Default Schedule and Working Days
How onboarding saves the default schedule and working-week rules for a new business, and what those defaults affect later.
The schedule section in onboarding is there so a new business does not start with completely blank scheduling rules. These settings become the starting defaults for future jobs and the basic working-week rules for the business itself.
Default Schedule
- Enable default schedule for new jobs: turn this on if most new jobs in this business follow a regular repeat pattern. Leave it off if you would rather set schedules case by case later.
- Interval: the number that sits in front of the repeat cycle. For example, 4 with weekly frequency means every 4 weeks.
- Frequency: chooses whether the interval is counted in days, weeks, or months.
When you enable the default schedule, Work Planner automatically supplies sensible starting values if you have not entered your own yet. On a fresh onboarding flow, that means a default of every 4 weeks.
Working Days
- Working days are Monday - Friday: the quick option for a standard weekday business. Turning this on resets the saved day switches to Monday through Friday only.
- Individual day toggles: these appear when you turn the Monday to Friday shortcut off. Use them when your business works Saturdays, Sundays, or a less standard pattern.
What These Defaults Affect Later
- New job scheduling: new jobs can inherit the default schedule values you saved here.
- Planner calculations: the business working days help Work Planner decide how to treat dates that fall on non-working days.
- Organisation settings: the working-day choices are written into the business organisation settings, so this is not just a temporary onboarding preference.
On business creation, Work Planner also sets the non-working-day job policy to move work to the next working day. That means your working-day choices matter straight away, even if you do not notice the policy itself during onboarding.
Related articles
- Getting Started with Onboarding: the full page this section belongs to.
- Choosing Manual Setup or Import: the earlier onboarding choice that sits above this section.
- Working Days and Non-Working-Day Job Handling: where these rules can be reviewed later.
- Scheduling a Job: where the saved defaults start to matter in day-to-day use.