Build Your Entire Volunteer Schedule in Minutes-Not Days
Consignment Helper's Shift Builder lets you define shifts with specific times, locations, job roles, and capacity limits. Create repeating patterns for multi-day sales. Let volunteers self-select, then track their hours automatically.
The Problem: Volunteer Scheduling is a Full-Time Job
You need 80 volunteer shifts filled across 4 days. That's 80 time slots to create, 200+ volunteers to coordinate, and countless emails to send. "Can you do Saturday morning?" "I can only do 3-5pm." "I signed up but something came up."
You're tracking availability on paper sign-ups, in email threads, and on sticky notes. Who's working checkout? Who's sorting? Is anyone covering the 2pm gap? The spreadsheet keeps changing, and you're not even sure it's accurate anymore.
By sale day, you're exhausted-and you haven't even started running the actual event.
Manual Scheduling Nightmares
- ✗Hours spent coordinating via email and phone
- ✗Spreadsheets that become outdated immediately
- ✗No way to know who's met their hour requirements
- ✗Last-minute gaps with no backup plan
The Solution: Visual Shift Building That Actually Works
Define shifts with times, locations, job roles, and capacity limits. Create your entire multi-day schedule in one session. Let volunteers self-select their shifts. Track hours automatically.
Quick Shift Creation
Create shifts with a few clicks-set start/end times, location, capacity, and description. Copy and paste to build similar shifts faster.
Repeating Patterns
Running the same shifts across multiple days? Create once, repeat automatically. Build a 4-day schedule in the time it used to take for one day.
Job Role Assignment
Define specific roles within each shift-cashier, sorter, greeter, runner. Assign volunteers based on skills and preferences.
Capacity Limits
Set minimum and maximum volunteer counts per shift. Know when you're understaffed and prevent overcrowding at popular times.
Hour Requirements
Set volunteer hour requirements per registration type. The system automatically tracks who's met their commitment and who hasn't.
Visual Calendar
See your entire schedule at a glance. Color-coded by fill status so you know immediately where gaps exist.
See Gaps Before They Become Problems
Color-coded coverage views show you exactly where you're staffed, short, or overfilled.
Understaffed
Below minimum capacity. Needs immediate attention.
Partially Filled
Could use more volunteers but workable.
Fully Staffed
Good to go. All roles covered.
From Blank Calendar to Full Schedule
Build your entire volunteer schedule in four simple steps.
Create Shifts
Define shifts with times, locations, roles, and capacity limits.
Publish Schedule
Make shifts available for volunteers to browse and sign up.
Monitor Coverage
Watch sign-ups come in. Reach out to fill any gaps.
Track Hours
Automatic hour tracking as volunteers complete their shifts.
Ready to Simplify Volunteer Scheduling?
See how the shift builder can save you hours of coordination and ensure you're fully staffed.