Hospitality rostering software in Perth

Hospitality rostering software in Perth has to live with a FIFO-shaped casual pool, Fremantle tourism, and a three-hour time gap from the eastern states. ShiftRova is built for WA rooms: Fringe World peaks, Elizabeth Quay events, and GPS clock-ins from Northbridge to Mandurah.

Café team members preparing tables and carrying a tray before service.
A week of kitchen, floor and venue coverage.

See it inside ShiftRova

Plan the next service with the whole week in view.

For example, add floor coverage for a busy lunch, move a shift to another available person and review the projected wages before publishing.

These are screenshots of the real web app with fictional people, locations and records. Desktop and mobile layouts adapt to the screen. Select any screenshot to see it larger.

ShiftRova desktop weekly roster with Floor, Kitchen, Supervisor team roles, shift skills and a wage projection for Example café — Group people with Role Filters and filter shift requirements with All Shift Skills. Projected wages use the configured rates; the amounts here are illustrative.

ShiftRova mobile daily roster showing fictional hospitality team assignments, shift times and roster actions — Away from the office, open the day’s roster and review the people, times and venue assigned to each shift.

Where Roles & Skills is enabled, managers maintain separate team roles and work skills. Assign people to their teams, record their skills and select one or more skills for each shift. Skill Coverage defines minimum staffing windows; automatic scheduling and optimisation check every required skill. Skills do not grant account permissions or replace verified qualifications. Read the roles and skills guide.

Budget before publishing

See projected wages as you build the week. Review coverage and costs while you can still change the roster.

Kitchen, floor and bar coverage

Assign shifts using team roles, availability and approved leave. Review staff swap requests before changing the roster.

From planned shifts to actual hours

A clearer payroll handover

Review hours and breaks, approve timesheets and prepare export files for your payroll team.

After service, compare recorded clock-in, clock-out and breaks with the planned shift. Resolve exceptions before approving hours for payroll.

A roster records the plan. A timesheet records attendance. Keep that distinction clear when reviewing changes and preparing a payroll export.

ShiftRova timesheet list for fictional hospitality workers showing scheduled shifts, recorded start and finish times, breaks and approval status — Inspect clocked hours and breaks, review exceptions and approve the records you have checked.

A relevant starting point

Start with your kind of business.

Choose Restaurant, Café, Pub / Bar, Hotel / Accommodation or Catering during new organisation or demo setup. A hotel can start with reception and housekeeping roles, while a restaurant can start with kitchen and service roles.

Business type is optional. General / Other uses the industry defaults. Super Admin manages the available templates; you can customise your organisation afterwards. Template edits do not change existing accounts, and optional modules retain their individual permissions and activation steps. Business type does not select your award or pay rules.

Set up your organisation Read the setup guide

Actual ShiftRova setup fields showing Hospitality with Hotel / Accommodation selected — The actual setup controls, shown in a demonstration frame. Choices and descriptions are fictional examples; available templates are managed by Super Admin.

Available for Hospitality teams

Industry tools that fit the way you work.

Add these features to your organisation alongside rosters, attendance and timesheets. Each tool can be enabled independently through the feature settings for your organisation.

Make kitchen temperature rounds easy to complete.

Temperature Records brings your kitchen's recording points, staff responsibility and history into one location-based workflow.

A clear recording round
Order cool rooms, fridges and other recording points. Staff enter each temperature, review the summary and confirm; their identity and recording time are saved automatically.
Location schedules and responsibility
Assign staff per location, set alert times or intervals from opening, and allow a grace period. The highest-priority assigned worker actually clocked in receives the reminder, with escalation if the round is not started.
Searchable history and audit trail
Authorised staff can search the temperature log. Organisation admins alone can correct records, with changes retained in a dedicated audit trail.

Read the Temperature Records guide

ShiftRova Temperature Records screen showing fictional kitchen recording points, temperatures and recording history — Review kitchen temperature records by location. Each completed round retains who recorded it and when.

Perth hospitality is not a smaller version of Sydney. A Northbridge late venue, an Elizabeth Quay tourist restaurant, and a Scarborough beach café share casuals who also vanish on swing to the Pilbara. When a bartender’s partner is FIFO, their availability flips every fortnight — that is a roster rule, not a personality quirk. Fringe World and Perth Festival then stack city demand on top of already thin benches. The Hospitality Award still applies to every late finish in Northbridge and every Sunday session in Fremantle. ShiftRova lets you mark recurring FIFO unavailability instead of rediscovering it every Sunday night.

The metro sprawl is long and coastal. Groups with rooms in Leederville, Hillarys, and Fremantle need staff who can move without illegal turnarounds across Mitchell Freeway distances. Rockingham, Mandurah, Joondalup, and Bunbury operators run the same award with different tourism and retiree patterns — a Mandurah Sunday is not a Northbridge Saturday. Geofenced clock-ins confirm a closer is in Fremantle, not still coming down from Joondalup. When a sick call lands before a Fringe World late show, the swap stays in the app. Eastern-state owners looking at a dawn dashboard in Sydney also see WA local time correctly, which matters when you are approving a Northbridge close from the wrong side of the country.

WA restaurant awards and Fremantle tourism seasons change who you need on the pass. A hatted city dining room cannot treat the floor the way a Scarborough burger counter can. Tag RSA, barista, and kitchen skills, then export timesheets that already include WA public-holiday penalties. That is how an isolated city keeps labour honest when the festival calendar and the FIFO calendar collide.

Built for Perth

Hospitality challenges in Perth

FIFO-shaped casual availability: Partners fly out, housemates swing, and your Saturday bar team evaporates on a roster you published in good faith. Recurring unavailability stops that fortnightly surprise.
Fremantle and northern-suburbs distance: A close in Northbridge plus an open in Fremantle or Joondalup is a rest-rule problem, not a “they’ll be fine” problem. Geofenced clock-ins and travel-aware turnarounds keep the coast honest.
Fringe World late-licence weeks: February in Perth is not a normal February. Build Fringe World as its own pattern with later finishes and extra casuals, penalties included, before the first pop-up tent goes up.

Hospitality rostering in Perth: FAQs

Can we flag FIFO-related unavailability in ShiftRova?: Yes. Recurring time-off and availability patterns capture the fortnightly swing that Perth hospitality actually runs on. You stop republishing a Saturday bar team that was never going to exist that week.
Do Fremantle and Joondalup sites share a roster?: Yes. Multi-site rosters cover the inner city, Fremantle, Hillarys, and the southern corridor. Geofenced clock-ins keep each venue’s timesheet separate when the same casual works both ends of the metro in one week.
Are WA public-holiday penalties different in the product?: ShiftRova applies Hospitality Award loadings for the dates that are public holidays in Western Australia. A WA Day weekend in Fremantle and a normal Tuesday in Leederville do not need a manual overlay.

Explore ShiftRova for Hospitality, the Perth location guide, and pricing.

Also see hospitality rostering in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Built for Hospitality in Perth.

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