Looking for a Tanda alternative?
If your venue uses Tanda and you’re wondering whether something else would suit you better, this page is a fair place to start: what Tanda is, what to look for in a rostering app for Australian hospitality, and where Kaslu Work fits, including what it doesn’t do yet.
What Tanda is, and why venues look at alternatives
Tanda is an established Australian workforce management platform, used by businesses with hourly staff, including many hospitality venues. If it works for you, there may be no reason to change.
Venues that do look around usually have one of these reasons:
- Price fit. A small venue or a group that’s just opened its second site may want to pay only for the parts it uses.
- Feature needs. Some venues need more than they have now, and others find they use a small part of a large system.
- Simplicity. Managers who roster between services want something they can learn in an afternoon and staff can use without training.
- Hospitality-specific workflows. Rostering by section, late closes, split shifts, venues that each run their own way, and certificates like RSA and RCG.
None of those mean one tool is better than another. They mean the right tool depends on your venue.
What to look for in a rostering tool for Australian hospitality
Take this list into any demo, whichever products you’re comparing.
- Rostering by section. Can you see whether the bar, floor, kitchen and gaming are each covered, not just who’s working?
- Split shifts and late finishes. Does a 17:00 to 01:00 shift count as eight hours? Can one person work lunch and dinner on the same day?
- Availability and swaps. Can casuals keep their availability up to date, and can they arrange swaps for a manager to approve, without a group chat?
- A wage view while you roster. Can you see a budget as you build, and is it clear what the estimate includes and leaves out?
- Clock-in you can trust. How does it confirm someone is at the venue? What happens when there’s no signal in the cellar or the cool room?
- Award interpretation and payroll. Does the tool calculate award pay itself, or hand worked hours to your payroll software? Either can work, as long as you know which you’re getting.
- More than one venue. Can each venue have its own trading hours, sections and settings, with one view across the group?
- Getting your data out. Can you export worked hours and reports whenever you need them, in a format your accountant can use?
- Staff experience. How do staff sign in? Do they need to download an app, and what if they don’t have a smartphone?
- Support and pricing. Is pricing published? Who do you talk to when something goes wrong on a Saturday night?
Kaslu Work as a Tanda alternative
Kaslu Work is rostering and clock-in built only for Australian hospitality: pubs, restaurants, cafés and groups with more than one venue. It’s worth being upfront: Kaslu Work is pre-launch. It has a waitlist, and the first pub group is being set up with the team.
What it does today
- Rosters by section and by the hour. Drag or draw shifts, copy last week, and publish when it’s ready. Staff get an email when the roster is published or a shift changes, and you can share a roster to WhatsApp or as a CSV.
- Availability, swaps and leave. You’re warned before rostering someone against their availability. Staff propose swaps and request leave, and a manager approves.
- Geofenced clock-in. You draw a boundary around the venue. A clock-in from inside it is accepted. One from just outside, with a weak signal or from a mocked location is flagged for a manager, and one from further away is refused. Staff clock in on their own phone under their own login, or on a venue tablet. Clock-ins with no signal sync later.
- Worked hours, split shifts included. Rostered against worked hours for every shift, exported to CSV for any date range, with reports by venue, person and attendance.
- A budget on the roster. Every shift costed under the venue’s award as you build, against each venue’s budget.
- Each venue set up its own way. Boundary, sections, trading hours, rounding and budget per venue, and managers can be limited to the venues they run.
- Staff records. Contact and emergency details, and certificates such as RSA, RCG, food safety and first aid, with expiry dates.
What it doesn’t do
- Award interpretation for pay. Rosters are costed under the Hospitality and Restaurant awards before you publish, but pay itself, with overtime and allowances, is worked out in your payroll software.
- Payroll. It doesn’t run pay, and there are no direct payroll integrations yet. Worked hours export to CSV.
- Timesheet approval. Managers can review and correct hours, but there isn’t a step to approve and lock a pay period yet.
So Kaslu Work suits venues that already have payroll they’re happy with and want rostering and clock-in that fit how hospitality runs. If you need one system to roster, calculate award pay and run payroll today, it isn’t that yet.
How to compare your options
Kaslu Work isn’t the only alternative. Several rostering and workforce tools are sold in Australia, each built with different businesses in mind. Compare them against your own needs rather than a feature count:
- Write down what you use now. List the parts of your current tool your managers and staff actually use each week, and the parts you pay for but don’t use.
- Roster a real week. In each tool you trial, build last Friday and Saturday from scratch, including a split shift and a late close.
- Follow the hours to payroll. Export a week of worked hours and check your payroll software or bookkeeper can use them without retyping.
- Ask your staff. Have a couple of casuals sign in, check their shifts and request a swap. If they struggle, so will everyone else.
- Plan the switch. Export your history from your current tool before you cancel, and run both side by side for one pay cycle if you can.
Still on a spreadsheet, or want a fallback? The free roster template is laid out by section. For the wider picture, from forecasting to award basics, read the hospitality rostering guide.
Tanda is a trademark of its owner. Kaslu Work isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Tanda. For Tanda’s current features and pricing, see its own website.
Questions
What is Tanda?
Tanda is an established Australian workforce management platform used by businesses with hourly staff, including many hospitality venues. For its current features and pricing, see Tanda’s own website.
Is Kaslu Work a like-for-like replacement for Tanda?
Not for every venue. Kaslu Work covers rostering, clock-in and worked hours for hospitality. It costs rosters under the award but doesn’t calculate pay for a pay run or run payroll, so if you rely on a tool to do those, check that the rest of your setup covers them before you switch.
Does Kaslu Work calculate penalty rates?
On the roster, yes: it costs every rostered shift under the Hospitality (MA000009) and Restaurant (MA000119) awards, with weekend, evening, public holiday and casual rates, so you see the wage cost before you publish. It doesn’t run payroll: worked hours, including split shifts, export to CSV and your payroll software pays them.
Can staff clock in without downloading an app?
Yes. During early access, staff clock in from their phone’s browser under their own login, or on a venue tablet where they pick their name and enter a code.
Tanda is a trademark. Is Kaslu Work affiliated with it?
No. Tanda is a trademark of its owner. Kaslu Work is an independent product and isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by Tanda.
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