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 the 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.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.