OneBookPlus vs Deputy
Rostering plus everything else

OneBookPlus covers the rostering and scheduling most businesses use Deputy for, then keeps going: invoicing, CRM, online bookings, accounting and marketing sit in the same subscription. Deputy is the deeper rostering product, with a more configurable award library and demand forecasting OneBookPlus doesn't attempt. So the split is about where your weekly effort goes. If optimising labour cost across a large roster is the job, Deputy is the better tool. If you roster a handful of staff and then have to invoice, book and reconcile in three other apps, OneBookPlus replaces the stack.

OneBookPlus covers shift scheduling, time & attendance tracking, timesheet approval, award interpretation, and employee availability management. Deputy is a specialist rostering tool with deeper workforce management features like demand forecasting. But for most service businesses, OneBookPlus provides everything you need for rostering plus invoicing, bookings, CRM, and accounting that Deputy doesn't offer.

The models differ more than the numbers do. Deputy prices per user, per month, across its Lite, Core and Pro plans, and charges further per-user add-ons for payroll, HR, messaging and analytics, so the bill scales with headcount twice over: once for the seat and again for each add-on. Its current rates are published on deputy.com/au/pricing and stated in the comparison table on this page. On top of that you still need separate tools for invoicing, bookings, CRM, and accounting. OneBookPlus starts free and covers all of that, with no per-user charge on the Free, Starter ($29/mo), Plus ($49/mo), or Growth ($69/mo) plans, so rostering a casual costs nothing. What the core plans band is logins, one on Free, three on Starter, five on Plus and ten on Growth, with no per-seat charge below the cap. Giving that casual a login is what moves you up a tier. Rostering and payroll sit outside those plans as a $29/month add-on with a 14 day trial, and that price is flat too, not per seat.

Absolutely, and this is a major advantage over Deputy. OneBookPlus includes full accounting with profit and loss reports, expense tracking, GST calculation, and ATO-ready BAS summaries. With Deputy, you need to pay for separate invoicing software, accounting software, and a booking platform. OneBookPlus gives you everything in one place.

OneBookPlus includes several features Deputy lacks: GST-compliant invoicing, online booking pages, CRM and client management, email marketing campaigns, quoting, full accounting with P&L reports, BAS/ATO tax summaries, expense tracking, Google review requests, and job management. Deputy focuses solely on rostering and scheduling. OneBookPlus is a complete business platform.

Deputy is a workforce-management specialist founded in 2008 (per its about-us page, https://www.deputy.com/about-us), and its depth shows where rostering is the centre of your operation. Its award-interpretation engine handles the awkward edges of complex modern awards, SCHADS, the Hospitality Industry (General) Award, the General Retail Industry Award, including allowances, broken shifts, and overtime stacking. It also has sales- and foot-traffic-driven demand forecasting that builds rosters to a labour-cost target, which matters most for high-frequency rostering across many sites. OneBookPlus covers core award rate calculation and shift scheduling, but does not aim to match Deputy's forecasting or its configurable award library. If your single biggest weekly job is optimising labour cost across dozens of staff, Deputy's specialism is real.

No. Deputy is rostering, time & attendance and, through a paid add-on, payroll. Its public pages describe scheduling, timesheets, award interpretation, clock-in tools and pay runs, but no customer invoicing, no accounting and no BAS. A BAS (Business Activity Statement) is the form Australian businesses lodge with the ATO to report GST collected on sales, GST paid on purchases, and the net amount owed. Because Deputy holds no sales invoices, the GST side has to come from Xero or MYOB, a separate subscription alongside it. OneBookPlus generates BAS-ready GST figures (G1, 1A, 1B) automatically from your invoices and expenses, so rostered hours, invoices, and your BAS all live in one system.

The two overlap on the roster and diverge immediately after it. Deputy is excellent at rostering, time & attendance, and award interpretation but stops there, you still pay for Xero or MYOB, a CRM, a booking tool, and a marketing tool on top, all charged per user as your team grows. OneBookPlus puts GST invoicing, online bookings, CRM, accounting, and marketing into one Australian-built platform from $0/month, with no per-user fee below each plan's login cap on Free, Starter, Plus or Growth (1 / 3 / 5 / 10 by tier), and adds rostering and payroll as a $29/month add-on. That add-on runs pay, PAYG withholding, super, penalty rates and payslips, but it does not lodge Single Touch Payroll to the ATO, so you keep STP-enabled software for that step. If you need enterprise-grade demand forecasting across many sites, Deputy remains the deeper pure-rostering tool.