What this actually replaces
You’re already paying for most of this.
Not in one bill. In three or four of them, plus the hours nobody invoices you for. Here’s the honest arithmetic, including the parts where we’re not the cheapest.
List prices, checked August 2026
A form, a spreadsheet, a calendar and one text at a time — and still no answer to “Who can work this Saturday at 2 PM in Whittier?”
That is what most staffing businesses actually run on. Only one of the four sends you a bill.
Jotform Silver
Clients request a booking
$49/mo
Three different spreadsheets
The clients, the events, and the staff details are organized but not connected
Your time
A calendar
The event details manually inputted and invitations out to whoever is working
Your time
Individual texts
Finding out who is free, one person at a time
Your time
And after all four, you still can’t ask any of them whether the person finishing in Cypress at one o’clock can reach La Mirada by two.
The booking form on its own
$49/mo
Logidex Starter — and it does the other three too
$25/mo
You keep
$24/mo · $288/yr, and the evenings
Logidex costs less than the booking form on its own.
The spreadsheet, the calendar and the texting are free, which is not the same as cheap. They are the evening you spend cross-checking who said yes, who is already booked, and who can get across town in time.
Jotform’s published monthly list price in August 2026; Silver is $39 a month if you pay for the year. Logidex Starter covers 6 working staff, and your bench keeps their logins free.
Most tools charge you for people who didn’t work. The ones that don’t have a floor.
Staffing businesses keep a bench, and this is where the money quietly goes. Same 45 working staff, same bench of 25, four different bills.
Deputy (Core)
$293/mo
- Your bench
- Billed like everyone else
- Minimum
- No minimum
Right if almost everyone on your list works almost every month.
When I Work
$225/mo
- Your bench
- Billed like everyone else
- Minimum
- No minimum
Right if almost everyone on your list works almost every month.
Ubeya (Pro)
$315/mo
- Your bench
- Free
- Minimum
- $259/mo before client records
Right if you're already big enough that a $259 floor is noise.
Logidex (Agency)
$150/mo
- Your bench
- Free
- Minimum
- No minimum
Right if your bench is bigger than your Saturday. Up to 75 working staff, 25 free bench.
Your backup people keep their logins, keep updating their own availability, and cost you nothing until they actually work. No minimum, no floor, and the client records and pay reporting are in the price rather than two tiers up.
So the person staffing Saturday doesn’t have to be you.
Three cases where you should buy something else
If we only listed the comparisons we win, you’d be right not to trust the ones we do.
Homebase
Buy it if you run one fixed location
Homebase is $70 a month for a single location with unlimited employees, or $56 if you pay for the year — and their free plan covers one location up to ten people. If your staff clock in at one address and stay there, that's cheaper than us and it's the right tool. Logidex exists for work that moves — different venue every day, travel time between jobs, people who set their own conditions about where they'll go.
Connecteam
Buy it if you're under ten people and don't need the client side
If you don't need a booking form your clients fill in, records of who booked you and when, or travel-time checks between jobs — and you have fewer than ten staff — Connecteam is a good option, and free at that size. It manages your team rather than your customers, and it does that part well. One thing to know if you're comparing: it's priced per hub, so Operations plus Communications plus HR is three subscriptions, not one. Come back when the client side starts costing you evenings.
Ubeya
Buy it if you need staff clocking in on site today
Ubeya is the closest thing to us built for staffing agencies, and they have things we don't yet: GPS and QR clock-in, payroll and applicant-tracking integrations, and multi-branch. If your crew punches in at the venue and that has to feed payroll this quarter, they've built it and we haven't. Those features are on the way, so it's worth checking back. What they won't do is sell you their client CRM under a $259 monthly minimum, and they won't tell you whether the person finishing in Cypress can reach La Mirada in time.
The part you can’t assemble
Price is the easy comparison. This is the real one. No combination of the tools above does any of the following, at any budget.
Travel time, before you assign. Logidex checks the real driving route between someone's earlier job and this one, and tells you whether they can actually make it. A scheduling tool sees two shifts that don't overlap and calls it fine.
Each contractor's own terms. One will travel to that county for free. One needs a fee. One won't take anything under four hours that far out. Those rules live on their profile and apply themselves when you're matching. You stop being the person who remembers.
A booking request becomes a shift becomes a paycheck. One record from the client's inquiry through to what the contractor is owed. No re-typing between four tools, and no spreadsheet for the bookkeeper at month end. Export the whole list.
Overnight shifts that aren't a bug. A nine-to-seven graveyard shift is a normal booking, counted correctly in hours, pay and rest rules. Most scheduling tools built for retail treat it as a typo.
Your head, written down. Whose driving radius is flexible. Who's reliable on short notice. Who lives twenty minutes from that venue. It's the reason an assistant still has to ping you, and it's the whole point of the product.
It already knows what a shift is, and still speaks your words. A blank database can be shaped into anything, which is why shaping one takes a weekend and only the person who built it understands it afterwards. Logidex arrives knowing what a booking, a shift and a travel fee are. Then it lets you rename the concepts to whatever you call them and add your own fields to any card. Most tools let you upload a logo. This is your shorthand, made legible to everyone you trust with it.
What it has to save to be worth it
$150 a month is not a subscription. It’s a labour line. Here’s the break-even, so you can do this in your head instead of taking our word for it.
Your own time
$75 an hour
2 hours a month
A coordinator
$50 an hour
3 hours a month
An assistant
$25 an hour
6 hours a month
Staffing one Saturday — pulling up who’s free, checking who can get there, messaging four people, chasing the two who didn’t reply — is most of an afternoon. If that happens twice a month, you’re past break-even before anything else counts.
The bill you can see is the smaller one.
You just read our whole price list. Try that anywhere else.
The three platforms built closest to what we do all handle this the same way, and it isn’t an accident.
Nowsta has no pricing page. Every button is “schedule a demo.”
Shiftboard publishes a feature grid with no numbers on it, and adds in the small print that minimum subscription fees apply to all plans and implementation fees apply on top.
Ubeya does publish per-worker pricing, to their credit — with a $259 a month minimum before you reach the tier that includes client records.
We don’t have a minimum, we don’t charge an implementation fee, and you don’t have to sit through a call to find out whether you can afford it. Everything is on the pricing page, and you can start without talking to anyone.
If a price is worth hiding, it’s worth asking why.