Deputy vs Planday

Deputy

Auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, micro-scheduling and wage-and-labour budgets are named features, and single-location through enterprise and franchise operations are addressed, but the captured pages never say which data source feeds the forecast, and I found no public information on qualifications or staffing requirements per shift. A proposal engine I cannot trace does not earn full demand-driven credit.

Planday

Week and day templates with draft publication, skills and department filtering, open shifts, and conflict statuses shown before publishing make a real planner, and an auto-schedule tool exists on Pro. We found no public information tying the listed revenue forecast to a named data source, on labour cost shown against budget while planning, or on cross-location staff sharing.

Deputy

"Labor Law Compliance" appears in every plan and the pages do name break-planning and fair-workweek compliance, which is more than a bare claim. But I found no public information on rest periods, daily hour maxima, Minijob earnings limits, or night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, and nothing states whether a check blocks publication or only warns — for a German close, nothing here turns a worked hour into a correctly topped-up wage.

Planday

The rule library is concrete — maximum hours per week or day, consecutive working days, hours off between shifts, shift duration — configurable per employee group, and it is honestly documented as a warning that never blocks a shift, with an infraction report to Excel. We found no public information naming the ArbZG daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period, breaks, youth or maternity protection, a Minijob earnings warning, or Tarifvertrag surcharges checked in the plan; a salary code can carry a payroll supplement to the export, but the surcharge is mapped, not enforced.

Deputy

A mobile app with leave and availability management, shift swap and find-replacement, a messaging news feed, and a time-clock app with biometric clocking are all named. I found no public information on swaps being checked against the rule set before approval, offline clocking or language coverage, so it falls short of the complete shop-floor offer.

Planday

The app lets staff set availability with shift types and bulk edits, request and claim open shifts gated by department, group and skills, sell shifts to colleagues, and see DATEV payslips, with manager approval throughout. We found no public information on push notification of schedule changes, offline clock-in handling, a multilingual interface, or swap flows resolving without a manager.

Deputy

Custom access levels exist in the Pro plan and there is a privacy centre with GDPR resources and sub-processor change notifications. But biometric time clocking is presented with no statement that it can be switched off, I found no public information on retention or deletion periods for availability and absence data, and no audit log of who viewed an individual's record — thin material for a works agreement.

Planday

Access levels such as Administrator, schedule manager and employee appear throughout the help pages, and custom permissions and user roles are sold as a Pro feature. We found no public information on a DPA, retention or deletion of availability and absence data, an audit log of who viewed or changed an employee's record, or any documentation offered for works-council approval.

Deputy

Payroll is sold as its own module — "Available on annual Core and Pro plans in the US. Monthly base and per employee fee varies by business size." — alongside unnamed "Payroll & HR Integrations" and a public API. The captured pages name no payroll system, no POS and no HR system, and I found no public information on wage types per surcharge, a lock step before transmission, or corrections after the month closes; as a handoff story this is a promise, not a design.

Planday

The DATEV Lohn und Gehalt handoff is designed rather than dumped: the.INI import, Berater and Mandanten numbers with Kostenträger, salary codes separating normal hours, extra hours and payroll supplements, per-employee salary identifiers, scoped exports, and a payslip import back to employees; Xero payroll is a second named system and an Open API is documented. We found no public information on a lock step before transmission, retro corrections after the close, a tax adviser's scoped access, or webhooks with a deprecation policy.

Deputy

The contracting entity shown on the captured pages is Deputy Corporation in San Francisco, the vendor is Australian, hosting region is nowhere stated, and no sub-processor is named beyond an option to be notified of changes. A GDPR privacy centre exists, but nothing shows where the employee data lives.

Planday

The contracting entity is Planday A/S in Copenhagen, but it has been owned by Xero of New Zealand since 2021 and its legal documents are hosted on Xero infrastructure. We found no public information on the hosting region, a named data-centre provider, or a single subprocessor, so the chain an employee's availability data travels is undocumented.

Deputy

Three tiers carry public per-user prices — Lite at "$5 per user per month (USD excl. all applicable taxes)", then "$6.50" and "$9" — with billing options and a 10% annual discount stated. But the payroll add-on's fee "varies by business size", the Flexi plan is unpriced, Deputy AI is only "INTRODUCTORY FREE", and I found no public information on minimum terms or how inactive and seasonal staff are counted.

Planday

Starter at €2.99 and Plus at €4.99 per user per month are public, with the €25.00 Plus base fee, minimum users of 5 and 10, monthly or quarterly billing, and billing in five-user packs rounded up all stated. Pro is "Individuelle Preisgestaltung", and we found no public figure for the per-SMS fee or the paid onboarding, nor VAT treatment or minimum term.