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Overview: Feature Settings and Preferences

How to set agency settings and preferences in the Dashboard.

Accessing Feature Settings

  1. Log in to the Dashboard

  2. Click the dropdown arrow in the the upper-left corner

  3. Click Feature Settings

The settings configured here apply across the entire agency. Click each card to adjust and manage individual features.


Groups

Create and manage groups to simplify scheduling and assignments.

Create groups that include any combination of staff members and clients to schedule shifts more efficiently, rather than adding individuals one at a time. For more information, see Creating and Scheduling Groups.


Shift Settings

Configure clock-in rules, shift requirements, and scheduling preferences.

Timing

  • Require notes before clock out: When enabled, requires DSPs to fill out selected notes before being able to clock out.

  • Shifts can only be assigned one Caregiver: When enabled, only one DSP can be assigned per shift.

  • Clock-in window: Controls how early a DSP can clock in before a scheduled shift. This helps enforce time tracking consistency.

    • Example: If the setting is 30 minutes and a shift starts at 10:00 AM, the earliest a DSP can clock in is 9:30 AM.

Shift Types

  • Enable Impromptu Shifts Features: When enabled, DSPs can create impromptu or flex shifts that aren't pre-scheduled.

  • Enable Staff-only Shifts: When enabled, DSPs can create shifts without clients. Typically used for admin work or training.

  • Enable Open Shifts: When enabled, shifts can be created without any assigned staff. DSPs will see these open shifts and can claim through the mobile app.

After enabling any of these features, the setting also has to be turned on for each caregiver in their profile. To enable: Go to the caregiver's profile, click Settings, and enable the corresponding setting. This allows for agencies to control which functionalities are available for each caregiver.

Requests

  • Shift Requests: When enabled, users can submit both time change requests and past shift requests.

After enabling this feature, the setting also has to be turned on for each caregiver in their profile. To enable: Go to the caregiver's profile, click Settings, and enable Shift Requests. This allows for agencies to control which caregivers are able to submit requests. See Managing Time Change/Shift Edit Requests for details on viewing and approving shift request.

Shift Sweeper

  • Enable shift sweeper: When enabled, the shift sweeper will force close shifts, clocking out all staff and ending all services for clients after the specified number of hours has elapsed from the scheduled end time of the shift.

  • Clock out sweeper hours: Set the number of hours after the end of the scheduled shift before the shift sweeper automatically clocks out and ends all services. The clock-out and service end times will be set to the scheduled shift end time.

  • Clock out sweeper impromptu hours: Set the maximum number of hours an impromptu shift can run. Once this limit is reached, the shift sweeper will automatically clock out and end all services for that shift.

Mobile Charting

  • Enable caregiver access to mobile charting: When enabled, caregivers can view charting from previous shifts in the desktop.

  • Viewing window (days): Set the number of days after the service is completed for the caregiver to view charting for the shift. Can choose the viewing window to be indefinite.

Shift Notes

Create and manage shift notes that caregivers can complete during or after their shift to support accurate, consistent, and compliant documentation. This helps ensure your agency captures required information in a standardized way.

For steps on how to create and assign notes, see Creating and Managing Notes.


Transportation

Configure transportation settings for your organization.

  • Enable transportation features: When enabled, transportation codes and related forms can be created to allow caregivers to be reimbursed for transportation. Caregivers can log transportation activities by mileage, trip count, or distance.


Geofence

Set up location boundaries and tracking parameters for clock-in verification.

  • Enable Geofence: When enabled, DSPs will need to be within the specified radius to start a service with the client.

  • Geofence radius: Set the number of miles/feet for the geofence boundary.

  • Geofence based on shift addresses: When enabled, this feature will geofence all staff on first clock in and first service start based on the address set on the actual shift. This will override all other geofence settings if an address is set.

  • Optional address on create shift: When enabled, this will allow you to create a shift without a shift address.

  • Client-approved geo-fencing addresses: When enabled, this allows you to set a list of pre-approved addresses for each client. Giv will then geofence staff based on the approved addresses.

  • Outside geofence with a reason: When enabled, staff can clock in and start services outside of the geofence boundary with a reason.

See Setting Up Geofencing for more details.


Post Shift Report

Customize report requirements, templates, and submission rules.

  • Enable caregiver access to post-shift reports: When enabled, caregivers can view and edit shift notes after clocking out.

Access is configured separately for each client plan section, including Notes, Goals, Medications, Forms, Transportation, Incident Reports, and the Client Profile. Click Edit next to a section to define what caregivers can access and how long access is available after the shift ends.

Note: After enabling this feature, the setting also has to be turned on for each caregiver in their profile. To enable: Go to the caregiver's profile, click Settings, and enable Advanced Charting Access.


Incidents

Define incident types, reporting workflows, and notification preferences.

Emails

Manage who gets emails when an incident occurs. Click Manage and add the emails of those who want to receive a notification.

When a DSP submits an incident report, all emails will receive the notification from [email protected]. The title of the email will be the date and time the report was submitted and the body of the email will be the entire report.

Incident Reports will also be available in the Reports section of the Dashboard, on the individual shift, and in the client profile. See Incident Reports for more details.

Incident Types

Add incident types to collect information from DSPs as they submit incident reports.

Incident types are customizable questionnaires or form templates that determine which questions a DSP must complete each time they submit an incident report. They help ensure documentation aligns with state requirements, compliance standards, and internal workflows.

For steps on how to add an incident type, see Creating Incident Types.


Medications

Configure medication tracking, reminders and administration protocols.

Add medication types to collect information from DSPs during medication administration on their shifts.

Medication types are customizable questionnaires or form templates that determine which questions a DSP must complete each time they administer, or attempt to administer, medication to a client. They help ensure documentation aligns with agency requirements, compliance standards, and internal workflows.

For steps on how to add a medication type, see Creating Medication Types.

For steps on how to add medications to a client's profile, see Managing Medications in the Client Profile.


Goals

Configure goal tracking, field types, and preferences.

  • Disable caregiver goal rating: When enabled, DSPs are not required to rate goal activities when logging goal activity. Some agencies leave this setting disabled to collect feedback from DSPs about the goals. The rating is a scale from 0 to 10.

Add goal types to collect information from DSPs as they track and log goal progress. Goal types are customizable questionnaires or form templates that determine which questions a DSP must complete each time they log a goal activity. They help ensure documentation align with agency requirements, compliance standards, and internal workflows.

For steps on how to add a goal type, see Creating Goal Types.

For steps on how to add goals to a client's plan, see Customizing Client Plans: Adding Goals.


EVV

Set up Electronic Visit Verification compliance settings and requirements.

  • Sandata Integration Status: When enabled, Giv will sync EVV data back to Sandata.


Legal

Manage privacy policies, terms of service, and compliance documents.

Privacy Policy

To add or edit the Privacy Policy:

  1. Click Edit in the Privacy Policy section

  2. Use the rich text editor to add, edit, and format your document as needed

  3. Click Save changes

The Privacy Policy will be available in the mobile app under Settings for staff members to view.

Terms and Conditions

To add or edit the Terms and Conditions:

  1. Click Edit in the Terms and Conditions section

  2. Use the rich text editor to add, edit, and format your document as needed

  3. Click Save changes

The Terms and Conditions will be available in the mobile app under Settings for staff members to view.

FAQs

To add a FAQ:

  1. Click + Add FAQ in the FAQs section

  2. Enter the Question

  3. Enter the Answer

  4. Click Add FAQ

  5. Refresh the page

The FAQs will be available in the mobile app under Settings for staff members to view.

You can edit, move, or delete a FAQ at any time by clicking the three dots next to the FAQ.


Finance

Adjust any client or budget settings.

  • Auto Spend Down: When enabled, billing records are automatically generated according to the weekly schedule you configure. You can set the number of units to bill for each day of the week, and the system will create the service records and track budget usage automatically. This is especially useful for services with a consistent, pre-planned number of units per day, such as day rates. It helps reduce manual data entry for services with predictable billing patterns.

  • Auto Clock-Out on Budget Restriction: When enabled, DSPs are automatically clocked out once a client reaches their budget restriction. For single-client shifts, the service record is ended and the DSP is fully clocked out. For multi-client shifts, only the service record for the client who reached their limit is ended, while the shift continues for the remaining clients. The DSP is fully clocked out once all clients on the shift have reached their restrictions. A push notification will be sent to the DSP informing them that they have been clocked out.


Custom Fields

Create and add custom fields to the client, caregiver, and agency profiles.

Custom fields allow your agency to capture information that is not included in the system's standard fields. Because every organization has unique documentation, compliance, and operational needs, custom fields provide a flexible way to store information that is important to your agency.

For information on how to create and manage custom fields, see Creating and Managing Custom Fields.


For questions about feature settings:

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