BOOK ON vs. Quinyx

At a glance

Best for

Best for UK security guarding companies that want rota, officer compliance records and billing in one system priced per worked officer.

Quinyx

Best for

Best for retail, hospitality, logistics and healthcare chains that schedule large frontline teams across many sites and labour agreements.

Enterprise

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Full Comparison

Criterion	BOOK ON	Quinyx
Starting price	From £2.95 / worked officer / month One rate with all platform features included. Each officer who worked at least one shift in the calendar month is counted once; controllers, managers and office users are not counted. No VAT is added while the vendor is not VAT registered.	Price on request The pricing page publishes no amounts; the vendor tailors a plan to the business and contacts you after a request.
Free trial	First partial calendar month free, no credit card required; the next complete calendar month is the first chargeable one	Not stated
Users	Not stated	Frontline organisations in retail, warehousing and logistics, hospitality and quick-service restaurants, facility management and healthcare
API	Not stated	Yes, APIs documented on a developer portal at developer.quinyx.com, plus prebuilt connectors
Hosting	Not stated	Cloud, built on AWS, with web, mobile app and on-site clocking devices
Made in	United Kingdom	Sweden
Shift planning and templates	Shifts added per client, site and day with start and end times; Copy Roster carries a whole week forward and Copy Shifts repeats a pattern across days, and an existing rota can be imported from Excel	Schedules built manually, semi-automatically or fully automatically, from long-range plans down to individual shifts, across teams, departments and units; Auto-Schedule balances cost, coverage, skills and preferences, and recurring tasks can be planned alongside shifts
Shift swaps and open shifts	Counters show unassigned and unconfirmed shifts; the planner fills them through the Near By Officers search by postcode and radius, and a no-show shift is reassigned to a replacement and confirmed	Shift swapping in the staff portal and mobile app, with shifts assigned by skills and availability and Auto-Assign matching skills and certifications to open demand
Availability and time off	Leave requests are queued for HR with the number of days and whether they are paid, then approved or rejected; leave policies are applied per employee with a simultaneous-leave limit and carry-over setting, approved leave is visible when the roster is built, and unplanned absence is recorded on an Absentees screen	Employee unavailability flagged while the schedule is built, and leave and absence requests submitted, approved and tracked in the staff portal and app, with their effect on coverage shown
Time clock and attendance	Yes, book on and book off from the officer app with time and position recorded against the rostered shift, or by the control room from the roster; those records become the timesheet, with planned hours shown next to hours worked	Clocking in and out through the mobile app, the web, tablets or on-site devices, with options for geo-tagging, RFID and photo capture, worked hours validated against rules, and dashboards of scheduled against actual hours
Labour cost and forecasting	Each shift carries its pay rate and charge rate, Change Rate sets night, weekend or bank holiday rates for one shift, planned hours sit next to actual hours, and a finance dashboard shows revenue, cost, profit and margin by contract	Labour costs calculated as the schedule is built with alerts for budget overruns, and AI forecasting of demand from sales, transactions, foot traffic, promotions, events and seasonality up to six months ahead, at organisation, region, site or department level
Breaks, overtime and labour rules	A seven-day consecutive-work alert on the manager dashboard lists officers who have worked every day of the past week, the officer roster flags double-booking and rest-period problems, and the vendor lists overtime detection and cost alerts	A rule engine configurable by region, contract, collective agreement, age, role or skill, with real-time warnings during scheduling, alerts as break, overtime and labour-law thresholds approach, support for predictive scheduling, rest rules and fair-work-week legislation, and an audit history of schedules
Payroll export and integration	Payroll is generated in BOOK ON Accounts from approved shifts for a chosen period and frequency, with payslips; statutory calculations and HMRC submissions stay with your payroll software or bureau, and how the output is passed to them is agreed during onboarding	Approved timesheets and wage files exported directly to payroll systems, with prebuilt connectors and APIs to HR and payroll software
Team messaging and notifications	Confirmed shifts appear in the officer app, which also carries employer notifications and a news feed; the control room works with handover tickets	Messenger in the Quinyx app for direct messages, group chats and targeted updates by role, location or team, with moderation tools; Employee Hub adds news and stories, push notifications, task assignment and digital forms
Platforms and mobile app	Officer app for iOS and Android, free on the App Store and Google Play, which needs a connection to send a book-on, check call or report; the office side runs as a cloud web platform	Web staff portal and manager interface, the Quinyx mobile app, and tablets or on-site devices for clocking
Integrations and API	Excel import for existing rotas; exports to accounting and payroll packages are confirmed during onboarding for the packages a firm uses	APIs documented on developer.quinyx.com and prebuilt connectors to HR, payroll, ERP, CRM, HCM and point-of-sale systems, with single sign-on
AI features	No	stated Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Phone, Email helpdesk	Not stated
Onboarding	Guided onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base
Company size	Not stated	Enterprise

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price BOOK ON From £2.95 / worked officer / month Quinyx Price on request
Made in BOOK ON United Kingdom Quinyx Sweden
AI features BOOK ON No Quinyx Yes
Shift planning and templates BOOK ON Shifts added per client, site and day with start and end times; Copy Roster carries a whole week forward and Copy Shifts repeats a pattern across days, and an existing rota can be imported from Excel Quinyx Schedules built manually, semi-automatically or fully automatically, from long-range plans down to individual shifts, across teams, departments and units; Auto-Schedule balances cost, coverage, skills and preferences, and recurring tasks can be planned alongside shifts
Shift swaps and open shifts BOOK ON Counters show unassigned and unconfirmed shifts; the planner fills them through the Near By Officers search by postcode and radius, and a no-show shift is reassigned to a replacement and confirmed Quinyx Shift swapping in the staff portal and mobile app, with shifts assigned by skills and availability and Auto-Assign matching skills and certifications to open demand

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

BOOK ON

Strengths

One published rate of £2.95 per worked officer, with all platform features included
Controllers, managers and office users are not counted towards the bill
Approved shifts feed timesheets, payroll and client invoices from the same record
SIA licence, BS 7858 vetting and right-to-work records held against each officer
Officer app for iOS and Android for booking on, check calls, patrols and incident reports

Limitations

Licensing and vetting records are built around UK security rules (SIA, BS 7858, ACS)
Exports to accounting and payroll packages are confirmed per package during onboarding rather than listed
Minimums, setup and contract length are set in each company's commercial agreement, not on the pricing page
The vendor states its records support SIA, ACS, BS 7858 and ISO work but do not award certification or guarantee compliance

Quinyx

Strengths

Labour rules configurable by region, contract, collective agreement, age, role and skill
Demand forecasts built from sales, transactions, foot traffic, promotions and events, up to six months ahead
Messaging, tasks, news and digital forms in the same app as the schedule
Clocking by mobile app, web, tablet or on-site device, with geo-tagging, RFID and photo options
The vendor states SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certification

Limitations

No prices published; every plan is quoted after contacting sales
No self-serve sign-up or free trial on the pricing page; the route in is a demo request

Plans

Pricing

BOOK ON

Subscription £2.95 Per qualifying worked officer per month, with Operate, Compliance and Accounts included and no feature tiers. Subcontractor billing is subject to client approval.

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Quinyx

Price on Request

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What users say

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BOOK ON

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Where this comes from

BOOK ON https://bookonsolutions.com/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-04

Quinyx https://www.quinyx.com · checked against the official source on 2026-11-05

This table lists factual criteria taken from information the vendors publish themselves. For how we put it together, see the methodology.