Set up your roster calendar once, capture how each site really runs, and let every future period start from that shape.
Build your standard week once and reuse it every period, instead of rebuilding the roster from scratch each fortnight.
Periods line up with your real pay and billing fortnight, so rosters, timesheets and invoices all run on the same clock.
Adjust the pattern with confidence: published rosters stay put, and changes flow through from the next period on.
Most providers rebuild the same roster every fortnight by hand, and it quietly eats a senior person's day. The shape of the week rarely changes, but every rebuild is another chance to miss a shift, misalign the dates with payroll, or drift away from what the site actually needs. And when someone finally does adjust the roster, it is never clear what happens to the periods already out with staff.
In Rostering rules you set the first period start date (a Sunday or a Monday) and the period length, two weeks or one month. Every roster, timesheet cycle and invoice cycle in the organisation then runs on that same clock.
On the rostering board, create the shifts for a site the way the site really runs, including overnight, sleepover and billing detail. This becomes the clean structure your pattern is made from.
Select the shifts on the board and choose Create pattern, or add them to an existing one. Name it, and mark it reusable if you want to load it into other periods later.
Point the pattern at a future roster period. From that period on, BondiByte creates the site's shifts from the pattern instead of waiting for someone to rebuild them.
Adjust a pattern whenever the site changes: add shifts to it, or take out the ones that no longer apply. Rosters already published stay exactly as they are; the change flows through from the next period you choose.
Fortnightly or monthly periods, starting on the Sunday or Monday you pick, so rosters, timesheets and invoices all line up.
Select shifts straight off the rostering board and save them as a pattern, rather than describing your week in an abstract form.
Mark a pattern reusable and load it into future roster periods whenever the operating structure is stable.
Each house or site runs its own active pattern, because no two sites run the same week.
Add selected shifts to a pattern, or remove ones that no longer apply. There is no archive step: deleting a pattern removes it and all its slots permanently. Shifts it has already created stay on their rosters as ordinary shifts, no longer linked to the pattern.
Pattern changes never rewrite a published roster. They apply from the future period you choose.
The period start date and length lock once automation is running, so nothing can quietly shift your payroll and billing rhythm. Turning all rostering automation off unlocks them again.
A pattern only takes effect from the future roster period you select. Nothing is applied retrospectively.
Enable pattern-driven rostering for one site at a time. Sites you have not enabled keep working exactly as before.
No. Once a pattern is active for a site, BondiByte creates each new period's shifts from it. You review and adjust rather than rebuild.
Nothing. Published periods stay as they are. Changes apply from the next period the updated pattern covers.
Yes. Each site has its own active pattern, and you can keep reusable patterns on hand for sites with similar structures.
Yes. Periods are two weeks or one month, starting on a Sunday or Monday. Whichever you choose becomes the rostering week start for the whole organisation.
Every automation, timesheet and invoice cycle runs on the period calendar. Locking it once automation starts protects you from an accidental change that would reset every cycle.
The full rostering cycle in one supervised workflow.
Smart RosteringCreate a whole period of shifts from your configured patterns and site or period settings, including recurring shifts.
Smart RosteringAsk the whole team who wants the shifts, in one step, and get answers you can actually roster from. Staff respond from their own portal, unsuitable responses are filtered out automatically, and interest flows straight into the roster suggestions.
Smart RosteringCritical conflicts are blocked before staff are even considered, then suitability signals rank who fits best.
Smart RosteringOnce blockers clear, BondiByte ranks and prepares assignment options using the signals that matter to your operation.
Smart RosteringHandle swap requests, approvals, and replacement needs without breaking roster integrity.
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