# Run a shift — Octyn Fuel Station Help

> Run a fuel station shift in Octyn: open it, put attendants on nozzles, and close it with each meter reading to post sales.

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# Run a shift: open, crew the pumps, read the meters, close

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Run a fuel station shift in Octyn: open it, put attendants on nozzles, and close it with each meter reading to post sales.

Video **3 min** Updated **14 November 2026** For **Manager** Tutorial **20 of 39**

## 01 Open the shift

Everything that happens at the pumps belongs to a shift.

1.  Go to **Daily ops → Shifts**. Open shifts sit at the top; anything still open from yesterday shows there first. A shift left open much longer than its template is marked **Stale**, so a forgotten close is hard to miss.
2.  Choose **Open shift**.
3.  Pick the outlet, the shift (for example Morning) and the business date. Each shift can be opened once per business date.
4.  Check the opening readings. Each nozzle opens on the reading the last shift closed on, so there is nothing to retype.

## 02 Put the crew on the pumps

Who stands at which nozzle decides who answers for the cash.

1.  For each nozzle, tick the attendant working it.
2.  Choose **Open shift**. The shift is live. Sales count against it until it is closed.

## 03 Close it with the meter readings

At handover, read every nozzle's totalizer.

1.  Open the shift and choose **Close shift**.
2.  Enter one closing reading per nozzle. The chip at the top counts how many nozzles are read, so you can see at a glance which are still missing.
3.  Fix any reading Octyn highlights. A closing reading below the opening is refused. When a meter has rolled over past its last digit, Octyn allows for that before it decides a reading is wrong.
4.  Check the preview. It shows litres and value per nozzle, priced at the pump price in force on that business date.
5.  Choose **Close shift & post sales**. Sales and stock post now. Reopening a closed shift needs the owner.

## 04 Why the readings matter

The totalizer is the one figure everything else is checked against.

1.  The litres each nozzle sold come only from its opening and closing readings. Stock, the cash each attendant owes and the day's margin all follow from them, so a mistyped digit spreads further than it looks.
2.  Read the meter itself at handover, not a figure noted earlier in the shift. The next shift opens on these closing readings, so an error here carries straight into the next shift.

**Done.** Next, the cashier counts what the crew handed in — see “Close the cash day”. [Open it in Octyn](https://app.octynerp.com/operations/shifts).

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