Emplora vs Time Point

Emplora brings employee scheduling, shift management, and staff rota planning into one platform for small and mid-size businesses. Managers can prepare weekly or monthly schedules, with saved changes becoming visible to the team. Employees can check schedules in a phone browser using a QR code or PIN, without installing an app. Time-off requests and employee shift swaps require manager approval and are available from Starter. Schedules can be exported as CSV or PDF for payroll workflows. The Free plan supports one location and up to 15 employees; Starter and Professional add capacity and features such as notifications, reports, attendance tracking, analytics, and labour cost reports. Enterprise offers flexible pricing, unlimited scale, SSO, API access, a dedicated SLA, and training. Emplora says it uses bank-grade encryption and organisation-level data isolation, and its DPA covers EU GDPR, UK GDPR, and applicable data-protection law. Human support is listed as responding within 24 hours, usually faster. The service is available on the web and through an API; fully rules-based schedule generation and POS and PMS integrations are roadmap items. Pricing is Free, with paid plans from $39/mo and a 30-day trial.

Time Point is cloud-based workforce management and HR software for businesses from SMEs to large multi-site organisations. Its Essentials package includes time and attendance, rostering, scheduling, labour cost analysis, holiday and absence management, payroll setup and links, reports, dashboards, training, a tablet clocking app, and a staff app. Employees can clock in through smart tablets, biometric facial or finger readers, cards or fobs, mobile phones, or desktops. The service supports availability management, shift swaps, multi-location scheduling, and a built-in time clock. HR capabilities across packages include onboarding, document management, digital signatures, an HR e-Diary, staff messaging, expenses, performance alerts, and an employee app. Premium adds document generation, GDPR management, training matrices, department and job tracking, lieu time banking, and multi-company payrolls. Time Point names Sage, Quantum, Collsoft, and BrightPay as payroll partners and says approved hours can be sent to payroll. Pricing is on request.