Understanding Repeating Shift Behavior in Connecteam

Repeating shifts in Connecteam are a powerful way to maintain consistency and save time when managing your schedule. However, it's important to understand how edits to these shifts behave — whether you're updating a single shift, part of a series, or the entire series. Knowing how these changes apply ensures you maintain control and accuracy in your scheduling.

July 4, 2025 By Larry Legler

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Understanding Repeating Shift Behavior in Connecteam

This guide explains how Connecteam handles edits to repeating shifts, including:

How edits to repeating shifts behave
What happens when you move a shift to a different day
How to avoid unintentionally breaking the repeating pattern

By understanding these behaviors, you can confidently manage your team’s schedule without disrupting the structure of your shift series.

When working repeating shifts, it’s important to understand how Connecteam handles edits and changes. This applies to any shift detail — including the day, time, assigned user, location, or notes.

These options only appear when editing an existing repeating shift - not when creating a new one.

If you edit a referral shift that’s part of a repeating series, Connecteam will prompt you with:

“This shift is part of a repeating series. How would you like to edit?”

✅ You'll be given three options:

Edit this shift only – for one-time changes
Edit this and all future shifts – to apply changes from this point forward
Edit all shifts in this series – to update the entire series, past and future
These options apply to any shift detail, such as: Day(s) and time(s), Assigned user, Location, Notes

📅 Moving a Shift to a New Day

If you drag and drop a repeating shift to a different day, Connecteam will display this message:

“Are you sure? This shift will no longer be a part of this series if moved to another date.
Note: You can edit the repeating shift settings from the shift details.”
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This means the shift becomes a standalone one-off — it’s no longer linked to the repeating series.

⚠️ Example: Avoid Breaking the Chain

Let’s say you want to move three months of Tuesday shifts to Wednesdays. If you drag one by one:

Each shift becomes disconnected from the series
You’ll end up with one-off shifts on Wednesdays
The rest of the series will still be on Tuesdays, the original ones you did not move.

✅ Correct approach:

1. Open the shift details of the first shift you want to move
2. Update the repeat settings to reflect the new day(s)
3. Save using “Edit this and all future shifts”
4. Delete the old future shifts that are no longer needed

💡 Do you need help understanding how Shift Tasks behave in repeating shifts? Check out this link out for more details.
Shift Tasks Overview for Referral Shifts