Rostering software by industry
The software is the same in every sector. What differs is the pressure — where cover breaks, which rules bite first, and what your records have to be able to prove.
Find your industry
Hospitality
Cafés, restaurants, bars and hotels. Alternative holidays, agreed hours, and the certificated duty manager a licensed venue has to roster.
Read the guideMore sectors coming
We are adding New Zealand sector guides one at a time, written from New Zealand law rather than adapted from Australia. In the meantime the free templates and tools below apply to any shift-based team.
Industry guides and resources
Excel templates and browser tools built on New Zealand law. No signup.
Free roster templates
Six Excel rosters with public holiday and alternative holiday codes.
OpenHolidays Act leave calculator
Annual holiday pay at the greater of ordinary weekly pay and average weekly earnings.
OpenRoster cost calculator
Weekly and annual wage cost in NZD, and labour cost as a share of revenue.
OpenKnowledge base
Step-by-step help for rosters, timesheets and payroll exports.
OpenReviews from our customers
Read what our clients have to say about us
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."
Real support from people who understand your business
Our team can walk you through setting up your team — agreed hours, alternative holidays and leave included. No call centre, no ticket queue.
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Help with roster setup and leave settings
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Import your team and go live in a day
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Real people, not a chatbot
5.0 average rating Rated 5.0 by Australian businesses
Industry rostering questions
What applies across every New Zealand shift-based sector.
- RosterElf is built for shift-based teams generally rather than for one sector — rosters, clock-in records, leave and payroll export work the same way in a café, an aged-care home, a warehouse or a retail group. The industry pages exist because the rules and the pressure points differ, not because the software does.
- The Employment Relations Act 2000 (agreed hours, and rest and meal breaks scaled by hours worked), the Holidays Act 2003 (four weeks annual holidays after 12 months, 10 days sick leave after six months, public holidays and alternative holidays), and the Minimum Wage Act. There is no award system and no statutory penalty rates.
- If an employee works a public holiday that would otherwise have been a working day for them, they earn a whole paid day off to take later, on top of at least time and a half for the day worked. It does not expire and is paid out on termination — our roster templates code it separately for that reason.
- Wage and time records and holiday and leave records for every employee — hours worked each day, pay, and leave taken and owing — under the Employment Relations Act 2000 and the Holidays Act 2003.