Connecteam Alternatives

Homebase is the closest swap for a small business that mainly uses Connecteam for the schedule and the time clock. The big difference is the billing unit: Homebase charges per location, not per user, and every paid plan says "unlimited employees". Basic is $0 for one location with up to 10 employees and covers basic scheduling, basic time tracking and a point-of-sale integration. Essentials costs $30 per location per month on monthly billing, or $24 on annual billing, and adds advanced scheduling, advanced time tracking and team communication. Plus costs $70 monthly or $56 yearly per location, with an AI scheduling assistant, PTO controls and departments; All-in-One costs $120 monthly or $96 yearly, with onboarding and HR and compliance tools.

How the price reads against Connecteam: a 25-person cafe on Homebase Essentials pays $24 a month on annual billing, whatever the headcount, while Connecteam's Operations Hub Advanced starts at $49 a month for the first 30 users, and the chat sits in a second hub. The flat price stops being cheap when you open sites: three locations on Essentials cost $72 a month yearly. Payroll is an add-on on every plan, $49 a month plus $6 per employee paid ($29 a month for teams up to 5), so a 20-person payroll adds $169 a month, more than the scheduling plan itself. Tip: Homebase also sells a Tip Manager at $25 per location per month that pulls tips from your POS into timesheets, which is worth pricing before you build a tip-pool spreadsheet.

When I Work is a scheduling app first. It has two plans: $2.50 per user per month for a single location or schedule, and $5 per user per month for multiple locations or schedules, billed month to month or annually. Every plan includes employee scheduling, time and attendance with GPS clock-in, and team messaging. The single-location plan lists auto scheduling, time-off and availability requests, standard labor reports and forecasts, and payroll and POS integrations; the multi-location plan adds unlimited job sites, labor sharing between departments and locations, custom reporting and role permissions. Shift swapping and open shift planning come with every plan. You start with a fully featured 14-day trial with no credit card.

How the price reads against Connecteam: per-user pricing is cheap for small teams and linear as you grow. Twelve users on the single-location tier cost $30 a month, about what Connecteam's Operations Hub Basic costs on annual billing for up to 30 users; at 30 users, When I Work's entry tier reaches $75 a month, against $29 for Connecteam Basic yearly. The trade is depth of scheduling: When I Work spends its features on the rota rather than on checklists, forms or a training library. Tip: if your managers lose hours swapping shifts by text, OpenShifts with shift swapping alone often justifies the switch; run your busiest week inside the trial, not a quiet one. If you are already on When I Work and weighing a move, see our When I Work alternatives.

Deputy is the workforce management pick for teams with compliance on their mind. On annual billing, Lite costs $5 per user per month with basic scheduling, timesheets and time clocking, labor law compliance, shift swaps, leave and availability, messaging and a news feed, and payroll and HR integrations. Core costs $6.50 per user per month and adds auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, wage and labor budgets, timesheet auto approval and biometric time clocking. Pro costs $9 per user per month and adds custom access levels, location hierarchies, pay centers, single sign-on and a sandbox. Prices exclude taxes, and add-ons are sold separately: HR at $2, Messaging+ at $1.95 and Analytics+ at $1.50 per user per month billed monthly, while Deputy Payroll, run with Paycor, is available on annual Core and Pro plans in the US.

How the price reads against Connecteam: Deputy counts everyone. Its FAQ says all users, administrators and supervisors count in your total, so a 40-person team with 5 managers pays for 45 seats, $292.50 a month on Core yearly. Monthly plans carry a minimum spend of $30 per invoice, which a team of four on Lite would hit before its seat count does. Annual plans are charged up front and are not refunded if you cancel before the 12 months end. Tip: if you sit on monthly billing, add new hires at the start of the month, since Deputy charges a new user the full monthly price even when added five days before month end. For more options, read our guide to switching from Deputy.

Sling gives away the part of Connecteam most small teams use daily: the schedule. Its core shift scheduling is free for up to 30 users, with time-off requests, available shifts, news sharing, long-term scheduling and one-to-one messaging. Premium costs $1.70 per user per month and adds mobile time tracking, labor cost management, overtime tracking, private and group messaging and calendar sync. Business costs $3.40 per user per month and adds kiosk time tracking, reports, no-shows, sick call-outs and PTO management. Both prices are the annual rates; paying annually saves 15% against monthly billing. Sling is owned by Toast, and Toast customers see their plans in the Toast Shop. Paid plans come with a 15-day free trial.

How the price reads against Connecteam: Sling's free plan covers 30 people for scheduling, three times the headcount of Connecteam's Small Business plan, but only for the schedule. Once you need a time clock, 30 users on Premium cost $51 a month yearly, roughly Connecteam's Operations Advanced at $49. Sling's fair billing policy prorates your account when a team member leaves or is deactivated, which helps seasonal businesses. Tip: start on the free plan for the rota, and only switch on Premium for the staff who clock in, since you pay for people who use the platform. Our Sling Make integration guide shows how to push shifts to other apps.

Workyard is built for jobsites, where Connecteam is a general deskless app. Plans start at $6 per user per month billed annually, with monthly billing also available. Starter covers the GPS time clock app, break and overtime rules, notes, receipts and photos on time cards, an audit history of approvals and edits, and one-click exports to QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, ADP and Gusto. Pro adds office to field scheduling and tasks, and turns time into job costing: workers who clock in assign their time to projects and cost codes, labor costs are calculated on every clock out, and a live dashboard per project shows time, cost, mileage and travel time. Autopilot adds AI timekeeping that finds and fixes a pay period of timecards; only the entry price is published, and Enterprise goes through sales.

How the price reads against Connecteam: Workyard is a per-user price with no bundle, so a 15-person crew starts at $90 a month on annual billing, against $49 for Connecteam's Operations Advanced. You pay the gap for cost-code job costing and project labor dashboards. The trade is the rest of the deskless stack: Workyard is about time, jobs and payroll, so office announcements and training stay in another tool. Tip: import your jobs and cost codes from your accounting system before the first payroll, so crews pick from a clean list on their phones instead of free text. Our timesheet software ranking compares more time trackers.

Jibble is a time tracker with a free plan that has no user cap: it states "Free forever" for "Unlimited users". The free plan covers desktop time tracking, mobile and web clock-ins, basic timesheets and integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams and QuickBooks, and Jibble says GPS and facial recognition are part of the free offering. Kiosk clock-ins, geofencing and live location for field staff are on its feature list too. Jibble's public pricing pages show only the free plan and no paid price, so ask Jibble for one before you budget a paid tier.

How the price reads against Connecteam: a 40-person team that only needs to clock in pays nothing on Jibble, while Connecteam's free Small Business plan stops at 10 users and its Limited plan at 30. The catch is scope: Jibble is a time tracker, so Connecteam's chat, forms, checklists and training need another home. Tip: set up geofences before you roll Jibble out to field staff, so the first week of timesheets is already clean, and push clock-ins to your other apps with the Jibble Zapier integration.

Buddy Punch is a time clock with a clear price list. On annual billing, Starter costs $4.99 per user per month, Pro $6.99 and Advanced $12.99; on monthly billing they cost $5.99, $7.99 and $13.99. Every plan adds a $19 base fee per month, and annual billing saves up to 18%. The add-ons are priced in the open: real-time GPS at $2 per user per month (included in Advanced), the drag-and-drop schedule builder at $1 per user (included from Pro), onboarding and tasks at $4 per user (listed as coming soon), advanced reporting at $2 per user, and six years of data retention at $24 per user per year. The trial lasts 14 days with no credit card.

How the price reads against Connecteam: 10 people on Starter yearly cost $68.90 a month, which is more than Connecteam's Operations Basic for up to 30 users; Buddy Punch makes sense when you want the time clock itself to be precise and payroll-ready rather than a bundle of hubs. If you add live GPS and scheduling to Starter, the seat price climbs from $4.99 to $7.99, so Pro, which includes scheduling, is often the better starting point. Tip: if you are audited on hours, price the data retention add-on before you choose: it keeps six years of records for $24 per user per year.