Planday is a comprehensive staff scheduling and shift-optimization tool used by hospitality, retail, healthcare, and more. But coffee shops run on agility and quality—not generalized workforce automation. Brewspace is built from the ground up for café operations. Here's why café owners prefer it.
Planday excels at scheduling, time tracking, labor cost control, payroll exports, shift swaps, and HR compliance.
Brewspace focuses solely on café-first operations: espresso recipes, opening/closing checklists, milk-waste logs, barista training, and real-time insights.
Brewspace includes built-in espresso recipe management, version tracking, and dial-in logs—essential for quality control.
Planday provides task templates but no support for barista-specific recipe workflows.
Brewspace is mobile-first and super intuitive—baristas can launch checklists or update recipes mid-shift in under 5 minutes.
Planday requires configuring schedules, departments, payroll settings, and employee permissions—add complexity before your team sees impact.
Brewspace ships with community-built templates—dial-in logs, opening routines, onboarding flows, waste tracking—so you start with best-in-class workflows.
Planday offers generic staffing templates, not tailored to espresso prep or barista station tasks.
Brewspace surfaces only what cafés need: checklists, recipes, and shift insights—no payroll tabs, no labor rules, no compliance modules.
Planday includes powerful HR tools like punch clock, leave accounts, labor compliance, auto-scheduling, and shift-swaps, which can overwhelm small café teams.
Both platforms offer free trials—Brewspace’s 14-day trial gets you up and running in under 5 minutes. Plandlay’s setup takes longer, requiring proper payroll integration and permissions before you benefit.
If your priorities are:
then Brewspace is the natural fit.
Planday is excellent for labor and HR management—but for daily café ops? Brewspace is simpler, faster, and more aligned.
Start your 14‑day free Brewspace trial today—no credit card, no fluff, just coffee workflows.
Set up your team, add your checklists and recipes, and start seeing results today.
