Agendrix vs Sling by Toast (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Agendrix if

• Fits if you manage a small team and want to cover shifts without chasing texts
• Works for a business in Canada that wants prices in Canadian dollars

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you also want time tracking, as Time and Attendance adds CA$2.35 per user each month
• Watch out: HR management, surveys and permission settings are limited to the Plus plan
• Skip it if you need a US-dollar price list, as none was found
• Watch out: Enterprise has no published price

Pick Sling by Toast if

• Fits if you have up to 30 staff and want scheduling for nothing
• Works for restaurants already on Toast or Square that build schedules weeks ahead

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you need a time clock on the free plan, as clocking in starts on Premium
• Skip it if your payroll isn't Toast, since that's the only payroll link it names
• Pricey if you want the shared kiosk clock, PTO or wage reports, which need Business at $3.40 a user
• Too light for teams past 30 on the free plan, which stops at 30 users
• Watch out: Sling is owned by Toast, and Toast customers buy it through the Toast Shop, not Sling's pricing page

Agendrix

• Prices on the page are in Canadian dollars; no US-dollar price list was found.
• Time and Attendance costs CA$2.35 more per user each month and is not part of Essential or Plus.
• HR management, surveys and permission customization are limited to the Plus plan.
• Enterprise has no published price, and yearly billing takes 10% off the monthly price.

Sling by Toast

• The Free plan stops at 30 users and has no time clock; time tracking, labor costs and overtime tracking start on Premium.
• The kiosk clock, PTO tracking and payroll-ready hours and wage reports need the Business plan.
• Integrations are mostly restaurant point-of-sale systems: Toast, Square, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager and POSiTouch, with timesheet export to Toast Payroll.
• Sling is now owned by Toast, and Toast customers buy it through the Toast Shop rather than on Sling's pricing page.

Agendrix

Schedule builder

Drag-and-drop editing with shift and week templates, copying from earlier schedules, and alerts for conflicts, missed availability and approved leave.

Open shifts and swaps

Employees can offer to take open shifts, with an option to offer them by seniority, and can request replacements and shift swaps.

Automatic scheduling

Shifts can be assigned automatically from employee availability and leaves. The pricing page lists this under the scheduling features.

Time and attendance

A paid add-on lets employees clock in and out from a tablet, phone or computer, checks punches against the schedule and exports timesheets to payroll.

Labor cost calculator

Scheduled hours and labor cost are calculated automatically, and POS integrations can bring in sales revenue.

Messaging and HR tools

Group chat and a news feed come with every plan; the Plus plan adds employee profiles, document storage, e-signatures and surveys.

Sling by Toast

Schedules and templates

Managers build schedules months ahead from shift and weekly templates, around staff unavailability, with day parts, custom tags and several slots per shift.

Auto-assigning shifts

Sling can assign open shifts automatically, and mandatory meal and rest breaks are added to the shifts they apply to.

Shift offers, swaps and alarms

Employees offer shifts to coworkers, swap shifts and pick up available ones, and alarms remind them of upcoming shifts by push or SMS.

Time clock and labor costs

Paid plans add clock-in from phones, and Business adds a shared kiosk. Labor costs and overtime are tracked as the schedule is built and compared with sales.

Messaging and newsfeed

Private and group messages, announcements and newsfeed pages aimed at chosen groups of staff.

Task management

Tasks can be assigned to a shift or to an employee and tracked from the app.

Agendrix

• EssentialCA$3.15

  per user / month, billed yearly (CA$3.50 monthly)

  Employee scheduling, communication, request management and reporting. With Time and Attendance (CA$2.35 more a month) it is CA$5.27 billed yearly.

• PlusCA$5.04

  per user / month, billed yearly (CA$5.60 monthly)

  Everything in Essential plus HR management, surveys and permission customization. With Time and Attendance it is CA$7.16 billed yearly.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Essential and Plus with enhanced day-to-day support, aimed at businesses with 250 or more employees.

Sling by Toast

• Free$0

  Up to 30 users: shift scheduling, time-off requests, available shifts, long-term scheduling, news sharing and private messaging.

• Premium$1.70

  per user / month, billed annually ($2 billed monthly)

  Adds mobile time tracking, labor costs compared against sales, overtime tracking, group messaging and calendar sync.

• Business$3.40

  per user / month, billed annually ($4 billed monthly)

  Adds a shared-device kiosk time clock, hours and wage reports, no-show and sick call-out tracking, and PTO management. Recommended.

Agendrix

• Annual discount

  10% off with yearly billing

  The pricing page has a Yearly switch marked -10% and its FAQ says a yearly subscription gets a 10% discount.

Sling by Toast

• Annual discount

  Save 15% with annual billing

  Annual billing brings Premium to $1.70 and Business to $3.40 per user a month, against $2 and $4 billed monthly.