Many people start with a spreadsheet: one row per shift, one column for the amount. It works until the month gets busy. Here's what a good shift spreadsheet needs and what it can't do on its own.
If you're building your own, these are the columns that matter:
Calendoctor does the spreadsheet's job without you maintaining formulas: each recorded shift goes straight into the calendar and finances, with payment status, delay and hourly rate. Conflicts show before you save, and swaps, cancellations and shifts not worked are counted the right way.
Calendoctor reports export to PDF and CSV, so you can still open the numbers in a spreadsheet whenever you need. See also shift tracking and the finances for shift-based doctors.
Example of what three shifts look like in a well-assembled spreadsheet:
With a status column, a filter instantly shows what remains to be received.
It works, but each formula is one more thing to maintain and check.
If you work in more than two locations, work overnight shifts, change with colleagues frequently or have forgotten to charge for a shift, the spreadsheet has started to cost more time than it saves. It's time to switch to an app that does these calculations on its own.
Use one row per shift with date, place, start and end time, amount, expected payment date and status (paid, partial, pending or overdue).
A spreadsheet doesn't warn about time conflicts, doesn't track late payments on its own and is hard to keep up on a phone.
Yes. Reports export to CSV, which opens in any spreadsheet, and also to PDF.
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