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Planday

We tested dozens of employee scheduling apps and picked the seven best. Read on to see which employee scheduling software will work best for you.

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If you've ever worked a shift-based job, "employee scheduling" probably brings to mind images of paper schedules hastily pinned to bulletin boards or taped to lockers.

7 employee scheduling apps for small businesses

The best employee scheduling software

Stay on top of your team's hours worked with this seamless automation between Deputy and Google Sheets. Whenever new timesheets are submitted in Deputy, this workflow will create a new row in a designated Google Sheets spreadsheet. This saves you time, improves accuracy, and makes it easy to monitor hours, overtime, and other time-based metrics for your team.

Deputy is an all-in-one employee scheduling, timesheets, tasking and communication platform. Used by thousands of businesses around the world it will improve profitability, staff culture and operational accountability.

Triggers when a new individual is added to your workplace, you can see them here. This is subject to you have workplace visibility.

New Colleague

Triggers when there is a new area or department created.

New Area/Department

Triggers when a new newsfeed post arrives.

New Post

Triggers when there is a new schedule for me.

New My Schedule

Triggers when there is a new timesheet that has been saved for me.

New My Timesheet

Triggers when a employee starts or ends their break.

Break Started or Finished

Triggers when there is a new location or company.

New Location

Triggers when there is a new employee created.

New Employee

Triggers when a timesheet needs to be completed, because an employee has forgotten to end their shift.

Forgot to End Shift (Timesheet Incomplete)

Triggers when someone is late to start their shift.

New Late Employee

Triggers when a new Leave request is submitted

New Leave

Triggers when there is a new notification for you.

New Notification

New Role

New Schedule

Get New Timesheets

Create a Company

Create Employee

Create Location

Create Announcement

Create Area/Department

Create Shift

Adds your unavailability to the calendar.

Create My Unavailability

Creates a new task for the specificed employee

Create Task

Creates a new sales data. Ideally this is an invoice or a transaction at it's most granular level. We overlay this data for schedule charting and other reporting.

Create Sales Data

End Shift

Start Shift

Create, edit, and share spreadsheets wherever you are with Google Sheets, and get automated insights from your data.

Google Sheets

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a Google Team Drive spreadsheet.

New Spreadsheet Row (Team Drive)

Triggers when a new row is added to the bottom of a spreadsheet.

New Spreadsheet Row

Triggers when a new spreadsheet is created.

New Spreadsheet

Triggers when a new row is added or modified in a spreadsheet - works best with Team Drives.

New or Updated Spreadsheet Row (Team Drive)

Triggers when a new row is added or modified in a spreadsheet.

New or Updated Spreadsheet Row

Triggers when a worksheet is created in a spreadsheet.

New Worksheet

Find up to 500 rows based on a column and value as line items.

Lookup Spreadsheet Rows (Advanced)

Find Worksheet

Return up to 500 rows as a single JSON value or as line items.

Get Many Spreadsheet Rows (Advanced)

Find a specific spreadsheet row based on a column and value. If found, it returns the entire row. Optionally, create a new row if no match is found.

Lookup Spreadsheet Row

Finds or creates a specific find worksheet.

Find or Create Worksheet

Find or Create Row

Create a new column in a specific spreadsheet.

Create Spreadsheet Column

Create a new row in a specific spreadsheet.

Create Spreadsheet Row

Create one or more new rows in a specific spreadsheet (with line item support).

Create Multiple Spreadsheet Rows

Creates a new worksheet by copying an existing worksheet.

Copy Worksheet

Creates a new spreadsheet. Choose from a blank spreadsheet, a copy of an existing one, or one with headers.

Create Spreadsheet

Creates a new worksheet in a Google Sheet.

Create Worksheet

Clears the contents of the selected row(s) while keeping the row(s) intact in the spreadsheet.

Clear Spreadsheet Row(s)

Deletes the selected row(s) from the spreadsheet. This action removes the row(s) and all associated data.

Delete Spreadsheet Row(s)

Format Spreadsheet Row

Update Spreadsheet Row

Update one or more rows in a specific spreadsheet (with line item support).

Update Spreadsheet Row(s)

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Get new timesheets from Deputy and create spreadsheet rows in Google Sheets

Effortlessly manage your schedule with this streamlined workflow between Google Calendar and Deputy. Whenever a new event is added to your Google Calendar, this automation will create an unavailability entry in Deputy, ensuring your work schedule remains up-to-date and conflict-free. Simplify your calendar management and focus on what truly matters.

Google Calendar lets you organize your schedule and share events with co-workers and friends. With Google's free online calendar, it's easy to keep track of your daily schedule.

Google Calendar

New Calendar

Triggers when an event is cancelled or deleted.

Event Cancelled

Event Ended

Triggers when a specified amount of time before an event starts.

Event Start

Triggers when an event is created or updated (except when it's cancelled).

New or Updated Event

New Event

Triggers when an event is created that matches a search.

New Event Matching Search

Find Event

Finds a specific event by its ID in your calendar.

Retrieve Event by ID

Finds multiple events in your calendar as line items.

Find Multiple Events

Find or Create Event

Invites one or more person to an existing event.

Add Attendee(s) to Event

Create Calendar

Delete Event

Create Detailed Event

Create an event from a piece of text. Google parses the text for date, time, and description info.

Quick Add Event

Updates an event. Only filled fields are updated.

Update Event

Create Deputy unavailabilities from new Google Calendar events

Activate this Zap and use your Google Sheets spreadsheet to automatically create an employee in your Planday portal. This integration saves you from juggling platforms and duplicating your data entry work.

Planday helps you build an employee schedule faster by taking into account staff vacation, availability, payroll costs and more.

Create an Employee in your Planday portal

Upload daily data to a data set in Planday

Update Data Sets - Daily

Upload hourly data to a data set in Planday

Update Data Sets - Hourly

Update Daily Revenue 

Create employees in Planday from new Google Sheets rows

Use this automation to add new Bamboo HR employees to Planday. 

BambooHR is an online human resources software service for small and midsized businesses.

BambooHR

New Employee Started

Triggers when a company report changes. Works best with reports sorted by a date field in descending order.

Changed Report

Triggers when a new time off is found for the selected conditions. Limited to those employees and time off types that you have view access to.

New Time Off

Triggers when a new time off request is created by an employee whose requests you're able to approve.

The best employee scheduling software

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