Hospitality Rostering Software NZ

Hospitality rostering software for every service

Hotels, restaurants, cafes, bars, clubs and caterers. Roster around bookings and covers, let staff swap shifts from their phones, and pay public holidays correctly. Built in New Zealand for New Zealand hospitality.

30 Days
Free trial, no card required
$8
Per employee / month (NZD)
1 Tap
Shift swaps and sick cover
Unlimited
Venues, areas & casual staff

A roster that survives Friday night

Hospitality rosters change by the hour: a function books in, a chef calls in sick, the weather turns and the deck empties. RosterMates keeps the roster live on everyone's phone, makes cover a push notification instead of a phone tree, and turns the week's clock-ins into a payroll file that already knows about public holidays.

Roster by area and service — kitchen, floor, bar, front desk and housekeeping each get their own headcount per service, viewed together or apart.
Swaps and cover from the app — staff offer shifts, colleagues accept, managers approve with one tap; sick calls become open shifts sent to available staff.
Public holidays done right — time and a half and alternative holidays calculated on the timesheet, then exported to PayHero, Xero, Crystal, iPayroll or Smartly.
Hospitality rostering software showing a restaurant roster
Rostering for every hospitality business

One product, tuned for the way each part of hospitality actually runs.

Hotel rostering

  • Front desk, housekeeping, F&B and maintenance in one roster
  • Roster to occupancy forecasts
  • Night audit and overnight shifts
  • Kiosk clock-in at the back office

Restaurant & cafe rostering

  • Lunch and dinner split shifts
  • Kitchen and floor headcount per service
  • Casual pool with availability in the app
  • Labour cost against the week's takings

Bar, club & venue rostering

  • Shifts that cross midnight handled as one shift
  • Match-day and event staffing with shift bidding
  • Duty manager and security cover tracked
  • Venue & stadium staffing

Catering & events

  • Weekly kitchen roster plus an events calendar
  • Per-event positions and headcount
  • Staff bid on the events they want
  • GPS clock-in at the venue

Hospitality groups

  • Every venue in one account
  • Staff shared across venues, one login
  • Labour cost per venue and group-wide
  • Group-level pay rules and allowances

Payroll for hospitality

  • Public holiday time and a half + alternative holidays
  • Split-shift, late-night and meal allowances from pay rules
  • Export to PayHero, Xero, Crystal, iPayroll, Smartly
  • Or run IRD-approved payroll inside RosterMates
Hospitality features that get used every day

Everything below is included at $8 per employee per month.

Availability & casual pool

Casuals set their availability in the app. When you build the week, only available people are offered, and the roster warns on conflicts.

Templates & AI fill

Save your standard week as a template, copy it forward, and let the AI roster generator fill the gaps fairly from availability.

Team messaging

Roster changes, shift notes and group messages in the same app as the roster, so nobody misses the change to Saturday's start time.

Clock-in & timesheets

Kiosk with PIN or face at the pass, or GPS clock-in on the phone. Rostered vs actual side by side, approved in a tap.

Leave that the roster knows about

Leave requests in the app, approvals on the phone, and approved leave blocked out on the roster before you build it. Leave management is included.

Free online bookings

Take table, class or function bookings on a free booking page or a widget on your own site, with what's-on listings for venues. See bookings.

Why hospitality businesses choose RosterMates

Less admin between services, fewer payroll surprises.

Build the week from a template in minutes
Cover a sick call with one push notification
Public holiday pay calculated, not guessed
Labour cost visible while you roster, not after payday
Casual plan that only counts who actually worked
Free setup, training and NZ-based support
Hospitality rostering FAQs

Common questions from owners, GMs and head chefs.

Hospitality rostering software plans the week for a hotel, restaurant, cafe, bar or catering business from expected covers and bookings, publishes it to staff phones, handles swaps and sick calls, records clock-ins and turns hours into payroll. RosterMates is hospitality rostering software built in New Zealand for $8 per employee per month.
Yes. A lunch-and-dinner split is two shifts on the same day for the same person. A bar shift from 6pm to 2am is a single shift that crosses midnight, and hours, breaks and pay land on the right day.
Yes. Staff offer a shift for swap in the app, a qualified colleague accepts, and the manager approves with one tap. Open shifts from sick calls go out by push notification and the first to accept is rostered.
The roster flags NZ public holidays. Staff who work one are paid time and a half and earn an alternative holiday if it was an otherwise working day. RosterMates calculates both on the timesheet and exports them to payroll. To check a case by hand, use the free public holiday pay calculator.
RosterMates is $8 NZD per employee per month with every feature included, a 30-day free trial and no contract. A restaurant with 25 staff pays $200 a month. A casual workforce plan only counts staff actually rostered in the month, which suits venues with a big casual pool. See pricing.
Yes. Add every venue to one account, share staff between venues with one profile and one app login, and see labour cost per venue or across the group. Each venue keeps its own roster, kiosk and managers.