Planday
Xero
Shift scheduling and time tracking for hourly teams, from $2.99 a user
Planday, owned by Xero, builds shift schedules, runs a punch clock and kiosk app, handles shift swaps and turns approved hours into payroll reports. Starter is $2.99 per user a month with a 5-user minimum and covers scheduling, time tracking and one department. Plus is $4.49 per user a month plus a $15 monthly fee, with a 10-user minimum, and adds leave management, revenue against staff costs, and payroll and POS integrations such as QuickBooks Online, ADP, Paychex, Square and Clover; Pro is priced by quote. Users are billed in bundles of five, billing is monthly or quarterly, and the 30-day trial of Plus needs no card. It suits restaurants, bars, hotels and shops with hourly staff at one or several sites. It is not for a solo owner or an office team on fixed hours, and it does not book customer appointments.
Cost at your size
Team size
For 6 people: $17.94 a month.
Planday costs $7.56 less than the median scheduling tool for 6 people ($25.50).
Planday pays for itself if it saves less than an hour a month at $30 an hour, our assumption.
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Figures from the vendor's published prices. How we calculate prices
What Planday connects to
Payroll & HR
Payroll & HR tools in our catalog · found on vendor and marketplace pages, October 2026 · 0 of 1 checked by us
Has a Zapier app
Sources
- QuickBooks Payroll: help.planday.com/en/articles/30376-quickbooks-online-integration-setup-guide-with-planday, found 2026-10-26
Getting help with Planday
- How to reach them
- Live chat: every plan · 7 days a week with extended hours; an English-speaking team covers evenings and weekends
- Email: Plus and up
- Callback: Pro only
- Help center: every plan
- Response time
- An AI bot answers first; the support team takes over when needed; Call-back service with specialists assigned to your account on Pro (Pro only)
- Onboarding
- Free live webinars with an onboarding consultant (every plan)
- Paid one-to-one product training, $150 an hour in the US (every plan)
2 incidents posted on Xero's status page in the 90 days to Oct 27, 2026; 0 marked major or critical by Xero. Status page
A vendor that posts every small issue can show more incidents than one that posts few, so a low count doesn't prove fewer problems.
From Xero's support and pricing pages, October 2026 · checked by us 2026-10-26 · How we gather this
Sources
- planday.com/contact, read 2026-10-26
- help.planday.com/en/, read 2026-10-26
- help.planday.com/en/articles/121023-planday-training-overview, read 2026-10-26
- planday.com/pricing, read 2026-10-26
- Live chat: “Chat to a member of our customer experience team directly in Planday to get help and support in your language.” (planday.com/pricing)
- Live chat hours: “Our team is available 7 days a week, with extended working hours. In the evenings and on weekends, our English-speaking team is on-hand to help.” (planday.com/pricing)
- Email: “Get help straight to your inbox from our customer experience team.” (planday.com/pricing)
- Callback: “Dedicated phone support (call back service)” (planday.com/pricing)
- Help center: “Browse the self-help guides and FAQs anytime in English, Danish, German, Norwegian and Swedish” (help.planday.com/en/articles/121023-planday-training-overview)
- Response time: “Our AI bot Otto provides initial help, but our customer experience team are always available, should you need them.” (planday.com/contact)
- Response time: “Schedule a call back at a time that is convenient for you with our Customer Experience Specialists dedicated to your account.” (planday.com/pricing)
- Onboarding: “Join a free, interactive session with a Senior Onboarding Consultant to learn the basics.” (help.planday.com/en/articles/121023-planday-training-overview)
- Onboarding: “$150 USD (US)” (help.planday.com/en/articles/121023-planday-training-overview)
Why people pick it
- Punch clock, kiosk app and shift swaps on every plan
- Plus tracks staff costs against POS revenue
Where it falls short
- 5-user minimum, billed in bundles of five
- Leave, payroll integrations and email support need Plus
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