Planday
Platform to create schedules, track time and communicate with hospitality teams.
Planday manages schedules, time tracking and communication with hospitality teams. Scheduling and team messaging are easy to rebuild. Working-time rules, on the other hand, need legal monitoring. If you build, do not calculate legal hours: export them to your accountant.
What you lose
- The mobile app's push notifications.
- Integrations with payroll and the till.
- The vendor's support.
Existing alternatives to Planday
- SlingFree
Team scheduling free up to 30 users, paid plans from $2/user/month.
- ComboSmaller vendor
Scheduling, time clocking, contracts and payroll preparation for restaurants, hotels and shops, 7-day trial.
- ShiftbaseSmaller vendor
Scheduling, time clocking and absences for restaurants and hotels, French interface, 14-day trial.
The prompt to build it yourself
Build me a scheduling, time-tracking and team communication tool, for my venue, to replace a subscription. Stack: web app (Next.js or Node/Express) with SQLite, hosted on my small server, usable on phone and computer. No mandatory paid service, no telemetry. Core of the tool: - Schedule per position with publishing and notifications to the teams. - Time clocking and time tracking, leave. - Team message thread per shift. Requirements: - Weekly schedule by position and by shift, with drag and drop, copy of the previous week and publication to the teams. - Availability and leave requests entered by the employee, approved by the manager. - Configurable alerts: 11 h rest between two shifts, 10 h of work per day, weekly working time. Default values from the French Labour Code, to be adapted to the HCR collective agreement by my accountant. - CSV export of hours per employee and per period, for my accountant. - Employee data: role-based access (manager, employee), password or magic link, change log. Out of scope: payroll and hardware time-clock integrations. README: installation, backup, and a reminder that this tool is not payroll software and calculates no salary, no DSN, no DPAE, and that legal counts remain to be checked by my accountant.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Planday be replaced by a custom-built tool?
- casevibecode verdict: Partly replaceable. Planday manages schedules, time tracking and communication with hospitality teams. Scheduling and team messaging are easy to rebuild. Working-time rules, on the other hand, need legal monitoring. If you build, do not calculate legal hours: export them to your accountant.
- What is Planday used for?
- Platform to create schedules, track time and communicate with hospitality teams.
- What alternatives to Planday already exist?
- Sling (free), Combo (smaller vendor), Shiftbase (smaller vendor). Options to compare before committing to a custom build.
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