Flexzo Rostering vs SimpleStaff

Flexzo Rostering schedules multidisciplinary health and care teams and brings together absence management, temporary staffing and workforce visibility. It is designed for organizations rostering doctors, nurses, porters and allied health professionals. Its AI engine creates schedules that balance staff preferences, compliance rules, budget constraints and clinical safety. Demand planning can model requirements by service, location, shift type and specialty, while accounting for patient acuity and clinical activity. Availability tools cover annual leave, sickness, study leave and additional shift requests, alongside skills tracking and work regulation rules. Staffing gaps can be handled through float pools, shared float pools and agency options, with escalation described as going through internal float pools before agency. Organizations can encode local rules, supervision ratios, protected training time and pay scales; schedule decisions are described as auditable and policy-compliant. Staff can use the mobile app to view schedules, book float pool shifts, request changes and communicate with teams. Flexzo says its workforce systems support open APIs and standards-based connectors alongside existing ESR, EPR and HR systems. The service is available on Android, iOS and web. Pricing is on request.

SimpleStaff is employee scheduling software and related services for businesses with shift teams. Managers create schedules on the web with drag-and-drop editing, reusable templates, role assignments, and shift publishing. Employees can use the iPhone and Android apps to request time off, update availability, swap shifts, and claim open shifts. Its time clock records clock-in and clock-out timestamps, tracks breaks, verifies location with GPS, and supports timesheet approval. Approved timesheets can be exported for ADP, UKG, Dayforce, or generic CSV; QuickBooks Online and Wagepoint are listed as coming soon. Published shifts can appear in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, or Outlook through personal calendar feeds. The staff app is included with every plan, but schedules load live and require an internet connection. The free plan covers 15 team members and one team. Team costs C$19 a month and Pro costs C$29 a month; a 30-day trial is listed. The maker names restaurants, retail, clinics, hotels, gyms, and salons among the industries it serves.