In use by clubs across Australia

Automated rostering that plays by your rules

Rosty collects availability, honours qualifications and member preferences, and creates compliant rosters — with no tech skills needed.

Rosty's Today screen on a phone at the beach, showing conditions and upcoming patrols
Trusted by clubs across Australia • Winner, 2026 LSV Awards of Excellence — Innovative Achievement of the Year
Why Rosty

Roster an entire season in 15 minutes

Rostering a season of patrols by hand would usually mean weeks of emails, spreadsheets and swaps. Rosty does the heavy lifting for you.

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Massive time savings

In patrol communications, planning, balancing, and maintaining rosters.

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Improved compliance

The platform automatically optimises for patroller availability, preferences, and qualifications to ensure patrols meet SLSA requirements.

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Always up-to-date roster

In every member's own portal — calendar, list and mobile views — and never on a public page.

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Patroller self-service

Increases participation and satisfaction, without creating work for the roster manager.

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Partial patrols New

Split long patrols into halves so members who can't commit to a full day can still patrol.

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Conditions on the day New

Every member's Today screen shows whether they're on, alongside temperature, UV, tides and water temp for your beach.

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More than patrols New

Water safety for nippers, or anything else your club rosters. Each activity gets its own requirements, team size and priority.

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Follows your rules New

Every activity starts from your state’s patrol standard — or SLSA’s — so you’re compliant from day one. Layer your own rules on top, and revert any time.

What about team rostering?

Until now, teams have been the only option for manual rostering. Hampton deployed Rosty and successfully moved to individual rostering, resulting in:

  • Patrollers only being assigned to days they were actually available
  • Greater opportunity for new patrol captains and mentoring
  • Lower friction for young members, those with new awards, and anyone needing additional support to join patrols
  • Patrol captains not having to scramble to find substitutes for unavailable team members

PLUS! Greater cross-club inclusion and sharing of best practices across patrols.

New in Rosty

Partial patrols — more flexibility for members

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 more coverage, and nobody has to choose between a whole shift or nothing at all.

Whole day First half only Second half only
  • Members add themselves to a whole patrol or just part
  • The optimiser finds the best balance of full and partial patrollers
  • Both portions of the patrol are checked for compliance, so the whole patrol stays covered
  • Clubs can choose whether they want this feature enabled
Availability screen with a patrol day split into an 11:00-14:00 and a 14:00-17:00 shift, each set separately
Choose when you want to patrol Days with more than one shift provide added flexibility for volunteers
Availability calendar on a phone with Available, Partial and Backup days colour coded
Available anywhere — even the beach Update your selections from any mobile device with a few clicks.
How it works

One platform, three happy cohorts

Rosty is built with respect for your club's most valuable resources - its members.

1

Lifesaving Directors

  • Easily import patroller names, member IDs, emails and awards from Surfguard
  • Set up patrol dates and times
  • Send automated emails and reminders with a unique link to each patroller
  • Adjust optimisation goals to generate a roster satisfying:
    • SLSA and LSV requirements
    • Club-specific goals
    • Patroller preferences and availability
  • Review and adjust the proposed roster
  • Publish rosters to a self-service portal for patrollers
  • Send automatic reminders a few days before each patrol
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Patrollers

  • Receive an email with a personal link that lasts the whole season
  • Confirm or update qualifications
  • Enter availability simply by clicking on patrol dates
  • See their own upcoming patrols and the whole club roster in the same portal
  • Add preferences for:
    • Who they prefer to / not to patrol with
    • Desired number of patrols per month
    • Avoiding back-to-back days or consecutive weekends
    • Notification preferences
  • See the published roster from any mobile device
  • Add or remove themselves from a patrol — the whole day or just the first or second half
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Patrol Captains

  • Receive an email a few days prior to patrol with a team list containing contact information and awards
  • Choose from multiple views so they can see patrollers and quals
  • See suggested alternate patrollers if last-minute changes are needed
Safeguards

Rosty watches your back

The platform doesn't just build a compliant roster — it helps keep it compliant.

🚩 Automatic flagging

Patrols not meeting club or SLSA rules are flagged automatically in the roster view to draw the attention of members who can help.

🛟 Withdrawal alerts

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.

📋 Audit trails

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.

Product tour

Member and admin views

Screens from the Hampton LSC deployment, as they look today.

Today screen showing beach conditions and the member's next patrols
Today Whether you’re on today, plus conditions at your beach — temperature, UV, tides and water temp
Club calendar with calendar, cards and list view options
Club calendar The whole club’s roster as a calendar, cards or a list — switch with one tap
Availability screen with a month calendar beside a shift-by-shift list
Availability Tap a day to mark yourself available. Days that run more than one shift open up, so you can take just the part that suits you
Preferences screen with per-activity frequency, spacing, contact and patrol mates
Preferences How often you want each activity, spacing between duties, patrol mates and how to reach you
Qualifications screen with SLSA awards and club credentials as tick boxes
Qualifications Awards come across from SurfGuard — tick anything that’s missing in seconds
Welcome screen with a checklist of setup steps for a new member
A guided welcome First time in, members get a short checklist — and can pick it up again whenever they want
Today screen on a phone
Today at a glance No app to install, always current club info
Availability calendar on a phone
Enter your availability from the couch Mark yourself available, willing to help out in a pinch, or unavailable for each shift
How to use Rosty: a numbered walkthrough of setting up and rostering a season
A guide built into the app Every step of a season, numbered and linked to the screen that does it
Activities list showing Patrol and Water Safety
Activities Patrol comes built in. Add water safety, or anything else your club rosters, and set its priority
Rule editor with a palette of credentials dragged into requirement lines
Rule editor Drag credentials into the requirements. Starts from the LSV patrol standard — change it, or revert any time
Qualifications table with SLSA awards, holder counts and which activities need them
Qualifications Every award, who holds it and what needs it — plus your own club credentials
People table listing members with quals, activities, availability and preference counts
People Who has filled in their availability, who hasn’t, and where the gaps are
A member row expanded to show phone, qualifications, availability and patrol partners
One member at a glance Open a row for their quals, availability, what they asked for and who they patrol with
Availability heatmap across the season with a colour per member per date
Responses at a glance The whole season in one grid, with a running count per date and per person
Roster editor showing each date, its team, captain and qualification tags
Roster editor Review the optimiser’s work, promote a captain, move people around and fill any gaps
Email management with send-now and automatic email types
Email management Availability requests, reminders, publication notices and patrol reminders — on demand or automatic
Email template editor with formatting toolbar and variable chips
Write it your way Edit any email in place and drop in variables like the member’s name or their sign-in link
Preview of an availability request email with sample values filled in
See it before you send Preview with stand-in names and dates, in both the styled and plain-text versions members will actually receive
Initial setup

Your club, your rules

During setup, your club can easily customise the way Rosty works.

Requirements

Target patrol numbers

Set target patrol numbers and qualification requirements per patrol.

Nice-to-haves

Club-specific goals

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.

Season

Patrol dates & hours

Define patrol dates and hours, and how to segment the season into periods.

Preferences

Optimise for real life

"Prefer to patrol with" names are honoured where possible; "prefer not" names are hard constraints.

Flexibility

Partial patrols

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.

Activities

Roster more than patrols

Patrol is built in and ready to go. Add water safety or any other activity your club rosters, each with its own rules, team size and priority.

Guidance

You won't be on your own

A step-by-step guide lives inside the admin portal, with every stage of a season numbered and linked to the screen that does it.

Winner — 2026 Life Saving Victoria Awards of Excellence

Dr. Nigel Taylor OAM ESM Innovative Achievement of the Year. Developed for and in use by Hampton Life Saving Club, Victoria.

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