# Bizimply — Employee Scheduling

Bizimply by Bizimply Ltd holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Bizimply Ltd (https://bizimply.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/bizimply
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/bizimply/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/bizimply/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: Bizimply Ltd
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU [S9]
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Bizimply is employee scheduling software for shift-based businesses in hospitality, retail, healthcare and leisure. It scores best on staff self-service, roster planning and payroll and integrations, all at 6-7: the free MyZimply app on Android and iOS gives staff their rota, time-off requests and GPS clock-in; rotas are built by drag-and-drop with templates and copy-previous-week against an allowed spend of sales forecast times a labour percentage; and eight named payroll integrations plus two managed-payroll partners handle the month-end handoff. Sovereignty is the weakest area at 3-4: the vendor's GDPR commitment states all customer data is stored in the EU and never leaves the EU on the Amazon cloud, while the independently collected attributes list contracting-entity jurisdiction, ownership, data residency and subprocessor exposure as unknown, and we found no public information on a subprocessor list. The widest spread is codetermination and privacy at 4-6, where judges credit a 21-article permissions collection but found no public information on audit logs or works-council documentation. We found no public prices; the public routes in are a free trial and a 15-minute Zoom demo.

**Speaks for it:**
- Staff self-service scores 6-7, with the free MyZimply app on Android and iOS covering rota view, unavailability, time-off requests, shift offers and claims, and GPS clock-in, plus a web portal for staff without a smartphone.
- Roster planning scores 6-7 on drag-and-drop rotas with templates, copy-previous-week, cross-site scheduling and a colour-coded difference column against the forecast before publishing.
- Payroll and integrations scores 6-7, with eight named payroll integrations, two managed-payroll partners (Outmin, Paperchase), payroll-ready exports and overtime rules that carry a payroll ID.
- Break rules are rankable by age, position, payroll department or location with dedicated under-18 rules, and overtime triggers run per day, week or contracted hours with Sunday and public-holiday hours tracked.
- A permissions collection of 21 articles provides custom and group roles, restricted view and edit of employee profiles, and a report of who has access to the account.

**Held against it:**
- Sovereignty scores 3-4, with contracting-entity jurisdiction, ownership, data residency and subprocessor exposure listed as unknown and no public information found on a subprocessor list or published data-processing agreement.
- Working time rules scores 5-6, and we found no public information on whether a flagged violation blocks publication or only warns, or on recorded overrides.
- Codetermination and privacy scores 4-6, with no public information found on an audit log of who viewed or changed an individual's data, on deletion periods, or on works-council documentation.
- We found no public information on a documented API (tech providers are invited to apply as partners), a lock step before payroll transmission, or a named POS provider behind the forecast.
- GPS clock-in with PIN and photo is presented without a stated default-off position, which judges raise as a first question for any works agreement.

**Best for:**
- You schedule shift-based teams across multiple hospitality or retail sites and want labour costs visible against a sales forecast while the rota is still editable.
- Your staff are deskless and need a free phone app for rotas, time-off requests, shift swaps and clock-in, with a web portal for those without smartphones.
- Your payroll runs on Sage, ADP iHCM, Xero, BrightPay, Moorepay, PayCaptain, Quantum or William, Stanley & Co, or you want a managed-payroll partner.
- You employ under-18s and need break and overtime rules that vary by age, position or location.

**Avoid if:**
- You must clear rollout with a works council first — codetermination and privacy scored 4-6 and we found no public information on audit logs, deletion periods or works-council documentation.
- You need a published subprocessor list and a known contracting-entity jurisdiction — sovereignty scored 3-4 with both listed as unknown, and the help centre itself runs on Intercom.
- You need violations blocked rather than flagged — working time rules scored 5-6 and we found no public information on whether a check stops publication.
- Your payroll handoff depends on a documented API or a German DATEV-style connection — we found no public information on either.

## 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 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Working-time law & collective agreements | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Mobile self-service for deskless staff | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Works council & employee data | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Payroll handoff & integrations | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2.5/5** |

### 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

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

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

**Compliance**
- Breach notification: Data breaches reported within 72 hours [S9]
- DPA available: Data Processing Agreement (DPA) or End User License Agreement [S9]
- Encryption: yes [S9]
- GDPR page: yes [S2]
- GDPR page: Site offers Security and GDPR pages [S11]
- GDPR programme: 2018-05-25 [S9]
- GDPR role: Data Processor · Data Controllers [S9]
- ISMS: implementing · ISO 27001:2013 [S9]
- Pia conduct: yes [S9]
- Security pages: yes · yes [S1]

**Data**
- Controller retention: controller [S9]

**Hosting**
- Data residency: EU · Amazon cloud (AWS) [S9]

**Integrations**
- Adp: ADP iHCM payroll integration available [S11]
- Become a partner: Tech providers can apply to become integration partners [S11]
- Brightpay: BrightPay payroll integration available [S11]
- Export: Payroll Ready Exports feature offered [S11]
- Managed payroll outmin: Outmin managed payroll partner [S11]
- Managed payroll paperchase: Paperchase managed payroll partner [S11]
- Moorepay: Moorepay payroll & HR integration available [S11]
- Paycaptain: PayCaptain payroll integration available [S11]
- Quantum: Quantum payroll integration available [S11]
- Sage: Sage payroll integration available [S11]
- Tronc: Free Tronc and Tip calculators offered as resources [S11]
- William stanley co: William, Stanley & Co. payroll integration available [S11]
- Xero: Xero payroll integration available [S11]

**Product**
- Access reports: yes · report of who has access to the account [S8]
- Account setup prerequisite: Login requires prior welcome email or text setup invite [S6]
- Admin per schedule labour sales percent: Account Admins can allocate labour sales % per schedule in General Forecast Settings [S3]
- Administrator role: account Administrator access can be granted [S8]
- Allowed spend formula: Sales Forecast * Forecast Labour Sales % [S3]
- App authentication: PIN · Biometric · 2FA [S6]
- App availability: yes · Android · iOS [S6]
- Ats integration: integrates with ATS and learning platforms [S1]
- Bi integration: yes [S2]
- Break clocking: yes · yes [S7]
- Break rules admin required: yes [S4]
- Break rules fallback default: yes [S4]
- Break rules grouping attributes: yes · yes · yes · yes · yes · yes [S4]
- Break rules hierarchy: yes [S4]
- Break rules minor age rules: Age-based break rules can apply to under-18 workers up to the day they turn 18 [S4]
- Break rules scheduled shifts: configurable [S4]
- Break time rules: Break time rules automatically deduct unpaid breaks from the Timecard based on hours worked [S4]
- Buddy punching prevention: anti-buddy-punching via PIN and photo capture [S1]
- Clock in verification: PIN · GPS · photo [S1]
- Clock pin view: Check your 4 digit clock in/out PIN [S6]
- Compliance alerts: yes · yes [S2]
- Costed rotas: costed rotas with drag-and-drop and instant labour costs [S1]
- Custom roles: yes · custom roles can be created [S8]
- Difference color coding: Difference column color-coded green under forecast, red over forecast [S3]
- Digital checklists: digital task checklists [S1]
- Employee messaging: secure employee messaging auto-grouped by schedule and location [S1]
- Employee profile permissions: view/edit access to Employee Profiles is restrictable [S8]
- Feature list: Smart Scheduling · Time & Attendance · Labour vs Sales Tracking · Internal Communication · Frontline HR · Leave Management · Certification Tracking · Payroll Ready Exports · Centralised Personnel Records · E-signature [S1]
- Feature permissions: Timestation viewing permission configurable [S8]
- Features list: Smart Scheduling · Time & Attendance · Labour vs Sales Tracking · Internal Communication · Frontline HR · Leave Management · Certification Tracking · Payroll Ready Exports · Centralised Personnel Records · E-signature · Workforce Management [S11]
- Forecast split per schedule: Forecast can be split per schedule or per location [S3]
- Forecasting: yes · yes [S2]
- Forecasts app operations suite: Forecasts app within the Operations Suite [S3]
- Gps clock in: Clock-in to work via your GPS location [S6]
- Gps clock in: Employees can clock in and out of shifts and breaks using the GPS Clock In feature in the MyZimply app [S7]
- Gps location verification: yes [S7]
- Group roles: yes · group roles can be set up [S8]
- HR records: centralised HR records for contracts, training, milestones [S1]
- Industries: Hospitality · Retail · Healthcare & Social Care · Franchise Groups · Services & Leisure · Manufacturing [S1]
- Industries: Hospitality · Retail · Healthcare & Social Care · Franchise Groups · Services & Leisure · Manufacturing [S11]
- Integration categories: Payroll · POS · Tronc and Tips · Back Office · Training · Hiring · Analytics · HR · Rewards and Benefits [S11]
- Labour analytics: real-time labour vs sales dashboards [S1]
- Labour budget insights: labour and sales percentages, labour budget insights [S2]
- Labour cost tracking: yes · yes · yes [S2]
- Labour hours graph: yes [S3]
- Labour hours tab: yes [S3]
- Labour sales percent requires forecast data: yes [S3]
- Labour sales percent tab: yes [S3]
- Labour savings claim: up to 5 hours saved per week [S2]
- Labour savings percent: Save 5-10% on Labour [S2]
- Live tracking: real-time attendance tracking [S1]
- Location groups: yes · location groups can be set up [S8]
- Messaging groups: self-managing chat groups by schedule and location [S2]
- Mobile app: MyZimply · schedules · time-off requests · clock-ins · shift trades · chat [S2]
- Mobile app: Employee app exists [S11]
- Multi location: yes · yes [S2]
- Multi location clock in: yes [S7]
- Multi site tracking: multi-site attendance, sales and shift tracking [S1]
- Myzimply app: MyZimply · view rota · request holidays · swap shifts [S1]
- Myzimply availability: yes · yes · Android · iOS [S7]
- Myzimply login: Employees log in to the app with the same credentials as the Bizimply web browser access [S7]
- Overtime bulk update method: Update Employee Profiles with Add Pay Records-Hourly function via CSV import [S5]
- Overtime calculation basis: regular hours worked · total hours worked incl. Sunday and Public Holiday hours [S5]
- Overtime costing methods: fixed rate · multiplier of base rate · premium added to basic rate [S5]
- Overtime custom pay types: yes · yes [S5]
- Overtime default assignment option: yes [S5]
- Overtime disable via settings: leave OT fields blank in Company Settings to disable overtime calculations in reports [S5]
- Overtime individual rate application: yes [S5]
- Overtime multiple rates ordering: yes [S5]
- Overtime reports impact: no overtime data calculated or displayed in reports when disabled [S5]
- Overtime requires active pay record: yes [S5]
- Overtime rule scope: yes · yes [S5]
- Overtime rule setup steps: name · payroll ID · type=Overtime · description · costing type · calculation trigger · hours threshold [S5]
- Overtime trigger basis: hours per day · hours per week · contracted hours [S5]
- Payroll exports: timesheet export and payroll integration [S2]
- Payrules admin required: Admin access required to set up Employee Pay Rules [S5]
- Permissions collection: Permissions · Giving and restricting access to Bizimply · 21 [S8]
- Personal details edit: View and edit personal details [S6]
- Pos integration: yes · yes [S2]
- Rota builder: drag-and-drop rota builder [S2]
- Schedule access: Access your Schedule and shift details [S6]
- Schedule labour sales percent formula: Scheduled Costs / Sales Forecast * 100 [S3]
- Scheduled costs local taxes: Scheduled costs include local taxes % from Company Settings [S3]
- Shift notifications: Receive notifications each time you are scheduled to work [S6]
- Shift swap offer: Offer or claim shifts [S6]
- Shift trades approval: yes [S2]
- Smart scheduling: predictive smart scheduling with staff mix suggestions [S1]
- Supported os versions: 13 · 7.1.1 [S6]
- Target industries: hospitality · retail · healthcare · leisure [S2]
- Task lists: Complete Task Lists if available [S6]
- Templates: yes · yes [S2]
- Time off requests: Request Time Off [S6]
- Timecard view: View your Employee Timecards [S6]
- Timestation: TimeStation · digital time and attendance replacing paper timesheets [S1]
- Trial: yes [S2]
- Unavailability management: View, set and manage your Unavailability [S6]
- Web portal fallback: web-based Employee Portal login available [S6]

**Support**
- Demo: 15-minute Zoom demo [S1]
- Demo: Zoom · 15 [S2]
- Demo format: Free 15-minute Zoom demo [S11]
- Intercom platform: Help center runs on Intercom [S8]
- Resources: Help Center · Webinars · Road Map · Bizimply University [S1]
- Resources: Help Center · Webinars · Timestation install guide · Employee App how-to guide · Road Map · Refer a Friend · Bizimply University [S11]
- Sar handling: SARs received are forwarded to the customer; Bizimply does not process them on the customer's behalf [S9]

## Questions

### Is Bizimply European?

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

### Where does Bizimply store data?

The default storage location for customer data is not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026. The vendor’s pages mention the EU as hosting location, per [the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026](https://whats-best.ai/evidence/7722).

### Does Bizimply have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to Bizimply?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [gastromatic (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/gastromatic), [Shiftbase (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/shiftbase) and [tamigo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/tamigo) 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: [Bizimply alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/employee-scheduling/bizimply/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (bizimply.com, bizimply.com/scheduling-software, support.bizimply.com/en/articles/5697127-forecasts-and-scheduling, support.bizimply.com/en/articles/3975045-how-to-add-break-time-rules-to-your-account, support.bizimply.com/en/articles/13335967-employee-pay-rules-overtime, support.bizimply.com/en/articles/4598910-myzimply-employee-app and 5 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 4 legal 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 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.
- 2 compliance 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 data 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.
- 2 sovereignty dimensions could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and are shown as unknown.
- 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://bizimply.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Roster building & demand planning — found from sitemap: https://www.bizimply.com/scheduling-software/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Roster building & demand planning — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/5697127-forecasts-and-scheduling (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Working-time law & collective agreements — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/3975045-how-to-add-break-time-rules-to-your-account (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Working-time law & collective agreements — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/13335967-employee-pay-rules-overtime (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Mobile self-service for deskless staff — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/4598910-myzimply-employee-app (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Mobile self-service for deskless staff — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/4967385-how-to-clock-in-out-via-myzimply-app (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Works council & employee data — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/collections/2277124-permissions (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S9] Works council & employee data — found from sitemap: http://support.bizimply.com/en/articles/4091636-bizimply-s-gdpr-commitment (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S10] Payroll handoff & integrations — found from sitemap: https://www.bizimply.com/payroll/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S11] Payroll handoff & integrations — found from sitemap: https://www.bizimply.com/integrations/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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

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