Best Employee Scheduling Software

Planday is a workforce management platform headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and owned by Xero since its acquisition in 2021. It focuses on shift-based industries such as hospitality, retail, and events, offering schedule building that accounts for employee availability and skills, time tracking, absence management, and team communication tools.

Planday offers three plans: Starter, Plus, and Pro, all priced per user per month with a minimum of 5 users on the entry tier. The official pricing page advertises rates "from £2.99" but does not display exact per-tier figures publicly, directing visitors to start a 30-day free trial or contact sales for a quote. The Pro tier is fully custom-priced and adds auto-scheduling, custom permissions, and dedicated phone support.

Bizimply is a workforce management platform founded in Dublin, Ireland by former cafe operators who wanted an easier way to handle scheduling and day-to-day operations. It is built around three suites: Workforce Management, Operations, and Human Resources, and is aimed primarily at hospitality, retail, and healthcare businesses that manage hourly, shift-based staff across multiple locations.

Core capabilities include drag-and-drop rota building, photo-verified clock-ins through its Timestation app, time-off and accrual tracking, task and checklist management, and team messaging through the MyZimply app. Bizimply does not publish specific prices or offer a free trial; pricing is quoted individually based on employee count, number of locations, and which product suites a business selects.

WorkSchedule.Net is a cloud-based employee scheduling tool from Program Works, Inc., aimed at businesses that need to build and manage staff schedules online. It offers drag-and-drop schedule creation, template import, and a rule-based automatic scheduling engine that can assign shifts based on employee availability, maximum hours, and qualifications, ranging from fully automated to manual assignment with suggestions.

Employees can swap or claim open shifts, request time off, and clock in through the mobile app or web timesheets, with notifications sent by email, text, or in-app message. Pricing is per user per month, starting at $3.49 with a 10-user minimum, and drops with longer commitment terms, alongside a free trial.

7shifts is a scheduling and team management platform built specifically for restaurants, used by tens of thousands of locations. It combines drag and drop and AI assisted scheduling with time clocking, labor cost budgeting against sales forecasts, shift trading, team messaging, and compliance tools that flag overtime and labor law issues.

Pricing is charged per location per month across a free Comp plan and three paid tiers, Essentials, Pro, and Premium, each raising the included employee count and adding features like PTO tracking, payroll, and tip and task management. The Saskatoon, Canada based company also sells add on modules such as payroll, tip management, and employee onboarding separately for teams that need only specific tools.

Shiftboard, marketed under the ScheduleFlex product line, is a workforce scheduling platform aimed at large organizations with complex shift patterns, such as those in energy, manufacturing, utilities, and corrections. It automates schedule building, shift trades, and overtime distribution based on rules like seniority and qualification, and it enforces union and labor agreement compliance. UKG acquired Shiftboard in May 2025, and the product is now marketed as "Shiftboard, a UKG Company" while continuing to operate its own website and brand.

Shiftboard does not publish specific prices; plans are quoted individually and typically require a minimum number of users. Two main tiers, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, are available, with the Plus tier adding fatigue and safety compliance features such as qualification expiry tracking and job proficiency management.

ZoomShift is a US-based employee scheduling and time tracking tool designed for hourly workforce businesses like restaurants and retail stores. It offers weekly, daily, and monthly schedule views, shift templates, availability tracking, and shift swapping, alongside a web and mobile time clock with GPS and IP-based location checks.

Plans are priced per active team member per month. A free Essentials tier supports up to 20 users with basic scheduling, while paid Starter and Premium tiers add unlimited users and locations, payroll reporting, geofenced time clocks, auto-scheduling, and role-based permissions. All paid plans include a 14-day free trial with no credit card required.

Snap Schedule is employee scheduling software made by Business Management Systems, a company based in Anaheim, California that has built scheduling tools since 2008. The product line includes Snap Schedule 365, a cloud-based subscription service, and Snap Schedule Premium, a Windows desktop application sold under a one-time perpetual license. Both versions target complex scheduling needs in industries like public safety, utilities, healthcare, and transportation.

Snap Schedule 365 is billed annually per "scheduler" (the person building schedules), with each scheduler able to manage unlimited employees, plus an optional employee access add-on priced per employee for self-service features. Volume discounts apply as the number of schedulers or employees grows, and a 30-day free trial is available.

Nowsta is a cloud-based workforce management platform built for businesses that rely on hourly and gig workers, such as caterers, event companies, and hospitality operators. It combines scheduling, geofenced time tracking with photo verification, staffing agency work orders, and a marketplace of vetted flex labor into one system, alongside Nowsta Instant Pay for same-day access to earned wages.

Managers use Nowsta to build AI-assisted schedules, monitor labor law compliance, and generate reports that combine scheduling and talent data. Workers get a mobile app for shift visibility, availability management, and SMS-based communication. Nowsta does not publish specific pricing tiers publicly and directs prospects to request a custom demo.

Humanity is a cloud-based employee scheduling platform originally built as an independent company before being acquired by TCP Software in 2020. The product is now marketed as Humanity Schedule by TCP, and the original humanity.com domain redirects to TCP Software's website. It uses AI-based demand forecasting to help managers build schedules that match staffing to predicted business needs while accounting for employee availability, skills, and labor rules.

The platform includes shift planning, time and attendance tracking, compliance rule enforcement, and a mobile app with Apple Watch support. Plans are billed per employee per month, starting with an Essentials tier for smaller teams and scaling to a custom Enterprise tier with HCM integrations for larger organizations.

Workforce.com (formerly Tanda) is a workforce management platform purpose-built for shift-based businesses, combining employee scheduling, time and attendance, HR, and payroll in one cloud system. Its scheduling engine forecasts labor needs and reacts to call-outs with shift swapping and bidding, while GPS and selfie-verified clock-ins reduce buddy punching and give managers real-time visibility into labor costs against budget.

The platform is offered as modular plans, All-in-One, Scheduling, Payroll, and HR, each of which includes employee profiles, the mobile app, communication tools, and reporting. Workforce.com does not publish specific prices; cost depends on modules chosen, staff count, and implementation needs, requiring a custom quote from sales.