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Planday

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What is Planday?

Planday is online and mobile employee scheduling software designed to help shift-based businesses plan and communicate shifts, manage absences and leave, simplify hour registration, and streamline their payroll processes. Planday also facilitates simple team communication across the organization via SMS,…

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Planday is a versatile software that has garnered positive reviews from users who find it helpful in organizing and managing employee …
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Planday review

8 out of 10
December 09, 2016
Planday is used across the whole of POLPO Ltd to manage all of our employee information, generate schedules for all staff and produce …
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Starter

$2

Cloud
per user per month

Plus

$4

Cloud
per user per month

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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Planday?

Planday is online and mobile employee scheduling software designed to help shift-based businesses plan and communicate shifts, manage absences and leave, simplify hour registration, and streamline their payroll processes. Planday also facilitates simple team communication across the organization via SMS, emails and app notifications while storing employee information and contact details in one single place.

Planday Features

  • Supported: Easy and simple employee scheduling
  • Supported: Scheduling on the go with the Planday app
  • Supported: Easy team communication via SMS, emails and app notifications
  • Supported: Precise hour registration through the online and mobile punch clock

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Planday Integrations

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Planday Competitors

Planday Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesAll
Supported LanguagesEnglish, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

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Planday is a versatile software that has garnered positive reviews from users who find it helpful in organizing and managing employee shifts effectively, improving employee satisfaction, and saving time. With Planday, businesses can easily keep track of employee shift hours and attendance, ensuring accuracy in staff input of hours and streamlining the payroll process. The software provides up-to-the-minute information and connectivity for end users, allowing staff to access their shifts instantly and enhancing communication between managers and employees.

One of the key use cases of Planday is its ability to centralize staff information in one accessible place, providing comprehensive reporting capabilities and responsive customer support for queries and issues. It also offers customization and development options to meet specific needs, helping with labor cost control and tight management. Additionally, Planday assists with roster scheduling, holiday planning, absence management, and facilitates direct communication with team members, reducing reliance on agency staff by allowing employees to see and pick up open shifts.

Another valuable use case of Planday is its integration with existing systems and platforms for seamless operations. It simplifies planning and scheduling processes by reducing administrative time and increasing accuracy in hour collation. Users have found Planday to be a valuable tool for small businesses, dental clinics, and employee time tracking, scheduling, and managing time-off requests and availability. The software also enables businesses to spend less time on scheduling tasks so they can focus on other important tasks and provides team management capabilities along with time-tracking functionalities.

Furthermore, Planday offers a user-friendly experience through both its app and desktop version. It allows for quick shift coverage during emergencies, makes scheduling easy by updating schedules in seconds, and assists with budgeting and cost overview. The software also saves time on payroll by automating the process while ensuring accuracy in staff input of hours, holidays, etc. Additionally, Planday provides convenience through mobile apps by facilitating remote staff schedule management and offers a 30-day free trial for hesitant users.

It's important to note that while Planday has received positive reviews overall, it may not be suitable for certain types of work, such as multi-day tours, and some users have reported having a disappointing experience. However, its positive attributes, such as increasing productivity in rostering and absence management and enhancing communication between managers and employees, make it a valuable tool for many businesses.

Users commonly recommend several actions when using Planday. First, they suggest seeking support and a demonstration from Planday representatives or speaking to someone who is already using the system. This recommendation helps users navigate the initial setup process and ensure they make the most of Planday's capabilities.

Second, it is recommended to allocate enough time to properly set up Planday and give it a trial period. Users guarantee that investing this time will result in an efficient solution for staffing needs, including rostering multi-departmental, multi-skilled teams, managing availability, holidays, and budgeting.

Third, users advise saving time by creating schedule templates in Planday and making adjustments to them as needed, rather than creating new schedules from scratch each time. This recommendation helps streamline the scheduling process and ensures consistency and efficiency.

Overall, users highly recommend Planday due to its ease of use, transparency in managing various aspects of workforce management, and its efficiency in meeting staffing needs.

Reviews

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planday is a great tool for employee time tracking & scheduling! It really helped me streamline the scheduling process and manage time off requests and availability of my my team. The time clock feature is straightforward and easy to navigate. Employees can clock in via their phones and view their schedule on the go, which helps with confusion and missed shifts! Overall a great product for small business owners to keep their team coordinated, timely and informed!
  • Team Scheduling
  • Team Communication
  • Employee Time Keeping
  • Ability to assign tasks to employees and/or shifts.
  • Direct messaging between management and team members - not just the group chat.
Planday is a wonderful first step in organizing team management, such as mass communication, scheduling, time off requests, and centralized timesheets. I used it for my retail business and found it to be extremely helpful in communication with my team and keeping track of everyone scheduling needs in one place. As we grew, I noticed a need to assign tasks, which would be very helpful for larger companies or businesses with daily tasks that need to assigned to specific team members, departments, or shifts.
  • Team Communication
  • Scheduling
  • Time Keeping
  • Decreased my weekly scheduling time down to 20 minutes
  • Made payroll processing so much easier as I was able to export timesheets in a few seconds.
  • Increased overall team communication - saving me the time from individual conversations
Ultimately Planday is the perfect tool for simple straightforward team time management, communication and scheduling. I would like to see a task management feature added to Planday and perhaps some integration for employee rewards. Planday is leaps and bounds above Quickbooks Time, and TimeClock Plus but falls behind Deputy only slightly by having less features available. Overall I would recommend Planday to any small business owner with a team of 5-20!
Faisal Hussain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Planday is used within our support department, which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is used to maintain shift patterns for each of the teams within the department. We also use it to manage absences such as sick leave and annual leave. It gives a great overview of staffing for the department.
  • Provides an overview of staffing levels for each team, and the department as a whole.
  • The UI makes it very easy to get a snapshot view of the staffing levels for set time period.
  • Managing absences and arranging for shift swaps are also efficiently handled using Planday.
  • Has a rigid structure, so there is only one way to do any particular task.
This is very well suited where there is a rotating support structure with larger teams involved. Our department as a whole has 16 full-time team members, with 4 people per team. The management of absences such as annual leave, alongside busy schedules or even seasonal downtime, is a breeze with Planday.
  • So much easier to manage than an Excel spreadsheet!
  • The relatively low cost is completely outweighed by the time saved using Planday
Other than an Excel spreadsheet and countless templates, we haven't really used anything else.
December 09, 2016

Planday review

Charlotte Whiting | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Planday is used across the whole of POLPO Ltd to manage all of our employee information, generate schedules for all staff and produce accurate hours worked which translate to payroll. This is for employees working in front and back of the house. The system is also used for all documentation storage, holiday scheduling and reporting, wage tracking, employee tracking in terms of recruitment and retention, and communicating, either within departments or across the whole company.
  • Employee profiling - easy to tailor to your requirements, set up and use
  • Schedule writing & reporting - templates are flexible, fairly simple to write & user friendly (in terms of managers & staff)
  • Communication function - easy to use, efficient
  • Holiday functionality - currently under review, new system launching early 2017 which will improve accuracy, calculate balances and deliver a more user friendly experience
  • Payroll reporting - data is not all relevant, could be more flexible
  • Schedule - could be more flexible to show employees consistently working across the group on one schedule
I do recommend Planday to people, it of course depends on their needs/focuses. Planday is well suited to small groups who need to collate all of their staff/schedules, translate hours to pay and communicate to multiple departments. Planday used at its maximum can run multiple reports, look at wages vs. revenue, employee reports etc. The app has continued to improve since its inception and is user-friendly for staff schedules, updates, and communication.
  • Employee profiles - 99% of employee profiles are up to date with right work info/ID/contracts & personal details, compared to previous 50% (estimated)
  • Wages - consistently reviewed through Planday and updated to reflect sales, busy & non busy periods
  • Schedules - more efficient scheduling & accurate hours logged and therefore, translated to pay - consistent and efficient monitoring by head office/ops team and managers at site level, through clock in and out system.
We did not have a system previously. In terms of feedback from employees since the launch of Planday it has been very positive.
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