Staffomatic review (2026): is it worth €2.00 a month, billed yearly?
Shift planner and time tracking priced per person in euros
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Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for shift planning in euros
Staffomatic plans shifts and absences, with time tracking and working-time accounts on higher plans. Every plan has a minimum of 10 people, and the cheapest one has a single admin login.
Who Staffomatic is for
- Fits if you run a team of 10 or more and want shifts and absences together
- Works for a business in Europe that is fine with prices in euros
Who Staffomatic is not for
- Tight if you are under 10 people, as every plan has a 10-person minimum
- Skip it if you want time tracking on the cheapest plan, as that needs Professional
- Watch out: Basic has one admin login and a 30-day activity log, against 60 and 90 days higher up
- Watch out: prices exclude VAT, and the Personio link is limited to Professional on yearly billing
Why Staffomatic gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyEUR 2.00 a person a month on yearly billing, excluding VAT, but with a 10-person minimum, so one person pays EUR 20. For five people that is about EUR 4 a head.
- CFree plan and trialA 14-day trial of all features with no payment details. There is no free plan.
- CFeaturesShift planner, absences, time tracking, working-time accounts, an AI assistant and an API. Time tracking needs Professional and working-time accounts need Premium.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. Staff and rules have to be set up first.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb plus iOS and Android apps, with an API and two integrations listed.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Staffomatic's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Staffomatic's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 6 of the 23 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 4.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 2 of 23) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $2.23 a month for each person, against a middle price of $5.33 for the category: 2 of the 17 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 24 shift scheduling apps we grade, cut by the letter each got. Staffomatic’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 2 of 23, level with 15
- CFree plan and trialAbove 5 of 23, level with 12
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 23, level with 14
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 23, level with 16
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 2 of 23, level with 21
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 18 shift scheduling apps. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Staffomatic, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of Staffomatic you could make: time off and employee records. What surrounds it you could not. The 7 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 13 of the 23 other shift scheduling apps grade higher. It costs $26.81 a year.
What you could make
- Time off and employee records: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, Personio and DATEV among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions.
What this rests on. Staffomatic’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Staffomatic?
Staffomatic is a shift planner from Germany that covers rota building, absence planning, digital personnel files and, on higher plans, time tracking and working-time accounts. It is priced in euros per person with no base fee and a minimum of 10 people. The pricing page is in German, with an English version.
Worth knowing
- Prices are in euros and exclude VAT, with a minimum of 10 people on every plan.
- Time tracking needs Professional and working-time accounts need Premium; Basic is planning only.
- Basic includes only one admin login, and its activity log goes back 30 days against 60 and 90 on the higher plans.
- The Personio interface is limited to the Professional plan on yearly billing; teams of 100 or more get an enterprise quote.
Key features
- Shift planner
- Builds and publishes weekly rotas, with shift swaps and shift applications from employees; multiple locations cost nothing extra.
- Absence planning
- A vacation planner is in every plan, and the digital personnel file is included from Basic up.
- Time tracking
- Time tracking starts on the Professional plan, with roles and permissions, availability, qualifications and prioritized shifts.
- Working-time accounts
- Premium adds working-time and overtime accounts, surcharges and a DATEV export of the accounts.
- Staffo AI assistant
- An AI assistant called Staffo is listed on every plan in beta, with a daily usage limit, and its scope and price may change after the beta.
- Mobile app and API
- Staff use a mobile app on iOS and Android, and the Professional and Premium plans include API access.
Staffomatic pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Staffomatic is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €2.00 per person / month, billed yearly (€2.40 monthly), minimum 10 people.
- Starts at
- €2.00 per person / month, billed yearly (€2.40 monthly), minimum 10 people
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 14-day free trial of all features, no payment details needed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | €2.00per person / month, billed yearly (€2.40 monthly) | Shift and absence planning, mobile app, shift swaps, personnel file and 1 admin login. Minimum 10 people. |
| Professional | €4.00per person / month, billed yearly (€4.80 monthly) | Adds time tracking, roles and permissions, availability, qualifications and API access. Minimum 10 people. |
| Premium | €6.00per person / month, billed yearly (€7 monthly) | Adds working-time accounts, surcharges, overtime account, DATEV export and bulk import. Minimum 10 people. |
Read from staffomatic.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Staffomatic before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountUp to 17% off with yearly payment
The pricing page shows lower per-person rates for yearly payment (12 months in advance) than for monthly billing.
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Common questions
Does Staffomatic have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Staffomatic is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Staffomatic have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Staffomatic is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Staffomatic open source?
Staffomatic is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Staffomatic have an API?
Yes. Staffomatic offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.