# RosterElf review (2026): is it worth $6 a month per user, billed yearly? > Rostering, time and attendance and payroll exports for shift teams Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. RosterElf is rostering software for Australian businesses that run on shifts. Managers build rosters, approve timesheets and send payroll-ready hours to Xero or MYOB with award rates applied. An HR Hub adds onboarding, contracts and certificates, and staff use an iOS and Android app for shifts, swaps and clock-ins. - **Category:** Shift Scheduling - **Made by:** Roster Elf Pty Ltd - **Website:** https://www.rosterelf.com - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want annual billing for a small team, as it needs at least 10 seats. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, RosterElf is a paid product with a free trial, starting at A$6 per user / month + GST, billed annually (A$8 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 15-day free trial on all plans. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | HR | A$3 per user / month + GST, billed annually (A$4 billed monthly) | HR tools only: employee profiles, digital onboarding, contracts, policies, certificates and leave. | | Core | A$6 per user / month + GST, billed annually (A$8 billed monthly) | Rostering, time and attendance, award interpretation, Xero and MYOB exports, team chat, shift swaps and leave. | | Full Suite | A$7 per user / month + GST, billed annually (A$10 billed monthly) | Everything in Core plus the HR Hub, digital onboarding and contracts and the Workwise AI compliance assistant. | Read from https://www.rosterelf.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with RosterElf before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Up to 30% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Annual billing saves up to 30%: Full Suite drops from A$10 to A$7, and Core and HR by 25%. Annual plans need at least 10 seats. Source: https://www.rosterelf.com/pricing ## Key features - **Rostering:** Roster templates, staff availability, open shifts, shift swaps, break planning and labour cost forecasting, with roster warnings. - **Time and attendance:** Clock in with GPS and photo proof, or on a tablet time clock, with timesheet approvals and live attendance. - **Award interpretation:** Applies award rates to each shift and exports payroll-ready hours to Xero or MYOB. - **HR Hub:** Employee profiles, digital onboarding and contracts, policies, certificates and a document store, on the HR and Full Suite plans. - **Team communication:** Team messaging, staff notifications, shift notes, tasks and a newsfeed inside the staff app. - **Analytics:** Reports across rosters, wages, attendance and leave. ## Good for - Australian shift-based businesses paying on awards - Teams that run payroll in Xero or MYOB - Small employers paying per active employee ## Worth knowing - Billed in Australian dollars plus GST, per active employee, including admins and managers. - Annual billing needs at least 10 seats; monthly billing needs at least 3 active staff. Enterprise pricing starts above 250 employees. - Payroll is exported to Xero or MYOB rather than run inside RosterElf. - A Flex plan at $10.60 per rostered staff member a month, for volunteer and event teams, is not in the plan table. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. RosterElf covers rostering, time and attendance and award interpretation from A$6 a user a month billed annually. Payroll is exported to Xero or MYOB, not run inside it, and annual billing needs at least 10 seats. - **Value for money: B.** A$6 per user a month plus GST billed annually (A$8 monthly), and A$7 for Full Suite. That is inside the category's cheaper quarter. - **Free plan and trial: D.** A 15-day free trial on all plans; the page doesn't say whether a card is needed. - **Features: B.** Rostering, clocking, award interpretation, team chat, leave and analytics. Payroll goes out to Xero or MYOB, which is a scope choice. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Award rules need setting up per business. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus iPhone and Android apps, with Xero and MYOB exports. No desktop app on the listing. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from RosterElf's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps - RosterElf's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 34 of the 49 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 38 of 49) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 23). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace RosterElf you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 34 of the 49 other shift scheduling apps we grade. - You could make: Time off and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. - You could not: Chat that a whole team counts on staying up. - You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts. - You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Xero, MYOB **Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Payroll, Time off, Employee records, Team chat ## Alternatives - [Deputy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deputy): Shift scheduling, time clock and labor-law tools for hourly teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deputy-vs-rosterelf) - [Tanda](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tanda): Rostering, timesheets, payroll and HR for Australian hourly teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rosterelf-vs-tanda) - [Humanforce](https://toolgpa.com/tools/humanforce): Workforce management, HR and payroll suite for frontline teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/humanforce-vs-rosterelf) - [When I Work](https://toolgpa.com/tools/when-i-work): Staff scheduling with auto-fill, shift trades and an add-on time clock. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rosterelf-vs-when-i-work) - [Homebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homebase): Small-business scheduling, time clock and payroll, priced per location. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/homebase-vs-rosterelf) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.rosterelf.com/pricing - https://www.rosterelf.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/rosterelf Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).