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The best Ento alternative for Australian hospitality businesses
Ento is shutting down in June 2026. Join Australian venues switching to Shiftly, purpose-built for hospitality, completely free, with free migration support and no lock-in contracts.
Free forever. No credit card required. Free onboarding included.
Ento was a popular Australian workforce management platform used by venues for rostering, time tracking, paperless onboarding and award-aligned pay. After being acquired by Humanforce in September 2022, the product is now being wound down through a phased module deprecation, with customers being migrated to Humanforce Cloud WFM.
If you're an Ento user searching for alternatives, you're facing a real decision: migrate to Humanforce (the "official" upgrade path), or find a platform that actually fits the way your venue runs. For the small-to-medium hospitality businesses Ento was built for, Shiftly is the purpose-built Ento alternative — offering the core capabilities you already rely on, free of charge, with hands-on Australian onboarding and no contract to sign.
Ento alternatives at a glance
Ento charged per user. Humanforce charges enterprise rates. Shiftly is free.
Shiftly
Ento
Humanforce
Platform status
Active, growing rapidly
Shutting down June 2026
Active (enterprise)
Target market
5–200+ staff
SMBs 5–200+ staff
200+ staff
Pricing
Free for every venue
No longer available
Custom enterprise quote
Australian support
AU-based, included
Reduced during sunset
Global support
Free migration support
Yes, everything included
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Paid implementation
Lock-in contract
No contract. Ever.
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Annual, multi-year
Mobile App
Shiftly Me / Shiftly Go
Yes, with low ratings
Humanforce Work
On-demand staffing
Coming soon
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Why venues need an Ento alternative
Ento users aren't switching by choice. The platform is being wound down. But the forced migration also raises questions about the best landing spot. Here's what venues are navigating right now.
The platform is being phased out
Ento is being wound down by Humanforce as part of a published module deprecation plan. All users will need to migrate — there is no option to stay on Ento long-term. The longer you wait, the more rushed the move.
Humanforce is enterprise-scale
Humanforce is built for organisations with 200+ staff across aged care, government and large retail. For a single venue or small group, the complexity and pricing are designed for a different kind of customer.
Pricing uncertainty
Humanforce operates on enterprise contract pricing with no public rates, billed per active user every week. Venues migrating from Ento are facing an unknown — and likely significant — price increase.
Support quality during transition
Operators report reduced responsiveness from Ento support as the sunset progresses. Having a new provider with dedicated, hands-on onboarding matters more than ever during the transition.
Key Benefit
Why choose Shiftly
Shiftly was built for Australian hospitality venues that need rostering, timesheets, award-aligned pay, and a staff app that actually gets opened. Here's how we line up on the features that matter most.
Rostering
Accelerate your workflow with tools designed to automate tasks.
Pay calculations
Make smarter decisions, faster with access live dashboards.
Employee onboarding
Protect your data with the highest standards in digital security.
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Time tracking
We’ve got your back around the clock whether it’s day or night.
Xero integrated
We’ve got your back around the clock whether it’s day or night.
Employee mobile app
We design with people in mind, every feature, interaction.
Rostering
Rostering that fits the way venues actually work
Both Ento and Shiftly were built around the same core workflow: build a roster quickly, match staff to shifts, notify the team, and capture actual hours. Shiftly delivers all of this with a clean, hospitality-tuned interface that staff can pick up in minutes.
Drag-and-drop weekly calendar with position templates
Copy-paste shifts and weekly templates for fast publishing
Multi-location rostering with built-in conflict alerts
Open shift requests and shift swaps via the mobile app
Instant push notifications when rosters are published or changed
Shiftly replaces every core Ento rostering workflow venues used day to day, with a hospo-tuned interface and no per-user fees.
Time and attendance
Geofenced clock-in. One-click timesheet approval
Shiftly's time and attendance tools match what Ento offered, with one improvement venues consistently ask for: geofencing built into the staff mobile app, so clock-in only happens when staff are physically at the venue.
Mobile clock-in / clock-out via the Shiftly Me app
Geofencing to prevent off-site clock-ins
Timesheets auto-linked from published shifts
Breaks captured and costed automatically against awards
One-click manager approval
Payroll-ready timesheet exports
Shiftly's geofenced mobile clock-in matches what Ento users expected, with cleaner timesheet approval and zero hardware to buy.
Award interpretation
Built from the ground up for Australian awards
This is one of the most important features for hospitality venues, and it's where Shiftly's purpose-built focus pays off. Penalty rates, overtime, allowances and age-based pay thresholds are calculated against current Australian hospitality award provisions — every shift, every time.
Shiftly
Humanforce
Hospitality awards pre-configured
including HIGA
enterprise setup
Free award configuration support
included in onboarding
Paid implementation
Penalty rates and overtime
Automatic calculation
Automatic calculation
Age-based pay thresholds
Real-time shift cost as you roster
Yes, everything included
Paid implementation
Fair Work compliance
Shiftly's paperless onboarding matches Ento's flow with deeper Xero sync and built-in data validation.
Paperless onboarding
Employee onboarding without the paperwork
Bring new staff on without the back-and-forth. Shiftly captures verified employment details digitally, syncs them with Xero, and flags any discrepancies before they hit payroll — keeping your data clean from day one.
Fully digital, paperless onboarding flow
Verified employment details
Live sync to Xero
Alerts for data discrepancies
New starters appear on the roster immediately
Shiftly's paperless onboarding matches Ento's flow with deeper Xero sync and built-in data validation.
Payroll integration
Direct, end-to-end Xero integration
Ento users typically relied on Xero for payroll. Shiftly's Xero integration is built to do the same job cleanly — staff imports, payroll syncing, and award-interpreted timesheet data flowing straight through to your pay run.
Staff details pulled directly from Xero
Onboarding data validated against Xero records
Two-way sync keeps employee data aligned
Award-interpreted hours pushed to Xero Payroll
Job costing align with Xero cost centres
If Xero is your payroll engine, Shiftly is built around it. Pay runs that used to take an afternoon take minutes.
Staff mobile app
A staff mobile app to enable your team
The Shiftly Me app gives every staff member their roster, shift swap requests, open shift bidding, availability management and one-tap geofenced clock-in — all in a clean, mobile-first interface designed for hospitality teams.
View rosters and upcoming shifts
Submit availability and swap requests
Request open shifts as they're posted
One-tap geofenced clock-in
Leave requests
A focused hospo-built staff app, free for every team member.
Let us show you around
We’ll walk you through how Shiftly works and help you see if we're the right fit for you
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