Tanda vs. ZoomShift

At a glance

Best for

Best for Australian employers with hourly staff under Modern Awards who want rosters, time and attendance, award-interpreted pay and payroll in one system.

ZoomShift

Best for

Best for small businesses with hourly staff that want a free or low-cost schedule, time clock and team chat in one app.

Small and mid-sized

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Full Comparison

Criterion	Tanda	ZoomShift
Starting price	From 12.80 dollars + GST / user / month Price for the bundle of HR, Payroll and Workforce Management. The pricing page shows a dollar sign plus GST and does not name the currency. Prices for the individual modules are given on request.	Free plan; Starter from 2 US dollars / user / month Per active team member, counting managers and employees. Starter is 2 US dollars billed annually or 2.50 US dollars billed monthly; Premium is 4 US dollars billed annually or 5 US dollars billed monthly. The free Essentials plan covers up to 20 users at one location.
Free trial	Free trial set up by the vendor on request	14-day free trial of all features, no credit card required; free Essentials plan for up to 20 users
Users	Australian employers with hourly staff; the vendor names hospitality, retail, healthcare, professional services, early learning, pharmacy, clubs, franchises, quick service restaurants, restaurants and grocery	Businesses with hourly employees; the vendor names retail, restaurants, food and beverage, hospitality, services and healthcare
API	Yes, a REST API with OAuth authorisation and webhooks	Not stated
Hosting	Cloud, in the browser, with a mobile app and a tablet time clock app	Cloud, in the browser, with free iPhone and Android apps
Made in	Australia	United States
Shift planning and templates	Rosters built from templates for a typical week or specific events, or generated from staff's regular hours; shifts are copied, pasted or dragged and named by title or team, a heads-up view shows who works, for how long and at what cost, and rosters can be planned weeks ahead. Published rosters go to staff in the app, where they accept shifts or flag a problem	Drag-and-drop schedule with shift and scheduling templates, copying of weekly schedules, positions and locations, shift notes and private manager notes; the free plan schedules up to two weeks ahead at one location, Starter removes those limits
Shift swaps and open shifts	Staff request replacements or offer to cover shifts in the app with manager approval, and vacant shifts are offered to staff by push notification. Suggested replacements are filtered by availability, by qualifications such as an RSA or blue card and by a minimum number of hours between shifts, with award-interpreted cost differences shown for each candidate	Shift cover requests and swaps from the Starter plan, with every qualified team member notified and an optional manager approval step; open shifts can be offered to the team
Availability and time off	Staff apply for leave and unavailability in the app and see their leave balances; managers approve requests on the go in a leave planner calendar, split requests above the balance into paid and unpaid leave, add custom events to discourage or block leave in peak periods, and manage time off in lieu	Staff set availability preferences and request time off from the Starter plan, with a PTO tracker that tallies accrued and used balances
Time clock and attendance	Time Clock app that turns an Android or Apple tablet into a time clock for shift starts, finishes and breaks, plus GPS clock-ins from the mobile app that flag clock-ins away from an approved location. Timesheets are built from clock-ins, and shifts that match the roster can be auto-approved	Time clock on phone or computer and a kiosk mode with PIN, feeding timesheets with breaks tracked; Premium adds a geofenced time clock, blocking of early and late clock-ins, and a schedule versus timesheets report
Labour cost and forecasting	Roster costs shown while the roster is built, and Live Insights with sales, wage cost and wages as a percentage of revenue through the day against expected numbers, by location. Staffing levels can be planned from historical sales, foot traffic and weather data, with sales streamed from over a dozen supported point-of-sale integrations	Real-time labour costs including overtime and gross pay, a comparison of scheduled and actual hours and costs, and labour cost forecasting from schedules planned ahead
Breaks, overtime and labour rules	Over 30 vendor-maintained Modern Award templates and custom rules for enterprise agreements, breaks added to rosters and timesheets according to the award, minimum break durations enforced at clock-in, and roster validations that warn about overtime, qualification risks, maximum hours and days, staff rostered on leave or shifts in different locations; the vendor states that pay rates are updated after Fair Work wage rulings	Paid or unpaid breaks calculated into timesheet totals, and on Premium overtime warnings, custom overtime per employee, blocking of overtime, and prevention of overlaps between shifts, availability and time off
Payroll export and integration	Tanda Payroll runs pay inside the same system, including STP filing and superannuation contributions; award-interpreted timesheets and leave also export to ADP, Xero, Ascender, Attache, iPayroll, iChris, Ready Pay, WageEasy, Aurion and TriniTEQ	A customisable payroll report on the Starter plan, with timesheets exported as a CSV for use in other payroll software
Team messaging and notifications	Push notifications for shifts that need filling and for pending requests, shift reminders with multiple alerts, announcements with acknowledgement requests and attached documents, and manager notifications when staff are late, work past their finish time, go into unexpected overtime or miss a required break	Shift reminders and schedule changes by email, text and push notification, shift confirmation, and a team chat with group and direct messages, file sharing and read status
Platforms and mobile app	Web app at my.tanda.co, the Tanda mobile app for staff and managers, and a separate Time Clock app for Android and Apple tablets from Google Play and the App Store	Web app, free iPhone and Android apps for managers and staff, a kiosk time clock, and calendar app sync on the Starter plan
Integrations and API	REST API (v2) with OAuth authorisation code or personal access tokens, covering rosters, schedules, shifts, timesheets, leave, availability, clock-ins, payroll and users, with webhooks and code samples on GitHub; integrations with payroll, point-of-sale and HR systems such as ADP, Xero, Square, Lightspeed, SwiftPOS, Redcat and ELMO	Not stated
AI features	No	stated Yes
Deployment	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based	Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based
Onboarding	Documentation and knowledge base	more entries Documentation and knowledge base, Guided onboarding, Live online demos and webinars
Company size	Not stated	Small and mid-sized
Integrations	ADP, Xero, Ascender, Attache, iPayroll, iChris, Ready Pay, WageEasy, Aurion, TriniTEQ, Beam, Square, Lightspeed, Vend, SwiftPOS, Redcat, Impos, Doshii, Tenzo, Peiso, Tip Sheet, vSure, WorkJam, ELMO, ROLLER, Kidsoft, Allara Global, etrainu, Paytime	Not stated

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The short version

Key Differences

Starting price Tanda From 12.80 dollars + GST / user / month ZoomShift Free plan; Starter from 2 US dollars / user / month
Free trial Tanda Free trial set up by the vendor on request ZoomShift 14-day free trial of all features, no credit card required; free Essentials plan for up to 20 users
Hosting Tanda Cloud, in the browser, with a mobile app and a tablet time clock app ZoomShift Cloud, in the browser, with free iPhone and Android apps
Made in Tanda Australia ZoomShift United States
AI features Tanda No ZoomShift Yes

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The trade-offs

Strengths and Limitations

Tanda

Strengths

Rostering, timesheets, payroll and HR bundled from 12.80 dollars plus GST per user per month
Over 30 Modern Award templates maintained by the vendor's compliance team
Replacement suggestions filtered by availability, qualifications and rest time between shifts, with cost differences shown
Documented REST API with OAuth and webhooks

Limitations

Prices for the individual modules are only given on request
The pricing page does not name the currency of its dollar price
No self-serve trial; a free trial is arranged through the vendor
Award templates and payroll are built around Australian Fair Work rules

ZoomShift

Strengths

Free plan for up to 20 users
14-day trial of all features with no credit card
Subscriptions can be paused for months when the schedule is not needed
No cancellation fee or minimum contract, by the vendor's FAQ

Limitations

Timesheets, the time clock, shift swaps and time off need a paid plan
Geofencing and overtime warnings are limited to the Premium plan
No named payroll provider integration; hours leave as a CSV export
The scheduling FAQ says there is no auto-scheduling, while the pricing page lists it on Premium

Plans

Pricing

Tanda

HR + Payroll + Workforce Management 12.80 dollars + GST / user / month All three modules in one discounted subscription.
Workforce Management Not stated Rosters, time and attendance and leave. Price on request.
Payroll Not stated Pay runs from timesheets, entitlements and STP filing. Price on request.
HR Not stated Hiring, onboarding and staff records. Price on request.

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ZoomShift

Essentials 0 US dollars / user / month Free up to 20 users. Employee schedule, team communication, automatic reminders, shift notes and confirmation, unlimited positions, scheduling up to 2 weeks ahead, 1 location.
Starter 2 US dollars / user / month Per active team member, billed annually, or 2.50 US dollars billed monthly. Unlimited users and locations, templates, availability and time off, shift swaps, timesheets and time clock, payroll report, calendar sync, PTO and break tracking.
Premium 4 US dollars / user / month Per active team member, billed annually, or 5 US dollars billed monthly. Adds auto-scheduling, overtime warnings, geofenced time clock, schedule versus timesheets, change history, custom role permissions, priority support and personalised onboarding.

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What users say

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Tanda

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ZoomShift

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Where this comes from

Tanda https://www.tanda.co · checked against the official source on 2026-11-07

ZoomShift https://www.zoomshift.com/ · checked against the official source on 2026-11-06

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