Employee Scheduling · Alternatives
Sling alternatives
As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Ordio (3/5), Shiftbase (3/5) and gastromatic (3/5) highest among the other 27 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 Ordio (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
European alternatives to Sling
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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Ordio
EU-MadePanel rating
Ordio is a shift-planning, time-tracking and payroll-export platform from Ordio GmbH of Cologne for restaurants, retail and bakeries, priced per location.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Shiftbase
EU-MadePanel rating
Shiftbase, a Dutch scheduling and time-clock service for shift businesses, scored strongest on roster planning — a flat 8 with no spread.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 22 Sep 2026
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gastromatic
EU-MadePanel rating
gastromatic is employee-scheduling software for hospitality and retail from vertical cloud solution GmbH of Darmstadt; persona-weighted totals run 5.7 to 6.6.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
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tamigo
EU-MadePanel rating
tamigo ApS, a Danish workforce-management vendor for retail and hospitality chains, was scored on seven criteria, with weighted totals from 5.3 to 6.5.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
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Quinyx
EU-MadePanel rating
Quinyx AB is a Swedish workforce-management vendor with a Hamburg-registered German subsidiary, selling AI-based scheduling to retail and hospitality chains.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Skello
EU-MadePanel rating
Skello, an employee-scheduling SaaS from Skello SAS of Paris, scored mid-range on the core work: roster planning at 6-7, working time rules and staff self-service at 6, codetermination and privacy at 5-6, with persona-weighted totals of 5.2 to 5.8.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Staffomatic
EU-MadePanel rating
Staffomatic is a shift planner from easyPEP UG (haftungsbeschränkt) in Hamburg, priced at 2,00 € Basic, 4,00 € Professional and 6,00 € Premium per person per month.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
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ShiftJuggler
EU-MadePanel rating
ShiftJuggler is cloud-based employee scheduling from SSH Online-Services GmbH of Berlin.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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e2n
EU-MadePanel rating
e2n, from E2N GmbH of Würzburg, Germany, is a hospitality scheduling, time-recording and payroll-preparation tool whose bench scoring is highest on the payroll handoff: payroll and integrations scored 6 to 7, crediting the DATEV Lohn&Gehalt export with a monthly lock, surcharges mapped to tax-free and taxable wage types, advances, short-time work and cost centres, plus zeit-lohn.net of Lohn AG as a second named destination.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Aplano
EU-MadePanel rating
Aplano is a shift planner and time clock for small and mid-sized shift businesses, from Aplano GmbH of Berlin.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Planday
EU origin, foreign-ownedPanel rating
Planday is an employee scheduling platform from Planday A/S of Copenhagen, owned by New Zealand's Xero since 2021.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Combo
EU-MadePanel rating
Combo, from Combo SAS of Paris (formerly Snapshift), is shift planning and time tracking software for hospitality and retail.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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RotaCloud
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
RotaCloud, an employee scheduling product from Kettle and Keyboard of York, England, is strongest on payroll and integrations, with named routes to PayCaptain, Staffology and Sage and HR syncs with Breathe and People.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
Other alternatives
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Connecteam
Rest of worldPanel rating
Connecteam, operated by Mobilesson Ltd.
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Deputy
Rest of worldPanel rating
Deputy is an employee scheduling platform from Deputechnologies Pty Ltd; the captured pages name Deputy Corporation, San Francisco, as the contracting entity.
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Shyftplan
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Shyftplan, an employee scheduling product from shyftplan GmbH in Berlin aimed at medium to large companies and industrial operations, scores best on roster planning at 6-7: judges credit automatic roster generation from demand data via SAP S/4HANA plus ERP, APS and MES connections, qualification management keeping certified staff on critical positions, and open shifts claimable in the app.
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Homebase
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Homebase is an all-in-one app for hourly teams — scheduling, time tracking, messaging, HR and payroll — priced per location instead of per employee.
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Agendrix
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Agendrix Inc.
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Bizimply
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Bizimply Ltd's employee scheduling software for shift-based businesses earned its highest scores on roster planning, payroll and integrations, and staff self-service, where they cluster at 6-7.
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7shifts
Rest of worldPanel rating
7shifts is a restaurant scheduling platform judged strongest at roster planning and pricing transparency: schedules carry roles and departments, open shifts fill through a Shift Pool under manager approval, forecasting runs off POS data, and the four plans and the priced add-ons all carry public per-month-per-location figures — Comp free up to 15 employees, Essentials $39.99 up to 30, Pro $79.99 up to 60, Premium $134.99 unlimited — with a stated 10% annual saving and no contract required.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 2 Nov 2026
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When I Work
Rest of worldPanel rating
When I Work is an employee scheduling and time-and-attendance tool from When I Work, Inc.
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Workforce.com
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Workforce.com pairs demand-based scheduling with attendance, HRIS and payroll natively embedded in one login, and reports over 10,000 businesses.
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Humanity
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Humanity Schedule, an employee-scheduling product from Humanity, Inc., a TCP Software company, scores best on roster planning at 6-7: the pages document AI demand forecasting, auto-built "compliant" schedules, qualified-staff matching and open shifts, though the forecast's data source is never named.
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Findmyshift
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Findmyshift is a browser-based employee scheduling tool from Findmyshift B.V., contracted under Dutch law with exclusive jurisdiction in Amsterdam.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 2 Nov 2026
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Workfeed
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Workfeed, from Workfeed ApS, is employee scheduling software centred on an employee app, and the scoring is lopsided.
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ZoomShift
Provenance unknownPanel rating
ZoomShift is an employee scheduling product whose scores are strongest on staff self service (6 to 7) and roster planning (5 to 6), and weakest on codetermination and privacy (1 to 2) and sovereignty (0), where we found no public information on hosting, the contracting entity, subprocessors or a data processing agreement.
- Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 13 Oct 2026
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Beeple
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Beeple BV sells roster management software to larger staffing agencies with teams of more than 20 employees.