by Employees and Administration (Users).

You can read our Managing employees article for more information.

Similar to Manage people, the Manage sites module allows users control the company's customers and sites used within the schedule. This may be updated frequently if an employer plays host to much contract work, as sites can be ever-changing.

You can find out more in our Creating a Customer and Site in Schedule Xpress article. This will also help with managing your current customers and sites.

The Manage services module allows the user to create a list of services provided by their company. For example, this could be a chef at a restaurant or an armed guard at an event.

These services can be applied to new shifts when created, and can have general or service authorized qualifications applied to them. This will mean that an employee may require a specific qualification to work this service and therefore, it helps the user to find the most suitable employee for each shift.

This module is used for configuring the operations and features of the entire database.

The accessibility of this module is entirely dependent on the access level given to a user account. Only Full Admin (not Managers) users are capable of adjusting the Settings. This protects the database configuration from inadvertent changes.

The Settings module is divided into sections as below:

The Celayix apps tab is an in-app feature that allows you to switch between Schedule Xpress and Time Xpress.

If you're in Schedule Xpress and choose to switch to Time Xpress, it will open as a new tab in your browser.

This section allows you to make modifications such as changes to your profile. The letters shown on the icon will display as an abbreviation of the initials of your account's first and last name.

This module contains:

You can change the parameters to ensure that your schedule displays exactly the date range you would like to see.

You can choose to view it by:

A layout is a specific way of displaying the shifts in your Schedule module.

There are layouts to organize the page by employee, customer, site and many more.

You can either create a new or clone an existing layout filter. This gives you the change to customize a filter so that you can see your schedule exactly as you want.

This is done by clicking the gear icon next to the current filter which will take you through to your Layout manager.

You can read more on how to set up your desired layout filter in our Layout Manager article.

These options are important when making updates to your schedule:

From left to right:

Note: These will be greyed out if there is no update required for the respective feature.

Schedule Tools is a vital cog to your schedule. This tool allows for a range of updates to the schedule:

Quite like Schedule Tools, this option allows for a more detailed control of the shifts themselves. See below:

If you require more information on Schedule Xpress, please Contact Support now!