Teams vs Connecteam, honestly.
Connecteam is a good, big product. If you have 300 people across three countries, use it. If you have a cleaning company with eleven people, here is why Teams fits better — and where it doesn’t.
| Locufy Teams | Connecteam | Spreadsheet + WhatsApp | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per person, per month. Free for up to 10 people, every feature. | Per hub (Operations, Communications, HR), each priced for the first 30 users, then per extra user. Free plan for up to 10 users. | Free, and it costs you every Sunday night. |
| Scheduling + clock-in + HR together | One product, one price. | Three hubs, three subscriptions: from about $29 per hub per month (billed annually) for the first 30 users. | A spreadsheet, a WhatsApp group and a drawer. |
| Set-up | An afternoon: import people, copy this week’s rota, publish. | Fast set-up is claimed; more hubs and more settings to configure. | Already set up. Already breaking. |
| Open shifts and who can cover | Checks hours, leave and skills while you drag; asks people from the app. | Open shifts and claim; strong scheduling features. | “Anyone free Thursday?” in the group chat. |
| Clock in | One big button, fenced to the site, works offline. | Time clock with GPS and geofence. | Paper, or trust. |
| HR: documents, certificates, renewals | Included: e-sign, certificates with renewal reminders, onboarding checklists. | In the HR & Skills hub: documents, courses, onboarding, time off. | A folder somewhere. |
| Staff chat | Yes, as a channel in the Inbox, with its own reply target. | Yes, a full Communications hub: chat, updates, directory, knowledge base. | WhatsApp, forever scrolling. |
| Where your data lives | The EU. GDPR by design, export any time. | See their trust centre for regions and certifications. | On someone’s phone. |
| Languages in the staff app | English, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Lithuanian. | Multiple languages. | Whatever the group speaks. |
| Who it is for | Service businesses, six to sixty people. | 80,000+ businesses worldwide, small to enterprise. | Everyone, until it isn’t. |
Connecteam facts from connecteam.com and connecteam.com/pricing, checked September 2026; prices are theirs, in US dollars, and change. Teams’ per-person price is set on the Pricing page.
Where Connecteam is ahead today
A full communications hub (updates, directory, knowledge base, help desk), a bigger integrations list, enterprise things like an org chart and a trust centre with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 badges. If those are on your list, they are not on ours yet.
Where Teams is ahead today
One price per person instead of three hubs in blocks of 30; the local specifics on file (background checks, site safety cards, the way payroll works here); appointments and shifts on one calendar with Locufy Bookings; your data in the EU; and a company you can ring.
Try it beside what you have for a week.
Free for up to 10 people. If it doesn’t earn its place, export and go — no hard feelings.