Feature Requests

81 votes

Availability Locked Once Roster Published

Staff should not be able to change their availability once a roster has been published.
Suggested by: Kylie (10 Sep, '23) Upvoted: 16 Jul Comments: 1
58 votes

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 ...
Suggested by: Alex (05 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 15 Jul Comments: 13
32 votes

Availability - 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 ...
Suggested by: Karel Radford (12 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 22 Jun Comments: 5
18 votes

Unavailability for casual employees

As casuals only can apply for leave when rostered, it would be great to have an availability calendar installed where only casuals can put in future shift NOT AVAILABLE!
Suggested by: Renate (14 May, '24) Upvoted: 08 Jul Comments: 3
Requested Availability
18 votes

Availability Change & Annual Leave Cutoff

We've moved across from another platform, We previously had the ability to setup a cutoff timeframe, for availability and annual leave requests. Also published ...
Suggested by: Adam Ramsey (22 Jun, '23) Upvoted: 24 Jan Comments: 3
8 votes

4 Weekly option for recurring shifts

It would be great to have an option to set week 1,2,3 & 4 for recurring shifts to help with different shift patterns.
Suggested by: Brenda (10 Feb) Upvoted: 28 Feb Comments: 3
6 votes

Improvements for Recurring Shifts

Have the option to add multiple shifts for a single day and also the option to add fortnightly and monthly.
Suggested by: Ashleigh (10 Feb) Upvoted: 06 May Comments: 1
5 votes

Ability to Disable Staff Availability function

Should be able to disable this function if I do not want to staff to dictate their availability.
Suggested by: Jessica Barnett (10 Apr, '24) Upvoted: 20 Oct, '25 Comments: 1
Under Consideration Availability Web App Only
5 votes

Staff Availability across accounts

Having the option to view a staff members availability across our different accounts.
Suggested by: Sean Wyse (04 Apr, '25) Upvoted: 14 Jan Comments: 0
4 votes

Ability to set future availability and for different parts of the day.

Suggested by: Fady (17 Jul, '23) Upvoted: 19 Aug, '24 Comments: 0
3 votes

Changing how employees mark availability.

Instead of having to mark availability a week at a time when you click on availability a calendar pops up and you click the days that you're not available. Have 2 ...
Suggested by: Ian O'Dea (02 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 12 Sep, '25 Comments: 1
2 votes

Rostering - Being able to add in that staff are unavailable on that day

In the roster view when creating a draft roster, it would be really helpful to be able to add that a staff member is uavailable on that day. So at the moment it has ...
Suggested by: Samantha McCullagh (25 Jun) Upvoted: 08 Jul Comments: 1
2 votes

"Show Availability" button as default

Hi, would it be possible to have the "Show Availability" button turned on by default, or to have an option in the settings to enable it as a default preference?
Suggested by: Sascha (24 Oct, '25) Upvoted: 18 Feb Comments: 1
2 votes

Multiple availabilities in one day

To have the ability for staff to have mutiple lots of availability in one day. For example: Staff member is available from 9am to 3pm, as well as 6pm to 10.30pm.
Suggested by: Emily (26 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 03 Jul, '25 Comments: 1
2 votes

Staff Availability blocks (fortnightly / Monthly)

Having the option for staff to set a fortnightly availability block or even monthly block at once.
Suggested by: Jodi (17 Jun, '25) Upvoted: 11 Jul Comments: 1
1 votes

see/select staff who have nominated for a open shifts in the monthly Roster view.

Being able to see which staff members have nominated themselves for open shifts in the monthly view would help managers better understand each employee’s current ...
Suggested by: Shristi (02 Jun) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 1
1 votes

For employee 'manage my availability', set default 'availability block' to 'standard availability'

When employee adds specific availability block for non-standard time (holidays, extra availability etc), set the initial / default availability times to match their ...
Suggested by: Andrew (02 Jun) Upvoted: 02 Jun Comments: 1
1 votes

Autofill roster based on availability

autofill automatically roster, but following business rules for example this staff can work max these hours in this position
Suggested by: gabriele (24 May) Upvoted: 24 May Comments: 1
1 votes

Partial availability improvements

When a staff member has partial availability for the day and can work longer than the shift they've been assigned, we can't see the times they are free - it would be ...
Suggested by: Sarah (24 Mar) Upvoted: 24 Mar Comments: 1
1 votes

Resizing the view and size of the hours box to fit more on one page. Also color coding

The ability to resize the hours page to fit more employees on the one page. So that most or all shifts and employees can be seen without having to scroll up and down ...
Suggested by: Paul Wilson (02 Jan) Upvoted: 02 Jan Comments: 1
1 votes

"polling" group scheduling tool

the ability to poll casual employees for availability for a specific date. Prompting casual employees who work multiple jobs to log their availability rather than ...
Suggested by: Sandra (22 Sep, '25) Upvoted: 22 Sep, '25 Comments: 1
1 votes

Ability to link positions to sites.

When viewing the roster by position, it shows all positions in my account which some are not relevant to that site. It would be great to have the option to link a ...
Suggested by: Kali (12 Sep, '25) Upvoted: 12 Sep, '25 Comments: 1
1 votes

See Staff Leave in sidebar of Roster Tab

When rostering, unless you have a specific view, you cannot see who has annual leave and either have to go back to your widget OR look at warnings. This can be really ...
Suggested by: Renate (31 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 31 Jul, '25 Comments: 1
1 votes

Stop you being able to assign an employee to a shift if there is lack or availability or quals

Currently, RosterElf will still allow you to assign employees to shifts even if they have conflicts (like unavailability or lack of qualifications), but it will ...
Suggested by: Cathy (29 Jul, '25) Upvoted: 29 Jul, '25 Comments: 1
1 votes

Open Shifts nominees to order by nomination, not alphabetical order

When staff nominate themselves for open shift, to show the list of staff by nomination, rather than alphabetical order.
Suggested by: Mandy (27 May, '25) Upvoted: 27 May, '25 Comments: 1