Workforce Management Tailored for Retail

Simplifi’s industry-focused solutions help retail organisations seamlessly manage both permanent and casual staff. Simplfi helps retailers streamline scheduling, uncover and leverage data-driven insights, source and manage both permanent and casual staff, and enhance operational efficiency to deliver measurable results for businesses of all sizes.

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Retail Workforce Management Software Built for Fast-Paced Retail Teams

Managing retail staff means juggling fluctuating foot traffic, extended trading hours, seasonal peaks, casual-heavy teams and constant roster changes, often across multiple stores and roles.

Generic workforce platforms aren’t built for the realities of retail. They struggle with variable shift patterns, high staff turnover, casual pools and the need to fill gaps fast when no-shows happen or demand spikes unexpectedly. The result is wasted admin time, payroll errors and understaffed stores during peak trading periods.

Simplifi Retail Workforce Management Software Key Features

Simplifi’s cloud-based SaaS platform offers powerful features tailored to the demands of retail workforce management, catering to both permanent and casual staff including:

Retail Rostering Software for Shift Coverage

Create optimised retail rosters that balance permanent and casual staffing across stores and departments. Simplifi’s drag-and-drop rostering tools help managers allocate shifts based on availability, skills and demand forecasts. This reduces understaffing, overtime and compliance risk during peak trading periods.

Casual Retail Workforce Management

Build and manage your own pool of casual retail staff to fill shifts quickly without relying on agencies. Instantly notify available staff of open shifts and automatically assign roles to qualified employees, ensuring fast coverage during absences, sick leave and unexpected demand spikes.

Real-Time Retail Absence & Shift Cover Management

Respond instantly to unplanned absences with real-time notifications to available retail staff. Managers can fill gaps in minutes, keeping stores fully staffed during busy trading periods while maintaining service standards and sales performance.

Retail Time Tracking & Payroll-Ready Timesheets

Track staff attendance across stores using mobile, tablet or browser clock-ins. Generate accurate, payroll-ready timesheets with automated award interpretation, approvals and payroll integration. This reduces errors, admin time and wage compliance risk.

Retail Workforce Reporting & Performance Insights

Gain full visibility over workforce performance across stores, regions and head office. Simplifi’s scalable reporting tools help retail leaders track labour costs, productivity, attendance trends and staffing efficiency. This enables smarter, data-driven decisions that improve profitability and operational performance.

Retail Payroll Integration with Two-Tier Approvals

Automate retail payroll processing with secure integrations and built-in two-tier approvals. Simplifi ensures accurate wages for both permanent and casual staff, while reducing payroll errors, compliance risk and administrative workload for finance and HR teams.

8:1 ROI

"Working with Simplifi has been an outstanding experience. The transition from paper to digital was a significant change, and Simplifi was instrumental in making it a smooth and efficient process."
Tristram Verrell
Membership Efficiency Manager
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How Foodstuffs Improved Workforce Productivity and Efficiency with Simplifi

Simplifi partnered with Foodstuffs, one of New Zealand’s largest grocery retailers, to develop a tailored workforce management system. The solution was designed to manage both permanent team members and a large pool of casual staff, ensuring optimal coverage during peak trading periods.

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By integrating productivity metrics such as sales and foot traffic, Simplifi enabled Foodstuffs to build rosters that maximised efficiency while maintaining flexibility.

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The result was an 8:1 return on investment, achieved through improved roster optimisation, better alignment of labour to sales demand, reduced manual admin and improved workforce visibility across stores.

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Collaborating for Success, Growing Together

“The system has made timesheet & leave approval across the organisation significantly easier. Our staff have easily adopted the new technology and it’s improved the efficiency of collating data for payroll. A key success factor is having the payroll rules embedded in Simplifi. This reduces the risk of error and ensures staff are paid for their contracted entitlements.”

Christine Ferrier,
Financial Administrator, Tararua Health Group

"The system has made timesheet & leave approval across the organisation significantly easier. Our staff have easily adopted the new technology and it’s improved the efficiency of collating data for payroll. A key success factor is having the payroll rules embedded in Simplifi. This reduces the risk of error and ensures staff are paid for their contracted entitlements."

Angela Kneeshaw,
Chief Financial Officer, BeGroup

"They were friendly, easy to work with, and willing to adapt and grow with us. They understood Kiwi business and focused on the end user, not just the head office. Since using Simplifi, we’ve reduced overtime, improved rostering efficiency, and in some stores we now fill shifts in minutes instead of hours."

Tristram Verrell,
Productivity, Efficiency & Workforce Manager, Foodstuffs North Island

“The training and support from the team at Simplifi has been a big plus. It takes time to learn a new system, and aged care is ‘messy’ from a staffing point of view, so getting Simplifi tuned to our ways took a bit of time but we had ample support. The ‘Hey Jamie’ phone calls and emails always got fast results.”

Mark Buckley,
General Manager at Lonsdale Total Care Centre

Frequently Asked Questions

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