Schedio vs Deputy: which fits your floor?
Last reviewed: June 2026
- Pick Deputy if you need enterprise workforce management — demand forecasting, fair-workweek compliance tooling, time & attendance across many regions†.
- Pick Schedio if you want a live shift dashboard a new manager reads in ten minutes, priced so you never count heads.
- Pricing: Deputy prices per user per month, by module†; Schedio is $49/month per location, unlimited team members.
Side by side
$49/month per location, unlimited team members
Per user per month, scheduling and time & attendance priced as modules†
None — staff logins never cost extra
Yes — every active user adds to the monthly bill†
Self-serve: pick a trade template at signup, import your roster from CSV
Self-serve for small teams; implementation support for enterprise†
Six trades: hotels, restaurants, clinics, security, retail, support desks
Broad — hospitality, healthcare, retail, services, enterprise†
Built in — structured hand-over notes attached to every shift
Shift notes and news feed; structured hand-over depth varies†
Monthly, cancel anytime; data stays exportable for 30 days
Monthly or annual per-user subscription†
Where Deputy is strong
Deputy plays in a bigger league: demand-based auto-scheduling, wage and fair-workweek compliance by jurisdiction, time & attendance with biometric options, HR integrations†. A 400-person operation across three states has problems Deputy is built for.
Its compliance engine — predictive scheduling laws, break rules, premium calculations† — is the kind of machinery a head office is right to want.
Where Schedio is different
Schedio is the other end of the telescope: the floor, today, live. One screen shows coverage and gaps; the outgoing shift leaves a structured note; swaps and covers run themselves with optional approval. Nobody needs training to read it.
Per-user pricing punishes exactly the teams shift work runs on — big rosters, part-timers, seasonal waves. Schedio's $49 per location means a 60-person hotel pays the same as a 6-person clinic, and the bill never argues with hiring.
Switching
Moving from Deputy is a roster export and an import. Get your people and a typical week into a CSV, and Schedio imports them with a row-by-row preview — nothing lands until you confirm it.
The 14-day trial needs no card, so the usual path is to run Schedio alongside your current tool for a week or two and let the floor decide. If you leave, your data stays exportable for 30 days after cancellation.
† Details about Deputy marked with a dagger are awaiting our routine verification against their current public materials. Spot something out of date? Write to info@schedio.team and we'll fix it.
Common questions
Is Schedio a Deputy replacement for a large enterprise?+
Honestly: if you need jurisdiction-level compliance automation or biometric time capture, no — that is Deputy territory. If what you need is live coverage, scheduling and hand-offs per site at a flat price, Schedio does that without the enterprise overhead.
How does per-location pricing compare to per-user?+
A flat $49 per location is usually ahead once a site passes roughly a dozen people, and it keeps getting better as you staff up. There is no math to redo when the roster changes.
Does Schedio do auto-scheduling?+
Schedio builds weeks from templates and computes coverage gaps against the staffing levels you set per department and hour. It fills the schedule fast, but it does not claim demand forecasting from sales or traffic data.
See your own floor in it.
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