Managing Active Vacation Bids

Managing Active Vacation Bids

Purpose

  1. This article goes over familiarization when it comes to managing active vacation bids, including:
    1. Pausing or Stopping active bids.
    2. Determining who is currently bidding.
    3. Seeing the calendar to see which days are filling up. 
Vacation Bidding allows departments to have individuals plan their days off for the year to ensure adequate staffing is met, as well as the ability to forecast overtime if needed.


Video 




Directions

1. Click on Scheduling> Time Off.






2. Click on Vacation Bidding.


Click on Vacation Bidding.



3. Click on the eye of the active vacation bid you want to manage. 


Click on the eye of the active vacation bid you want to manage.



4. You can now see the progress of the vacation bidding process. The gavel will show who is currently bidding. 
  1. If individuals have bid, you would be able to click their name and see the days they requested off on the calendar. 


You can now see the progress of the vacation bidding process. The gavel will show who is currently bidding.



5. Click on Pause to stop the vacation bidding process temporarily. It will not resume until you click Start. 


Click on Pause to stop the vacation bidding process temporarily. It will not resume until you click Start.



6. Click on Close Bid to stop the process permanently. 

IMPORTANT: Individuals who have already selected their days will have them off if you manually close a Bidding Process. 
Individuals who have not placed any bids will have no days off from the process. 


Click on Close Bid to stop the process permanently.

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