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Jan 21, 2019

The New My Schedule Tab & Household Scheduling

We are excited to announce a new My Schedule page: the home of your pending plans, confirmed plans, signup sheets, and more. Until now the Plans page on the web included a My Schedule section for everyone, and an All Plans section for people with higher permissions. Now those sections are split into two separate pages. By moving My Schedule to its own page, there's room for some great new tools, including the ability to manage the schedules of your entire household, see a list of all your upcom

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Jun 27, 2018

Bundled Scheduling & Notification Emails

The more emails a person receives, the more likely they are to ignore them. Today's update reduces the number of emails we send by bundling similar messages together! The three types of emails that are now consistently bundled are Scheduling Requests, Blockout Notifications, and Accepted Request Notifications. Scheduling Requests When a scheduler adds team members to a plan, the final step is usually sending out Scheduling Request emails. We recommend assembling your schedule for a couple

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

4 min read

Apr 27, 2017

New Household Scheduling Preferences

Until now, you could go to your profile and indicate you want to be scheduled with a family member, or that you prefer to not be scheduled with them. However, this was only ever considered from within the exact same service. If you were both being scheduled within the Traditional Service, you were good to go. But if you were scheduled to Traditional Service, and your spouse served in the Nursery, it wouldn't actually show any conflicts. Now it can! The old options that included simply "wh

Aaron Stewart

Co-Founder / Product Manager

2 min read