Sling vs Time Point

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.

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.