Planday vs. Surfboard

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Planday
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
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.
$2
per user per month
Surfboard
Score 0.0 out of 10
N/A
Surfboard headquartered in London offers tools for customer service teams to provide betterservice while improving team culture. Surfboard builds schedules to ensure users are on track to hit service targets while also working to reduce fatigue by rotating surfers to different tasks throughout the day. Users can create and customise activities for everything the user's team works on, from service to admin and development. Surfboard does the hard work to schedule activities at the right time to…
$15
per month per seat
Pricing
PlandaySurfboard
Editions & Modules
Starter
$2
per user per month
Plus
$4
per user per month
Starters
£15
per month per seat
Scalers
£25
per month per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PlandaySurfboard
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
PlandaySurfboard
Likelihood to Recommend
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User Testimonials
PlandaySurfboard
Likelihood to Recommend
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.
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Pros
  • Team Scheduling
  • Team Communication
  • Employee Time Keeping
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Cons
  • Has a rigid structure, so there is only one way to do any particular task.
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Alternatives Considered
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
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Return on Investment
  • 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.
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