How to Set Up Schedules in Time Doctor

How to Activate the Schedules Feature

To do so, go to your Company Settings page (only Owners and Admins can access it) and set Use Schedules to ON. 

Once Schedules have been activated, you’ll see the Schedules page in your Settings menu and the Attendance Report in your Reports menu.

Supported Schedule Items

The following kinds of schedule items are currently supported:

• Shift – time when the employee is supposed to work. Properties:
  • Start time
  • End time
  • Minimum required hours (optional)
• Leave – paid time off.
  • Start time
  • End time

How to Set up Schedules 

Method 1: CSV export and import 

Importing and exporting a CSV file with schedules is the most efficient way of adding or editing multiple schedule items at a time. 

The process

Step 1:

Go to Schedules and export a CSV file with the users and the date range that you want to add schedules for.



Step 2: 

Add schedule item to the exported CSV file.

The following columns must exist in the file you edit, but only the unique identifier column needs to have a value:

• Name
• Email
• Employee ID
• Unique identifier (Do not edit.)
• Date columns

The valid shift formats for date columns are:    

Here’s a sample file with the shifts filled out.

Step 3: 

Upload the CSV file to Time Doctor.

Editing or Removing Schedules

Schedules can be edited or removed by uploading the same CSV file with shifts edited or removed. Any dates and users included in an imported file will overwrite any schedules already in the system for those same users and dates.

How to set up schedules for the whole year using CSV import 

If you have repeating schedules, such as Mon-Fri 9 am - 5 pm, you can export a CSV for the whole year (select the dates until the end of the year in Date range under Export schedule), set up shifts for one day or week and then easily copy them across. Please see the tips and tricks here. 

If your employees never work on weekends, you can exclude weekend days from the CSV; see the Include weekends toggle under Export schedule. 

Method 2: Adding and editing individual shifts without CSV export 

If you want to make a simple change such as to add, edit, or delete a single shift, you can do it without using the CSV import/export option. Hover over a day that does not have a shift to see a plus icon for adding one shift or hover over an existing shift to see icons for editing or deleting the shift to appear. You can also select multiple shifts or all shifts and delete them at once.