# Agendrix — Employee Scheduling

Agendrix by Agendrix Inc. holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Agendrix Inc. (https://www.agendrix.com)
- Category: [Employee Scheduling](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/agendrix
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/agendrix/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/agendrix/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Agendrix Inc.
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Agendrix Inc. is an employee scheduling product whose bench scores peak on staff self-service at 6-7: iPhone and Android apps deliver availability edits under manager approval, time-off requests, open shifts gated by the requirements a manager sets, push reminders with seen confirmations, and clocking by phone or shared PIN terminal. Roster planning lands at 4-6 for templates, multi-location schedules with per-location management rights, and automatic assignment weighing availability, leaves and overtime — though we found no public information on demand forecasting, staffing requirements per shift or labour cost against budget. Payroll and integrations reaches 5-6 on twelve named Canadian systems plus a custom export mapping earnings codes. The clearest split appears on working-time rules: the works council advocate credits the documented break rules and time banks with a 4, while the frontline employee and shift manager score 2, calling the same pages payroll convenience. Sovereignty and pricing transparency sit at 0-1: no sovereignty attributes are on record, we found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors, and no price appears beyond a named Plus Plan.

**Speaks for it:**
- Staff self-service scores 6-7, covering availability edits under manager approval, time-off requests and open-shift claiming by seniority or first come on iPhone and Android.
- The automatic assignment engine proposes shifts while accounting for availability, leaves and overtime.
- Location handling is stated narrowly: a position snapshot only at the moment of clocking, with geofencing dependent on organisation settings.
- A custom payroll export maps earnings codes for regular hours, overtime, training and tips to twelve named Canadian payroll systems.
- Employees can delete their own submitted availability, and clocking runs by phone, computer or shared PIN terminal.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on rest-period, daily-maximum, youth, maternity or Minijob checks, or on collective-agreement surcharges.
- No sovereignty attributes are on record, and we found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors.
- Every named payroll system is Canadian, and we found no public information on a German payroll path such as DATEV.
- We found no public information on demand forecasting, staffing requirements per shift, or labour cost against budget while planning.
- We found no published data-processing agreement, retention periods, audit log or documentation a works council could work from.

**Best for:**
- You run a Canadian SMB already using one of the twelve named payroll systems and want phone-first self-service for a deskless team.
- You want shifts proposed for you, with the assignment engine weighing availability, leaves and overtime before publication.
- You schedule across multiple departments or locations and want per-location management rights with open shifts filled by rule.

**Avoid if:**
- You need statutory working-time checks before publishing a roster; the break automation the pages document serves payroll deduction, and we found no public information on any named statutory check.
- You must be able to demonstrate where employee availability and clock-in locations are hosted before signing; we found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors.
- A works council or data-protection review needs a published data-processing agreement, retention periods or an audit log to proceed.
- Your payroll runs on a German system such as DATEV rather than any of the twelve named Canadian systems or the custom export.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Shift Manager | The Operations Director | The Payroll Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Frontline Employee | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Roster building & demand planning | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Working-time law & collective agreements | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Mobile self-service for deskless staff | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Works council & employee data | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Payroll handoff & integrations | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Shift Manager** (v1.0): Builds next week's roster for a restaurant or store on Thursday night and fields the sick calls on Saturday morning. Wants templates, qualifications that stop the wrong person landing on the till, open shifts staff can claim, and a rest period warning before publication rather than after the inspection.
- **The Operations Director** (v1.0): Answers for labour cost across thirty locations in retail, hospitality or care. Wants demand-based planning from real POS or occupancy data, labour cost against budget while the plan is still editable, and staff shared across sites. Reads "AI-powered scheduling" as a request to see the method.
- **The Payroll Officer** (v1.0): Turns the worked month into DATEV and answers for every surcharge. Cares about night, Sunday and holiday supplements from the Tarifvertrag, Minijob limits caught before the month closes, and corrections after the close. Treats "CSV export" as an admission that the handoff was never designed.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): Co-determines how hours and overtime are distributed and how staff are monitored (BetrVG §87), and will not sign a works agreement for a system that watches more than it plans. Asks who sees absence reasons, what the app stores about location, what is logged and when it is deleted. Reads "performance insights" as a warning.
- **The Frontline Employee** (v1.0): Works part-time shifts next to a second job or a degree and never opens a laptop at work. Judges the product by its phone app: can she mark availability, swap a shift without three calls, see her hours, and read it in her own language. A roster she learns about from a photo in a group chat has failed.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read a great many pages saying the product "supports" the Arbeitszeitgesetz and wants to know whether it blocks a violation, warns about it, or merely exports it. Reads for which tier the time clock and the DATEV export sit in, how seasonal staff are counted per employee, and what the forecasting "AI" actually uses as input.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- GDPR: yes [S3]
- ISO 27001: NQA · yes [S3]
- ISO certifications: 27001 · 27701 [S1]

**Integrations**
- Payroll: payroll integrations with leading Canadian payroll software [S1]
- Payroll export: yes · export timesheet data to payroll software [S9]
- Payroll systems: EmployerD, Nethris, Quickbooks online, Ceridian PowerPay, ADP TeamPay, Sage50, Payworks, ADP Workforce Now, Acomba, Azur (Algopaie), Hopem, EasyPay [S9]
- Suggest integration: Users can suggest additional payroll integrations via Settings > Integrations [S9]

**Pricing**
- Cancel anytime: 21 · yes [S1]
- Essential price:  [S2]
- Free trial: yes · yes [S6]
- Free trial: Free trial offered [S5]

**Product**
- AI schedule from photo: yes [S2]
- AI scheduling: AI-optimized smart scheduling automatically assigns work shifts accounting for availability, leaves, and other requirements [S3]
- AI scheduling import: AI creates employees, positions and shifts from a photo of a paper or Excel schedule [S1]
- Article metadata: 2026-07-07 · Angevie Pié-Gaillardetz [S8]
- Auto assign shifts: yes [S2]
- Automatic break deduction: yes · Administrators [S4]
- Automatic break deduction: Automatic deduction of breaks and meals is available (related article) [S5]
- Availability deletion: yes [S6]
- Availability manager approval: yes · yes [S6]
- Availability overwrite behavior: New availabilities without an end date overwrite existing ones for following dates; create chronologically [S6]
- Away clock out requirements: Clocking out away from site requires actual clock-out time and reason [S7]
- Break clock out options: After viewing break start time on terminal, employee can clock back in or clock out when break is over [S5]
- Break deduction after hours: automatically deduct unpaid break after a set number of consecutive working hours [S4]
- Break settings scope: settings for both unpaid and paid breaks [S4]
- Break start time mobile: Mobile app Overview section shows a pink box with the recorded break start time [S5]
- Break start time terminal: Employees can enter their PIN on the time clock terminal during a break to see when the break started [S5]
- Clock mobile app: Clocking on the mobile app is supported (related article) [S5]
- Clock note: Employee can leave a note for manager when clocking [S7]
- Clock with computer: Clocking with a computer is supported (related article) [S5]
- Communication: messaging with read receipts, comments, one-on-one and group chat rooms, org-wide announcements to subgroups [S1]
- Custom export column order: click and drag · yes [S8]
- Custom export configuration fields: company number · regular/overtime earnings codes · training earnings codes · tip earning code · delimiter · export fields · , · ; · \| · : · used when field is empty; not needed for hours [S8]
- Custom export employee ids: employee identification numbers must be added [S8]
- Custom export location: Settings > Integrations > Custom Export [S8]
- Custom export mappings: time off types · positions · locations · premiums · expense types [S8]
- Custom export usage: Attendance tab when exporting payroll period · save file on computer [S8]
- Custom payroll export: Custom payroll export adapts timesheet export to workflow [S8]
- Customer base: 13000 · SMB [S1]
- Expense addon: An Expense add-on exists and can be enabled and configured [S9]
- Expense management: receipt photo capture with automatic field extraction, expense request tracking, export to payroll [S1]
- Geofenced clock in: Geofencing required to clock in on site, optional per organisation settings [S7]
- Geofencing privacy: Location snapshot only at clocking moment; no continuous GPS tracking [S7]
- HR files: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Hris: HRIS: onboarding tasks, digital HR records, employee document storage, internal surveys, recognition [S1]
- Industries: Restaurants · Retailers · Retirement homes · Hospitality [S1]
- Integrations: Integrations listed in footer; Help Center, chat, demo bookable [S3]
- Mobile app access: yes [S2]
- Mobile availability editing: yes · iPhone · Android [S6]
- Mobile clocking: yes · manager must enable it [S7]
- Mobile clocking options: Clock in, unpaid break, and leaving work (clock out) options on mobile app [S7]
- Mobile clocking requirements: Phone, internet access, signed-in account [S7]
- Modules: Onboarding, employee records, and surveys · Punch clock, timesheets, and payroll export · Professional chat, internal news feed, and automatic notifications [S2]
- Multi location scheduling: yes [S2]
- Open shifts: yes · seniority · first-come first-served [S2]
- Overtime optimization: yes [S3]
- Pin authentication terminal: Time clock terminals use PIN-based employee identification [S5]
- Plus break rules: create automatic break rules so breaks are automatically added to the schedule [S4]
- Pto accrual banks: yes [S2]
- Replacement suggestions: yes [S3]
- Reviews summary: 4.6 · 11800 [S1]
- Savings claim: 5120 · 50 [S1]
- Schedule sharing: yes [S3]
- Scheduled break deduction: yes · break must be on schedule and schedule must be published [S4]
- Scheduled break display: Assigned break times are shown when clocking in on a fixed terminal [S5]
- Scheduling: employee scheduling with schedule sharing, shift seen confirmations, open shifts [S1]
- Scheduling assistant: yes [S3]
- Shift seen confirmations: yes [S2]
- Shift tasks: yes [S2]
- Shift templates recurrences: drag-and-drop, copy/paste, recurrences, shift and schedule templates [S2]
- Templates: yes [S3]
- Time attendance: punch clock on iPad/Android tablet/PC, automated timesheets, configurable rounding, breaks, time banks for overtime/PTO/absences [S1]
- Time banks overtime: yes [S2]
- Time off requests: yes [S2]
- Time tracking: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Timesheets menu: Clocked hours verifiable in mobile Timesheets menu (Attendance on web) [S7]
- Trial availability: yes [S4]
- Workforce management: Online workforce management for shift managers [S1]

**Support**
- API portal: yes · yes · yes [S3]
- Bilingual 24 7: 24/7 · 2 [S1]
- Human contact: Talk to a real person (phone support) [S3]
- Related articles: What to do when you are unable to log in · Which payroll systems does Agendrix integrate with? · How to set up my GoodJob integration · How to sign your timesheet via the mobile app · How to manage yearly salaries [S8]

## Questions

### Is Agendrix European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Agendrix is based.

### Where does Agendrix store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Agendrix have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Agendrix?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Bizimply (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/bizimply), [gastromatic (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/gastromatic) and [Shiftbase (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/shiftbase) highest among the other 25 Employee Scheduling products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [gastromatic](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/gastromatic) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Agendrix alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/agendrix/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 5 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 3 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 hosting fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.agendrix.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Roster building & demand planning — found from sitemap: https://www.agendrix.com/employee-scheduling-software (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Roster building & demand planning — found from sitemap: https://www.agendrix.com/automatic-employee-scheduling-generator (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Working-time law & collective agreements — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/10007850-how-to-automatically-deduct-breaks-and-meals (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Working-time law & collective agreements — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/10371101-how-can-i-validate-what-time-i-started-my-break-or-lunch (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Mobile self-service for deskless staff — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/2626532-how-to-modify-my-availability-on-the-mobile-app (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Mobile self-service for deskless staff — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/1844350-how-to-clock-on-the-mobile-app (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Payroll handoff & integrations — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/12683803-how-to-do-a-custom-payroll-export (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Payroll handoff & integrations — found from sitemap: http://support.agendrix.com/en/articles/9299626-which-payroll-systems-does-agendrix-integrate-with (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Agendrix — Employee Scheduling", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/agendrix

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