Switch from Deputy (and go hospo specific)

Deputy is well-built software. It’s genuinely good at rostering and shift management, and it works across a lot of industries. That’s exactly the problem.

Deputy serves hospitals, retail chains, cleaning companies, and logistics businesses. That means the product is necessarily general — there’s no live COGS tracking, no recipe costing, no stock management, no venue-level GP reporting. Loaded was built exclusively for hospitality, and it shows in every corner of the platform.

Deputy charges per user, per month — currently around $8.75/user on the Core plan (annual), with add-ons for payroll ($5/user/month) and HR ($3.50/user/month). A venue with 25 staff on the full stack is looking at $450+ per month just for Deputy, before you add a separate stock system or reporting tool. Loaded charges per venue, not per person — one flat fee covers your whole team regardless of headcount.

Deputy tells you what your rosters cost. Loaded tells you what your rosters cost as a percentage of what you’re making — live, per venue. That’s the number that actually matters to a hospo operator.

Deputy recently launched “Business Insights” — a beta dashboard that lets operators compare revenue (entered manually) against labour costs. It’s a step in the right direction, and worth acknowledging.

But there’s a meaningful difference between manually entering revenue figures and having them flow automatically from your POS. In Loaded, the connection is live — sales data hits the dashboard in real-time, no manual entry, no lag. You can see your labour percentage against actual trading right now.

There’s also no stock data, recipe costing, or GP reporting in Deputy’s Business Insights. Loaded gives you the full picture: wages, cost of goods sold, and revenue, all in one place.

Loaded and Deputy overlap on rostering, timeclock, and awards compliance. Beyond that, there’s no overlap — Loaded covers the parts of your business that Deputy simply doesn’t touch.

Deputy has no inventory features. Loaded gives you full stock control, recipe costing, COGS tracking, stocktaking, and AI-powered ordering in the same platform.

Real-time POS data showing how each venue is trading. No manual entry. No waiting for reports.

Loaded connects wages, stock costs, and sales to produce a live GP% per venue — the metric that tells you whether you’re actually making money.

No per-user fees. One flat per-venue price covers your entire team, regardless of headcount.