Play centre rostering & staff scheduling software
Roster floor supervision, party hosts and café staff to the day's bookings, and pay correctly — without enterprise complexity.
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Scheduling to session and party bookings
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Working with Children Check tracking
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Integrates with Xero and MYOB
Designed for the realities of play centre work
An indoor play centre is quiet on a Tuesday morning and at capacity on a Saturday, and both days need somebody watching the equipment.
Weekends and school holidays at capacity
Party bookings that set the staffing
Floor supervision that cannot lapse
Mostly junior, mostly casual staff
Café and party hosting at the same time
Working with Children Checks
Play centre scheduling driven by bookings
Play centre staff scheduling is demand-led in a way most retail is not: a Saturday with six parties booked is a different business from a Saturday with none.
Staff the bookings, not the calendar
Floor supervision covered whatever else is on
Build the day around the session and party bookings it actually holds, with floor supervision treated as a floor rather than as a leftover.
- Roster party hosts against confirmed bookings
- Keep floor supervision covered as a fixed requirement
- Template weekends and school holidays separately
- Fill gaps from a casual pool without ringing round
Time and attendance on the floor
Junior casual staff working short weekend shifts are exactly the group where hours get rounded and rates get missed.
Attendance reconciled to the roster
Tablet kiosk clock-in at reception
Staff clock in on a reception tablet, and the hours actually worked reach payroll with junior rates and penalties applied.
- Kiosk clock-in at reception with photo verification
- Short weekend shifts tracked to the minute
- Junior rates applied automatically by date of birth
- 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 play centre 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 play centres using RosterElf report significant time savings on schedule creation. Based on customer feedback and ROI calculator data.
More than play centre scheduling software
Scheduling is one job of several. RosterElf puts communication, HR and time tracking in the same place, so a play centre team has one app rather than four.
Why play centres 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.
Calculate your play centre 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
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Trusted by play centres 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 play centres
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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
Play centre staff scheduling FAQ
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The best play centre scheduling software staffs the day against its actual party and session bookings, keeps floor supervision as a fixed requirement rather than a leftover, applies junior rates automatically, and exports to payroll without re-keying. RosterElf does all four.
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Roster hosts against confirmed bookings and keep floor supervision separate. A party host who is also the only person watching the play frame is a supervision gap the booking sheet cannot show you.
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Template the holiday period separately from term time rather than scaling the ordinary week. Holiday demand is not a busier Tuesday — it is a different pattern across the whole day, and it repeats every school break.