Crew
Guides, drivers and staff — roles, assignments, schedules, and tasks.
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For crew members
Your schedule, your tasks, and your time off.
Setting up your crew
Switch it on, add roles and people, and say what each trip needs.
- Create crew roles and add crew membersSet up roles like Guide or Driver, add the people who hold them, and archive the ones you no longer need.
- Give your crew tasks for each departureCreate reusable task templates like "Check equipment" and attach them to an experience so every departure gets them.
- Set the crew an experience needsTell Samba how many guides, drivers or other crew each departure of an experience needs, and update existing departures.
- Turn on Crew ManagementSwitch on Crew Management to track guides, drivers and other staff, and see what to set up next.
Staffing departures
Assigning crew, tasks on a departure, time off, and notifications.
- Crew notificationsEvery email and in-app notification Samba sends to your crew and to managers, when it is sent, and who can turn it off.
- Manage crew tasks on a departureAdd a one-off task, reassign it, change its due date or mark it done — and see who each crew task goes to.
- Record time off for a crew memberMark a guide or driver as unavailable so Samba warns you before you assign them to a departure.
- Assign crew to a departureFill a departure's crew slots, understand the warnings Samba shows, and remove or replace someone.