Planday API
Planday documents a public REST API across 11 modules (scheduling, punch clock, payroll, HR, absence, revenue) with OAuth 2.0 and published rate limits. Customers create API apps in Settings; partners need portal-admin involvement per client. No published SDKs, and webhook coverage is thin.
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Planday scores A+ on Supergood's API Report Card. Planday documents a public REST API across 11 modules (scheduling, punch clock, payroll, HR, absence, revenue) with OAuth 2.0 and published rate limits. Customers create API apps in Settings; partners need portal-admin involvement per client. No published SDKs, and webhook coverage is thin.
Planday has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Planday is a cloud-based workforce-management platform built for shift-based businesses, consolidating employee scheduling, time tracking, absence and leave management, payroll-ready export, team messaging, HR records, and revenue-aware staff cost reporting into a single web + mobile product.
Vertical: Workforce Management / Shift Scheduling (closest Supergood vertical: misc; secondary 'POS / Hospitality' and 'Enterprise HR/ERP'). Building shift schedules with AI-assisted scheduling, templates, and demand forecasts. Employee availability, shift swaps, drop requests, and time-off / vacation requests via mobile app.
5/10 globally; 7/10 in the European shift-scheduling segment. 350,000+ employee end-users across thousands of locations. Strong brand recognition in Nordic and UK hospitality and retail; weaker presence in North America where 7shifts, When I Work, Deputy, and Homebase dominate.
Yes - Planday is the system of record for shift labor at thousands of European hospitality, retail, healthcare, and leisure operators.
~22 years old, founded 2004 in Copenhagen by Christian Brondum, Mikael Lyng, and Thomas Bjornholm. Cloud-native SaaS, with web app + iOS/Android mobile apps.
Per-portal rate limits (20 req/sec, 750 req/min) are tight for enterprise multi-location backfills and force partners to throttle aggressively even when their client-ID budget would allow more. Limited webhook coverage across modules forces integrators to poll Reports/Schedule/Punchclock endpoints for change detection, burning rate-limit budget. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Deputy, Quinyx, When I Work, 7shifts, Homebase, RotaCloud. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official Planday MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Planday doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.