An honest comparison
Kordis vs Deputy: scheduling app or staffing desk? (2026)
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Deputy is employee scheduling and time-tracking software, published from $5 US per user per month with a $30 monthly minimum. It is built for a business rostering its own staff at its own locations.
Kordis is built for a staffing agency, which is a different job: placing temp workers at client sites, confirming them by call and text, screening applicants, gating credentials by expiry, and getting hours to payroll.
What is Deputy good at?
Deputy is one of the strongest scheduling products on the market: fast rostering, demand forecasting, wage budgeting, a worker app people actually use, and clean payroll integrations. For a restaurant group, clinic or warehouse rostering its own employees, it is an easy recommendation at a genuinely low price.
- Published, low pricing: $5, $6.50 and $9 US per user per month across three tiers
- Auto-scheduling, demand forecasting and wage budgeting on the mid tier
- A well-liked worker app with shift swaps and availability
- Broad payroll integrations, so approved hours leave cleanly
How do Kordis and Deputy compare?
| What matters | Kordis | Deputy |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Canadian temp staffing agencies with 25 to 100 workers | Businesses rostering their own employees |
| Pricing | Flat per agency (founding rate, then $499 a month), not per user | $5, $6.50 and $9 US per user per month, plus a $30 US monthly minimum |
| Shift filling | Auto Dispatch and Instant Cover: confirmation texts and calls go out on their own; fills and backfills are staged for your OK | Manager-built rosters, open shifts and swaps |
| Screening | Smart Screening: applicant screening calls with transcripts and scores | Not an applicant screening product |
| Credential tracking | AutoFile and the Renewal Clock: credential expiry tracking with renewal texts at 90 days, 2 weeks, and 3 days, plus dispatch gating | Qualifications on a profile; no provincial dispatch gating |
| Canadian rules | Ontario, BC, and Alberta rules built in: the cards workers carry, gating, calling hours | Global product; no provincial ESA, WSIB or credential rules |
| Payroll | Five-Minute Payroll: hours move from timesheets to your payroll file; your payroll provider stays | Approved timesheets export to payroll integrations |
Deputy publishes Lite at $5, Core at $6.50 and Pro at $9 US per user per month, with a $30 US per month minimum on monthly plans, on deputy.com/pricing. Checked 2026-07-27.
Pick Deputy if
- You are rostering your OWN employees at your own sites, which is what it is built for
- You want demand forecasting and wage budgeting against a labour target
- Cheap per-head scheduling is the whole requirement
Pick Kordis if
- You place temp workers at CLIENT sites, so the schedule is only half the problem
- Nobody is available to phone twelve people when a crew member cancels overnight
- A lapsed forklift card or Smart Serve must stop a dispatch by itself
- You need applicant screening calls and hours reconciled into a payroll file
Common questions
Can a staffing agency run on Deputy?
Agencies do try it, because it is cheap and the app is good. It records the schedule well. What it does not do is make the confirmation calls, screen applicants, stop a dispatch on an expired card, or reconcile client hour sheets into a payroll file.
Is Deputy cheaper than Kordis?
Per head, usually yes: at $5 US per user per month a small roster costs very little. The pricing shapes differ on purpose. Deputy charges per person scheduled; Kordis charges one flat price per agency regardless of roster size.
Does Deputy handle Canadian provincial rules?
Deputy is a global scheduling product and publishes no provincial employment standards, WSIB or WorkSafeBC features, and no credential gating by expiry. Those stay yours to track outside the tool.
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