Compared honestly

Weekwright vs QuickBooks Time

QuickBooks Time is a time-and-attendance product that happens to have a schedule tab, and if your books are in QuickBooks that native path is worth real money. Weekwright is the other way round. That difference decides this one.

Honest assessment

Which tool fits your team?

No tool is best for everyone. Here's when QuickBooks Time is the right call — and when Weekwright is.

Pick QuickBooks Time when…

  • Your accounting and payroll are already QuickBooks and you want hours to land there with no export step and no reconciliation.
  • Your hard problem is time capture — GPS, geofenced clock-in, job costing, billable hours — rather than deciding who works when.
  • Your accountant maintains it, and keeping everything in one Intuit account is worth more to you than a better scheduler.

Pick Weekwright when…

  • Building the schedule is the expensive part. QuickBooks Time records what happened; Weekwright decides what should happen and explains why.
  • The per-user maths has turned against you. A base fee plus $10-12 per employee at 30 staff is several hundred dollars a month; per-location with unlimited employees is a different shape entirely.
  • You need scheduling compliance — rest windows, weekly caps, minor rules, predictive-scheduling notice — enforced before publish rather than surfaced in a timesheet report.
  • You want a compliance and fairness picture across weeks, not a timesheet: who is catching every weekend, who is drifting over their cap.

Feature by feature

Weekwright vs QuickBooks Time — full breakdown.

✓ included · — partial / on a higher tier · ✗ not available

FeatureWeekwrightQuickBooks Time
AI weekly drafts
Included
Not included
Conversational scheduling chat
Included
Not included
Per-shift assignment explanations
Included
Not included
Real-time multi-manager edits
Included
Not included
Time-off management
Included
Included
Shift swaps (employee-to-employee)
Included
Partial
Open shifts / coverage requests
Included
Partial
Compliance rules engine
Included
Not included
Multi-location dashboards
Included
Included
Schedule templates
Included
Included
Audit log with retention
Included
Included
SSO (Google Workspace)
Included
Not included
POS integrations (Toast, Square, etc.)
Not included
Not included
Time tracking + payroll built-in
Partial
Included
Mobile app for employees
Included
Included

Pricing

How the cheques line up.

QuickBooks Time pricing as of 2026-07. Public list price; promo discounts may apply.

QuickBooks Time

  • Premium: ~$20/mo base + ~$10/user/mo
  • Elite: ~$40/mo base + ~$12/user/mo
  • Per-user rates rose by about $2 on 1 July 2026
  • No free tier; free trial only
  • QuickBooks Payroll and QuickBooks Online are separate subscriptions

Weekwright

  • Starter — free, no card
  • Core — $39/mo per location (or $32 annual)
  • Pro — $79/mo per location (or $65 annual)
  • Business — $99/mo per location (or $82 annual), $99/mo platform fee

Employees are unlimited on every paid plan — you are billed per location, not per head.

Weekwright pricing

Per seat. No per-location surprises.

Free up to 10 employees. Switch plans anytime via Stripe.

Common questions

Weekwright vs QuickBooks Time FAQ.

Try Weekwright free for up to 10 employees.

No credit card required. Migration help included if you're switching.

Weekwright vs QuickBooks Time — scheduling compared