Salon rostering & staff scheduling software for hair and beauty
Schedule stylists and therapists by the services they are qualified to perform, and pay correctly — without enterprise complexity.
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Scheduling by stylist skill and service
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Hair and Beauty Award rates built in
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Integrates with Xero and MYOB
Designed for the realities of salon work
A salon roster is not a coverage roster. It is a capacity roster — how many colours, cuts and treatments the floor can take on a given day.
Stylists qualified for different services
Appointments and walk-ins together
Apprentices who cannot work unsupervised
Late-night and weekend trading
Hair and Beauty Award penalties
Commission and retail targets per stylist
Salon scheduling built around who can do what
Salon staff scheduling is the only retail roster where the question is not how many people are on, but which services the people on the floor are qualified to deliver.
Schedule by skill, not by headcount
Every service on the price list covered
Hold each stylist’s qualifications and services against their profile, so the roster shows whether Saturday can actually take a colour booking.
- Schedule by stylist skill and service capability
- Keep an apprentice rostered alongside a supervising stylist
- Template Saturday and late-night trading
- See wage cost against the day’s booked services
Hair salon rostering software
A hair salon’s Saturday is sold out weeks in advance, and the constraint is almost never chairs — it is which stylists are on and what they can take.
Colour, cut and treatment capacity on the floor
Roster senior stylists, juniors and apprentices against the day’s booked services, with supervision requirements enforced rather than remembered.
- Schedule by service capability, not just headcount
- Keep apprentices rostered with a supervising stylist
- Template Saturdays and late-night trading
- See wage cost against the day’s bookings
Common roles: senior stylist, colour technician, salon apprentice, salon coordinator.
Barbershop rostering software
Barbershops run on walk-ins, which means the roster is a queue-length decision made three days early.
Walk-in capacity, priced before the day starts
Template the barbershop week around real walk-in patterns rather than an even spread, with wage cost visible before the roster is published.
- Template the week around walk-in patterns
- Cover Thursday late nights and weekend peaks
- Roster apprentice barbers with supervision
- See wage cost before the week is published
Common roles: senior barber, barber, apprentice barber, front desk.
Time and attendance for salons and barbershops
A stylist who stays back to finish a colour has worked those minutes, and the award prices them differently after 6pm.
Attendance reconciled to the roster
Tablet kiosk or mobile clock-in
Staff clock in on a salon tablet or their own phone, and the hours actually worked reach payroll with penalties applied.
- Kiosk clock-in on a salon tablet with photo verification
- Late finishes captured as worked time, not goodwill
- Break rules applied for long trading days
- Worked hours convert straight into payroll-ready timesheets
Salon award compliance, made simpler
Penalty rates, overtime and break rules vary by day, time, employment type and shift length — and one week’s roster touches most of them.
Hair and Beauty Industry Award (MA000005) — pay rates by period
| Period | Full-time & part-time | Casual |
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| Ordinary hours (Mon–Fri 7am–9pm) | 100% | 125% |
| Saturday (7am–6pm) | 133% | 158% |
| Sunday | 200% | 225% |
| Public holiday | 250% | 250% |
Casual rates are set by the award directly, not by adding a loading to the permanent rate. Rates change each 1 July; the full breakdown by classification, junior age and allowance is in the hair and beauty award pay guide. Always verify against Fair Work.
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 salon 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 salons and barbershops using RosterElf report significant time savings on schedule creation. Based on customer feedback and ROI calculator data.
More than salon scheduling software
Scheduling is one job of several. RosterElf puts communication, HR and time tracking in the same place, so a salon team has one app rather than four.
Why salons and barbershops 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
Hair and Beauty Industry Award rates and penalties 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.
Calculate your salon 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 salons and barbershops 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."
Common roles in hair salons
Download free job description templates for your hair salons team
Relevant awards for hair salons
Stay compliant with Australian Modern Award pay rates
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Salon scheduling and rostering resources
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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
Salon staff scheduling FAQ
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The best salon scheduling software rosters by what each stylist is qualified to perform rather than by headcount, keeps apprentices with a supervising stylist, applies Hair and Beauty Award penalties for late-night and weekend trading, and exports to payroll without re-keying. RosterElf does all four. It is a staff roster, not a client booking system — most salons run RosterElf alongside their booking software.
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No. RosterElf rosters and pays your team; a booking platform sells your chairs. They answer different questions, and salons generally run both — the booking diary tells you what Saturday has sold, and the roster tells you whether Saturday can deliver it and what it costs.
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Roster the apprentice and the supervising stylist as a pair rather than as two independent shifts. An apprentice hour with nobody qualified on the floor is a training and compliance problem before it is a scheduling one.