Deputy vs Planday

Deputy

Auto-Scheduling, Demand Forecasting, Wage And Labor Budgets and Micro-Scheduling are named features, alongside Location Hierarchies and solutions for single- up to enterprise-scale multi-location businesses — that says the product proposes the roster rather than just drawing one, which is what I want on a Thursday night. But the names come without detail: I found no public information on templates, qualifications, staffing requirements per shift, open-shift claiming, or the named data source behind the demand forecast.

Planday

Week and day templates that publish or go to draft with a rule check on apply, department and skill filtering so the wrong person can't land on the till, and recommendations with a short reason next to each name make the Thursday-night build fast, and an automatic scheduling tool exists for the top plan. We found no public information on staffing requirements per shift, coverage gaps before publication, cross-location staff sharing, or how the listed sales forecast is computed.

Deputy

Compliance is claimed by name — Advanced Labor Law Compliance, Break planning compliance, Fair workweek compliance — but I found no public information on the specific rules a German roster must obey: no rest-period or daily-hours check, no youth protection, no Minijob earnings warning. Nor is there anything on whether a warning appears before I publish, or whether it blocks an illegal shift rather than just flagging it.

Planday

The rule engine covers what I need to be warned about before publishing — maximum hours per day or week, hours off between shifts, consecutive working days — configurable per employee group, and the pages state plainly that it warns but never blocks, with an Excel report of infractions afterwards. We found no public information naming the ArbZG or a break rule, a Minijob earnings limit, youth protection, or Tarifvertrag surcharges inside the rule engine, so the German law remains the planner's homework.

Deputy

A mobile app with shift swapping and find-a-replacement, leave and availability management, time clocking and a messaging news feed covers most of what my floor staff touch every week. I found no public information on push notification of roster changes, offline clock-in, a multilingual interface, or whether swaps get checked against qualifications and rest periods before approval.

Planday

Staff get availability down to shift type with bulk edits in the app, open shifts in a widget on the overview screen that they request or take over from a colleague selling one, filtered by department, skills and conflicts before they even see the shift, with manager approval on top; a punch clock, absences and holidays, and messenger and newsfeed sit on the features list. We found no public information on push notification of changes, offline clock-in handling, language coverage, or employees seeing and exporting the data held about them.

Deputy

Custom Access Levels on the Pro plan are the one thing I could take to a works council about who sees whose data. Beyond that I found no public information on retention or deletion of employee records, on a data-processing agreement, on an audit trail of who viewed what — or on switching biometric time clocking off. A privacy centre with sub-processor change notifications exists, but that will not carry a works agreement.

Planday

Access levels from administrator down and, on the top plan, custom permissions and user roles exist, but that is where the trail ends. We found no public information on configurable visibility of absence reasons, any audit log of who viewed or changed an employee's data, retention or deletion of availability and absence records, a published data processing agreement, or vendor material to support a works agreement.

Deputy

Payroll appears as Deputy's own add-on available on annual Core and Pro plans in the US, whose monthly base and per employee fee varies by business size, plus generic Payroll & HR Integrations and a named Deputy API. I found no public information on DATEV or any European payroll path, no named POS or HR integration, and nothing on how surcharges reach payroll.

Planday

The DATEV Lohn und Gehalt setup is a real, documented handoff — salary codes splitting normal hours, extra hours and payroll supplements, per-employee salary identifiers, export by all staff or selected groups, and payslips imported back into the app for employees — alongside Xero payroll, an open API, and POS and HR integration collections. We found no public information on a lock step before transmission to payroll, POS data feeding the forecast, or an HR master-data sync in detail.

Deputy

The contracting entity named is Deputy Corporation, 548 Market St PMB 77267, San Francisco, from a company founded in Sydney, and I found no public information on where employee data is hosted; the privacy centre confirms further sub-processors that go unnamed. GDPR resources and sub-processor change notifications are the only European-facing signals, and neither says anything about where my staff's availability and absence data actually sits.

Planday

The vendor is Planday A/S in Copenhagen, but ownership and even the legal documents sit with the New Zealand parent Xero. We found no public information on where employee data is hosted, which subcontractors handle push, messaging, analytics or support, certification, or a data processing agreement covering what the app collects on personal devices — too thin to bring to a works council for a tool holding my team's availability and absence data.

Deputy

Lite at $5 per user per month, Core at $6.50, Pro at $9, each stated as USD excl. all applicable taxes, billed upfront or in monthly installments with a SAVE 10% annual option — the base invoice for my headcount is computable from the pricing page. But the payroll add-on's fee varies by business size, the Flexi plan carries no number, and I found no public information on how seasonal or inactive staff are counted or on any minimum term.

Planday

Starter at €2.99 per user per month from five users and Plus at €4.99 per user per month plus a €25.00 monthly subscription fee from ten users are public, with monthly or quarterly billing, billing in five-user packs rounded up, and extras named (a fee for each SMS sent and paid onboarding services). The Pro tier is individual pricing, the SMS and onboarding figures carry no numbers, and we found no public information on VAT treatment or how inactive and seasonal staff are counted.