Most operators do not work Sundays and do not work Christmas, and then spend the season working around software that does not know either. Working days and holidays is where you tell ClippingCash once.
The rule the whole page runs on: nothing new is scheduled on a closed day.
1 Set the days you work
Open Working days and holidays in your settings. Under Days you work, tick the days your crew actually runs. Mon to Fri, six days, whatever it is.
You have to leave at least one day on. Untick everything and you get You have to work at least one day, which is the app declining to let you close the business by accident.
2 Tick the holidays you take
Holidays every year is the list that repeats without you touching it again. The common six are shown first:
- New Year’s Day
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day (July 4)
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas Day
Click More holidays for the rest, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Juneteenth, Columbus Day and Veterans Day. Fewer holidays collapses the list again.
These are rules, not dates. Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday in November every year, so you tick it once and it is right in 2027 without anyone editing anything.
3 Choose skip or move, per holiday
Every holiday you tick gets its own dropdown, and this is the setting that affects your money:
- Skip it. The day is closed and the work does not happen.
- Move the work. The day is closed and the work goes to the next working day instead.
Think about this one per holiday rather than setting them all the same. In the growing season the grass does not know it is Labor Day, and a skipped week in June is a visit you never bill for. Across a full book that adds up faster than most operators expect.
A reasonable default: move the growing-season holidays, skip Thanksgiving and Christmas.
4 Add the days that are only yours
Single dates is for the closures that are not on anybody’s calendar: a family week in July, a shutdown for equipment, your daughter’s wedding.
Click Add a single date, then Pick the date you are closed and Give the day a name, like July 4. Click Save holiday.
Each single date gets the same skip-or-move choice, and each row has a remove button when the plan changes.
5 What happens to work you already booked
Closing a day you have already scheduled work on does not silently delete it. That work appears under Work booked on a day you are closed, and you decide:
- Cancel that work, or Cancel those jobs when it is more than one.
- Move it to the next working day, or Move those jobs to the next working day.
Nothing is decided for you, because cancelling a customer’s visit and moving it are very different conversations.
6 Booking on a closed day later
Try to book a job on a day you are closed and ClippingCash says so before you save, not after. It is a warning, not a block: sometimes you really are going out on a Sunday for a good customer, and the software should not argue.
This page, or holiday exceptions?
There are two tools here and they are for different jobs:
- Working days and holidays, this page, is about your business. It is company-wide, repeats yearly, and covers everything you have scheduled.
- Holiday exceptions live in your service settings and handle one date on your recurring services, including rescheduling a specific date to a specific other date.
Set this page up first, because it covers the yearly pattern in one sitting. Reach for an exception when you need something this page cannot say, like “move this one week to this one other day”.
Do it in January
Ten minutes in January, while nothing is growing and the phone is not ringing, and your whole year’s closures are right. The alternative is noticing on the morning of the Fourth of July that the route went out anyway.