RosterMate vs Tanda
Tanda (Workforce.com) is a serious enterprise workforce platform with the best award interpretation engine in the market. RosterMate is a New Zealand tool with one flat price on the website — no sales calls, no quotes, no lock-in. Here's an honest, side-by-side look so you can pick what fits your team.
Feature and pricing comparison for New Zealand businesses, from each company's public pages as of July 2026. Where Tanda doesn't publish something, we say so rather than guess.
| RosterMate | Tanda / Workforce.com | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | Full price on the website | Quote-only; module pricing via sales |
| Per-user price | $8 NZD flat — all features included | Only public number: A$12.80+GST/user/mo (full bundle); no NZD price list |
| Contract terms | Month to month, cancel anytime | Discounts tied to contract length; reviews cite 12-month lock-ins |
| Roster builder & templates | Yes | Yes, with live wage cost |
| Auto-scheduling | Yes — AI Auto-Roster | Yes, incl. demand forecasting |
| Time clock | Mobile GPS + geofencing, facial verification, kiosk | Photo kiosk + mobile GPS |
| Award / wage interpretation | NZ-focused: public holiday rates, Holidays Act leave | Best-in-class — Tanda's signature strength |
| NZ payroll integrations | Xero NZ, PayHero, Smartly, Crystal + IRD filing | Own NZ payroll product; iPayroll via flat file |
| IRD payday filing & NZ bank batch files | Built in | Not stated publicly |
| Event staffing with shift bidding & waitlists | Yes | No |
| Custom forms with AI builder | Included | HR/onboarding tooling in paid HR module |
| Support | NZ-based, phone answered directly, free setup & training | Sales-led onboarding; reviews note inconsistent support & setup complexity |
| Free trial | 30 days, no credit card | Not stated on current public pages |
| Reviews | — | G2 4.8/5 · Capterra ~4.4–4.5/5 (as of Jul 2026) |
Tanda / Workforce.com pricing and features from tanda.com.au, workforce.com and tanda.co.nz public pages as of 5 July 2026 (the only published price is A$12.80+GST/user/month for the HR + Payroll + Workforce Management bundle; all other pricing is quote-based). Tanda and Workforce.com are trademarks of their owner. Always confirm current pricing and terms with the vendor.
Example: a hospitality or retail business with 20 rostered staff, using scheduling, time clock and timesheets. With Tanda, you won't know your real number until the sales call.
No product is best for everyone. Here's where Tanda is genuinely strong, and where RosterMate makes more sense.
Choose Tanda if…
- You need automated award and wage interpretation — Tanda's engine is best-in-class, especially for Australian awards
- You want a single vendor for rostering AND payroll — Tanda has a genuine NZ payroll product that claims Holidays Act compliance
- You want demand-driven scheduling with live wage-vs-revenue tracking
- You're a large multi-site operation — if you're a 500+ person chain, Tanda's enterprise scale and ANZ compliance pedigree make it a serious option
Choose RosterMate if…
- You want to see the price before you talk to anyone — $8 NZD flat, published, everything included
- You want month-to-month terms — no 12-month contracts, no renewal surprises, cancel anytime
- You want to keep your existing NZ payroll — Xero NZ, PayHero, Smartly and Crystal integrations plus built-in IRD payday filing
- You're an SMB that wants to sign up today, not book a demo, get a quote and negotiate a contract
- You staff events — capacity-based shift bidding with waitlists is unique to RosterMate
Our verdict
Tanda has earned its reputation. Its award interpretation engine is the best in the market, its NZ payroll product genuinely engages with the Holidays Act, and its demand-driven scheduling scales to large multi-site enterprises. If you're running a 500-person hospitality chain across both sides of the Tasman, Tanda deserves a place on your shortlist — and its G2 rating of 4.8 reflects that customers who fit its model rate it highly.
But that model is sales-led and enterprise-shaped: quote-only pricing, module-by-module licensing, and discounts tied to contract length. The only number Tanda publishes is A$12.80+GST per user per month for the full bundle, and public reviews mention 12-month lock-ins and renewal surprises. For a typical NZ café, retail store, gym or venue with 5–50 staff, that's a lot of process to buy a roster. RosterMate is the opposite motion: $8 NZD per employee, published on the website, everything included, month to month, with NZ payroll integrations and IRD payday filing built in. Start a free trial today — no sales call required — and see if it fits before you spend a cent.
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