Shift Bids

Legacy shift bidding involves posting unfilled shifts in scheduling features on an ad hoc basis.

Managers can post unfilled shifts in Centralized Schedules and Schedules and offer the shifts to their employees. Employees can pick up unfilled shifts in Work > Calendar in the Shift Trades slide-out panel. After employees request to pick up the shifts, managers can approve the requests in Approvals.

With legacy shift bidding, there are no conditions on the unfilled shifts. For example, after an unfilled shift is posted, there’s no limit to how long it can stay unclaimed.

See Legacy Shift Bidding.

Like legacy shift bidding, ad hoc shift bidding also involves posting unfilled shifts in scheduling features on an ad hoc basis.

Managers can post unfilled shifts in Centralized Schedules and Schedules and employees can bid on the unfilled shifts in Work > Calendar in the Unfilled shifts slide-out panel. After employees submit bids, managers can approve the bids in Centralized Schedules or Schedules in the Manage Shift Bids panel.

With ad hoc shift bidding, there are no conditions on the unfilled shifts. For example, after an unfilled shift is posted, there’s no limit to how long it can stay unclaimed.

See Ad Hoc Shift Bidding.

Scheduled shift bidding involves bidding on unfilled shifts within a configurable time range. This type of shift bidding requires:

• An administrator to configure a template for a shift bidding session, among other prerequisites.
• A manager to generate and post unfilled shifts in Centralized Schedules or Schedules. The template is pre-populated with the session details, such as the dates upon which employees can submit bids. If necessary, managers can also override the template’s default configuration and edit the session’s details.

With a template for shift bidding, you can also customize conditions such as which employees are included in a session and their bid priority. For example, you can configure a session where non-salary employees can place bids on a Wednesday, while salaried employees get to place their bids first on Tuesday.

You can also configure your template so that Dayforce awards bids automatically. In this scenario, the employee with the first valid bid is automatically awarded the shift and their manager doesn’t have to manually approve the bid in Schedules in the Manage Shift Bids panel.

Note: When you set up shift bidding templates, you can also configure bidding sessions so that managers can set up bidding windows in Schedules, making the sessions more similar to ad hoc shift bidding.

See Scheduled Shift Bidding.

Shift Marketplace shift bidding involves employees picking up available shifts in the mobile Shift Marketplace feature. This type of shift bidding requires:

• An administrator to configure a location group, which combines shared locations and job assignments to govern Shift Marketplace eligibility for employees.
• A manager to generate and post unfilled shifts in scheduling features.

See Shift Marketplace.