OneBookPlus vs Tanda
Rostering inside the whole business

It depends on what you use Tanda for. Tanda is a workforce-management specialist, rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR for hourly, shift-based teams (per tanda.com.au). OneBookPlus has rostering and payroll too, as a $29/month add-on that runs pay, PAYG withholding and super, but it is really an all-in-one business platform: it adds the invoicing, quoting, CRM, online bookings, marketing, and accounting that Tanda deliberately leaves out. If you are a small or growing service business that mostly needs to roster a team and run the money side in one place, OneBookPlus replaces Tanda plus several other tools. If your core problem is optimising labour cost across many sites with demand forecasting and deep multi-award compliance, Tanda is the deeper specialist and the two can even be complementary.

OneBookPlus covers the workforce basics most service businesses need: shift scheduling, time & attendance, timesheet approval, modern-award rate calculation, and pay runs with PAYG withholding, superannuation, payslips and an ABA bank file, all in the Rostering & Payroll add-on at $29/month. One thing to know before you switch: OneBookPlus does not lodge Single Touch Payroll pay events to the ATO, so you still report each pay run through STP-enabled software. Tanda goes deeper on the pure-workforce edges, a compliance team that researches pay and conditions for common Modern Awards, enterprise-agreement automation, and demand forecasting that sizes rosters from historical sales, foot traffic, and weather (per tanda.com.au/solutions/workforce-management). OneBookPlus does not aim to match that forecasting depth or Tanda's configurable award library. It instead joins solid core rostering to the invoicing, CRM, bookings, and accounting half of the business that Tanda does not offer.

Tanda advertises a bundle of HR + Payroll + Workforce Management at $12.80 + GST per user, per month (about $14.08 inc. GST), with individual modules priced on request, it is a per-user, sales-led model and no free plan is documented on tanda.com.au/pricing. For a team of 10 on the bundle that is roughly $128 + GST per month, and you still need separate software for invoicing, quoting, CRM, bookings, and the GST/BAS side of 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, and rostering and payroll sit alongside them as a $29/month add-on with a 14-day trial, so adding staff to the roster does not inflate the software bill. What the plans do band is logins: Each plan includes a set number of logins, one login on Free, three on Starter, five on Plus and ten on Growth, and below the cap there is no per-seat charge at all. On Growth an extra login is $9/mo, added to the same invoice, so an eleventh person costs $9 and not a new plan. Staff you roster and book but who never sign in (instructors, carers, cleaners, stylists) are free and unlimited on every plan. Confirm Tanda's current pricing directly at tanda.com.au/pricing.

Yes, and this is the core difference from Tanda. Tanda is workforce software: its pricing and features describe rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR, but no invoicing, quoting, CRM, bookings, or general accounting (per tanda.com.au). OneBookPlus adds GST-compliant invoicing with ABN validation, a quote-to-job-to-invoice pipeline, expense tracking, profit-and-loss reporting, and quarterly BAS-ready figures (G1, 1A, 1B) generated automatically from your invoices and expenses. So rostered hours, the invoice they bill out to, and the BAS that reports the GST all live in one system instead of three.

Tanda is an Australian-made workforce-management specialist (based in Fortitude Valley, Queensland) trusted by large multi-site operators, and that depth is real. Its award-interpretation engine is backed by a compliance team that researches pay and conditions for common Modern Awards, with enterprise-agreement automation and roster validations that flag compliance risk before you publish (per tanda.com.au/solutions/workforce-management). It also has demand forecasting that sizes rosters from historical sales, foot traffic, and weather to hit a labour-cost target, plus a dedicated HR module for onboarding, contracts, and qualifications. If you run a high-frequency, multi-venue hospitality, retail, or healthcare operation where shaving labour cost and nailing complex award compliance across many staff is the single most valuable thing software can do, Tanda's specialism is genuinely deeper than ours.

No. Tanda is rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR software, its public pages describe those workforce functions, not invoicing, quoting, CRM, online bookings, marketing, or general accounting. 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. Tanda files STP for payroll, but it does not produce a BAS or send a customer invoice. OneBookPlus generates BAS-ready GST figures automatically from your invoices and expenses, sends GST-compliant invoices, and carries a single customer record from booking through to payment, so the front-of-house and money side live alongside the roster.

For an Australian service business that wants rostering plus the rest of the business in one app, OneBookPlus is usually the broader fit. Tanda is excellent at workforce management (rostering, awards, payroll, HR) but stops there, charging per user as your team grows, so you still pay for invoicing, a CRM, a booking tool, and BAS-capable accounting on top. OneBookPlus brings GST invoicing, online bookings, CRM, accounting, and marketing together on one Australian-built platform from $0/month, with no per-seat fee below each tier's login cap (1 / 3 / 5 / 10 by tier), and adds core rostering and payroll as a $29/month add-on. Payroll there means pay runs, PAYG withholding, super, payslips and an ABA bank file, not STP lodgement, which OneBookPlus does not do yet. If you need enterprise-grade demand forecasting and deep multi-award compliance across many sites, Tanda remains the deeper pure-workforce tool.

No, and we would rather you know that before you switch. Tanda's demand forecasting (sizing rosters from historical sales, foot traffic, and weather) and its enterprise-agreement automation are specialist features OneBookPlus does not offer. OneBookPlus covers the scheduling and award basics most small service teams need and joins them to invoicing, bookings, CRM and accounting. If roster optimisation across many sites is the single most valuable thing software can do for you, Tanda is the deeper tool for that job, and some businesses run Tanda for the workforce alongside OneBookPlus for the money side.