Our Story
Where RosterMate Began
We didn't set out to build a workforce managment platform. We were just two brothers, travelling across New Zealand building custom software solutions for any business that needed a hand. Cafés wanting better ordering systems. Freight locations tired of tracking shipments on Excel spreadsheets. Gyms drowning in membership paperwork. Small clinics juggling patient records.
Every place had its own quirks, but no matter where we went, one thing was always the same: staff management was a mess.
Rosters taped to the wall. Timesheets scribbled on paper. Leave requests buried somewhere in an inbox graveyard. So many business owners were stuck wasting hours every week wrestling with messy rosters, chasing timesheets, and juggling leave instead of focusing on the high-value work that would actually help their business grow.
And when these business owners looked for help? The only "solutions" were bloated, expensive systems designed for Fortune 500 locations, not the 5 to 100 person teams just trying to survive another busy week.
That's when it hit us like a lightning bolt.
Project after project, we kept building different versions of the same thing. Scheduling tools. Time tracking. Leave management. Always from scratch. Always under pressure.
We needed to stop reinventing the wheel and build the wheel properly.
When a local retirement village and a medical center asked us to help fix their rostering, we saw the opportunity for something bigger. A single, focused platform built from the ground up, designed for the businesses that the big players had forgotten.
So we made the call. No more scattered projects. No more one-off builds. We were going all in!
RosterMate wasn't born in a boardroom or a funding round. It was born from frustration, momentum, and a relentless drive to build something that actually worked.
We sat alongside the people using it — managers, nurses, admins, shift workers — watching how they operated and where things broke down. Every feature came from the ground up. Every tweak was shaped by real-world feedback.
Today, RosterMate is a full-scale platform trusted by businesses across the country. Enterprise-grade power without the enterprise-grade nonsense. Easy to learn and powerful enough to handle whatever chaos your business throws at it.
We're still those same two brothers. Still hands on. Still in New Zealand. Only now, we are solving one big problem instead of a hundred small ones, and doing it with a growing team behind us.