Your first shift

You work in the yard: mucking out, feeding, turning out, getting horses ready for rides. By the end of your first shift you'll have signed in, clocked in and out, ticked off your part of the care round, and left a note for whoever comes next. Reading this takes about 10 minutes.

1 · Sign in · 5 minutes, before the shift

The stable sends you an invitation email. Open the link and tap Accept invitation. That signs you in and adds you to the stable in one go. There's no password, now or later: next time you sign in with your email and either a link or a one-time code.

• On your phone: sign in once and stay signed in, so the clock is always one tap away.
• On the yard's shared tablet: sign in as yourself. The clock and every task you tick carry the name of whoever is signed in, so tap Sign out when you hand the tablet on. On a phone-sized screen it's under More.

→ Accepting an invitation

2 · Find your way around · 5 minutes

• Schedule opens on today's day view if you're a helper: horses down the side, rides across the top, and who rides which horse when. You can read it; instructors and admins change rides.
• Care is today's care round, task by task, for every horse and for the yard.
• Rota shows your shifts this week. On a phone it's under More.
• Contacts is the yard's phone book, for when you need the vet or the farrier.

→ Week and day views

3 · Start your clock · a few seconds

The Your duty today card sits at the top of Care and of the Rota page. It lists your shifts for today.

1. Tap Start when you begin work. The card shows how long you've been at it.
2. Tap Stop when you finish.
3. Back for the evening shift? Tap Start again.

4 · Work through the care round · your shift

Open Care. Each row is one job (a feed, a medicine, a rug, a yard chore), with the horse it's for and the part of the day.

1. Do the job, then tap the tick at the end of its row. The row shows Done, your name and the time.
2. If a horse isn't there (out on a ride, away at a show), tap the skip arrow on its row instead (where there is one), so nobody thinks it was forgotten.
3. Ticked the wrong row? Tap the undo arrow that took the tick's place. If there isn't one, ask an instructor or the owner.

→ Run today's care round

5 · Leave a note · 1 minute

1. On a task, tap the speech-bubble icon next to the tick. Check off with a note opens.
2. Write what matters in a few words, for example "ate only half" or "rug torn at the chest".
3. Tap Done. The task is ticked, with your note next to your name.

Spotted something that isn't on the board, like a broken bucket or a loose board? Tap Add task: it lands in the Yard group for whoever picks it up. As a helper you can't add a task for a particular horse, so tell an instructor or the owner about anything to do with a horse's health.

6 · Finish the shift · 2 minutes

1. Tap Stop on Your duty today.
2. Open Rota and check that today's hours look right.

If a time is wrong, tap it on the card and fix it there.

If something's off

• No clock card, and no Rota in the menu? The stable hasn't turned on the Rota, or hasn't put you on the team yet. Ask the owner.
• You forgot to stop the clock. Nose closes it at the end of the day. Next time you open the card it asks When did work really end?: confirm the time or correct it.
• Teaching as well? Your rides count by themselves, straight from the schedule. Use the clock for yard work only.
• The sign-in link doesn't arrive. Check your spam folder, or sign in with a one-time code instead.

You're live when…

• you can sign in on the phone or tablet you'll use in the yard;
• you've seen Your duty today and started and stopped the clock once;
• you've ticked off at least one task on Care;
• you've left one note with Check off with a note;
• today's hours show up on the Rota page.

Leave this for later

• Ask for a day off: one button on the Rota page.
• Fixing or adding time for an earlier day, from My week.
• The stable’s rota: the whole team's week, to read.
• Notification settings for rota changes.

All of these are in Clock, corrections and days off.

Related

• Clock, corrections and days off
• Run today's care round
• Week and day views
• Signing in vs belonging to a stable