Cleaning rostering & staff scheduling software for Australian companies
Schedule cleaners across every client site, prove attendance and control wage costs — without enterprise complexity or manual spreadsheets.
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Cleaning staff scheduling per contract
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GPS clock-in at every site
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Integrates with Xero and MYOB
Designed for the realities of cleaning work
Cleaning is sold per site and paid per hour, and nobody from the office is there to see either happen.
Staff spread across many client sites
Early-morning and after-hours work
Proving attendance for billing
High casual turnover
Labour cost per contract
Site inductions and clearances
Cleaning staff scheduling, site by site
Cleaning staff scheduling is really contract management: the roster is the promise you made the client, priced by the hour.
One roster per contract, one cost per client
Schedule to the scope, not to the week
Build each site’s pattern once and reuse it, with the labour cost visible against what that contract is billed.
- Template a roster per client site
- Assign only staff with the site’s induction or clearance
- Track labour cost against each contract’s value
- Fill gaps from a casual pool without ringing round
Which cleaning contracts are actually making money
Most cleaning businesses know their total wage bill and their total invoicing. Very few know which of the two a given site is on the wrong side of.
Because the roster is built per contract, the wage cost of a site is known before the month ends — not after the invoice has gone out. A site that keeps needing a second cleaner is visible as a cost line, not as a feeling.
Wage cost per site, live
Hours worked against hours quoted
Overtime by contract, not in aggregate
Attendance evidence for disputes
Time and attendance across every site
When nobody from the office is on site, clock-in has to prove location as well as time.
Attendance you can bill from
GPS clock-in at the client's address
Cleaners clock in on their own phone at the site, and GPS confirms they were where the contract says they should be.
- GPS clock-in at each site
- Photo verification to reduce time theft
- Overnight and rotating shifts tracked accurately
- Worked hours convert straight into payroll-ready timesheets
Payroll-ready workforce data
Approved hours should reach the pay run without being re-keyed, penalties and all.
From the roster to the pay run without a spreadsheet in between
Award interpretation already applied
RosterElf connects cleaning scheduling and time tracking to payroll, so approved hours flow cleanly to Xero or MYOB with penalties already applied.
- Fewer payroll errors from manual data entry
- Less time reconciling timesheets each fortnight
- Clear records for audits and compliance checks
- Faster pay runs, even through a busy period
Australian cleaning businesses using RosterElf report significant time savings on schedule creation. Based on customer feedback and ROI calculator data.
More than cleaning scheduling software
Scheduling is one job of several. RosterElf puts communication, HR and time tracking in the same place, so a cleaning team has one app rather than four.
Why cleaning businesses choose RosterElf
RosterElf is built for Australian workplaces, with Fair Work compliance, modern awards and local payroll integrations as the starting point rather than an add-on.
Save hours on scheduling
Less time building and re-fixing the roster every week.
Control labour costs
See live wage cost as you schedule — no guesswork until payday.
Australian compliance
Fair Work record keeping and award interpretation built in.
All employment types
Works for casual, part-time and full-time staff.
Easy to adopt
Intuitive for managers and staff, with minimal training.
Single or multi-site
Scales from one site to a group.
Common roles in cleaning services
Download free job description templates for your cleaning services team
Calculate your cleaning scheduling savings
See how much time and money your business could save with RosterElf rostering software.
Your current rostering
Based on 70% time reduction with automated rostering
Your potential savings
No credit card required
Trusted by cleaning businesses across Australia
Hear from Australian businesses that simplified their scheduling with RosterElf
Andrew Nathan
November 13, 2025
"We are extremely happy with Roster Elf, it's a great improvement on the previous system we were using. Sean and all the staff have been fantastic, really know their stuff and make using RosterElf a pleasure."
Monica Van De Laak
October 16, 2025
"Sean was an amazing help, very patient and thorough."
Mary C.
October 13, 2025
"I can see my roster, enter availability, put leave in advance and clock on and off easily."
Relevant awards for cleaning services
Stay compliant with Australian Modern Award pay rates
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Cleaning scheduling and rostering resources
Free scheduling tools, templates and guides for Australian cleaning businesses
Try cleaning staff scheduling free
Build your first cleaning roster in minutes. No credit card required.
Real support from people who understand your business
At RosterElf, support isn't a ticket system — it's part of the product. Our Australian-based team helps you set up correctly, understand award rules, and stay compliant as your business changes. No scripts. No offshore handoffs. Just real help when you need it.
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Guided setup and onboarding
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Award and payroll questions answered
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Ongoing help as your team grows
Cleaning staff scheduling FAQ
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The best cleaning staff scheduling software builds a roster per client contract, confirms attendance on site with GPS rather than on trust, tracks labour cost against what each contract is billed, and exports to payroll without re-keying. RosterElf does all four.
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Template each contract separately rather than building one weekly roster. Each site has its own scope, hours and induction requirements, so a per-contract roster is also the only way to see which sites are profitable.
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GPS clock-in at the site address, with optional photo verification. That gives you a record you can show a client in a dispute and pay the cleaner from, without keeping two sets of numbers.