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VisitsTracker vs Deputy
Deputy is a mature workforce management product: rostering, timesheets, biometric time clocking and award and labour compliance. It is very good at shift work, and shift work is not the same thing as field work.
Competitor claims are taken from their own published documentation, dated below.
The short version
Which of us you should buy.
Straight answer
If you roster shift workers and need timesheets that survive a labour audit, Deputy is a serious product and starts at $5 a user. If your people are out all day at customer sites and the question is what happened at each one, that is a different record and it is the one we keep.
Where they win
Where Deputy is the better choice.
Leading with this because a comparison that finds no merit in the alternative is marketing, and gets read that way.
Rostering and labour compliance
Award interpretation, break rules and overtime handling built for regulated shift work. We apply the overtime rule you set and nothing more sophisticated.
Biometric time clocking
A kiosk with biometrics is a stronger identity control at a fixed site than anything we offer.
Depth of integrations
Payroll and POS integrations across a lot of systems, which is what a shift workforce needs.
Maturity
An established product with a long track record in exactly the market it serves. We are new.
Side by side
The difference, in one table.
| Deputy | VisitsTracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | $5, $6.50 or $9 per user per month | $4 per tracked seat plus $19 workspace |
| Admin and manager seats | Billable | Free |
| Rostering and award interpretation | Yes | No |
| Biometric kiosk | Yes | No |
| A record per site visited | One shift | One visit per stop, with duration |
| Mock-location detection | Not published | Detected, marked, excluded |
| Customer-facing proof | Not published | Standing link per customer |
| Per-day evidence seal | Not published | Yes |
“Not published” means we could not find a public claim either way, not that the feature is absent. Ask them, and treat our unsourced rows the same way.
01 · Where the clock is
A kiosk works because people walk past it
Biometrics at a fixed clock is a genuinely strong control, and it is the right answer when everybody arrives at the same building.
- Field workers arrive at a customer, not at your building, so there is nothing to walk past.
- The record has to be derived from where the phone went, which is a different mechanism.
- Both are legitimate. They answer different workforces.
02 · Cost at fourteen people
Ten in vans, four in the office
Deputy publishes $5 per user per month at Lite, rising to $6.50 and $9. Everybody with an account is a user.
- Fourteen people on their entry tier is $70 a month before any upgrade.
- Ours is ten tracked seats at $4 plus a $19 workspace: $59, with the four office seats free.
- Source: deputy.com/pricing, read 15 August 2026.
03 · The thing a roster cannot answer
Which site, for how long, and can you prove it
A compliant timesheet says somebody worked seven hours. It does not say which four customers those hours were spent at, or which one is now disputing forty minutes.
- A visit per stop, openable to the readings it was drawn from.
- Untrusted readings excluded from totals rather than quietly averaged in.
- Exportable by the worker themselves, which is what makes it survivable internally.
Straight answers
Questions people ask.
Does VisitsTracker do rostering?
No. Deputy is the better buy if rostering and award compliance are the problem, and we would rather say so.
Is Deputy more expensive?
Per seat it is $5 to $9 against our $4 per tracked seat, but the bigger difference is that our office seats are free and theirs are not.
Can we use both?
Yes. Roster and run payroll in one, record the field day in the other.
Which handles a mobile workforce better?
Ours, for the visit record. Theirs, for everything that happens around a roster. If you have both kinds of staff, plenty of businesses run both.
The relevant pages
What this looks like in the product.
Run both for a week.
Put each on one phone, work a normal week, and compare what comes out. That tells you more than either of our websites.
Written 2026-08-15. Competitor claims come from their own documentation and pricing pages on that date and may have changed. If we have something wrong, tell us at support@visitstracker.com and we will correct the page.