July 2026
New Features
- Mobile admin — Full admin capabilities now available on mobile. Create and edit events, assign workers to shifts, manage time punches, and communicate with your team — all from your phone. Supports both admin and worker modes with a single tap to switch between them.
Scheduling
- Multi-day event email grouping — Update notifications for multi-day events are now grouped by day instead of sending a separate email for each day.
June 2026
New Features
- Applicant Tracking System (ATS) — A new built-in ATS for managing job applications directly within Roosted. Post positions, receive applications, and move candidates through customizable hiring pipelines — all without leaving the platform. Includes candidate profiles, status tracking, and pipeline stage management.
- Day Punch Summary widget — A new dashboard widget showing a real-time summary of time punches for the current day. See who has punched in, who is missing, and take action with inline approve, edit, and add operations. Navigate day-by-day to review past punch activity at a glance.
- Punch audit log — View a detailed history of all changes to time punches, including who made each edit and when, accessible from the time punch dialog.
- Events Areas API — New API endpoints for managing event areas (GET, PATCH, CREATE) in API v1.12.
Improvements
- Role default custom name — When creating shifts, the custom name field now auto-fills with the role’s configured default, saving time on repetitive setups.
- Invite defaults — Streamlined the shift invitation process with configurable defaults for confirmation dialogs and calendar ordering.
Fixes
- Linked shift conflicts — When any day in a linked shift group has a scheduling conflict, the entire group is now correctly hidden from available shifts.
- Duplicate client signature prevention — Resolved a race condition that could create duplicate signature records when multiple requests arrived simultaneously.
- Duplicate credential log entries — Removed duplicate action log entries that appeared when updating worker credentials.
Security
- Email change protection — Added CSRF protection to the email change flow to prevent unauthorized account email modifications.
May 2026
New Features
- First shift notification system — Workers now receive a notification before their very first shift with helpful onboarding information.
- Event messaging — Send and receive messages tied to specific events or orders, keeping communication organized and in context. Threads are visible to admins and clients in the portal, so both sides stay aligned without switching to email or separate chat tools.
- Client portal selectable locations — Admins can now restrict which saved locations appear when clients create orders in the portal, with per-client allowlists.
- Advanced mode toggle — A new setting in configuration reveals power-user options that are hidden by default, keeping the interface clean for everyday use.
Improvements
- Worker query performance — Significantly faster worker list loading for large teams. Event statistics are now computed separately, cutting load times by more than half for accounts with thousands of workers.
- Worker my-shifts page redesign — Modernized layout with improved navigation and cleaner presentation of upcoming and past shifts.
- Punch window feedback — When workers try to punch in too early, the app now shows exactly how much time remains and automatically closes the dialog when the window opens.
Fixes
- Worker calendar sync — Fixed an issue where calendar sync could fail to update for certain worker configurations.
- Custom field eligibility — Workers with null custom field values are now correctly evaluated against eligibility rules instead of being incorrectly excluded.
- Shift comments — Fixed shift comments not saving when updating jobs in the new job view.
- White-label image uploads — Brand image uploads now visually update immediately after saving.
April 2026
New Features
- White-label platform — Run Roosted under your own brand. Set up a custom domain with automatic SSL provisioning, upload your logo, and customize colors — your workers, clients, and admins see your brand on every screen. Covers the admin interface, client portal, mobile app, login and signup pages, password reset flows, and all outbound emails.
- Custom dashboard — A redesigned admin dashboard with configurable widgets: recent reviews, upcoming shifts, worker activity, and more. Drag and resize widgets to build the view that fits your workflow. Virtual list pagination keeps everything fast, even with thousands of records.
- Internal changelog system — Automated PR ingestion from GitHub with a curation interface for publishing release notes.
- Job view preference — Admins can now toggle between the classic and new job view layouts, with their preference saved across sessions.
Improvements
- Calendar multi-day events — Multi-day events and orders now break down correctly in the calendar view, showing each day’s shifts individually instead of as a single block.
- Client portal order filtering — Improved filtering options when browsing orders in the client portal.
- Report formatting — Updated report layouts and date handling for clearer exports.
- Configuration page modernization — Reorganized settings page with modular layout and improved discoverability.
Fixes
- White-label login redirect — Users on custom domains now stay on their branded domain through the entire login flow instead of being redirected to the default domain.
- Invite email delivery — Fixed an issue where certain invitation emails were not being delivered.
- Calendar and list view — Multiple fixes to event display and filtering in both calendar and list view layouts.
- Worked hours report — Corrected calculation errors in the worked hours report.
- Client order status — Fixed incorrect status display for certain client orders.
March 2026
Improvements
- Worker invite updates for job copying — When copying jobs, worker invite settings now carry over correctly to the new job.
- Client portal calendar — Improved calendar view with better filtering and event display for client portal users.
- Web punch source tracking — Time punches made from the web interface are now correctly tagged with their source for audit purposes.
Fixes
- Event payroll distribution — Fixed calculation in the event payroll distribution report.
- Client order details — Resolved missing orders and workers for single-day events in the client portal.