Deputy vs Planday

Deputy

Auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, micro-scheduling and multi-location hierarchies are all named features, but the captured pages never name the data source the forecast draws on, and I found no public information showing staffing requirements per shift, qualifications or coverage gaps before publication. The engine is branded "Deputy AI included in every plan" rather than documented as a method. That sits above a plain weekly grid yet well short of demonstrated demand-based planning.

Planday

Schedule templates (week and day), open shifts, and a suggestion engine that filters by department, employee group and skills and explains each recommendation are documented. But the captured pages show no staffing requirement per shift and no demand source for planning — the pricing page names a revenue forecast in a feature list while saying nothing about what feeds it — and the automatic rostering sits in the custom-priced Pro tier with its inputs undescribed.

Deputy

Every captured page repeats "Labor Law Compliance", with "Break planning compliance" and "Fair workweek compliance" — the latter a US predictive-scheduling regime — but no page names the ArbZG daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period or a Minijob earnings limit, and nothing states whether a violation blocks publication, warns the planner or merely exports. This is precisely the compliance-is-"supported" claim with no rule behind it that I keep hoping a vendor will finally cash out.

Planday

The rule engine is genuinely configurable — maximum hours per week or day, shift duration, consecutive working days, hours off between shifts — applied per employee group and type, and the pages state plainly that a rule "cannot block you from creating or assigning a shift" even when broken, with an Excel report of infractions as the audit trail. The captured pages name no specific statute — no ArbZG daily maximum, no break rule, no youth protection, no Minijob earnings warning — so the planner assembles the law themselves and the system only warns.

Deputy

The lite tier's own list gives the shop floor a mobile app with availability, leave, shift swap and "Find Replacement", plus a time clock app — most of a real self-service set. I found no public information on whether swaps are checked against qualifications or rest periods before approval, on offline clock-in, on multilingual coverage, or on push notification of changes, so it reads as mid-level with the rule-checking question unanswered.

Planday

The app supports availability entry with preferred hours, shift types, comments and bulk edits, open-shift claiming under manager approval with visibility gated by skills and conflicts, and colleagues' shifts put up for sale appearing as claimable. We found no public information on clock-in offline handling, push notification of changes, or language coverage, so the floor-facing picture is real but incomplete.

Deputy

There is a privacy centre with GDPR resources, sub-processor change notifications and configurable access levels — though those access levels sit in the top tier, and "additional audit reporting" is sold as an add-on rather than shown as a per-employee view log. I found no public information on retention or deletion periods for availability and absence data, on whether biometric time clocking can be switched off, or on any documentation a works council would need for approval.

Planday

Roles and access levels (Administrator, Schedule manager, employee) run through the help pages, and custom permissions and user roles exist in the Pro tier. Beyond that we found no public information on configurable visibility of absence reasons, any view or change log, retention or deletion periods for employee records, or any documentation offered for works-council approval.

Deputy

A public API is listed and a payroll module is "available on annual Core and Pro plans in the US" with a base and per-employee fee that "varies by business size" — unpriced and US-only, while "Payroll & HR Integrations" names no system. I found no public information on a DATEV or Lohn-und-Gehalt handoff, no named POS integration, and surcharges are never mentioned, so the month's export remains a claim rather than a documented path.

Planday

A detailed DATEV Lohn und Gehalt guide covers the.INI setup, salary codes distinguishing normal hours, extra hours and payroll supplements, per-employee salary identifiers, export scoping and even payslip import back to employees, with a Xero payroll collection and a documented Open API alongside it. We found no public information on a lock step before transmission, a named POS system feeding forecasting, or API versioning and webhooks — so the handoff is well documented, not designed around.

Deputy

The contracting entity on the captured pages is Deputy Corporation of San Francisco, the parent is Australian, and I found no public information on an EU entity, on where employee data is hosted, or on any named subprocessor chain — the privacy centre confirms only that other sub-processors exist with locations unstated. A scheduling tool holding availability and absence data with no evidenced EU residence or processor transparency sits at the bottom of this scale.

Planday

The contracting entity is the Danish Planday A/S, but ownership sits with Xero in New Zealand and the legal documents are hosted on Xero infrastructure. We found no public information on the hosting region, a data-centre provider, or any subprocessor list — for a tool holding availability and absence data, that silence decides it.

Deputy

Three tiers carry public per-user prices — Lite "$5 per user per month", Core "$6.50 per user per month", Pro "$9 per user per month (USD excl. all applicable taxes)" — with a stated 10% annual discount and billing options, but the payroll add-on's fee "varies by business size", the AI is "introductory free" with no after-price, the Flexi plan carries no number, and I found no public information on how inactive or seasonal staff are counted or on any minimum term. The main tiers are computable; the real annual invoice is not.

Planday

Starter at €2.99 per user per month with a minimum of 5 users and Plus at €4.99 per user per month plus a €25.00 monthly base fee with a minimum of 10 users are public, with billing period, five-user pack rounding and paid onboarding and SMS fees disclosed. But Pro is "Individuelle Preisgestaltung" with no number, onboarding and SMS carry no price, and VAT treatment, minimum term and how inactive or seasonal staff are counted are unstated.