Hand off coverage when you're away

Take a night or a day off — your urgent calls go to your backup for the window, then come back to you.

Coverage windows let you hand your urgent calls to your backup for a set stretch of time — an overnight, a day off — without giving up your clients. When the window ends, urgent calls come back to you automatically.

Set one up (mobile)

In the Cradled mobile app: Business → Practice tools → On-call coverage, in the Cover for me section.

  1. Tap one of the presets: Rest of today, Overnight, or 24 hours. (The window starts now; the end time is computed for you.)
  2. Optionally add a handoff note — "Anything they should know?" — a quick heads-up for whoever's covering.

That's it. The window routes to your primary backup automatically, so set a backup first if you haven't (see On-call coverage & your backup).

While a window is active

You'll see a confirmation that your backup has your urgent calls until the end time, with your handoff note shown. During the window, your backup gets operational visibility into your clients — including their notes — so they can actually help if a client reaches out.

Ending it early

Back sooner than planned? Tap I'm back to close the window immediately. Urgent calls route to you again right away.

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