Scale your multi-site operations with less administrative friction
Ditch spreadsheets and fragmented store tools. Deputy gives leaders central visibility over multi-site rosters, demand forecasting, staff sharing, and Award compliance workflows, whether used as a broader workforce management platform or connected with supported tools in your existing tech stack.
TRUSTED IN 390,000+ WORKPLACES OF ALL SIZES ACROSS THE GLOBE
One platform to forecast, roster, share staff, and manage multi-site labour costs
Managing multiple operating units shouldn’t mean managing multiple systems. Deputy centralises shift workforce management, bringing forecasting, rostering, cross-location workforce management, time tracking, and payroll workflows together in one operational platform.
Demand-driven multi-site rostering
Use forecasting and sales data to help align staffing with expected demand or revenue targets, giving store managers visual scheduling tools and central visibility across locations.
Cross-site staff sharing
Manage staff across nearby venues and make open shifts available across locations, giving store managers greater flexibility to cover call-outs and changing staffing requirements.
Labour cost & break oversight
Track employee time with GPS-enabled time clock features, manage meal and rest break requirements, and use labour reporting and analytics to monitor workforce costs and identify potential issues.
Multi-entity payroll workflows
Organise timesheet data across locations, business structures, and cost centres to support downstream payroll and reporting workflows across your multi-site operations.
Bring store-level complexity under control. Manage your entire network from one platform
Share staff across nearby locations while keeping visibility over hours and overtime
Group neighbouring venues into regional staffing pools and make open shifts available to recommended team members across locations.
Give store managers more flexibility to cover unexpected absences while maintaining visibility over hours worked, configured scheduling limits, and potential overtime risk across the network.
Monitor store-by-store labour performance and adjust rosters before they go live
Give Operations Directors and CFOs greater visibility into rostered labour costs and sales performance across locations. Deputy’s forecasting, rostering, reporting, and labour management tools help teams identify potential budget pressure and make informed scheduling adjustments before publishing rosters
See how Deputy can streamline your multi-location business
Your workforce tech stack, your choice
Whether you want to consolidate your software footprint into a unified platform or connect best-of-breed rostering with your established enterprise tools, Deputy gives you flexibility to build around your operational architecture
The consolidated frontline suite (HR + WFM + Payroll)
Ideal for mid-market businesses looking to consolidate frontline workforce tools. Bring hiring and onboarding workflows, credential tracking, visual multi-site rostering, time tracking, and payroll workflows together in one platform, helping reduce manual data entry and simplify workforce management across your shift-based teams.
Best-of-breed WFM connected to your existing stack
Ideal for enterprise organisations with an established core HRIS or payroll platform. Keep supported systems such as BambooHR or ADP in your tech stack while using Deputy for shift scheduling, demand forecasting, GPS-enabled time tracking, and Award compliance workflows. Connect workforce and timesheet data with supported downstream systems and integrations.
Flexible deployment alongside existing contracts
Ideal for businesses with active HR or payroll contracts, or teams that want to retain their current software. Deploy Deputy alongside supported existing systems to strengthen frontline scheduling, time tracking, and labour management without requiring your entire workforce tech stack to be replaced at once.
Enterprise control for multi-unit operations & multi-entity compliance workflows
Help manage labour costs and reduce compliance risk across states, stores, and legal entities. Deputy brings configured Award and pay rules, workforce records, and central credential tracking into your rostering workflows to support consistent oversight across your operations.
Multi-entity cost allocation & inter-company ledger mapping
Track labour hours across locations and cost centres when employees work across different parts of your business. Keep labour costs organised with detailed timesheet data and exports that support accounting and reporting workflows.
Multi-jurisdiction award interpretation & penalty rules
Configure scheduling and pay rules across different regions, with support for Modern Awards including HIGA, GRIA and SCHADS. Deputy helps apply configured rules for overtime, penalty rates and applicable allowances, simplifying pay calculations before payroll.
Centralised qualification & credential governance
Keep employee information, certifications and qualifications organised in one place. Deputy helps teams track training and certification requirements across locations, with scheduling warnings that help managers identify when team members may not meet configured requirements for a shift.
Role-based access control (RBAC) & corporate guardrails
Give store managers the access they need to build schedules and manage their teams, while administrators control who can view or update sensitive information such as pay rates, labour costs and business settings. Configure access levels to match roles and responsibilities across your organisation, with custom access options available on supported plans.
Purpose-built for Australia’s fast-paced multi-site shift workforces
Whether managing multi-venue franchise groups under HIGA, specialty retail networks under GRIA, or multi-clinic healthcare and care services operating under SCHADS, Deputy brings rostering, time tracking, workforce management, and Award compliance workflows together in a central platform.
Hospitality (HIGA & Franchise Groups)
Manage kitchen and front-of-house teams across multiple venues. Use forecasting and rostering tools to align staffing with demand, while configured Award and pay rules help manage penalty rates, loadings, overtime, and other applicable pay conditions.
Retail (GRIA & Specialty Store Chains)
Manage casual teams across multiple store locations with centralised rostering and workforce records. Use forecasting, reporting, and labour management tools to monitor staffing requirements and labour costs across your retail network.
Healthcare & Care Services (SCHADS, Aged Care & Multi-Clinic)
Manage rostering across facilities while tracking employee certifications and qualifications in one place. Configurable rules, alerts, and workforce records help teams manage fatigue, credential, and other workforce requirements across locations.
Streamlined multi-site rollout designed to keep operations moving
Transition your location network from spreadsheets or legacy enterprise systems to Deputy with a structured rollout designed to minimise disruption to active rosters, store operations, and ongoing pay runs.
Step 1: Central data import & integration setup
Step 2: Configure global guardrails & Award rules
Step 3: Phased location activation & training
Engineered for scale: A platform built for multi-location operations
Deputy brings workforce management tools together to support the governance and visibility growing multi-unit groups and enterprise networks need to manage operations at scale.
Multi-site open shift broadcasting
Regional managers can broadcast unallocated shifts across a geographic cluster of venues, helping teams fill urgent vacancies faster.
Multi-entity POS revenue sync
Track labour-to-sales budgets using POS revenue data across supported multi-currency and multi-entity setups for complex hospitality and retail franchise structures.
Enhanced granular permissions
Advanced administrative controls help regional directors customise manager permissions across specific stores or regions.
Multi-unit operational power. Built for a smoother rollout.
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Frequently asked questions
- How does Deputy support multi-location businesses with 50+ employees?
Deputy provides centralised visibility across locations, helping multi-site businesses manage rostering, time tracking, labour costs, reporting, and compliance workflows from a central workforce management platform.
- Do I need to replace my existing HR software (eg BambooHR) to use Deputy for multi-location rostering?
Deputy can work alongside supported HRIS platforms, helping you connect your HR systems with Deputy for visual rostering, cross-site workforce management, and time tracking. Check Deputy’s integrations to confirm support for BambooHR or your existing HR platform.
- Can store managers borrow staff from nearby venues without creating duplicate HR records or payroll issues?
Deputy helps multi-location businesses manage employees across different venues, making it easier to roster staff across sites and track their hours centrally. This can support oversight of cross-site hours, overtime, and labour costs.
- What if our HR or Payroll teams prefer to stay on our existing software platforms or we are locked into an active contract?
Deputy can work alongside supported HR and payroll platforms, allowing businesses to use Deputy for rostering, time tracking, and compliance workflows while retaining compatible systems used by HR and Finance. Available integrations and data flows depend on your systems and configuration.
- How does Deputy help manage labour costs across a multi-store network?
Deputy’s demand forecasting, rostering, POS integration, reporting, and labour management tools help managers monitor staffing requirements and labour costs across locations. This gives operations teams greater visibility to help identify overtime risk and make informed rostering decisions.
- Does Deputy support complex Australian Award compliance (HIGA, GRIA, SCHADS) across multi-site groups?
Deputy’s Award and pay-rate functionality is designed to support Australian Award compliance workflows, including configured rules for penalty rates, overtime, and other pay conditions. Businesses remain responsible for ensuring their Deputy configuration aligns with applicable Awards, workplace arrangements, and legal requirements.
- How does Deputy allocate labour costs when an employee works across different cost centres in a single pay period?
Deputy helps businesses track employee time across locations and organise timesheet data for payroll, labour-cost reporting, and other downstream workflows. Available cost-centre, payroll, and reporting functionality depends on your configuration and connected systems.
- Can corporate headquarters restrict store manager permissions while still allowing them to manage daily rosters?
Deputy supports centralised workforce management across multiple locations, helping corporate teams maintain oversight while giving store managers appropriate access to day-to-day functions such as rostering and timesheet management. Available permissions depend on your Deputy configuration.
- How fast can a multi-location enterprise transition from spreadsheets or legacy WFM to Deputy?
Deputy helps businesses transition from spreadsheets and legacy workforce management processes to digital rostering, time tracking, and recordkeeping. Implementation timelines vary depending on the number of locations, integrations, configuration, and rollout requirements.
- How does Deputy help manage staff certifications and qualifications across locations?
Deputy’s certification and qualifications tracking helps businesses maintain employee qualification records and monitor workforce requirements across locations, supporting oversight when rostering employees across different sites.
Check out our full range of Deputy features
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