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The self-hosted Deputy alternative

Rostera: Self-hosted staff shift scheduler — a weekly rota, exact hours, double-booking caught. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Deputy every month.

Own Rostera for $69 Try the live demo

Stop renting Deputy.

Rented Deputy Lite $5, Core $6.50, Pro $9 per user/month, with a USD $30/month minimum spend on monthly plans [1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud
Yours
Rostera
$69 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

3 months of Deputy costs what Rostera costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Per-seat with a $30/mo floor, so small teams pay at least that every month. Rostera has no seats and no recurring bill.

How Deputy pricing grows

Deputy bills per user across its Lite, Core, and Pro plans, and additionally enforces a minimum monthly spend per account regardless of how few people are on the team.

“Yes - there is a minimum monthly spend of USD $30/AUD $30/GBP £20 per month per invoice on our monthly Lite, Core & Pro plans from September 1, 2025.”, their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Deputy does that we don't

Deputy provides native clock-in apps across tablet, mobile, web, and smartwatch.

“Access our leading apps on tablet, mobile, web and watch”, their own page
Who should stay with Deputy

If you need a built-in time clock with biometric attendance capture, stay where you are — Rostera is not a time clock and has no time or biometric capture.

What Rostera deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Deputy.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Deputy's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Rostera vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Deputy.

Is Rostera payroll?
No. It plans shifts — who works, when, and for how long. It holds no pay rates or wages, calculates no pay, and moves no money. Zero payment surface, by design.
Is it a time clock?
No. Shifts are planned hours, not clock-in / attendance records — there is no time or biometric capture. It is a scheduling and planning tool.
How exact are the hours?
Exact to the minute. Times are stored as integer minutes and summed in PHP, with DST-correct shift lengths — the shipped test suite covers overnight shifts and both DST transitions — run it yourself with php tests/run.php.
MySQL or SQLite?
Either — SQLite for a zero-config trial, MySQL/MariaDB for production on ordinary shared hosting.
Better together
Rostera is part of the Workforce Suite
5 apps for one price, $136 less than buying them separately.
$249once

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Sources

  1. Deputy: price checked 2026-09-03, source“there is a minimum monthly spend of USD $30 ... per month per invoice on our monthly Lite, Core & Pro plans from September 1, 2025”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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