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Finding your way around

A tour of the manager cockpit: the sidebar and its sections, live count badges, search with ⌘K, notifications, the help button, switching between businesses and signing out.

The owner app is a cockpit: a left sidebar of destinations, a search box, and a scrolling work area. On a phone the sidebar becomes a slide-out drawer behind the ☰ menu button. Everything below is the same on both.

The sidebar, grouped into your day-to-day workspace, Config and Account — with live count badges beside items that need attention.

The sidebar

The sidebar is grouped into three sections. Items only appear if the matching feature module is switched on, so your menu is only ever as busy as your business is.

Workspace (top group)
Your day-to-day: Dashboard, Live board, Today & cost, Rota, Requests, People, Locations, Timesheets, Holiday, Tips, Messages and Reports.
Config
Set-up and rules: Pay & overtime, Clock-in rules, Branding, Payroll export, Kiosk mode and Settings.
Account
Billing and Support.

Count badges

Some sidebar items carry a small live-count pill — pending approvals, unread messages, headcount, leave to review and so on. On a phone, if anything needs your attention a dot appears on the ☰ menu button so you know to open the drawer.

Search and the command palette

  1. 1

    Open it

    Press the Search box at the top of the sidebar, the search icon on mobile, or the keyboard shortcut ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) from anywhere in the app.

  2. 2

    Jump anywhere

    Type to jump to any page or find a person, then press Enter. It is the fastest way to move around once you know the app.

The top-right controls

Help (?)
Opens this help centre, deep-linked to the page you are on where one exists.
Notifications (bell)
Opens your notifications; a dot on the bell means unread items are waiting.

Switching business and signing out

At the bottom of the sidebar sits your name and business. If you belong to more than one organisation, a switcher appears there to hop between them without signing out. The sign-out icon next to your name ends your session and returns you to the login screen.

Common questions

What is the keyboard shortcut to search?
Press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows from anywhere in the owner app to open the command palette. Type to jump to any page or find a person, then press Enter.
A whole section of the sidebar vanished — is something broken?
No. Sections hide themselves when every item in them is switched off in Settings → Modules, and mode-only items (Rota, Requests, Availability) disappear in Open clock-in mode. Turn the relevant module or Scheduled shifts back on and the items return.