Kwickly Answers vs. Buddy Punch: Staff Scheduling and Booking for Local Businesses

What Buddy Punch does, and what Kwickly Answers adds

Buddy Punch's pricing page (read 2 Oct 2026) lists three plans, Starter, Pro and Advanced, each priced per user a month plus a base fee. Starter lists time tracking, GPS on punches, time-off tracking, job tracking and payroll integrations; Pro adds offline mode, geofencing, QR code and kiosk punching, webcam photos on punches and break compliance. Scheduling, with a drag-and-drop builder, shift trades and covers, templates, recurring shifts and availability, is a $1 per user add-on on Starter and included in Pro and Advanced.

Kwickly Answers lets you lay out the week on every plan, print it and publish it without paying for it, copying last week or a saved template and letting Fill open shifts for me propose people for open shifts. For the crew, Team adds a link per person: their own shifts, a place to ask for time off for you to approve or decline, swaps and open shifts to pick up, and a clock-in and clock-out with their hours this week.

The account also holds your customers' side: a booking page and calendar come with the Website and booking plan or any phone plan, and with direct booking chosen the assistant that answers your calls books onto that calendar. The pages we read (2 Oct 2026) show no way for customers to book and no phone answering at Buddy Punch, so Kwickly Answers can carry the schedule, the bookings and the calls together.

How do the plans compare?

Buddy Punch's Starter plan is $4.99 per user a month on its default annual view ($5.99 monthly) plus a $19 monthly base fee, with scheduling $1 per user more; Kwickly Answers' Team add-on is a flat $19.99 a month for up to 15 people.

See Kwickly Answers' full published pricing. Prices change, so confirm Buddy Punch's current price on its own site before you decide.

Is Kwickly Answers a Buddy Punch alternative?

Yes, Kwickly Answers is a Buddy Punch alternative for a local business that wants a crew schedule beside customer bookings and phone calls. Buddy Punch's own pages describe time clock software, with timesheets, GPS punches, time-off tracking and payroll, and scheduling as an add-on. Kwickly Answers lets you build and publish the schedule on any plan at no charge, adds a clock and time-off requests on each person's link with Team, and keeps booking and phone answering in the same login.

What does a 10-person crew cost on Buddy Punch with scheduling, next to Team?

Buddy Punch charges per user plus a monthly base fee, while Kwickly Answers' Team add-on is flat by headcount band. On the prices we read on 2 Oct 2026, a 10-person crew on Starter with the $1 scheduling add-on is 10 × ($5.99 + $1) + $19 = $88.90 a month on the monthly view; on Pro, which includes scheduling, it is 10 × $7.99 + $19 = $98.90 monthly, or 10 × $6.99 + $19 = $88.90 on the annual view. The page does not say whether the add-on's $1 changes with the billing view. Team is $19.99 for up to 15 people, leaving out the plan it is added to, and the feature lists differ, so this shows the pricing basis rather than a like-for-like match.

Does Kwickly Answers have a time clock like Buddy Punch?

Kwickly Answers has a clock-in and clock-out on each person's own link with Team, showing their hours this week. Buddy Punch's plans list more around the punch itself, including GPS on punches, geofencing, QR code and kiosk punching, webcam photos and break rules, so a business that depends on those should read both pricing pages. What Kwickly Answers adds is the customer side: a booking page and, on a phone plan, an assistant that answers calls.

Can Kwickly Answers take my customers' bookings and calls as well as the schedule?

Yes, one account can hold the schedule, the bookings and the calls. The Website and booking plan and every phone plan include a booking page and calendar, and the Online booking plan from $14.99 a month suits a business that needs booking alone. On a phone plan the assistant either books directly or takes a message, as you choose, and calls you define as urgent are flagged by email.

Which Buddy Punch features are built, planned or not part of Kwickly Answers today?

• Built, not switched on yet: payroll files marked as estimates, for uploading to Gusto and for a bookkeeper using QuickBooks Payroll, where Buddy Punch's Starter plan lists payroll integrations.
• Not part of Kwickly Answers today: GPS on punches, geofencing and webcam photos on punches, which Buddy Punch's Starter and Pro plans list.
• What Kwickly Answers does today: with the Team add-on, $19.99 a month up to 15 people, each person clocks in and out on their own private link and sees their hours this week, and the schedule itself is free to build and publish on any plan.

Source: buddypunch.com/pricing/, read October 2, 2026

Unhappy with Buddy Punch? What switching to Kwickly Answers looks like

Switching from Buddy Punch to Kwickly Answers means adding your crew in your portal one at a time: Calendar, then Who is working, then + Add staff member. The schedule is free to build and publish there, and Team adds each person's link and clock for $19.99 a month up to 15 people, on any plan.

Buddy Punch's pricing page (read 2 Oct 2026) says it prices each plan per user a month plus a $19 base fee, that administrators are free, and that a customer on an annual plan can move to monthly once the annual term is up. Source: buddypunch.com/pricing/, read October 2, 2026

With Kwickly Answers the Team price follows your headcount band, and the account that holds your schedule can also hold your customers' bookings and, on a phone plan, your calls.

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Why choose Kwickly Answers instead of Buddy Punch?

• One flat price for the crew add-on: Team is $19.99 a month up to 15 people and $39.99 from 16, not a per-user price plus a $19 monthly base fee, though it sits on top of the plan it is added to.
• Buddy Punch's Starter plan lists scheduling as a $1 per user add-on, whereas the Kwickly Answers schedule screen is open on every plan, so you build, print and publish at no extra cost and add Team for the per-person link and clock.
• Customers can book in the account you use for the crew, which the pages we read (2 Oct 2026) do not show at Buddy Punch: the Website and booking plan from $39.99 a month and every phone plan include a booking page, and phone plans from $129.99 a month add an assistant that answers calls.
• Plans run month to month, with no setup fee when you set it up yourself.

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Sources and last verified date

Last verified: 2026-10-02. Every fact about Buddy Punch on this page was read from its own pages, listed here with the date each was read. What this page says about Kwickly Answers was last updated 2026-10-13.

• buddypunch.com/pricing/, read October 2, 2026
• buddypunch.com/scheduling/, read October 2, 2026

Buddy Punch is a trademark of its owner. Kwickly Answers isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Buddy Punch. Buddy Punch's prices are from its public page on October 2, 2026.