# Managing your establishment's sections

> Create and organize sections (bar, kitchen, dining room, aisles…) to structure your schedules and assign your employees.

Source: https://help.shyfter.com/en/settings/managing-your-establishments-sections  
Category: Settings  
Updated: 2026-07-01

## What are sections for?

Sections let you divide your establishment into work zones: bar, kitchen and dining room for a restaurant, aisles for a shop, wards for a clinic, and so on. Once your sections are created, you can assign each shift to a section and see at a glance who is working where. Sections also feed your cost and productivity statistics by zone.

Not to be confused with **points of sale**: splitting into several points of sale is a separate, paid option, whereas sections are included and remain within a single establishment.

Go to **Settings ⚙️ → Sections → Manage sections**.

## The list of sections

The table lists all your sections with, for each one:

- **ID**: the section's internal identifier.
- **Name**: the section's label as it appears in the schedule.
- **Color**: the associated color dot, which colors this section's shifts in the grid.
- **Address**: the section's address, if you have entered one (street, city, postal code, country).
- **Actions**: the Assign, Edit and Delete buttons.

Two additional columns appear only if you use a social secretariat connector: **AY ID** (Attentia) and **Update Pro ID**. They link the Shyfter section to the corresponding establishment on the social secretariat side.

The search field at the top left filters the list by name.

## Creating a section

Click **New** at the top right.

Fill in:

- **Name** (mandatory): the section's label.
- **Address**: optional, useful if your sections correspond to distinct physical locations.
- **Color**: choose a color to instantly recognize this section's shifts in the schedule.

Confirm to create the section. It becomes available for shift creation right away.

## Assigning employees to a section

The **Assign** button opens the list of your employees and lets you link those who work in this section.

Assigning employees to their sections then makes building the schedule easier: you get the right people suggested first for each zone.

## Editing or deleting a section

- **Edit**: reopens the section form to change its name, color or address.
- **Delete**: removes the section. Shifts already created remain, but are no longer linked to this section.