On-demand staffing for Aotearoa
Fill the shift.
Not the paperwork.
Aroha Connect connects New Zealand employers with vetted, available temp staff and contractors — across education, retail, construction and aged care. Certifications, timesheets and invoicing are handled in one place.
Built for
- Education
- Retail
- Construction
- Aged Care
The platform
Everything it takes to fill a shift properly
One place to source workers, prove compliance, capture hours and get paid — replacing the spreadsheets, group chats and paper timesheets in between.
On-demand staffing
Post a shift or a role and fill it fast from a pool of available, vetted workers. No phone trees, no waiting on agency callbacks.
Compliance
Certifications, ID checks and required documentation are tracked automatically, with expiry alerts well before anything lapses.
Digital timesheets
Workers submit their hours from their phone. Employers review and approve in one click — no paper, no chasing.
Invoicing & payroll
Payroll-ready exports and automated invoicing generated straight from approved timesheets. No manual reconciliation.
AI that quietly removes the admin
Matching, rostering and follow-ups are the parts of staffing that eat a manager's morning. Aroha Connect handles them in the background, and shows its working.
Smart matching
Ranks available workers by qualification, location and prior placements at your site — so the first person you offer is the right one.
Scheduling suggestions
Spots likely coverage gaps ahead of time and proposes cover before the roster breaks.
Admin automation
Reminders, confirmations, document chasing and reporting all run themselves in the background.
Solutions
Built around how your industry actually staffs
The compliance rules, the shift patterns and the urgency are different in every sector. Aroha Connect is configured for each one.
Aroha Connect for Education
Relief and permanent staffing, sorted before the bell.
Fill relief bookings in minutes instead of working through a phone tree, and recruit permanent kaiako from the same pool. Practising certificates and safety checks are verified before a booking is ever confirmed.
- Practising certificates and safety checks tracked with expiry alerts
- Ratio-critical cover reached across your whole reliever pool at once
- Staffing records that stand up in an RS7 funding return
Aroha Connect for Retail
Flexible retail cover for peak trade and everyday gaps.
Fill shifts fast through sales events, seasonal peaks and unplanned absences — drawing on workers who already know your floor and your systems.
- Fill same-day shifts across multiple store locations
- Build a preferred pool of workers who have covered your stores before
- Scale up for stocktake and Christmas trade without extra admin
Aroha Connect for Construction
Compliant, on-demand construction and trades staffing.
Every worker arrives with the right tickets, inductions and safety compliance already verified, so nobody gets turned away at the site gate.
- Site Safe cards, licences and machine tickets verified before dispatch
- Induction and hazard records attached to every placement
- Crew up or down by the day as programme dates move
Aroha Connect for Aged Care
Reliable, compliant staffing for aged care providers.
Vetted care staff with up-to-date compliance documentation, available on short notice — so resident care and safe staffing levels never slip.
- Registration, immunisation and qualification records kept current
- Night and weekend cover filled from a pre-approved care pool
- Continuity of care through workers who return to your facility
Why Aroha Connect
Staffing infrastructure you can lean on
Temp staffing goes wrong in predictable ways: the wrong person, the wrong paperwork, the wrong hours. We built the platform around removing each of them.
- 01
Locally Grounded
New Zealand owned and operated, and built around the way Kiwi employers actually roster — local compliance expectations, local pay cycles, local support hours.
- 02
Compliance First
Certifications, ID and right-to-work documentation are verified up front and monitored continuously. You find out before something expires, not after an audit.
- 03
Speed Where It Counts
Open a shift and it reaches every available, qualified worker in your pool at once — so cover gets confirmed in minutes instead of a morning of phone calls.
- 04
Real Human Support
A New Zealand-based team that knows your sector, helps you get set up properly, and answers when something needs sorting today.
Customers
What employers tell us
From schools and stores to sites and care facilities — the same story in different words.
We used to start the day ringing round for relief cover. Now the booking goes out once and it is confirmed before the staffroom kettle has boiled — and every certificate is already checked.
Marama WhitioraPrincipal, Fernvale Primary School Through Christmas trade we were filling shifts across six stores. Having one pool of people who already knew our floor made the difference between coping and scrambling.
Daniel KerrOperations Manager, Southcape Retail Group Nobody turns up to site without the right tickets any more. Timesheets come through the app, I approve them on Friday, and payroll is done without a single spreadsheet.
Priya RamanSite Manager, Whitcombe Construction
See how fast your next shift could be filled
A 20-minute walkthrough of the platform, set up around your industry and your compliance requirements. No obligation.