Deputy vs. Quinyx

At a glance

Best for

Best for businesses rostering hourly staff across sites, where the hours have to reach payroll rather than an invoice.

Small and mid-sized
Enterprise

Best for

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

Enterprise

Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.

Full Comparison

Criterion	Deputy	Quinyx
Starting price	From $5 / user / month The $5 Lite plan covers basic scheduling, timesheets and time clocking. Core is $6.50 and Pro $9 per user per month. Deputy Payroll adds $8 per user per month plus a $49 monthly base fee, HR $2, Messaging+ $1.95 and Analytics+ $1.50 per user per month.	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	Free trial, no credit card required	Not stated
Team size	Priced per user, per month	Not stated
Users	Shift-based teams across more than 15 industries, among them hospitality, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and logistics, construction and engineering, education, security and cleaning	Frontline organisations in retail, warehousing and logistics, hospitality and quick-service restaurants, facility management and healthcare
API	Yes, a developer API alongside prebuilt payroll, point-of-sale, HR and accounting connectors	Yes, APIs documented on a developer portal at developer.quinyx.com, plus prebuilt connectors
Hosting	Cloud (SaaS), with iOS and Android apps and a shared-device time clock	Cloud, built on AWS, with web, mobile app and on-site clocking devices
Made in	Not stated	Sweden
Shift planning and templates	Basic scheduling on Lite with shift templates for weeks, months or custom periods; Core adds advanced scheduling, micro-scheduling and auto-scheduling	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	Open shifts, open shifts with approval, swapping and offering shifts, and find a replacement, from the Lite plan	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 and availability management from the Lite plan	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	Time clocking from the iOS and Android apps or a shared device, with biometric time clocking from the Core plan, timesheets with auto-approval from Core and advanced timesheets on Pro, plus shift swaps, find-a-replacement, leave and availability management and labour-law compliance rules	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	Wages shown against scheduled hours; Core adds demand forecasting, labour optimisation and wage and labour budgets, with forecast-to-actual variance in sales and wage metrics	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	Labour-law compliance on Lite and advanced labour-law compliance on Core, with paid and unpaid breaks scheduled by time and duration	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 and HR integrations from the Lite plan; the Deputy Payroll add-on, enabled by Paycor and offered in the US on annual Core and Pro plans, sends approved timesheets, pay rates and leave to Paycor	Approved timesheets and wage files exported directly to payroll systems, with prebuilt connectors and APIs to HR and payroll software
Team messaging and notifications	Messaging and a news feed from the Lite plan, with the Messaging+ add-on for a more integrated messaging experience, included in Pro	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	Clock-in apps on web, mobile, tablet and watch, with iOS and Android apps and a shared-device time clock	Web staff portal and manager interface, the Quinyx mobile app, and tablets or on-site devices for clocking
Integrations and API	A developer API plus prebuilt connectors for payroll (ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Paycor, Paylocity, OnPay, Wagepoint, Xero), point of sale (Square, Clover, Lightspeed, Revel, Epos Now), HR (BambooHR, HiBob, Rippling, TriNet, Okta) and accounting (QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero), with Zapier for anything else	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	Yes	Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Support	Chat, 24/7	Not stated
Onboarding	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base
Company size	more entries Small and mid-sized, Enterprise	Enterprise
Integrations	ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Paycom, Paycor, Paylocity, OnPay, Wagepoint, Talenox, Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, Revel, Epos Now, BambooHR, HiBob, Rippling, TriNet, Okta, JobAdder, Box, Dropbox, ServiceM8, Tapcheck, Wagestream, TipHaus, Zapier	Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Deputy From $5 / user / month Quinyx Price on request
Company size Deputy Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Quinyx Enterprise
Hosting Deputy Cloud (SaaS), with iOS and Android apps and a shared-device time clock Quinyx Cloud, built on AWS, with web, mobile app and on-site clocking devices
Users Deputy Shift-based teams across more than 15 industries, among them hospitality, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and logistics, construction and engineering, education, security and cleaning Quinyx Frontline organisations in retail, warehousing and logistics, hospitality and quick-service restaurants, facility management and healthcare
API Deputy Yes, a developer API alongside prebuilt payroll, point-of-sale, HR and accounting connectors Quinyx Yes, APIs documented on a developer portal at developer.quinyx.com, plus prebuilt connectors

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Deputy

Strengths

Biometric time clocking and a shared-device clock cover on-site and shift work
Deep payroll and point-of-sale connector list, including ADP, Gusto, Paychex, Xero, QuickBooks and Square
Demand forecasting and auto-scheduling build rosters against wage and labour budgets
Single sign-on, custom access levels and location hierarchies on the Pro plan

Limitations

No client invoicing: timesheets are built for payroll rather than for billing work
Forecasting, auto-scheduling and biometric clocking all require the Core plan or above
Payroll, HR, Messaging+ and Analytics+ are separately priced add-ons, and Deputy Payroll carries a monthly base fee
No free tier; Lite is the cheapest paid plan

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

Deputy

Lite $5 Per user per month. Basic scheduling, timesheets and time clocking, labour-law compliance, shift swap and find a replacement, leave and availability management, basic reporting, messaging and news feed, and payroll and HR integrations.
Core $6.50 Per user per month. Everything in Lite plus advanced scheduling, timesheet auto-approval, biometric time clocking, micro-scheduling, auto-scheduling, demand forecasting, labour optimisation, wage and labour budgets and a customer success manager.
Pro $9 Per user per month. Everything in Core plus custom access levels, advanced timesheets, location hierarchies, single sign-on, a dedicated customer success manager, a sandbox environment, 24/7 live chat and the Analytics+ and Messaging+ add-ons.
Add-ons Not stated Deputy Payroll $8 per user per month plus a $49 monthly base fee, HR $2, Messaging+ $1.95 and Analytics+ $1.50 per user per month. HR, Messaging+ and Analytics+ carry 30-day free trials.

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Quinyx

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What users say

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Deputy

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Where this comes from

Deputy https://www.deputy.com · checked against the official source on 2026-09-12

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.