In use by Hampton Life Saving Club
Automated patrol rostering that plays by your rules
Rosty collects availability, honours qualifications and patroller preferences, and creates compliant patrol rosters — with no tech skills needed.
Rosty collects availability, honours qualifications and patroller preferences, and creates compliant patrol rosters — with no tech skills needed.
Rostering a season of patrols by hand would usually mean weeks of emails, spreadsheets and swaps. Rosty does the heavy lifting for you.
In patrol communications, planning, balancing, and maintaining rosters.
The platform automatically optimises for patroller availability, preferences, and qualifications to ensure patrols meet SLSA requirements.
In every member's own portal — calendar, list and mobile views — and never on a public page.
Increases participation and satisfaction, without creating work for the roster manager.
Split long patrols into halves so members who can't commit to a full day can still patrol.
Until now, teams have been the only option for manual rostering. Hampton deployed Rosty and successfully moved to individual rostering, resulting in:
PLUS! Greater cross-club inclusion and sharing of best practices across patrols.
Not everyone can commit to a full day on the beach. Rosty can split patrols so members can add themselves to just the part of the day they're free. More availability turns into coverage on the beach, and nobody has to choose between a whole shift or nothing at all.
Rosty is built with respect for your club's most valuable resources - its members.
The platform doesn't just build a compliant roster — it helps keep it compliant.
Patrols not meeting club or SLSA rules are flagged automatically in the roster view to draw the attention of members who can help.
If a rostered patroller tries to withdraw but doing so would create a noncompliant patrol (e.g. without an IRB driver), an alert asks them to reach out before leaving the patrol. For partial patrols, each half is checked on its own.
Every email sent and every change patrollers make through the self-service portal — availability, preferences, joining or leaving a patrol — is logged with a timestamp, so administrators can always see who changed what, and when.
Screenshots from the Hampton LSC deployment.
During setup, your club can easily customise the way Rosty works.
Set target patrol numbers and qualification requirements per patrol.
More variety in the assigned patrol captains? Balanced workloads? No consecutive weekends? At least one holiday a season? Layer your own club rules on top of SLSA and LSV requirements — Rosty will figure it out.
Define patrol dates and hours, and how to segment the season into periods.
"Prefer to patrol with" names are honoured where possible; "prefer not" names are hard constraints.
Let members select just the first or second half of a patrol — not only the whole day. Switch the feature on or off to suit your club.
Dr. Nigel Taylor OAM ESM Innovative Achievement of the Year. Developed for and in use by Hampton Life Saving Club, Victoria.
Get in touch to simplify your next patrol season with Rosty.