Fixed Hours or Custom Shifts?

Atteny plans work in one of two ways, and the choice changes what the whole app shows. You set it in Settings → Scheduling under Schedule Mode, and it applies to your entire company.

Fixed Hours

All employees follow their assigned location's operating hours. No individual shift scheduling. Nobody builds a rota — everyone assigned to a location is expected for that location's opening hours, week after week.

• Each person's day is worked out from the location's Operating hours, set in Locations → your location → Scheduling.
• Adding, editing and deleting shifts is switched off.
• Availability, Shift swaps and Open shifts disappear from the Schedules menu — they have no meaning without per-person shifts.
• The Dashboard gains an attendance panel — On time today, Late today — and lateness in the hours report is measured against those opening hours.
• In the app, an employee's Schedule tab shows a Fixed Schedule card listing their location's hours day by day.

Custom Shifts

This is the default. You build shifts per person, per day, on the Schedules grid — see Building the week.

• Availability, open shifts and shift swaps are all active.
• Lateness and expected hours are judged against each planned shift, not against opening hours.
• The Dashboard compares scheduled against actual hours for the week.

Which one suits you

Pick Fixed Hours when the same people work the same hours every week — an office, a clinic, a shop with a settled rota. Pick Custom Shifts when who-works-when changes weekly, as in most cafés, restaurants and retail.