Shifttelle resource · for nurses & healthcare workers
Overtime, mandatory overtime, and on-call days — all on one calendar.
Shifttelleis a personal shift calendar built for nurses and healthcare workers — and overtime is exactly the kind of day it's built for. Picked-up OT, mandatory OT, and on-call shifts all behave a little differently in real life, so they get three different color tiers on the calendar and the same reminder loop underneath.
The page below walks through each one — and how your shift calendar handles it without making OT feel like a special case.
Picked-up overtime
OT you grabbed off the open board stays on the schedule.
In most hospitals, “picked-up OT” means a regular-shift slot that nobody claimed on the schedule, and you added yourself to it. It almost always pays more than a regular shift — time-and-a-half, sometimes double-time — and that's why it's the first kind of shift nurses try to grab.
The problem isn't picking it up. The problem is keeping it on your schedule. Dropped swaps, last-minute schedule changes, and the simple fact that you grabbed it days or weeks ago all conspire to make picked-up OT the most-skipped kind of shift. A personal calendar with a 24-hour nudge and a pre-shift nudge is the single biggest fix — the picked-up shift now behaves like every other shift on your calendar, with the same reminder loop, so it's much harder to forget.
Premium pay, plus premium visibility
Picked-up OT usually pays time-and-a-half or double-time — see those shifts front-and-center on your calendar so you never accidentally trade them away.
Stop dropping swaps
Dropped swaps are the most-skipped kind of OT. A reminder loop the night before and the morning of makes sure a swap that was supposed to be yours stays yours.
See what you actually owe this pay period
An hour-count summary tag with the OT shifts highlighted separately lets you confirm, at a glance, the total you should be picking up at the end of the cycle.
Mandatory overtime
MOT is the same calendar, just a different color.
Mandatory OT is the shift your scheduler assigned to you — usually when census is high or a call-out left a hole. It is your shift whether you signed up for it or not, and turning it down is usually not an option. Because of that, the only thing that matters about MOT is whether you remember it's coming.
MOT almost always arrives with shorter notice than a regular shift, which is exactly the case the “You work tomorrow” dashboard is built for: open the app, the next shift is the first card you see, and the one-tap confirm button is right there. Shifttelle doesn't need a special branch for MOT — it gets its own color tier on the timeline, its own chip, and the same reminder loop underneath.
Assigned MOT is still just a shift
Mandatory overtime is its own color tier on the calendar, but it behaves identically — same reminder loop, same one-tap confirm. Nothing to learn.
Short notice is the killer
MOT often arrives with hours, not days. The second reminder — the one that fires right before the shift starts — is the one that catches a MOT added that morning.
The dashboard surfaces it first
When a MOT lands, it goes to the top of the "You work tomorrow" card so it cannot slip behind a regular shift you already knew about.
On-call days
On-call and call-back share the same timeline.
On-call days come in two flavors. A pure on-call shift means you stay available without driving in — a long, quiet day spent waiting. A call-back is when the charge nurse calls and you actually have to show. Most weeks you don't know in advance which one it will be; you only know the day is an on-call day.
That's exactly why on-call days need their own color on the calendar. When an on-call day ends with no callback, the day ended up looking ordinary — but it wasn't. Showing it on the same timeline as your regular shifts, OT, and MOT means the difference between “nothing happened” and “that was an on-call shift” is visible for the rest of the pay period.
On-call vs call-back
An on-call day is one shift you keep available without driving in; a call-back is the day you actually get called and have to show. Both live on the same timeline.
On-call days blur with regular days
When an on-call day ends with "no callback," the day looked ordinary. Color-coding the on-call block keeps the difference visible — even on the quiet weeks.
No accidental double-booking
Putting on-call, regular, OT, and MOT on one timeline means a scheduler adding you to a regular shift on an on-call day is something you can flag in seconds, not after the fact.
Staying on top
The loop that catches the shift you would have missed.
What ties picked-up OT, mandatory OT, and on-call days together isn't separate feature lists — it's the same three-step loop underneath. Add the shift with the right kind (regular, OT, MOT, or on-call day). Get a reminder 24 hours out with a one-tap confirm button right in the notification. Get a second reminder shortly before the shift starts. Tap once and the shift flips to Confirmed; your record is locked in.
That loop is the entire reason Shifttelle exists. A picked-up OT that was set two weeks ago benefits from the 24-hour nudge just as much as a MOT added that morning benefits from the pre-shift nudge. One loop, three timing kinds of shift — and that's the whole app.
Manage your overtime, too
Every shift you work, in one place.
Open your shift calendar to see how Shifttelle lays out your nights, weekends, OT, and on-call days next to your regular shifts on a single timeline.
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In short
Three kinds of overtime, one calendar, one loop.
Pickup-OT dropped because nobody reminded you — fixed. Mandatory OT added at 6 a.m. — fixed. On-call day you forgot ended at 4 p.m. — fixed. Shifttelle is free while in beta, the whole loop is three taps, and the upside is the same regardless of which kind of overtime you work this pay period.