Day Off vs Keka

Day Off helps HR managers manage employee leave and paid time off. It centralizes employee profiles, leave balances, requests, and approvals. Leave policies can automate accruals and carryover, with weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, and monthly schedules. Administrators can assign multiple approvers and approve requests with one click. Integrations include Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and a public API for retrieving and managing employee, leave, and company data with custom API keys. The service offers Android and iOS apps as well as web and API access. The Free Plan covers up to 10 users and 10 employees and includes calendar view, customizable leave types, one-step approval, and management reports. Pro costs $2/seat/mo with a $20/month minimum; Pro + Time Tracker costs $3/seat/mo with a $30/month minimum. A 30-day free trial is available for Pro. Day Off states that its services are not tailored to comply with industry-specific regulations such as HIPAA and FISMA.

Keka is a cloud HR and payroll platform covering employee records, hiring, onboarding, attendance, performance and project operations. Its HRIS manages organizational structures and connects employee lifecycle changes to related workflows. Hiring tools link job posting, candidate sourcing, interviews, offers and preboarding with employee records. For India payroll, Keka says it syncs attendance, leave and salary inputs and calculates TDS, PF, ESI and PT. Attendance can be recorded through biometric, GPS and mobile check-ins, with leave and overtime policies applied automatically. Performance features connect goals, reviews, feedback and one-on-ones. Project operations include planning, resource allocation, utilization, timesheets and billing. Employees can use the mobile app for leave, clocking in and out, expenses, payslips, tax details and helpdesk requests. Keka says it integrates with more than 100 tools, including Salesforce, Jira, Xero and Stripe, and provides API documentation. Plans listed on the US pricing page are marked as free trials, but numeric prices are not given. The company identifies Hyderabad, India, as its headquarters and 2014 as its founding year.