The Roster Is the Job. Tanda Comes With a Compliance Engine Your Team Does Not Need.

You had casual and part-time staff. Shifts changed week to week. You were building the roster in a spreadsheet, or on a piece of paper pinned to the wall, and texting it out to everyone on Sunday night. Someone would call in to check their start time. Someone else would miss a shift because the text did not go through.

You needed the roster somewhere staff could look it up themselves. That was the job.

You searched for a rostering app. Tanda came up. You signed up. The roster went online. Staff could see their shifts. The original problem was solved.

Now you are paying A$4 to A$8 per employee per month for a platform built to run the labour operations of a 50-person hospitality business. The compliance engine runs in the background. The award interpreter sits idle. The payroll integration goes unused. The roster builder and shift visibility are what you actually open.

The Four Things Your Business Actually Opens

The weekly roster builder. Shift visibility for staff. The occasional availability request. The occasional shift swap.

That is the job most small businesses hired Tanda to do. And Tanda does all four.

It also does award rate interpretation and automatic compliance checking, real-time labour cost tracking against budget, payroll integration and export, facial recognition and geofence attendance, predictive rostering with cost forecasting, penalty rate warnings, leave balance sync, and workforce analytics. You pay for all of it. Most small businesses open four things.

Who Tanda Is Actually Built For

Tanda is a serious tool for hospitality and retail businesses with 20 to 200 staff. Operations where the roster directly drives the wage bill. Businesses where labour cost as a percentage of revenue is tracked in real time. Payroll managers and operations managers who work from the same system and need award compliance baked into every shift.

If your business has a small casual team, a coffee shop with eight staff, a gym with a mix of part-timers, or a trades operation with rotating crews, Tanda is built for a different customer. You are using the roster builder and the shift visibility tool. The compliance engine runs in the background doing nothing for your team. You are funding the infrastructure for an operation three times your size.

What a Merebase rostering app Does

A custom Merebase rostering app is built for the job your business actually has. You describe the shift structure, the roles, and the way your team is organised. The app is built to show the roster, let staff view their shifts, and handle availability and swap requests. Nothing else.

Staff open their shifts from any device browser. No app store download is required. The roster is live the moment you publish it. No more Sunday night texts.

The Scope Is Honest

This is worth being direct about. A Merebase rostering app shows shifts. It does not calculate what those shifts cost per award. It does not interpret modern award rates, apply penalty rate multipliers, or lodge anything with the ATO. Those are payroll functions. They require payroll software.

If your business needs award compliance built into the roster, Tanda is the right tool. That is a real need for some operations and Tanda handles it properly.

If your business needs the roster online and staff able to see their shifts, the compliance engine is weight you are carrying for no reason. A Merebase app does the job for a flat fee and stops there.

Three Years of Per-Employee Pricing

Per-employee pricing feels modest when you sign up. At 15 staff and A$6 per employee per month, that is A$90 a month. Minimum fees may apply at lower headcounts, so the real number can be higher. Over three years, A$90 a month becomes A$3,240.

That number pays for the roster builder, the shift visibility tool, the award compliance engine, the payroll integration, the facial recognition attendance system, the predictive labour costing module, and the workforce analytics suite. You used the first two.