Feature Requests
Move week to week from within Roster View
Be able to change the date range when in weekly view when view/creating/editing a roster for a given week. This would be helpful when setting up future rosters for ...
Planned
Roster
The ability to just click and drag the shift to a new day
In weekly roster view be able to click & drag a shift and move it to anther day and also if place on another rostered shift be able to automatically swap those shift ...
Planned
Roster
Ability add shift notes
Be great if I can add notes / instructions to shifts. Eg specific things employees need to know/do for each shift
Employee Chat and Email
Ability to chat with staff (slack type) on app and website plus also bulk emails for communications
Calendar Sync/Integration
It would be amazing to have any rostered shifts be able to sync with a personal calendar such as Google Calendar, iCal, etc. Having to manually add each individual ...
Notice board
Ability to publish a notice to your whole team or select positions which prompt force them to read the notice on login or out and force them to acknowledge they have ...
Under consideration
Communication
Employees view clock in and out records
Some of my employees really want to be able to view history of click in out times.
Improvements to Sick Leave
We need to be able to process sick leave for a shift in the past.
We also need to be able to process sick leave from the browser the same way we can for the ...
Planned
Leave Requests
When copying rosters & staff on leave -choose to make their shifts open shifts or quickly swap staff
So, I copy a roster from last week and then 1 staff with 10 shifts is on leave for that week, RosterElf could offer an option to transform all shits into open shifts ...
Select multiple employees for a shift with the same start and end times
When you roster 5 employees for a shift on Monday from 9 am to 5 pm, you should be able to add a shift to a day, choose the position, choose the start and end times ...
Under consideration
Roster
It would be nice if I can swap all future shifts from a staff in a single hit
some times one of our staff leaves the company and we need to manually change all their shifts one by one in all published roster, it would be so nice if we have a ...
As an admin I want to be notified of any already rostered shifts that are within the dates of leave
Currently, if a staff member requests leave and they have shifts rostered within that time there is no notification that the admin needs to edit already rostered ...
Staff submit a request to update clock in and out times
If you missed clocking in and out on a day? Can you go back and add it in? I know that Admin can do this, but it would be good for the individual to do this and make ...
On Premises Clock In/Out device
It would be nice if you guys could offer a Clock In/Out device for my employees to use their RFID cards
Not planned
Hardware
Monthly view
I just wanted to make a suggestion to you. From my perspective its quite difficult to not have access to a “monthly” view of scheduled shifts. We run a monthly ...
Planned
Roster
Adjust approved leave request
Should a leave request be approved but circumstances change that requires the leave to be adjusted be able to make edits to these.
Anniversary Acknowledgements
Can Managers get a prompt for anniversaries - eg birthdays, 1 year with business etc.
The addition of 'AREAS' in the Sites/Roster/Postion Drop down menu
Add an 'Areas' option to the Sites/Roster/Postion Drop down menu so one can customise their site by areas as well to see who is rostered on in that area, Like front ...
Manager Force Sign Out for staff
If your employee forgets to clock out for a shift an option for a manager to force log out the shift
Interactive shift To Do List (Ability add shift notes)
The ability to add a list of tasks that employees can check off and add notes to and if not completed can be rolled over to another shift
Set Repeating shifts
Would be great to set shifts to auto repeat on roster..eg every monday and tuesday, 9-3pm, chef, matt martins
Planned
Roster
Fair Work API
Hi guys, loving your award tool but Ive seen Fair Work has now got API. Im in hospo and would be great to have award automatically with rates in my account
Under consideration
Payroll
Leave - Add Partial days off
Under consideration
Leave Requests
Availability: ability to have multiple breaks within daily availability
Employees would like to have ability to enter their availability with multiple breaks within a given day. Our managers are very supportive of such feature potential ...
Planned
Roster
Leave Display / Calendar
An easier way to see that a staff member is on leave. An icon on the weekly view for the staff member on leave to make rostering easier.
Ability to Update Roster Templates
As staff Change we need to amend the roster to fit in new people. This creates multiple Roster templates and then have to try and remember which has been updated. ...
Not planned
Roster
The ability to Copy and paste a single shift
As title, the ability to copy and paste a shift to anywhere on the roster. Not just the entire day.
Planned
Roster
Better Roster Printout - Weekly View
Really be nice to improve the printed roster...looking like weekly roster view would be great
Planned
Roster
Handover Notes
Ability for staff to add handover notes to be viewed by the next incoming shift staff
Ability for staff to see approved hours once payroll is processed
It would be great if staff could see their approved hours (like a timesheet) so they can confirm them against their roster, clock in/clock out and payslips. This ...
Staff culture / engagement surveys
Would be great to able to send a survey to staff to track how healthy my culture is
Under consideration
Communication
Allowing different geo-fencing distance across different sites
One distance allocation for all sites provides no flexibility. Each site should allow a custom distance for geofencing.
Ability to approve/be notified of staff availability requests
It would be great if there was an approval process for staff availability updates. So if staff update their standard or availability blocks it comes through to the ...
Notes System for Administrators creating roster
Have a notes system accessible from the dashboard that will also be visible when in the roster creating setting. For notes such as upcoming changes or reminders to ...
Late staff notification for manager
Please add a late staff notification so when my staff is late. A notification pops up to me (manager/assistant manager.)
after a preset timing 15 min late for ...
"Previous weeks" not to include current week
When trying to look at a previous weeks roster the last week on the list should be the last week, however it is the current week now.
Ability apply date filter to 'Elf Stats'
We love the addition of the Elf Stats on the Dashboard however what would be even better is to be able to adjust the stats by date ranges to demonstrate benefits ...
Not planned
Dashboard
Staff getting ability to request number of hours with leave application
staff member I would like to be able to add the amount of hours I am requesting for leave.
Put a cap on how many people have the same day off in the same area
Too many people sending in requests for the same day off. If there was a cap for each area the staff member would get the approval / rejection straight away and ...
Process timesheets straight to Xero pay run instead of Xero timesheets
This is a useful option which reduces admin time in Xero when processing payroll
Not planned
Payroll
Auto-refresh page when clicking on new day in payroll - timesheet view
Can you force the whole page to refresh when you click on a new day in the payroll timesheet view? That way you can see if a manager has made changes or employees ...
Not planned
Payroll
Daily Email with Attendance Report
Can you provide the option to supply an email to be automatically sent with attendance report?
Drop down button to choose period for Rostering and Payroll report
Need to have a dropdown and choice of Today / Tomorrow / This week / Last pay period
Under consideration
Automatically untick payroll when a casual staff member is recorded as sick
If a staff member has called in sick, and we recorded them as sick, their payroll for that day shouldn't add a payment for the day.
Report that summarises and compares daily wages percentage and weekly wage %
From the roster, there is the ability to add daily sales which then calculate daily wages percentage % in the daily cost summary at the top of each day. It would be ...
Planned
Reporting
RosterElf Notifications - recognise those already clocked in
Our teams are loving the new notifications to remind them to clock in however they are also appearing for staff that have clocked in. It would be great if there was a ...
Shift specific break ability to alter
Whilst there is the feature to automatically set a break period per the number of hours worked - it would be awesome to be able to shift specific alter the break ...
Ability to apply filters within the 'Staff' tab
As we operate across 18 sites though staff are all contained within one list, it is often difficult to find particular staff from one site to apply necessary changes ...
Planned
Staff
Add ability to trigger rules to apply Aternative rates (Support Work)
We have a rule in our award where if a shift finishes after 8pm the entire shift becomes afternoon rate. Where shifts in the same period do not finish after 8pm the ...
"My Shifts" change to "My Staff's Shifts"
As I am the person who delegates the shifts to everyone I don't need to have a section for my shifts and feel like that is wasted space so I thought it would be a ...
Not planned
My Shifts