Seasons and adjustments

Demand isn't the same all year, and your coverage targets shouldn't be either. Schedio gives you two tools for this: seasons for recurring periods, and adjustments for one-off or annual tweaks.

Seasons

A season is a date window with its own coverage targets. Northside Inn might run a "Summer" season from June 1 to August 31 that needs a bigger pool crew, while the rest of the year gets by with one attendant.

Seasons appear as tabs on the Coverage page. Each one has:

• A name and an icon
• Start and end dates
• A priority — when two seasons' dates overlap, the higher priority wins

Every location has a built-in "Default" season with no dates. It's always on, so coverage always has a baseline even when no other season applies.

To create a season, click the + next to the season tabs, then set its targets on the matrix like any other season. See Set up coverage.

Adjustments

Adjustments live in a card on the Coverage page. They layer one-off or yearly tweaks on top of whatever season is active — without touching the season itself. For example:

• "+2 Front Desk agents, Saturday 16:00–24:00" for a festival weekend
• "−1 Kitchen on Mondays" for a slow January

Each adjustment has a name, a reason, a date range, a recurrence (one-time or Yearly), and per-department or per-role deltas with a day-of-week and a time window. A negative delta never drops a requirement below zero — you can't end up needing "minus one" cook.

Upcoming holidays

The upcoming holidays card shows this month's and next month's holidays, with a Plan holiday shortcut that starts an adjustment for that date. It's the quickest way to staff up before a busy public holiday. Manage the holiday list itself in Scheduling rules and holidays.

Which one should I use?

A simple rule of thumb:

• A recurring period — summer, ski season, the slow months — is a season.
• A single date or an annual event — a festival, a holiday, a deep-clean day — is an adjustment.

If you find yourself creating the same adjustment week after week, that's a sign it should be a season instead.