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How Weeksolved is different — and where it isn't

Most scheduling apps are built the same way: everyone gets an account, everyone installs something, and you pay by the head. Weeksolved is built the other way round. Here is the honest version of both, including the parts where another tool is the better answer.

The pricing model is the real difference

Nearly every scheduling app charges per user per month. It sounds small — a couple of dollars a head — and it is small, until you hire. The bill grows every time your team does, which is the one moment you least want a new cost. Some tools also count managers and supervisors as paid users, and several charge more per head the moment you run a second location.

Weeksolved charges one flat price for the location, whatever the headcount. A team of 8 and a team of 40 pay the same. Your 30th hire costs nothing. There are no per-user fees, no admin seats, and no separate charge for the manager who covers weekends. It's $49 a location a month, or $470 a year, at one location or ten.

What the others actually cost, at 25 people

Here are current, published prices for a 25-person team at one location — the size where a per-user bill really starts to bite.

• When I Work — $2.50–$8 per person a month. 25 people: $62.50–$200 a month.
• Deputy — $5–$9 per person a month, with a $30 monthly minimum a 25-person team clears easily. 25 people: $125–$225 a month.
• Sling — $2–$4 per person a month. 25 people: $50–$100 a month.
• Homebase — $24–$120 a month, per location rather than per person. The cheap end is a bare-bones plan; its labor-law compliance tools live only in the $120-a-month top plan.
• Connecteam — $29–$99 a month for a hub of up to 30 people. The $29 plan covers open shifts only — real scheduling depth, like repeating shifts and templates, starts at $49, level with Weeksolved, and time off is a separate paid hub on top of that.

Weeksolved is $49 a location a month, flat, with break rules built in and everything on the pricing page's included list from the first dollar — no per-user math, and no separate hub to buy for time off.

Your staff never get accounts

The industry standard is an employee app: everyone downloads it, makes a password, and is expected to keep using it. In practice somebody always can't log in, somebody never installs it, and the person who most needs their schedule is the one locked out of it.

Weeksolved has exactly one account — yours. Staff get their schedule the way they already live: a text, an email, a printout, or a calendar file that drops the shifts straight into the phone they already use. Nothing to install, nothing to teach, nobody locked out. It is also why there are no seats to count.

Break rules are included, not a tier

Scheduling tools that handle meal and rest break rules seriously tend to put that depth in a higher plan, because that depth is what larger customers pay for. There is no higher plan here. Weeksolved drafts every meal to your state's rule and lays rest breaks around it from the first dollar and throughout the free trial, because the rules that make a week hard to work out are the whole job, not an upgrade.

It explains itself

An empty grid and an auto-fill button is the common shape. The gap is always the same: when a shift cannot be filled, you are told that it cannot, not why. Weeksolved names the person and, where it can tell, the rule that stopped them — hour cap, turnaround, availability, a request you approved, a license, a coverage minimum — and then offers the ways out, least disruptive first, with the overtime priced.

Three things Weeksolved does not do

These are deliberate, and for some businesses they are the reason to choose something else. Better you know now.

• No time clock. Weeksolved schedules the week; it does not record who actually clocked in. If you need punches, timesheets and hours feeding payroll from the same tool, several competitors bundle that and you should use one of them. Weeksolved exports hours and overtime per person as a spreadsheet; bring your own pay rates.
• No shift-swap marketplace between staff. Because nobody has an account, staff cannot trade shifts with each other in the app. What you get instead: an open shift can be offered to the team as a one-page file they answer from their phone, and you decide. That is a manager-in-the-middle design, on purpose.
• No sales forecasting. Some tools predict demand from your point-of-sale takings and staff to it. Weeksolved schedules to coverage rules you set, not to a forecast.

Where Weeksolved fits

It suits a business of roughly 5 to 100 people — one location or a handful drafted as one roster, so a floater’s hours add up once — where the week is genuinely hard to work out — licensed coverage, ratios between roles, meal breaks that have to land lawfully, availability that changes, and a fairness argument about who gets the unpopular shifts. If your scheduling problem is really a time-and-attendance problem, it is not the tool for you, and this page would rather say so than sell you.

Open Weeksolved In closed testing now · general release 11 January 2027. Free while we are testing.  See the pricing →