OneBookPlus vs Tanda
Rostering inside the whole business
Tanda is a strong Australian workforce-management platform — rostering, awards, and payroll for shift teams. But it stops at the timesheet. OneBookPlus gives service businesses rostering PLUS invoicing, CRM, bookings, and accounting from $0/month.
Key takeaways
5- Tanda pricing (AUD): a bundle of HR + Payroll + Workforce Management advertised at $12.80 + GST per user/month (≈$14.08 inc. GST), with individual modules quote-only and sales-led. It is a per-user model and no free plan is documented on tanda.com.au/pricing — confirm current figures there.
- Tanda is a dedicated Australian workforce-management platform (rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, HR) made in Fortitude Valley, Queensland. It does not include invoicing, quoting, CRM, online bookings, marketing, or general accounting — so most businesses pair it with separate tools for the money side.
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- OneBookPlus bundles core rostering, native STP Phase 2 payroll, accounting, GST invoicing, online bookings, CRM, and marketing in one platform from $0/month (Free), $29/month (Starter), $49/month (Plus), or $69/month (Growth) — with no per-user charge on those tiers, so adding staff doesn't push the bill up.
- Parity exists on the workforce basics: shift scheduling, time & attendance, timesheet approval, modern-award rate calculation, and STP payroll lodgement. OneBookPlus then adds the invoice-to-BAS and customer-facing half of the business that Tanda leaves to other software.
- Where Tanda wins: a compliance-team-backed award-interpretation library, enterprise-agreement automation, sales/foot-traffic/weather demand forecasting, and a dedicated HR module — genuinely deeper for multi-site, high-frequency rostering. Where OneBookPlus wins: total cost (replaces Tanda + an invoicing/accounting tool + a CRM + a booking tool), no per-user pricing, and one customer-to-cash record from roster through invoice to BAS.
At a glance
What you get with each platform
OneBookPlus
From $0/mo — everything included
- Shift scheduling & rostering
- Time & attendance tracking
- STP Phase 2 payroll
- GST invoicing & quoting
- Online booking page
- CRM & client management
- Accounting & P&L reports
- BAS / ATO tax summaries
- Australian-built & supported
Tanda
Per user/mo — workforce management only
- Shift scheduling & rostering
- Time & attendance
- Award interpretation
- STP payroll
- HR onboarding module
- Invoicing & quoting
- CRM & client management
- Online bookings
- Accounting, BAS & bank feeds
- Requires separate invoicing & accounting tools
Feature by feature
OneBookPlus vs Tanda — detailed comparison
Tanda runs the workforce; OneBookPlus runs the workforce and the money side in one platform. Here is what each one includes.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | Tanda |
|---|---|---|
| Shift scheduling & rostering | ||
| Time & attendance tracking | ||
| Timesheet approval | ||
| Award interpretation | ||
| STP payroll lodgement | ||
| Demand / sales-driven forecasting | ||
| Dedicated HR onboarding module | ||
| GST-compliant invoicing | ||
| Online booking page | ||
| CRM & contact management | ||
| Quoting | ||
| Accounting & P&L reports | ||
| BAS / ATO tax summaries | ||
| Email marketing & campaigns | ||
| Google review requests | ||
| Native mobile app | ||
| Free plan available | ||
| Price (AUD) | From $0/mo | $12.80+GST/user/mo |
| All included | Workforce only (bundle price) |
Category by category
The 16 dimensions Australian buyers check first
Where a per-user workforce-management specialist and an all-in-one AU-tax-native platform actually diverge — including the rows where Tanda is genuinely deeper. Cited against Tanda’s public pages.
| Category | Feature | OneBookPlus | Tanda |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rostering | Drag-and-drop shift scheduling & publishing | Yes | Yes |
| Time & attendance | Time-clock kiosk + GPS clock-in with off-location alerts | Clock-in + timesheets | Time clock + GPS clock-in [src] |
| Award interpretation | Modern-award pay-rate calculation (SCHADS, Hospitality, Retail) | Core AU awards | Deep — compliance team researches awards [src] |
| Demand forecasting | Sales / foot-traffic / weather-driven roster sizing | No | Yes — flagship workforce feature [src] |
| Payroll / STP | STP-filed pay runs from timesheets | Native STP Phase 2 add-on | Native — files STP from Tanda [src] |
| HR | Onboarding, contracts, qualifications tracking | Basic team records | Dedicated HR module [src] |
| Invoicing | GST-native invoicing + ABN validation | Yes | No |
| Quotes & jobs | Quote to job to invoice pipeline | Yes | No |
| Bookings | Customer-facing online booking page | Yes | No |
| CRM | Client records, history, communications | Yes | No |
| Accounting | P&L, balance sheet, expense tracking | Yes | No |
| GST / BAS | Quarterly BAS-ready figures (G1, 1A, 1B) | Yes | No |
| Bank feeds | Australian bank feeds + AI categorisation | Yes | No |
| Marketing | Email campaigns + Google review requests | Yes | No |
| Local presence | Australian-built & supported | AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2) | Australian-made (Fortitude Valley, QLD) [src] |
| Pricing model | How seats are charged | Flat plan (no per-user on Free/Starter/Growth) | Per user / month; modules quote-only [src] |
| Starting price (AUD, inc. GST) | From $0/mo | From A$12.80+GST/user/mo | |
| Flat plan · no per-user on Free/Starter/Growth | Per user · bundle price · separate tools needed for invoicing/BAS |
Where Tanda wins
Credit where it’s due
Tanda is an Australian-made workforce-management platform built in Fortitude Valley, Queensland, and the workforce is the whole product, not a feature. That focus shows in two places OneBookPlus does not try to match. First, its award-interpretation engine is backed by a compliance team that researches pay and conditions for common Modern Awards — with enterprise-agreement automation, itemised overtime and allowances, and roster validations that flag compliance risk before you publish. Second, its demand-forecasting scheduler sizes the roster from historical sales, foot traffic, and even weather to hit a labour-cost target, alongside a dedicated HR module for onboarding, contracts, and qualifications. If you run a multi-venue hospitality, retail, or healthcare group where shaving labour cost and nailing complex award compliance across dozens of staff is the single most valuable thing software can do, Tanda’s specialism is real — and the two tools can even sit side by side.
Where OneBookPlus wins
Three differences that compound
The money side of the business is bundled, not a second subscription. OneBookPlus ships GST invoicing, quoting, a quote-to-job-to-invoice pipeline, P&L and balance sheet, expense tracking, Australian bank feeds, and quarterly BAS reports inside the same subscription. Tanda’s pricing and product pages cover rostering, awards, payroll, and HR — you roster and pay staff in Tanda, then invoice clients, run the books, and produce a BAS in a second system you pay for and reconcile.
Flat pricing, not per-user. Tanda’s pricing is per user, per month — its advertised bundle is $12.80 + GST a head, with individual modules quote-only — so every casual you add to the roster adds to the bill. OneBookPlus charges a flat plan with no per-user fee on Free, Starter ($29/mo), or Growth ($69/mo), so a busy season that doubles your roster doesn’t double your software cost.
One customer-to-cash record, not three systems in sync. With Tanda you roster and pay the team, then the customer-facing and financial side of the job lives elsewhere. In OneBookPlus the same contact who is rostered is the contact who gets quoted, booked, invoiced, and chased — one record from roster through native STP Phase 2 payroll, the GST invoice, and the BAS line. There is no export between a workforce tool, an accounting tool, and a booking tool, and nothing to reconcile at quarter-end.
Why consider OneBookPlus
Why service businesses pick OneBookPlus over a workforce-only tool
Rostering plus the money side
Tanda handles the workforce — rostering, awards, payroll, HR — but you still need separate tools for invoicing, bookings, CRM, and BAS-capable accounting. OneBookPlus includes core rostering alongside your entire business toolkit in one platform, so you can stop stitching subscriptions together.
Built-in invoicing & accounting
Tanda files STP for payroll but has no invoicing, bank feeds, or BAS. Most businesses using Tanda also pay for accounting software and a way to bill customers. OneBookPlus includes GST-compliant invoicing, P&L reports, expense tracking, Australian bank feeds, and ATO-ready BAS summaries — no extra software needed.
Online bookings & CRM included
Tanda doesn't offer a customer booking page or client management — it faces inward at staff. OneBookPlus includes an online booking page where customers book services, plus full CRM to track client history, preferences, and communications, so the front of house lives next to the roster.
One flat price, not per-user
Tanda charges per user, per month — its advertised bundle is $12.80 + GST a head, so a 10-person team is roughly $128 + GST/month for the workforce side alone, before the tools you bill and bank with. OneBookPlus starts free and includes everything, so adding team members doesn't send your software bill through the roof.
FAQ
OneBookPlus vs Tanda — your questions answered
Is OneBookPlus a replacement for Tanda?
It depends on what you use Tanda for. Tanda is a workforce-management specialist — rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR for hourly, shift-based teams (per tanda.com.au). OneBookPlus includes rostering and STP Phase 2 payroll too, but it is really an all-in-one business platform: it adds the invoicing, quoting, CRM, online bookings, marketing, and accounting that Tanda deliberately leaves out. If you are a small or growing service business that mostly needs to roster a team and run the money side in one place, OneBookPlus replaces Tanda plus several other tools. If your core problem is optimising labour cost across many sites with demand forecasting and deep multi-award compliance, Tanda is the deeper specialist and the two can even be complementary.
Does OneBookPlus have the same rostering and award features as Tanda?
OneBookPlus covers the workforce basics most service businesses need: shift scheduling, time & attendance, timesheet approval, modern-award rate calculation, and native STP Phase 2 payroll. Tanda goes deeper on the pure-workforce edges — a compliance team that researches pay and conditions for common Modern Awards, enterprise-agreement automation, and demand forecasting that sizes rosters from historical sales, foot traffic, and weather (per tanda.com.au/solutions/workforce-management). OneBookPlus does not aim to match that forecasting depth or Tanda's configurable award library. It instead joins solid core rostering to the invoicing, CRM, bookings, and accounting half of the business that Tanda does not offer.
How much does Tanda cost compared to OneBookPlus?
Tanda advertises a bundle of HR + Payroll + Workforce Management at $12.80 + GST per user, per month (about $14.08 inc. GST), with individual modules priced on request — it is a per-user, sales-led model and no free plan is documented on tanda.com.au/pricing. For a team of 10 on the bundle that is roughly $128 + GST per month, and you still need separate software for invoicing, quoting, CRM, bookings, and the GST/BAS side of accounting. OneBookPlus starts free and bundles rostering with all of that, with no per-user charge on the Free, Starter ($29/mo), Plus ($49/mo), or Growth ($69/mo) plans — so adding staff to the roster does not inflate the software bill. Confirm Tanda's current pricing directly at tanda.com.au/pricing.
Can OneBookPlus handle invoicing and BAS as well as rostering?
Yes — and this is the core difference from Tanda. Tanda is workforce software: its pricing and features describe rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR, but no invoicing, quoting, CRM, bookings, or general accounting (per tanda.com.au). OneBookPlus adds GST-compliant invoicing with ABN validation, a quote-to-job-to-invoice pipeline, expense tracking, profit-and-loss reporting, Australian bank feeds, and quarterly BAS-ready figures (G1, 1A, 1B) generated automatically from your invoices and expenses. So rostered hours, the invoice they bill out to, and the BAS that reports the GST all live in one system instead of three.
Where is Tanda genuinely better than OneBookPlus?
Tanda is an Australian-made workforce-management specialist (based in Fortitude Valley, Queensland) trusted by large multi-site operators, and that depth is real. Its award-interpretation engine is backed by a compliance team that researches pay and conditions for common Modern Awards, with enterprise-agreement automation and roster validations that flag compliance risk before you publish (per tanda.com.au/solutions/workforce-management). It also has demand forecasting that sizes rosters from historical sales, foot traffic, and weather to hit a labour-cost target, plus a dedicated HR module for onboarding, contracts, and qualifications. If you run a high-frequency, multi-venue hospitality, retail, or healthcare operation where shaving labour cost and nailing complex award compliance across many staff is the single most valuable thing software can do, Tanda's specialism is genuinely deeper than ours.
Does Tanda do invoicing, BAS, CRM, and bookings like OneBookPlus?
No. Tanda is rostering, time & attendance, award interpretation, payroll, and HR software — its public pages describe those workforce functions, not invoicing, quoting, CRM, online bookings, marketing, or general accounting. A BAS (Business Activity Statement) is the form Australian businesses lodge with the ATO to report GST collected on sales, GST paid on purchases, and the net amount owed. Tanda files STP for payroll, but it does not produce a BAS or send a customer invoice. OneBookPlus generates BAS-ready GST figures automatically from your invoices and expenses, sends GST-compliant invoices, and carries a single customer record from booking through to payment — so the front-of-house and money side live alongside the roster.
What is the best Tanda alternative in Australia for a small service business?
For an Australian service business that wants rostering plus the tools to actually run the business, OneBookPlus is a strong Tanda alternative — and often a broader one. Tanda is excellent at workforce management (rostering, awards, payroll, HR) but stops there, charging per user as your team grows, so you still pay for invoicing, a CRM, a booking tool, and BAS-capable accounting on top. OneBookPlus bundles core rostering, native STP Phase 2 payroll, GST invoicing, online bookings, CRM, accounting, and marketing into one Australian-built platform from $0/month, with no per-user fee on the Free, Starter, or Growth tiers. If you need enterprise-grade demand forecasting and deep multi-award compliance across many sites, Tanda remains the deeper pure-workforce tool.
How OneBookPlus Complements — and Often Replaces — Tanda
Tanda solves one problem very well: getting the right staff in the right shifts, paid correctly against the right award. But most service businesses don't just need a roster — they need to quote and invoice clients, take bookings, track expenses, and keep their books in order. With Tanda that means paying for Tanda per user, plus accounting software, plus a way to bill customers, plus a booking tool. OneBookPlus collapses much of that stack into a single platform built for Australian service businesses, with core rostering and native STP Phase 2 payroll already inside it.
Your rostered hours flow directly into payroll and into invoices without re-keying data. Bank feeds reconcile payments automatically. BAS summaries generate from real transaction data. It's not just fewer apps — it's fewer hand-offs between systems and less time spent on admin every week.
Feature Deep Dive
- Rostering → Invoicing Pipeline: Create shifts, approve timesheets, then turn completed hours into GST-compliant invoices. Tanda files STP for payroll but cannot bill a client — in OneBookPlus, hours become billable line items in two taps, with your ABN and 10% GST applied automatically.
- Automatic Bank Feeds: Connect your business bank account and OneBookPlus matches incoming payments to outstanding invoices automatically. Tanda has no financial features beyond payroll — you need separate accounting software just to know who's paid you.
- Built-In BAS & Tax Summaries: Every invoice, expense, and payment feeds into your GST calculations and ATO-ready BAS summaries (G1, 1A, 1B). Tanda files STP, but it doesn't produce a BAS — in OneBookPlus, the GST figures are already done at quarter-end.
Who Should Choose OneBookPlus
OneBookPlus is the strongest fit for service businesses that want rostering and the money side in one place. If you're a cleaning company managing rosters AND sending invoices, a trades business tracking jobs AND quoting clients, or an allied-health or NDIS provider rostering staff AND billing participants — you'll benefit most from having everything connected. Larger, multi-site operators whose single biggest job is optimising labour cost across dozens of staff with demand forecasting and deep multi-award compliance may still prefer Tanda's specialist workforce depth, and some run both.
Getting Started
Switching takes minutes, not days. Sign up for a free OneBookPlus account, import your staff list, and set up your first roster. Then connect your bank account for automatic payment matching, create your online booking page, and send your first GST-compliant invoice — all from the same dashboard you manage your rosters in. No credit card required, no setup fees, no per-user charges eating into your margins.
How it works
How OneBookPlus runs the roster-to-cash workflow
With Tanda, the week starts and ends inside the workforce. You build shifts — often forecast against sales and foot traffic — staff clock in against the time clock or GPS, timesheets are interpreted against the relevant modern award, and pay runs are created from those timesheets with STP filed directly. It is a strong workforce loop. But everything that turns rostered labour into revenue — the quote, the booking, the invoice, the BAS — happens in software Tanda does not provide. OneBookPlus keeps the same workforce loop and joins it to the rest of the business in one record.
You roster the same way: drag shifts onto the schedule, publish to staff, and let them clock in. Approved hours are interpreted against the award and feed straight into native STP Phase 2 payroll and SuperStream — no export to a second payroll system. The same approved hours can also drop onto a client invoice as billable line items, so the time a carer or cleaner spent on a job becomes a GST-compliant invoice with your ABN in two taps rather than a CSV you re-key into accounting.
Because the client, the roster, the invoice, and the books all sit in one platform, the financial side closes itself. Australian bank feeds match incoming payments to outstanding invoices, expenses are categorised as you snap receipts, and your profit-and-loss updates in real time. When BAS time comes, OneBookPlus produces the G1, 1A, and 1B figures from real transaction data — no reconciliation between a Tanda timesheet, an accounting ledger, and a spreadsheet.
And because every rostered customer is already a CRM record, OneBookPlus does the front-of-house work Tanda never attempts: a customer-facing booking page that creates the job, email campaigns to past clients, and an automatic Google review request once a job is marked complete and paid. Tanda ends at the pay run; OneBookPlus carries the same contact from the roster all the way to the next booking.
Migration guide
How to move from Tanda to OneBookPlus
Export your staff list and locations from Tanda
In Tanda, export your team and locations/areas as a CSV. Import the staff list into OneBookPlus — names, emails, phone numbers, pay rates, and the locations they work map across so your team is ready to roster on day one. Leave Tanda live as a read-only archive of historical timesheets and pay runs while you cut over.
Set your award rates, ABN, and STP details
Configure the modern award and pay rates that apply to each role (SCHADS, Hospitality, Retail, or your own), then add your ABN, GST settings, and STP Phase 2 details so payroll lodges natively. This replaces both the Tanda timesheet-to-pay flow and any separate accounting connection you used for BAS.
Roster your first week, then turn on invoicing and BAS
Publish your first roster in OneBookPlus and let staff clock in. Once the rhythm feels right, switch on the parts Tanda never had — connect your bank feed, raise invoices from approved hours, take bookings, and let BAS-ready GST figures build automatically. Most teams run both tools for one pay cycle, then cancel Tanda and drop the separate accounting subscription. If you need Tanda's deeper forecasting, you can also keep it alongside OneBookPlus.
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Roster, invoice, and run the books
from one Australian platform
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About this comparison
How we compared OneBookPlus to Tanda
Feature claims about OneBookPlus reflect what is shipping today on onebookplus.com.au. Tanda pricing and feature claims were last verified against Tanda’s public Australian product pages on the date below; vendor pricing changes frequently, so check the Tanda website for your specific situation before making a decision.
Disclosure: OneBookPlus publishes this comparison and stands to benefit if you switch. We aim to compare like-for-like on capability and Australian tax compliance — if you spot something out of date, email hello@onebookplus.com.au and we’ll review it.
About the author
Bishal Shrestha
Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus
Bishal has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, web development, and small business consulting across Australia. Bishal regularly assists Australian small to medium businesses with software stack consolidation — including the trade-offs of moving from Tanda to an integrated platform. The comparison above is informed by direct migration experience, not a single read of the Tanda marketing site.
Last reviewed and updated: June 2026 by Bishal Shrestha