StaffingBeta
CineScope puts next week's rota under the crowd each day is expected to bring, drafts the shifts from that forecast, and shows you which of your crew have actually looked. Crew see their own shifts on their own phones, with no account to forget. Staffing is in beta: it works today, and it will change as cinemas use it.
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Each day of the week has its forecast at the top and its shifts beneath. The forecast is learned from your own POS ticket sales — what a day had sold at this distance against what it finally took, walk-ups included. Public holidays are forecast as holidays, and where rain, snow or heat has a clear effect at a cinema, the weather forecast for the next seven days is allowed for. A day the forecast cannot reach yet says so rather than showing a zero.
Under it, the cover you have rostered is read against the busiest three hours: "down to 2 by 7:00pm", "nobody in charge after 9:30pm". General managers see those busiest hours rather than the admissions, because ticket figures follow the same sales permissions here as everywhere else in CineScope.
Your shift patterns say when each shift runs and the fewest people it takes, with different hours for one building or one season if you need them. The draft adds people to the shift that covers the busiest hours, puts someone who can run the shift on first, and spreads hours to whoever has had fewest. Any day you have already written is left alone.
Nothing the draft writes is shown to a crew member until a manager presses Publish. It reports what it could not do — a shift short, a shift with nobody who can run it, someone it could only fit by going past their weekly hours — rather than hiding the gap.
Publishing is not the same as being seen. For each person on the week it says one of four things: has seen this rota, last looked before it changed, has never opened their link, or has no link yet.
Change a published shift and the crew member's page marks it as changed. Take one away and it stays on their page, struck through, until they have looked since.
A crew member is a record their manager keeps: their name, the hours they can work each weekday, any dated time off, whether they can run a shift on their own, and their employment type. A weekday with no hours given means they are not available. A shift outside someone's stated hours, or while they are away, is refused unless the manager types a reason. There is no date of birth on the record: if someone's hours are limited, a note says why, and CineScope holds the window you set.
Each employment type carries a weekly hour ceiling — whatever your contracts say part-time means — and CineScope ships none of its own. A person's hours are counted across every cinema they work at. Going over is marked on the shift that crosses the line rather than refused, and the crew list looks back over whole finished weeks, twelve by default, to show who is regularly over rather than over once.
Each person gets a link from their manager, copied or emailed. Once opened, it keeps them signed in on that phone for 90 days and shows only their own shifts — no colleagues, no phone numbers — which can go straight into their phone's calendar. Lost it? staff.cinescope-app.com sends a six-digit code to the number or email on file.
From the same page they can ask for time off, propose different hours, offer a shift up, or pick up one a colleague has offered — handing one of theirs back if they want a swap. Nothing moves until a manager approves.
A manager sets up a tablet for the building. Crew tap their name and enter a four-digit PIN they chose themselves, and it forgets them after 30 minutes idle. They check off your own checklists — opening, closing, a weekly deep clean, each line daily, weekly or monthly — and every check carries their name.
Crew who can run a shift also see the building's open guest reports, emergencies first, with no guest contact details. 'I have fixed this' takes a sentence about what they did and waits for the manager's sign-off; it does not close the case or tell the guest anything.
Availability usually arrives in conversation. Type it the way you would say it — "Sam can't do Tuesdays after six" — and the AI Staffing Agent turns it into the hours, time off and shift patterns the draft is built from. It writes nothing until a manager has read every row and pressed the button, names anything CineScope has nowhere to store, and uses one AI token a request.
No. Crew are records a manager keeps, not accounts. Each person is given a link that shows only their own shifts; once opened, it keeps them signed in on that phone for 90 days, renewed every time they look. If they lose it, staff.cinescope-app.com sends a six-digit code to the phone number or email address their manager put on file.
No. Draft from the forecast writes drafts, and nothing reaches a crew member until a manager presses Publish. Requests from the crew — time off, different hours, a shift offered up, picked up or swapped — change nothing until a manager approves them, and when a shift changes hands, availability, time off and weekly hours are checked again at that moment.
From your own POS ticket sales. Each day's presales are projected on a curve learned from your own past days, walk-ups included. Public holidays are forecast as holidays, and where a kind of weather has a clear effect at a cinema, the weather forecast for the next seven days moves the figure, never by more than 30% either way. A day the forecast cannot reach yet says so instead of showing a number. The forecast needs a POS feed from RTS or Veezi; the rota itself works without one.
No, and it does not guess. It enforces the rules you state: the hours each person can work on each weekday, a note saying why their hours are limited, and a weekly hour ceiling for each employment type. It holds no dates of birth and does not know which jurisdiction a building is in.
A manager sets up a tablet for one building. Crew tap their name and enter a four-digit PIN they set on their own phone, and the tablet forgets them after 30 minutes idle. Anyone signed in can check off the building's checklists. Crew who can run a shift also see the building's open guest reports, and 'I have fixed this' — with a sentence on what they did — waits for the manager's sign-off.
The same people who can see ticket sales anywhere in CineScope: the account admin, and admins who have been given access to sales. General managers see each day's busiest hours and holidays, not the admissions behind them.
Each day's crowd comes from your POS, and the agent that reads your sentences is one of CineScope's AI agents. Back to all features.
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