Availability allows you to indicate your work preferences so your employer can consider this when creating your rota.

To see the Availability that you’ve set, open the menu in the upper-right corner of the RotaCloud app, and tap ‘My availability’.

On this page, you’ll see a calendar of the current month, with a quick summary of any availability or unavailability that’s already been added.

Tap on any day to see the full list of availability and unavailability below.

To set your availability for a single day, tap that day on the calendar, tap the blue plus icon beneath the calendar, and then tap ‘This day only’.

You’ll then be presented with the ‘Create availability’ screen. Choose whether you want to add Availability or Unavailability. If you’d like to add specific times, then unselect the ‘All day’ toggle, and set the start time on the left, and the end time on the right.

If you have more than one period you’d like to add, use the grey plus icon to add another period below.

When you’ve entered all of the times that you need, tap ‘Create one-off’ to add it to your Availability Calendar.

Instead of adding Availability one day at a time, you can choose to create a repeating pattern if you have many days to add in one go.

To add a new pattern, tap on the date you’d like the pattern to start on the calendar. Tap the blue plus, and then tap ‘New repeating pattern’.

The start date of the new pattern will match the date that was selected on the calendar, but you can change this if you like. Set the start and end dates, and the availability that you set below will apply between these two days.

Next, choose what length of repeating pattern you want to create. This can be one, two or four weeks. The pattern you set below will loop for as long as is necessary, until the end date is hit.

Now, tap each day to set up availability or unavailability on that day. Just like when adding a one-off, you can either set it for the whole day, or specific times of day.

When you’ve set up one day, you can move to the next day by tapping that day’s name. Days that have nothing set will have no icon under the day’s name. Those with unavailability will have a red cross, and those with availability will have a green tick.

Once you’ve entered your pattern, scroll down and tap ‘Create pattern’ at the bottom of the page. You’ll be returned to the availability calendar, and can see the new pattern that you’ve created immediately.

Note: Repeating patterns will overwrite any availability that is already on your calendar.

You can edit any availability you’ve set, whether it was set up as a one-off, or part of a repeating pattern. To edit a day, tap it on the calendar, and then, using the 3 dots to open the menu, tap ‘Edit this day’.

You’ll then be shown the existing availability for that day, and you can make whatever changes you need to make. Tap ‘Update’ when you’re done.

You can delete any availability on that day by selecting it on the calendar, tapping the 3 dots to open the menu, and then tapping ‘Clear day’.