PagarBook vs Sling

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.

Sling is an employee scheduling, communication, and workforce management platform for organizing shifts and labor costs. It supports reusable schedule templates, employee availability, time-off requests, shift offers, swaps, open shifts, and auto-scheduling. The Free plan supports up to 30 users and includes shift scheduling, time-off requests, available shifts, news sharing, long-term scheduling, and private messaging. Premium costs $2 a month per user and adds mobile time tracking, labor cost management, overtime tracking, and group messaging. Business costs $4 a month per user and adds kiosk time tracking, reports, no-show and sick call-out features, and PTO management. Communication options include private and group messages, a Newsfeed, Announcements, and email, push, browser, and some SMS notifications. Sling lists integrations with Toast and other point-of-sale systems; the Toast connection syncs employee data, compares POS sales with labor costs, and exports timesheets to Toast Payroll. Sling runs on Android, iOS, and the web, though some actions require a desktop browser.