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 ...
Suggested by: Rob Lam (19 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 2
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 ...
Suggested by: Narelle (15 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 4
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
Suggested by: Harry (16 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1

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 ...
Suggested by: Anna (26 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 3

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 ...
Suggested by: Curtis (22 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 09 Mar Comments: 1
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 ...
Suggested by: Anna (19 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 09 Jan Comments: 0
Under consideration Roster Staff

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 ...
Suggested by: Steve (15 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 11 Dec, '22 Comments: 0

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 ...
Suggested by: Sandra (04 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 08 Mar Comments: 6

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 ...
Suggested by: Kelly (18 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 12 Jan Comments: 4
Planned Roster

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 ...
Suggested by: Narelle (15 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 22 Nov, '22 Comments: 1

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
Suggested by: Brad (29 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 08 Mar Comments: 1
Not planned Roster Smartphone App

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
Suggested by: Daniel (21 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1

Set Repeating shifts

Would be great to set shifts to auto repeat on roster..eg every monday and tuesday, 9-3pm, chef, matt martins
Suggested by: Steve (15 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Planned Roster

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: 08 Dec, '22 Comments: 1
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.
Suggested by: Pauline (22 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 09 Mar Comments: 4
Under consideration My Shifts Roster

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. ...
Suggested by: Iain (06 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 2
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.
Suggested by: Tate (19 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 2 days ago Comments: 1
Planned Roster

Better Roster Printout - Weekly View

Really be nice to improve the printed roster...looking like weekly roster view would be great
Suggested by: Steve (15 Sept, '22) Upvoted: 22 Feb Comments: 1
Planned Roster

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 ...
Suggested by: Naomi (31 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 08 Feb Comments: 3

"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.
Suggested by: Tate (19 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 08 Dec, '22 Comments: 1
Planned Payroll Roster

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 ...
Suggested by: Rosie Bugg (06 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 06 Dec, '22 Comments: 1

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 ...
Suggested by: Anthony (03 Oct, '22) Upvoted: 14 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Roster Settings

Notes Tabs with rich text editing

It would be nice to have a rich text editor on description/notes tabs instead of a single line editor. Then we'd be able to enter new lines, bold text, ...
Suggested by: Alex (30 Dec, '22) Upvoted: 30 Dec, '22 Comments: 2
Not planned Payroll Positions Roster

Arrange All Sites rostering by employee name, not just by location

For businesses where staff move from one site to another. This makes it easier to ensure staff get their allocated hours.
Suggested by: Mina (16 Feb) Upvoted: 16 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Roster

Upload a template/copy a roster in All Sites rosting view

It would be very handy for people with multiple locations to be able to roster staff across all sites without having to go to each site individually to upload a roster.
Suggested by: Mina (16 Feb) Upvoted: 16 Feb Comments: 1
Under consideration Roster

Excel/Sheets shifts import

I am finding add shifts to be a bit cumbersome due to page loading times. I understand that this is unavoidable to some degree. It would be great if I could import ...
Suggested by: Curtis (09 Feb) Upvoted: 09 Feb Comments: 1
Not planned Roster

Add employee costs to the Rostering & Payroll report.

Can you add the employee costs to the Roster & Payroll report so we can export those costs to csv for budgeting? Would be good to add a % loading feature as well so ...
Suggested by: Keith (17 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 17 Nov, '22 Comments: 1
Under consideration Payroll Reporting Roster

Improve Breaks communication to employees through email, mobile app and web app

It would be great to improve the way breaks are communicated to employees. Currently they do not see they have a break allocated for a shift through email, or in the ...
Suggested by: Brad (14 Nov, '22) Upvoted: 14 Nov, '22 Comments: 1

Create and publish rosters more than 4 months in the future

We need to be able to plan our rosters and publish these for at least 6 months in advance.
Suggested by: Shevaun (01 Mar) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Roster

Weekly Templates (A week, B week) to be visible on Roster

We work on a fortnightly roster of week A / week B scheduling. I use the weekly templates. I would like to see if the week is A or B on the roster (ie, which ...
Suggested by: Shevaun (01 Mar) Upvoted: 01 Mar Comments: 0
Under consideration Roster

Save a normal roster for each staff person or perhaps copy & past feature from a weekly view, click

being able to upload each staff persons “normal week” & upload their full week & then we change that week as often copying a template for 20 staff we miss that some ...
Suggested by: Rohan (20 Feb) Upvoted: 20 Feb Comments: 0
Under consideration Roster