Planday Reviews

The layout is clean and neat which makes looking at a grid a little easier on the eyes. We use it to estimate time schedules for the week in order to keep overtime at a minimum. I also like the week view.

Sometimes Planday doesn’t load on our mobile devices so we log in to the site on our computer.

It would be nice to have a separate screen to view unavailable times (staff-entered days requested off). We make our schedules weeks in advance and if the staff enters their days off in Planday, we won’t know until trying to schedule them for shifts. I want the entire team to know when others have requested off so we won’t be short-staffed.

If it works for your schedule, save time by saving schedule templates and reuse them week after week. It’s better to tweak than create.

We used to write the schedule on a paper and add up hours on our fingers so Planday has given us the gift of time and efficiency. It’s been beneficial for the staff to view the most up-to-date schedule on the go. No more excuses!

Tracking Time & Attendance - Keeps a tight track on casual hours from a management perspective but also the employees love the app by giving them clear shift times and the option to make themselves unavailable and swap shifts.

Cutting Admin Time - easy to put together rotas and produce reports for payroll processing at month end.

Payroll visibility - easy to track daily, weekly and monthly payroll spend.

Even though it is relatively simple to learn how it works it does require some focus and backing from the management team.

Spend time on implementation and training.

Improved Employee satisfaction.

Admin time efficiency.

Increased accuracy in collating hours worked.

It actually does what you are promised it will do. This system has saved lots of man-hours by removing unnecessary tasks and improving access to schedules, etc. It has empowered my employees to take responsibility and best of all we've got an amazing communication tool that enables us to collate evidence and electronic signatures too.

There really isn't anything that springs to mind. Issues I've raised have been dealt with quickly and I'm told my ideas are in the pipeline.

Go for it, you won't be disappointed. This is an easy to use system that Managers and Employees love, it provides a transparent solution to budgeting, availability, holidays, etc. The communication element is great and the fact you can collect electronic signatures and gather evidence.

Communication, Budget Control, Transparency of all sites from any location. The ability to communicate and gather signed evidence is excellent and this has saved time, effort and paper.

I myself, a manager of a company and someone who does all the staffing really enjoys how easy planday is to use, staff, add new employees and edit shifts. It’s very customizable and easy to use

I don’t necessarily like how you can’t search employees by name or type their name in when putting them on a shift

Check it often, if you really implement it as a necessary action to your employees it can be utilized very successfully

I’ve definitely had the benefit of keeping track when my employees show up to an event and leave. Sometimes the GPS location is unavailable. That might be something to work on

So I am not sure what all the capabilities are for this app because I was only in end-user for a catering waiter job that I worked but it was nice to be able to see all the available shifts and requesting as well as in the information necessary for the got shift

I didn't like the calendar layout of this design it was very difficult to navigate and not very user-friendly

Scheduling

If you are a sports team or club that have caches hired by the hour this is the best software ever! We have 150 coaches running this software and everything is easier! From scheduling all the way to payout.

Not much to dislike, overall this is solid. We could use some more memory to build larger schedules.

We save money by keeping much better control over our employees schedule. By mangeging the schedule we save time for each semester.Together with our banks software we make payments really easy.

Before we started to use Planday, we explored a handful of scheduling websites and apps. Planday was by far the most straightforward and simple one.

I wish I could delete a shift right from the dashboard rather than having to open the shift to delete it.

Go through the sales call and learn about the different features. I learned more about what Planday offered by doing the setup call than I would have on my own.

We used to spend house creating scheduling docs in Excel. Being able to schedule online and have all our employees instantly have the new version of the schedule has been incredibly important to our business this year.

The overall look and the flexibility was very important for our needs. Many of the products available was very ridged approach which would be fine for many business out there. Our needs are unique and required a system that can bend closer to our needs.

There are some inconsistencies regarding their interface between the Admin and User GUI. Depending on which mode of viewing opening shifts will require flipping between windows instead of a single click function. It can be cumbersome and is often the cause of accidental shift selections.

Rethink how people can view and select their shifts on-line and mobile to be more consistent and with less steps.

The challenge was having an up-to-date, central point of reference where Staff, Relief or Volunteers can sign-up for available shifts based on their skills. Using this system allow us to offer on-line sign-ups instead of calling or physically writing their names onto a clipboard. Many of our members enjoys the conveniences of using the mobile apps.

We use this in an ice arena setting. It does what we need and is easy to use.

It takes some getting used to but overall not a bad program

We keep all of our shifts for all employees through planday. It helps us to be organized with who is where and when

How easy it is to find out whether you have to work today or not, what you have to do at work and stuff like that.

I actually cant find anything i diskuke to be honest :).

If your work does use planday, i would recommend using planday because of its easy access to your shifts.

That i know my schedule every day in and out.

The ability to message staff, the notice board, setting up events, the app! All very good

Would be great if system could sync to iCal etc, so i can look at my daily calendar and know what i'm doing!

Its very detailed, make sure you allocated time to set it all up properly. Once setup, its very easy to use

Payroll is vastly improved, staff always know when they are working so no more "oh, i didn't know i was in'. Time taken to write and cost rotas is now minutes as opposed to hours

With Planday, you will enjoy a plethora of tools in a simple, easy to manage, web-based software that you, your employees and managers can access anytime. It offers most of the capabilities and tools any business owner would expect to find when using the best and free staff scheduling software, and if you are a paying user, as I am, you will enjoy reliable, prompt customer support, including phone calls.

Sometimes I have to train the new employees for a few minutes before they get going, not a big deal.

Over the years, I have tried many different types of scheduling tools. I've used excel, pen and paper, ADP, etc and none of them seemed to work as well as Planday.

In terms of clocking-in or punching in, my employees use their smart phones, they have to be at work, and there have never been issues with this. I don't have to go back in and correct times or change passwords anymore.

Training my newest employees is easy now too. The app is clean. It has a user-friendly dashboard which helps you in navigation, so once it's on your phone your basically using it like you've been on it for years within the first few days.

Lastly, my team is growing. I manage many different types of people at my Vineyard. I can separate out my workers by locations and the positions they work. From there, I can easily create schedules and manage reports.

planning is important especially for companies. we used to write the schedule on a piece of paper. Planday has made it easy for us to write and share our notes. we can now focus on our other works and save our time.

Planday must integrate more functions to share with other friends who do not have Planday yet

Planday is very useful because Planday is simple and very efficient. I highly recommend the use of planday

Planning problems.

Allows ia to create different departments and each individual had the ability to access their schedule from just about everywhere.

Digital contracts needs to be updated to allow multiple signatures and initials throughout similar to DocuSign.

Set up admin roles ahead of time

Solved scheduling conflicts

Rapidité et flexibilité de l'application on peut changer d'horaire avec les autre employés

Rien à dire la dessus meilleure application de ce genre

Essayer et vous verrez comment on sauve du temps

Sauver du temps de plannification

The user interface is intuitive and I really like the swap-shift features.

There's nothing to complain about really. It stands up well against the other main players in the market.

Swap-shift functionality means that employees can easily swap shifts with other staff, (assuming they have the same skill-set), automatically using the mobile app. This reduces the management burden of the duty manager and gives staff more flexibility, increasing engagement.

1) The ease of employees to check their schedules.

2) The ease of scheduling employees based on their availabilities.

3) Sending messages to specific groups or individuals.

The only problem is if an employee does not have a smartphone or use their computer very often.

Definitely give it a trial period - I guarantee you will adjust to it and it will be very efficient to your staffing needs.

Accuracy in scheduling.

Ability to cover shifts quickly during emergency situations.

User Interface is satisfactory. But it still needs a lot of improvements.

Unfair and nontransparent pay term. I do not trust them anymore. They will try to put you on a commitment without your confirmation. GPS Tracking was never working well, and also it calculates the total hours in minutes, its supposed to be in hours.

Spend your time on a google spreadsheet rather than dealing with Planday. The quality is average, and do not expect any magic from Planday.

I was using it for Employee Scheduling.

Simple and easy to use, employees can see everything in real-time and no more excuses

Nothing. Everything is easy to navigate and set up is easy.

Yes very

Scheduling has never been easier and updated within seconds.

How easy it is to edit schedules and create templates.

The app has some restrictions that make it difficult to edit

Scheduling is much easier, creating set scheukes for positions and employees

Easy app to use for both management and staff.

Scheduling can be done in advance.

great tool for budgeting.

New update needs some polishing, page loads very slow

Budgeting

- great tool for team management and communication

- sometimes the homepage gets stuck and needs rebooting

- team management & time tracking

- personal cost overview

Simplicity, offecient Good för time keeeping and controling

None at all Good specially when you get message about any changers

Time

For us it is very important that planday works on different devices.

We would like to have a more developed message system in Planday.

Planday makes it possible for us to spend less time on scheduling and more time on our members.

Being able to check the schedule on my mobile.

some features work better or only on one platform not the other.

it's easy to manage the schedule for our remote staff. It's easy to track who signs in when.

Learning the features was very easy!!!!!

I wish the sms messaging was different ...

Try it and tell the reps what you want and they can help find solutions for you

Easily viewing schedules and filling in gaps

Easy to review from smartphone and pull schedules quickly.

Nothing that I can think of at the moment

I had no issues with the program overall

Team is able to clock in and out from phone

Easy to I use and easy phone access with lots of flexibility

Breaks and reports where a hassle and sometimes froze

Easy access to schedule