Event Staffing

The big weekend, staffed by Tuesday

Festivals, race days, conferences and client functions get their own calendar — build areas and positions for every day, then fill hundreds of slots with direct assignment or shift bidding while your weekly rosters stay untouched.

Multi-Day
Calendar-based event planning
Per-Day
Areas, positions & times
Bidding
With automatic waitlists
In-App
Staff apply from their phones

One-off events get their own calendar

A weekly roster is the wrong shape for a three-day festival. On the Events page you click or drag across dates to create the event, then open each day and lay out exactly who's needed, where, and from when to when.

Separate from your rosters — event staffing runs on its own calendar, so the festival never clutters the standard trading week.
Every day configured on its own — one tab per day, with its own areas, positions, times and capacities.
Fill shifts your way — drag staff straight onto positions, or open slots for capacity-based bidding with automatic waitlists.
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How event staffing works

Empty calendar to fully staffed event, in three steps.

Create the event

Click or drag across the month view to block out the dates. Name it, colour it, done — it's now visible at a glance among everything else.

Configure each day

Open the event and work through the per-day tabs: gates, bars, stages, cloakrooms — each area gets positions, times and a headcount.

Assign or open for bidding

Drag staff onto slots, or publish positions for bidding. Applications come in from the app, you confirm, and overflow queues on the waitlist.

Everything you need to staff an event

Purpose-built for one-off, multi-day engagements.

Calendar Planning

Every event on one clean month view — spot the busy weekends coming and the quiet weeks between them.

Per-Day Configuration

Bump-in Thursday and sold-out Saturday get their own tabs — different areas, positions and times per day.

Areas & Positions

Split each day into areas and give every position its times and headcount — one greeter or a forty-strong bar crew.

Capacity Slots

Set a capacity per position and slots appear for each one — how many gaps remain is never a mystery.

Shift Bidding & Waitlists

Open positions to your casual pool and confirm the applicants you want — extras queue automatically as ready-made backups.

Employee App Integration

Event shifts and bidding opportunities sit beside regular shifts in the app — staff apply and stay informed from their phones.

Why teams run events on RosterMates

The one-off jobs stop being run from a spreadsheet and a prayer.

Event staffing stays out of the weekly rosters
Different areas and positions for every single day
Big headcounts filled fast with capacity-based bidding
Automatic waitlists mean drop-outs already have replacements
Casuals apply for shifts straight from the app
Included in your plan — no add-on fees for events
Event staffing FAQs

Common questions about staffing events with RosterMates.

It gives one-off, multi-day engagements — festivals, race days, conferences, client functions — their own calendar. Create the event, set up areas and positions for each day, then fill the shifts by assigning staff or opening capacity-based bidding, all without touching your weekly rosters.
The roster is your recurring week; an event is a one-off that spans days and needs its own structure — different areas, positions and times per day. Events live on a separate calendar so a three-day festival never tangles with the standard weekly schedule.
Yes. Every day of an event is configured independently in its own tab — different areas, different positions, different start and finish times, different headcounts. The quiet setup day and the sold-out Saturday can look nothing alike.
Give a position a capacity — say 30 gate staff — and switch its slots to bidding. Employees apply from the app, you confirm the ones you want, and everyone beyond capacity lands on a waitlist instead of being turned away. When someone pulls out the night before, your replacement is already queued.
Yes. Confirmed event shifts and open bidding opportunities appear in the app right beside regular shifts, so casuals can put their hand up for the big weekend from wherever they are.
No. Events is part of every RosterMates account at the standard per-employee price — there are no add-on fees for using the events calendar.