A department groups part of your team, such as Kitchen or Front desk. You link positions to it and assign people to it separately. Use the department to find those people, organise the schedule or narrow a report.
Choose the group you need
A position is a job someone does, such as Chef. A department groups part of the organisation, such as Kitchen. A location is where the work happens. One position can belong to several departments, and one person can belong to several departments. Linking Chef to Kitchen does not add everyone with that position to Kitchen. Assign those people separately.Keep membership and access separate
Adding someone to a department does not give them permission to manage it. Their role controls which pages and actions they can use. If their role limits access by department, changing their membership can change which people or records they can see.Next
Creating departments
Set up a department and link its positions.
Assigning people and positions
Choose who belongs to the department.
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