Time tracking · head to head

Orbiz AMS vs Connecteam

Zohaib KhalidPrices checked 2 October 2026

Connecteam is built for staff who work from a phone: a time clock with GPS and geofences, shift scheduling, forms, chat and training, sold per hub at a flat price for the first 30 users — Operations Basic is $29 a month billed yearly — and free for teams of up to ten. AMS is the attendance tool inside Orbiz for teams at a desk: browser clock-in, typed breaks, idle rules, timesheet approvals, leave and biometric imports, feeding payroll in Ledgr. Pick Connecteam for field and shift workers. Pick AMS if attendance must run payroll and hiring on the same login.

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Head to head

Orbiz AMS against Connecteam, row by row

Read from Connecteam's own product and pricing pages. 7 rows are ones Orbiz loses; they are left in.

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Capability comparison of Orbiz AMS and Connecteam
	Orbiz AMS	Connecteam
How it is priced	One flat price per organisation, unlimited members, all ten tools	Operations hub: Basic $29 a month billed yearly ($35 monthly) for 30 users, then $0.80 a user; Advanced $49 / $59; Expert $99 / $119.
One price whatever the headcount¹	Yes	Partly
Free plan for a small team	No	Yes
Clock in and out with breaks	Yes	Yes
Timesheets with approvals	Yes	Yes
Time-off requests with balances	Yes	Yes
More than one leave policy	No	Yes
Payroll run on the same platform²	Yes	Partly
Hiring with a careers page and pipeline³	Yes	Partly
Projects, files and a password vault on the same login	Yes	No
GPS clock-in, geofences and kiosk mode	No	Yes
Shift scheduling	No	Yes
Team chat, company feed and surveys	No	Yes
Training courses and quizzes	No	Yes
Mobile app for frontline staff	No	Yes
Connector for Claude and ChatGPT (MCP)⁴	Yes	Partly

¹Connecteam is a flat price per hub for the first 30 users, then a price per extra user.
²Connecteam lists a payroll integration for its timesheets.
³The HR & Skills hub lists Hiring and Onboarding; a careers page is not described on the pricing page.
⁴Connecteam hosts an MCP server for its API and developer documentation, set up in tools such as Cursor and Claude Desktop (developer.connecteam.com, read 2026-10-04).

Vendor prices are US list prices in USD as published on each vendor's own pricing page on 2 October 2026, annual billing where the vendor offers it, without first-year promotions. Each product name links to that page. Vendors change prices; if a figure here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Orbiz prices are on the pricing page, one flat figure per organisation by headcount band.

In their own words

What each one is good at

Orbiz AMS

Clock in and out with break types and idle detection
Personal and team timesheets with project-level time entries
Leave requests, approvals and an entitlement per leave type
A holiday calendar, attendance reports and background exports
Punches imported from biometric devices, each PIN mapped to a member once
Optional activity screenshots, with a list of who is checked in but not being captured

Everything AMS does

Connecteam

Real-time clock in and out with GPS stamps, kiosk mode on a shared device and NFC clock-ins
Geofences with automatic clock-out, and live location while on the clock
Job scheduling with open shifts, repeating shifts and templates
Timesheets with approvals, pay periods and a payroll integration
Time off with balances and carry-over: 9 policies on Advanced, unlimited on Expert
Chat, company feed, surveys, courses, quizzes, documents and e-sign in the other hubs

From Connecteam's own pages. Best for: Field, retail and shift-based teams whose staff work from a phone, not a desk.

FAQ

Orbiz vs Connecteam: what people ask

Connecteam is free for ten users. Why pay for Orbiz?

If you are ten people or fewer and need a time clock, a schedule and chat, Connecteam’s Small Business Plan is the better deal. Orbiz has no free plan; it is priced for a company that also wants hiring, records, payroll, projects, files and credentials on one login, at one flat price.

Does AMS do shift scheduling or GPS clock-in?

No. AMS clock-in happens in the browser with typed breaks and the project being worked on; there is no shift scheduler, GPS stamp, geofence or kiosk mode. Connecteam has all four, which is why it suits field and retail teams.

How does Connecteam pricing grow past 30 users?

Each hub is a flat price up to 30 users, then a price per extra user per month — on the Operations hub $0.80 on Basic, $2.50 on Advanced and $4.20 on Expert, billed yearly. A company buying two or three hubs pays for each one. Orbiz is one flat price per organisation, set by headcount band, from $99 a month on annual billing.

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