PagarBook vs Planday

PagarBook is an HRMS for staff attendance, payroll, and field teams, with Android, iOS, and web access. Attendance supports face, selfie, and location marking, offline recording, and processing. PagarBook Lens performs face recognition in under a second and rejects photographs shown to the camera. Payroll applies attendance, overtime, fines, and statutory deductions, with listed support for PF, ESI, professional tax, labour welfare fund, TDS, gratuity, and minimum wages. For field operations, PagarBook Geo offers live location tracking, route timelines, task assignment, custom forms, and order collection; Geo Plus adds SKU and category management, order processing, customizable receipts, and custom order workflows. The employee app supports document access, attendance, leave requests, and payslip downloads. A free plan covers attendance marking; paid plans start at ₹499 per staff per year, exclusive of GST. Geo is priced separately and requires an active App or Web subscription. The company is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

Planday provides employee scheduling and workforce-management software for shift-working teams, on the web and on Android and iOS. Scheduling tools cover availability preferences, shift swaps, open and draft shifts, and reusable schedule templates. Workers can use Punch Clock to clock in and out from their devices, with location restrictions and rounding rules. Managers can compare scheduled and worked hours, approve shifts for payroll, and export timesheets through integrations. The mobile app also supports schedule viewing and updates, hour approvals and team communications. Planday connects with payroll, POS and HR systems, including Xero, Personio, Square, Lightspeed and ADP. Customers can configure working-time rules, contract hours and absence policies for automatic application to schedules, with real-time alerts for violations. The Starter plan includes Help Centre and live chat support; Pro includes dedicated phone support through a call-back service. Planday says it serves small, medium and enterprise businesses across industries such as hospitality, care homes, hotels, entertainment, retail, and fitness and wellness. There is no free plan; a 30-day trial is available. Starter costs £2.99 a month, billed per user/month, with a five-user minimum.