SWITCH FROM QUINYX
Quinyx to Calisto Workforce
Build the week against the day's real demand, publish it to every phone, run the clock and labor rules, sign off each person's week and hand the pay report to your accountant or payroll system.
Feature by feature
Calisto Workforce beside Quinyx
- 21 In both
- 4 Only in Quinyx
| 25 features | Calisto Workforce | Quinyx |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling | ||
| Manual, Assisted and Automatic SchedulingCalisto: Suggest proposes a week from the roster, each day's demand and an hours budget, and the Optimizer rearranges existing shifts within daily and weekly hour limits; a manager reviews the result before it is published.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Shift Swaps and Open ShiftsCalisto: a team member asks to swap or drop a shift, or claims an open shift, from their own week, and the request waits in Shift Requests to be decided the way the business routes it.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Skills-Based Shift AssignmentCalisto: a shift can require a certification, and a person without a current one cannot be placed on it.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Labor Cost While SchedulingCalisto: the week shows its labor cost beside each day's projected sales, each in its own currency, to the people the owner lets see pay.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule NotificationsCalisto: a published shift, a swap request, an open shift, a reminder before a shift and a missed clock-in each arrive as a notice with its own buttons, such as Accept, Claim and Clock In.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Demand ForecastingCalisto: each day of the week reads its demand from the business's own records (stays and guests, table covers, events and their expected attendance, sales by weekday and its own staffing pattern), and the reason is shown on the day.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Time | ||
| Punching on Phone and WebCalisto: each person clocks in and out on their own phone, and the live Clock board shows who is in, who is late and who has not arrived.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| On-Site TerminalsCalisto: a shared clock-in tablet is a Clock-in Kiosk station (with Station) where each person punches with a PIN Calisto generates, and five wrong PINs lock the pads for ten minutes.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Offline PunchesCalisto: a punch made on a phone with no signal is held with the time it was made, sent on reconnect and badged Recorded Offline for the manager to review.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Location Checks on PunchesCalisto: a punch can be required to carry the phone's location, or to be made on the business's team WiFi at the shift's Location (with WiFi).Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Photo Capture at PunchCalisto: Clock-in can ask for a photo at each punch, kept in the business's files.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Timesheet Approval Into PayrollCalisto: each person's week combines the clock and the work time they logged, is submitted once and signed off on the approval engine, and an approved week can be locked until it is reopened.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Overtime CalculationCalisto: hours are split into regular and overtime per pay week against the business's threshold, and the manager is alerted as someone approaches overtime.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pay | ||
| Payroll File ExportCalisto: the Pay Report gathers each period's hours, overtime, time off and tips and downloads as a PDF for an accountant or as a file in a payroll system's import layout, or in a layout the business builds.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Time Off | ||
| Absence Requests and ApprovalsCalisto: a team member requests time off from their phone, even with no signal, and sees their balances; the request is decided on the approval engine wherever it waits, and the balance is taken once.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance | ||
| Rest, Break and Working Time RulesCalisto: labor rules for breaks, daily and weekly overtime, daily and weekly hour caps, rest between shifts and minors warn or block while the week is built and are checked again against the clock and timesheets; ready-made rule sets cover the EU, the UK, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and more.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Insights | ||
| Workforce AnalyticsCalisto: Home reads the day from one source (who is on the clock, who is late, requests waiting, weeks to approve, schedule gaps for seven days and labor violations), and Labor by Department splits the pay period's hours by where the work was.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Communication | ||
| Team MessagingCalisto: direct messages, group messages and Hubs for the whole team or a chosen few (with Equipo, free on every account).Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Policy and Document LibraryCalisto: a Public Hub holds the team's policies, procedures and guides in its Folders, and a Private Hub holds them for chosen people (with Equipo).Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Operations | ||
| Task ManagementCalisto: business tasks are assigned to connected people (with Dispatch) and land in their day beside their shifts (with Today).Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Digital FormsCalisto: forms for inspections, incident reports and other checks are built, sent and answered in Forms (with Forms).Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Gaps | ||
| Availability PreferencesEmployees and managers manage availability in the mobile app, and it is weighed when shifts are assigned.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Collective Agreement RulesRegion-specific templates apply the rules of local labor laws and collective agreements to each schedule automatically.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| News and Stories FeedUpdates with photos and video, aimed at chosen roles, locations or departments, that employees like and comment on.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Pulse Surveys and Recognition BadgesShort recurring surveys on engagement and wellbeing in the mobile app, and badges that recognize colleagues for the company's values.Checked Oct 30, 2026Source | No | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Quinyx
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Quinyx and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Any spreadsheet you export from Quinyx can be mapped onto Calisto, column by column.
Moving from Quinyx
Questions about switching
How do my people come over?
Each person is added once with the Add team member wizard in People and accepts an invitation. Their department, position and team are picked from your structure, and they are the same person in every Calisto app. Adding someone never gives the business control over their own Calisto account.
Do my schedules carry over?
Recurring shifts are set up again as shift templates and applied to a week as open shifts. Each week is built as drafts on the Schedule board and goes out to each person's schedule and their Agenda calendar when you publish it.
What happens to my time off balances?
Each leave type is set up again as a leave policy with its accrual rate, cap and carryover, and each person's current balance is brought over with a manual adjustment in Leave Balances, with its reason. From then on balances accrue every day and an approved request takes its days once.
How does payroll work after I switch?
Workforce does not run payroll. The Pay Report gathers each period's hours, overtime, time off and tips, and downloads as a PDF for your accountant or as a file in your payroll system's import layout. The accountant or payroll system runs the pay from it.
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