Feature
Recurring Work
Automate repeating tasks
Define recurring task templates that spawn real tasks automatically on a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence.
- Daily / weekly / monthly schedules
- Weekday & day-of-month rules
- Auto-spawned tasks with owners & ETAs
- Zero manual recreation
Set a template once and stop recreating routine work. Choose daily, weekly (specific weekdays), or monthly (specific day) cadences, add an ETA offset so due dates are set automatically, and carry the right department and assignees so each spawned task is ready to go. Perfect for maintenance, inspections, reporting, and retainer work.
The hidden cost of recreating routine work
Every team has work that repeats — weekly check-ins, monthly closes, daily safety inspections, quarterly reviews. When that work is handled manually, someone has to remember to create it, fill in the details, and assign it. If they forget, it doesn't happen. If the person leaves, the process walks out the door with them. Recurring task automation turns repeatable processes into something reliable.
How recurring tasks work in TaskWave
Define a template once: task name, department, assignee, priority, and an ETA offset (so the due date is set automatically relative to creation). Choose the cadence — daily, weekly on specific weekdays, or monthly on a specific day. TaskWave generates the task at the right time, assigns it to the right owner, and records it in the grid just like any other task. The owner gets a notification; the template quietly runs in the background.
What you can automate
- Daily/weekly standups or status check-ins
- Monthly closes, invoicing, and financial review cycles
- Safety inspections and compliance checklists
- Recurring maintenance and infrastructure tasks
- Client retainer work that repeats each period
- Team and performance reviews on a recurring schedule
Shift-aware recurring reminders
Recurring templates can pair with recurring reminders so people are nudged at the right time — within their shift window — when a task is due or overdue. This is especially useful for teams with varied working hours, shift workers, or distributed remote teams across time zones.
Why consistency is a competitive advantage
When the same task runs the same way every cycle — right owner, right due date, right department — quality becomes predictable. Clients and stakeholders get consistent experiences. New team members follow the same process as veterans. Automation doesn't replace judgment; it removes the friction around the parts of work that should always happen the same way.
Related features
Recurring work connects to notifications and reminders (shift-aware nudges per occurrence), instructions and SOPs (the playbook for how each recurring task should be done), departments (who the task auto-assigns to), and analytics (tracking whether recurring work gets done on time).