Practical rostering guides for New Zealand cafes, shops and hospitality teams, plus news about what's new in WeRoster.
A fair, simple system for staff availability and leave requests in a cafe or shop, including what NZ rules say about annual holidays.
Where the hours go when you write a staff roster each week, and practical ways to cut them, with or without rostering software.
What to think about when you roster staff on New Zealand public holidays, including Matariki: time and a half, alternative days and Mondayisation.
How many rest and meal breaks NZ staff get for each shift length, which are paid, and how to build rosters that leave room for them.
A practical, step-by-step way to build a weekly staff roster for a cafe, shop or restaurant, whether you use Excel or rostering software.
Managers can send an announcement from the store page and every manager and staff member at that store gets it by email.
Managers can edit a staff member's name, email, hourly wage and hours per week from the store's Staff page. Here's how.
Managers can email only the staff who are rostered that week, or only the people whose shifts changed, instead of the whole team.
When you publish a roster, each staff member gets an email with their own shifts for the whole week. Here's what's in it.
In 2018 WeRoster got a cleaner design with a big focus on phones. Here's what changed then, and how that thinking carries on today.
Why the WeRoster blog exists: product updates for owners, managers and staff, plus practical guides on rostering in New Zealand.
The support centre has step-by-step guides for every part of WeRoster, from your first roster to billing.