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No. Open the app, pick your rotation and start. The calendar, reminders, alarms, pay and widgets all work without an account, and your calendar stays on your phone.

You need an account only for cloud sync, Friends groups and Teams.

Open the Patterns tab, choose a ready-made rotation or build your own day by day, and apply it from the date your cycle starts. You can change single days afterwards by tapping them in the calendar.

Yes. Everything on the phone works offline. Cloud sync, Friends groups and Teams catch up when you're back online.

Cloud sync backs up your calendar to your account and keeps it the same on every phone you sign in on. It is part of Premium.

1. Go to Settings › Account and tap Sign in. Create an account or use Continue with Google.
2. Verify your e-mail with the code we send you.
3. Open Settings › Account › Account and cloud sync and turn on Back up and sync this calendar.

Sign in with the same account on the second phone and turn on sync there too. If both phones already have a calendar, the app asks what to keep: Keep this phone's calendar, Use the calendar in your account or Combine both. Combining keeps everything; where both have the same day, the newer change wins.

Your shift types, days with their notes and changed times, rotations, pay rules and calendar settings such as the first day of the week sync. Alarm and reminder settings and the theme stay on each phone, so every phone can ring the way you want it to.

Changes wait on the phone and go out when you're back online. If it stays paused, tap Sync now in Account and cloud sync. If the app asks you to update, update it from Google Play; your calendar is safe on the phone meanwhile.

Tap the calendar's name at the top of the Calendar tab to open Calendars. There you can Create a group or Join with a code. You need an account for both.

To invite people, open the group's settings and use Share invite link, or give them the 8-letter code. An invite works for 7 days. The free plan includes one group of your own with up to 5 people; seeing shifts, comments and reactions is always free.

You choose per group, under What you share: Codes (which shift you have and your days off, no hours), Hours (also the shift's name and hours; the default) or Notes (also the notes on your days). Pay rates and earnings are never shared, and members never see your e-mail address.

Open a day and choose Propose a swap, pick the person and their day, and send the request. You can let an accepted swap change both calendars, or only keep a record of a swap you agreed in person. Proposing swaps is part of Premium.

Open the comment's menu to report it (spam, harassment, inappropriate or other); the report comes to us and we review it. You can also block the member: you stop seeing their comments and getting notifications about them, and you can unblock them any time. Or leave the group with Leave the group in its settings. Our terms list what isn't allowed.

A shared schedule for a small workplace. Planners set shifts in the Planner and publish them; everyone affected is notified, and the shifts appear locked in their own calendar. Members can send requests (time off, a swap, a shift change, sick) and set their availability.

A new team starts with a 14-day free trial, once per owner, with no payment needed. After that the owner chooses a plan in Plan & billing, sold through Google Play by number of seats. Every active member and every open invitation takes a seat. Viewing your own published schedule is free for every member.

• Owner: everything, including the plan, and handing the team over (Transfer ownership).
• Admin: runs the team: members, units, settings and pay rules.
• Operator: plans the schedule of the units they run and decides their requests.
• Member: sees their own schedule, sends requests and sets availability.

A team invites you by e-mail; open the link or find it under Team invites in Calendars. To leave, use Leave team in the team. Team shifts then leave your calendar.

Subscriptions are managed by Google Play. Open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, then Payments & subscriptions › Subscriptions, choose Shift Calendar and cancel. Uninstalling the app or deleting your account doesn't cancel it. What you paid for stays active until the end of the period.

Payments go through Google Play, so refunds do too, under Google Play's refund policy. You can ask Google for one from your order history. If you're stuck, write to us with the order number (it starts with GPA.).

Make sure the Play Store is signed in to the Google account you bought with, then use Restore purchases on the Premium screen. If you're signed in to your Shift Calendar account, Premium also comes back when you sign in.

Open Settings › Alarm reliability. It shows each permission the app needs and whether it's allowed, with a Fix button for the ones that aren't. Most late alarms come from Battery optimisation: exempting the app stops Android holding alarms back while the phone is idle.

These phones close apps they think you aren't using. Allow Shift Calendar to start by itself: the Autostart row on the Alarm reliability screen opens the right place on most phones. On Xiaomi phones it's usually under Settings › Apps › Manage apps › Shift Calendar › Autostart.

These need you to be signed in, notifications allowed for the app in Android's settings, and Google Play services on the phone. Check the same battery settings as for alarms. In a group's settings you can also choose which notifications you get.

On the sign-in screen, tap Forgot password?, enter your e-mail and tap Send reset e-mail. Open the link on your phone or type the code from the e-mail, then set a new password. If you signed up with Google, use Continue with Google instead.

You can change your name and profile colour in Settings › Account › Account and cloud sync. To change your e-mail address, write to us from the current address.

Use Download my data in Account and cloud sync. It saves what your account holds on our server as a file.

Under Devices in Account and cloud sync, sign out a single phone or tap Sign out all other devices.