About Deputy
Deputy is an all-in-one employee scheduling, time & attendance tracking (digital time clock), tasking and communication platform. Use Deputy's mobile apps to manage your team from anywhere. Deputy iPad kiosk app provides clock in/out for employees with complete self service. All powered by simple, intuitive design.
Deputy provides an end-to-end solution for managing your workforce. From employee scheduling (rostering) to payroll integration, all provided as one solution. Do your scheduling using our web or mobile app and publish to your staff via email/sms/push notification with the option of having your employees confirm their shifts. Employees can clock in using Deputy mobile apps with geo-location tagging or they can use the Deputy Kiosk iPad app with face detection. Transfer your virtual timesheets to cloud payroll solutions seamlessly with full overtime calculations. Or download to file for excel or on-premise analysis. It's simple, it's easy and it's fast!
Pricing starting from:
US$4,50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Deputy
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
US$4,50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Top 5 alternatives to Deputy
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Total features of Deputy: 104
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- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Excellent & Easy to Use Time Management System
Reviewed on 2016/10/28
Our experience with Deputy right from the very beginning has been nothing but fantastic. If you...
Our experience with Deputy right from the very beginning has been nothing but fantastic. If you have any questions, they are answered, if you need help you can get it & it is also very cost effective.
We employ about 30 people & work in the Construction Industry. Due to the fact that there are many varied competencies involved in the type of works we do and there is also a number of different locations on any given day, rostering our staff used to be an absolute headache. Since implementing Deputy we have found this task to be completely trouble free. When we add our Employees to Deputy we input all of their relevant "Training" which includes competencies & site inductions which assists us tremendously when choosing who we can roster to the many different daily tasks we undertake. Our industry also requires that hours of work is reported of which is another feature Deputy is of tremendous value for. Not to mention the ease of actually paying our Employees each week via the connection with Xero.
Pros
The most helpful feature for us is the "Training" which allows us to know which of our Employees are qualified to undertake different tasks. It is also extremely handy when it comes to paying our wages - no more time sheets !! Once the Employees times have been approved which we try to do on a daily basis, it is just a matter of pushing the button & our payroll in Xero is ready to go. Also the "Scheduling" is wonderful & extremely easy to use.
Cons
The Android app doesn't provide as many features as the IPhone app.
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Reduce scheduling time impact on your business
Reviewed on 2017/01/27
We have over 170 staff in 6 regions nationally. We are looking to expand this to our international...
We have over 170 staff in 6 regions nationally. We are looking to expand this to our international teams.
We operate event merchandising at venues all around the country, however, we cannot install fixed hardware to have our team clock on and off for their shifts.
The Deputy experience for our team created greater transparency and opened up a more robust communication culture.
We operate under 3 awards across the business based on location and our team can work in multiple locations, so we needed to develop a script to understand how all the awards needed to interact with each other. Thanks to the thorough API library we were able to completely customize scripts and reports to cut our timesheet approval experience to less than 1 hour on a Monday and the payroll team was able to free up 2 entire days from their week.
Our rostering team has been able to reduce the time working on roster production to 2 days and maintenance of the rosters has become a much more simple task - this can often be done in the app!
Deputy has allowed our business to scale without increasing our scheduling workload. We have expanded our operations team to focus on our business practices and service delivery and because Deputy is part of our team now we have far greater visibility than ever before without additional time invested.
Pros
No fixed hardware required
Scalability
News Feed has our team communicating more openly
Custom Reporting
Award Interpretation - Once scripts written (we run with 3 different awards)
App Experience
Quick Payroll/Timesheet Approvals
Cons
Integration of Enterprise Version with Basic Version - Particularly Locations do not pick up the same address fields.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Worst customer support ever
Reviewed on 2022/01/18
Pros
It is easy to schedule, roster available on smart phone and has a time clock system so employee work hours can be tracked and monitored.
Cons
If a software is going to suit many businesses (as advertised) the company needs to be open to discussions with all types of businesses so that the software is adaptable. This does not happen.
The customer support is atrocious. You get a robot answering then a online chat forum. It is time consuming to interact with this forum - they waste time repeating your questions, responses are very condescending, they have no power to make any changes.
For example, I have for the last month requested that someone from the country I live in and is involved with the software design(and therefore have the ability to make changes) contact me (?telephone) I have finally been told that even if they call they will not be from within the country I live in - and therefore are just one level higher in the overseas call centre.
One frustrating example - the time clock system is an important part of any rostering system - and they have just issued a new feature where staff can clock in and out from home, without any consultation or ability to turn off this feature. While this may suit some businesses it does not suit mine and I am sure I am not alone. Unfortunately this leaves the door open for staff to be fraudulent and defeats the purpose of a clock on/clock off system.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 501–1 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Good Scheduling & Timekeeping Software
Reviewed on 2023/01/11
Overall, a good scheduling software. Worked well for me and my teams.
Overall, a good scheduling software. Worked well for me and my teams.
Pros
Deputy is very user friendly and useful with scheduling and timekeeping employees. It worked well for me as a manager, helping me know what staff I was going to expect as well sending me notifications of the upcoming schedule.
Cons
I didn't encounter any issues with this software.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
A+ Scheduling Software
Reviewed on 2018/04/23
Saves me time and hassle. Employees know how to use it quickly with little/no training.
Saves me time and hassle. Employees know how to use it quickly with little/no training.
Pros
Inexpensive, feature rich, and easy for me to export timesheets to our payroll provider, Gusto. It was easy to add our existing employees when we made the switch. Employees have no complaints using it for time off requests, unavailability or integrating with their calendar so they know when they're scheduled.
Cons
The manager side of the mobile app is lacking full access to make it easy to approve time off requests. Depending how I pull up the request from my phone sometimes it also shows the date as Christmas Eve from years in the past (like 2015). Hasn't been a big enough pain for me personally to be mad enough to contact them, though I should so they can tell me I'm dumb and using it wrong or fix it.
Deputy FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Deputy.Q. What type of pricing plans does Deputy offer?
Deputy offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$4,50/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
30-day free trial, no credit card required. Scheduling: $2.50/user/month Time & Attendance: $2.50/user/month Premium: $4.50/user/month Enterprise: Please contact for Enterprise pricing Flexi: For businesses that run large, short term events like conferences, catered functions and festivals (access to Premium features for $2/user/week)
Q. Who are the typical users of Deputy?
Deputy has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does Deputy support?
Deputy supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Q. Does Deputy support mobile devices?
Deputy supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Deputy integrate with?
Deputy integrates with the following applications:
ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, Box, Clover, Dropbox Business, Epos Now, Google Calendar, Google Workspace, Gusto, IDEXX Neo, LastPass, Lightspeed POS, Lightspeed Retail, MYOB Business, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Outlook, NetSuite, NetSuite for Retail, Okta, OnPay, Paychex Flex, Paycor, Paylocity, Proliant, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Quickbooks Online, Revel Systems, Rippling, Salesforce Work.com, Sapling, ServiceM8, Shopify, SimplePay, Square Point of Sale, VMware AirWatch, Vend, Wagepoint, WhosOnLocation, WorkflowMax, Xero, Zapier, Zenefits, talech
Q. What level of support does Deputy offer?
Deputy offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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