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How do roles work in Atlas Scheduling?

Learning the difference between a supervisor, manager, and administrator

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Written by Charles Vallières

Atlas Scheduling has four main hierarchical roles:

  • Administrator

  • Manager

  • Supervisor

  • Employee

For each level, a basic role with the same name is offered for your use.

Apart from the administrator, who is by default the manager of all locations, each user can have a different role for each branch. This constitutes your organization's role hierarchy. It's also possible to create customized roles to add or remove permissions.

Important: Notifications are always sent to the person's immediate supervisor (for example, an administrator receives notifications from all their employees unless they set up a manager or supervisor in the organization). Find out more about the notification system.


Where to go

You can change roles at any time by going to Roles and positions on an employee's profile and selecting from the available dropdown menu.

Administrator

An administrator has complete oversight of your account. An administrator user can:

  • Create and manage locations.

  • Create employees and assign all roles.

  • Manage all settings.

  • Export payroll.

Manager

A manager has the same access as an administrator except:

  • Access can be scoped to certain locations only.

  • Settings menu is not available.

Managers can view hourly rates and manage payroll. (This option can be disabled using the customized roles tools.)

Supervisor

A supervisor has the same access as a manager except:

  • Access can be scoped to locations and positions.

  • Cannot create a fixed terminal for clocking.

  • Cannot approve their own time entries.

  • Can never see hourly rates, salaries, or wages.

To create a supervisor, you must also select the positions they supervise.

Employee

An employee does not have access to any management feature.

Employees can:

  • View their schedule and set notification preferences.

  • Use the time clock.

  • Use the messenger and comment on their shifts.

Employees cannot view hourly rates, salaries, or wages.


Permissions table

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