WinCalendar Review - why 4.3 stars?

• WinCalender is easy to use
• The pop-up calendar for desktops makes scheduling easier
• The user can export data in various formats

• WinCalender provides limited services
• There are no tracking services
• It does not support payroll services

• Functionality: WinCalendar has features of scheduling agendas in both Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. It also has options of displaying the country-specific holidays and religious holidays observed. Users can also import data to Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar, etc. The availability option to remove the watermark on wallpaper is also provided. Data can also be exported into fields like billing information, categories, organization, resources, and attendees requests. It also has options of creating and maintaining a fertility calendar and creating a Gantt chart within Excel from exported data.
  
  APS Payroll, also known as Automatic Payroll Systems, is a US-based company that provides Human Resources (HR) and payroll services in a cloud-based platform designed for workforce management for industries and companies to manage their businesses. APS Payroll takes care of employees salaries, recruitment processes, analyzing hiring data to enable hiring managers to curate a better team of recruits, employee attendances, and other services.
  
  TeamAgenda was developed by Teamsoft, a company that develops software based in Canada. The company was founded in 1992. TeamAgenda is essentially an employee scheduling software. It includes features that include calendar management, group scheduling, booking for meeting rooms, making reservations, resource scheduling, important alerts and notifications, and others.
  
  Deputy is an attendance and employee time scheduling software developed by Deputechnologies Pty Ltd., based in New South Wales, Australia. The organization was founded in 2008. The software offers easy and simplistic time scheduling and employee management, an interactive user interface, ease of use, and informative statistics. It also offers to make time-off requests, create and manage employee payroll, and more.
• Pricing: WinCalendar offers a free trial version, albeit with very limited features, and also it offers three plans. As compared to Deputy, which offers four attractive plans for their clients. Deputy offers separate Scheduling and Attendance software versions. Their most popular plan is the Enterprise plan, priced at $4.50 per user per month and offers all scheduling, attendance, and other features in one. They also have custom plans for larger corporations.
  
  APS Payroll also offers analytics and reporting on performance and management and provides insight into optimizing their services and processes. APS Payroll also has an Affordable Care Act, which enables their employees to take out health insurance, whereas WinCalendar does not. Finally, TeamAgenda offers real-time, cross-platform services to schedule and manage teams and coordinate them better to produce effective results and reduce labor costs and time wastage.
• Support: Deputy, APS Payroll offers direct chat options, 24/7 support for customers, and phone numbers and emails to contact them on their website. They also have no charge-free trials for potential customers. WinCalendar only has an email option to contact their team. TeamAgenda also provides phone numbers and emails for contacting them.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 6.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for WinCalendar. You can also find here pricing information from WinCalendar's website.