Deputy Review (2026)
The best operations tools remove repetitive work quietly — the win is fewer dropped balls and less manual oversight, not more dashboards. So where does Deputy actually fit?
What Deputy does
Workforce management for hourly and shift-based teams: rota building, time clocking, timesheet approval and labour-law compliance, with payroll and HR integrations.
Pricing (2026)
(2026-07-31, read in a live browser session on deputy.com/pricing with both billing toggles) Three plans, per user per month and excluding tax. On annual billing Lite is $5, Core $6.50 and Pro $9; switch the toggle to monthly and the same three read $5.50, $7.25 and $10. Add-ons are billed monthly on top: HR $2 per user, Messaging+ $1.95 per user and Analytics+ $1.50 per user (the last two are included in Pro), plus Deputy Payroll enabled by Paycor at $8 per user plus a $49 monthly base fee, which is only available on annual Core and Pro plans in the US. The page also states a minimum monthly spend of USD $30 / AUD $30 / GBP £20 per invoice on the monthly Lite, Core and Pro plans. Lite and Core start with a free trial; Pro is Contact us rather than self-serve. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
The minimum monthly spend is the number to check before anything else: at $5.50 per user on monthly billing, a team of fewer than about six people still pays the $30 floor, so the headline per-user price is misleading at small scale. Beyond that, the plan you probably want is not the one you first price — auto-scheduling, demand forecasting and labour budgets sit in Core, and SSO, custom access levels and location hierarchies only in Pro, which has no public self-serve checkout. The add-ons stack per user as well, and the payroll add-on is US-only and annual-only.
The natural comparison is Connecteam — the all-in-one deskless-team app. Decide by which one fits the job above, not by the louder brand.
More on Deputy
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My ex-banker filter is simple: does Deputy remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.
Frequently asked questions
Does Deputy replace my current setup or sit on top of it?
Usually it sits on top rather than replacing everything. Tools in this class tend to become the layer where work is tracked and handed off, while your existing systems stay the source of truth for their own data. Before you buy, map which tools it would replace outright and which it would merely sync with. If the answer is that it syncs with all of them, you are adding a layer rather than removing one.
Who should not use Deputy?
Skip it if you run a small salaried desk team: the $30 monthly minimum means you pay for roughly six users whether you have them or not, and salaried staff rarely need shift-level clocking at all. Buying a tool to fix a problem you don't have yet just adds cost and another login to manage.
Is this a hands-on review of Deputy?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
Others in this category
Weighing Deputy against the field? These are the operations & workflow tools closest to it that we have also reviewed. They overlap rather than match, so check what each one is actually built for before treating any of them as a swap:
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