Compare HotSchedules and Starfish CONNECT - Dec 2022

Shlomi Lavi

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - HotSchedules or Starfish CONNECT?

Starfish CONNECT is more expensive to implement (TCO) than HotSchedules, and HotSchedules is rated higher (88/100) than Starfish CONNECT (87/100). HotSchedules offers users more features (16) than Starfish CONNECT (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is HotSchedules!

Looking for the right Booking and scheduling solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

HotSchedules Vs. Starfish Retention Solutions

HotSchedules: Our Co-Founders, Ray Pawlikowski and David Cantu came up with the idea for HotSchedules while working at PF Chang’s together. Ray was the bartender and David was the manager. When a college project had Ray building a web site, he decided to use it to address one of the restaurant’s primary pain points – communicating the employee schedule. Manager...

Starfish Retention Solutions: Starfish Retention Solutions was founded in 2007 by David Yaskin, a former Blackboard executive who believed that higher education technology companies were not doing enough to help students complete their academic goals. In February 2015, Hobsons announced the acquisition of Starfish Retention Solutions. The Starfish Enterprise Success Platform...

Who is more expensive? HotSchedules or Starfish CONNECT?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Booking and scheduling software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for HotSchedules and Starfish CONNECT.

HotSchedules price starts at $49 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 HotSchedules is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Booking and scheduling software. Starfish CONNECT price starts at $5,000 per license , When comparing Starfish CONNECT to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Booking and scheduling software cost.

Bottom line: Starfish CONNECT is more expensive than HotSchedules.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared HotSchedules Vs. Starfish CONNECT based on some of the most important and required Booking and scheduling features.

HotSchedules: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Benefits Administration, Employee Self-Service, HR Management, Timesheet, Automated Scheduling, Document Templates, Email Integration, Employee Database.

Starfish CONNECT: We are still working to collect the list of features for Starfish CONNECT.

Target customer size

The product is focused on the restaurant industry addressing both large franchises as well as single restaurants. and Starfish CONNECT's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.