Warehouse Labor Reporting Software: 6 Tools Compared for 2027

Pick the category before the vendor

Warehouse labor reporting software is any tool that records what warehouse staff did during a shift and turns it into reports on hours, output and cost. For a small warehouse, the first decision is which kind of report you need, because that decision sets the shortlist. If your question is who worked which hours for payroll, a time-and-attendance product covers it. If your question is how many picks, packs or orders each person finished, you need a warehouse management system with labor tracking or a dedicated labor module, and most of those vendors do not publish prices.

TL;DR: buy a time-and-attendance tool when hours and payroll export are the job, and a WMS labor view when output per person is the job. Do not let an enterprise product name make the category decision for you.

This guide covers six products whose own pages we could open and read in October 2026. Vendor facts and our analysis are labeled separately, and where a page does not name a feature, we say so rather than assume the product lacks it.

Key Takeaways

• Of the six products, only Connecteam publishes plan prices on its pricing page. The other five keep pricing behind a quote, an appointment request, or a sales contact.

• The real split is depth of labor reporting. ShipHero and Manhattan Active Labor Management name per-person performance views, while Connecteam and Zebra focus on clocking, timesheets and payroll exports.

• Output per person needs an order or task event source. A time clock export shows hours, not how many picks happened during them.

• Buyers are cautious in 2026. A Modern Materials Handling survey found many teams holding back software spending, so a small, checkable first step is worth more than a large suite on day one.

• A no-code stack or a managed build both need a named owner for retries, duplicate events, access rights and exception review.

• Before you sign, get a sample report built from your own data and the export format in writing.

How we evaluated these tools

This is a desk review of public material, not hands-on use. We opened each vendor's product, pricing or help pages, then checked independent sources, including a July 2026 trade-press survey and a Supply Chain Dive article on DC hiring. We left out directory price lists because they conflict with each other and with vendor pages. We also looked at Blue Yonder and Körber. The Blue Yonder labor page we tried returned a 404 error, and we did not find a current official Körber product page, so neither appears in the comparison.

The weights below set the priority order for a small operator. Labor-specific reporting carries the most weight because it is the reason to buy a labor tool at all.

We did not assign numeric scores. Most vendors show too little public evidence for a score to mean much, and a low transparency rating often means the product is hard to evaluate before a sales call, not that it is weak.

What each vendor publicly shows

The matrix records only what appeared on the pages we opened. "Not named" means the page did not describe the feature. It does not prove the product lacks it.

Our read: only two products name per-person output on their public pages, ShipHero and Manhattan, and neither shows a price. Connecteam and Zebra are the most concrete on time and payroll. Logiwa and Infoplus describe reporting in general terms, so their labor depth is a question for a sample report, not a fact you can take from the page.

Pricing and total cost, checked October 29, 2026

Pricing checked October 29, 2026. Connecteam is the only product of the six that publishes plan prices on the pages we opened. Its Operations Hub Basic plan is Operations Hub Basic: $29 or $35 per month according to Connecteam (2026), covering the first 30 users, with $0.8 or $1.0 per extra user. The page does not say which of the two base figures is annual, so do not assume the lower one is your price until the vendor confirms it in writing.

The same page lists Free plan: $0 for up to 10 users according to Connecteam (2026). On the six pages we opened, it is the only published free plan.

The other five products publish no plan prices on the pages we opened. ShipHero's pricing page lists no plan prices, Logiwa's pricing page says a custom plan is set in a consultation, Infoplus's site lists no plan amounts and points buyers to a demo or appointment request, and the Manhattan and Zebra pages point visitors to sales contact.

The cost check below uses only the Connecteam figures, so you can see how the flat base and the extra-user rate interact. Both base figures are shown because the page does not label them.

At 14 users, the flat base is the whole bill, and the gap between the two figures is $6. At 35 users, the gap grows to $7, because the extra five users are priced separately at each rate. The math is simple, but the total still depends on which base figure applies to your account.

Per-person reporting in practice

Consider an illustrative 14-person pick and pack crew on 8-hour shifts across 20 working days. That is 112 paid hours a day and 2,240 hours a month (14 × 8 × 20). If a weekly review finds 6% of those hours are overtime, the overtime pool is about 134 hours (2,240 × 0.06 = 134.4), and a time-and-attendance report alone cannot say which stations produced the picks during those hours. A proposed workflow can organize those hours for review, but it does not add the per-station view, because shift rows are hours-only data: each closed shift appends one row per person to a Google Sheet through the spreadsheets.values.append method in Google's Sheets API reference, and a supervisor reviews the overtime rows before anything reaches payroll. These numbers are an illustration, not a customer result.

Vendor profiles

Each profile separates what the vendor publishes from our read.

Connecteam

Published: its Operations Hub lists automated time clock reports on the Expert tier, an exportable timesheet and custom report export, but its comparison table does not show which plan includes the export. Payroll integration starts on the Basic tier, and API access and webhook management sit on the Expert tiers. Source: Connecteam pricing.

Our read: a fit for crews that fit the first-30-users price and need clock-in, timesheets and scheduling with a visible price. The public pages name no labor cost report, no overtime report and no output per task. Before you buy, confirm which tier includes the timesheet export and whether your payroll system is supported.

ShipHero

Published: the pricing page shows no plan prices. It names Labor Management (WorkforceHero), a Labor Cost Dashboard, and Picker and Packer Performance Dashboards, but describes the dashboards only by name. Its developer examples page names 20 webhook types according to ShipHero's developer examples, including Order Allocated, Order Packed Out and Shipment Update, and does not show a registration method.

Our read: a fit for teams that want picker and packer performance views in the same system that runs orders. The limitations are the missing price and dashboards you can only see by name. Implementation depends on an API account and a webhook registration step you should confirm with ShipHero before designing around it.

Logiwa

Published: the pricing page says a custom plan is determined in a brief consultation. It names "Smart Warehouse and Labor Planning" and "Advanced Analytics and Dashboards" as features. Source: Logiwa pricing.

Our read: a fit for operations that want labor planning and analytics inside a WMS and accept a consultation before any price. The page names features without showing a report, so ask for one built from your order data. Plan a consultation, a data-mapping session and a sample report before any commitment.

Infoplus

Published: the site lists no plan amounts and points buyers to a demo or appointment request. It lists "Reporting" among its solutions, and the reporting page describes custom reports that pull from any table. Source: Infoplus reporting.

Our read: a fit for order and inventory teams that accept building a labor view through custom reports. No labor-management or time-tracking module is named on the pages we opened, so labor depth is unverified. Make custom reporting part of the statement of work and get a written list of the labor fields you will receive.

Manhattan Active Labor Management

Published: the product page describes Labor Reporting covering performance, efficiency, quality and time tracking, Time Tracking with clock in and out, and Labor Monitoring against engineered and dynamic labor standards. The page names three editions, Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier, according to Manhattan (2026), and gives no prices.

Our read: a fit for large distribution centers with engineered labor standards and an existing WMS or TMS. The page does not say whether the labor module runs without a WMS. The page describes integration with WMS, slotting and TMS, and says incentive payments feed payroll. Treat that as project scope to verify, not a quick install.

Zebra Workcloud Time and Attendance

Published: the Timekeeping page describes "time entry, labor tracking and payroll integration," touchless clocking and mobile timekeeping access, according to Zebra (2026). No price is published, and the page points to sales contact.

Our read: a fit for sites that need compliant time entry, mobile clocking and payroll integration. Overtime and labor cost appear only as outcomes the system helps avoid, not as named reports, and the page names no output per task. Confirm the report export and the device and app requirements with a sales contact.

Turning the reports into a workflow

US Tech Automations builds custom workflows for clients rather than selling a self-serve tool, so the designs below are proposed, configurable builds, not live deployments.

The time-side workflow starts with a trigger: a closed-shift export lands from the time clock. The action matches each clock-in to the roster, marks rows where hours differ from the schedule by a threshold the operator sets, and flags overtime. The output is a Google Sheet of flagged rows, and a supervisor sees those rows in an approval step before any figure goes to QuickBooks, which the public site lists among connected systems. Prerequisites are an export file or API access from the time clock vendor, a Google account with Sheets access, and written rules for what counts as an exception. Human review points are the supervisor's approval of each flagged row and a payroll administrator's check of the export before import.

The output-side workflow starts with ShipHero's webhook, which the developer examples page lists as Order Packed Out. Each packed order fires the trigger. The action counts packed orders by packer and by shift, drops duplicate deliveries by order ID, and checks that the payload includes a station or packer identifier. The output is a daily summary row per packer in the Sheet and an email draft through Gmail for the operations lead to send. Prerequisites are ShipHero API access, a registered webhook (the registration method is not on the page we opened, so confirm it with ShipHero), and a payload that names the packer. If the payload has no packer field, this workflow cannot attribute output to a person, and the design stops at the data step.

The real alternative for many small teams is a stitched build in Zapier, Make or n8n, or an in-house script. Those tools can keep run histories, retries, error branches and audit evidence when they are configured that way. The buyer still designs and owns observability, idempotency so a retried webhook does not double count, escalation, access controls and ongoing maintenance. A managed design from US Tech Automations could build the review step, the escalation path and the duplicate check into the workflow from the start, but it still depends on the same exports and API access listed above.

Who this is for, and the red flags

Who this is for: a small warehouse owner or operations lead who has to choose a tool before the next payroll cycle, and who needs one report for hours and one for output. Choose by the question you need answered first.

• Connecteam: choose it if the question is hours, timesheets and scheduling for a crew that fits the first-30-users price.

• ShipHero: choose it if picker and packer performance views must sit beside your order data.

• Logiwa: choose it if labor planning and analytics belong in the WMS and you can run a consultation first.

• Infoplus: choose it if custom reports are acceptable and you will build the labor view yourself.

• Manhattan Active Labor Management: choose it only if you run a large distribution center with engineered labor standards and an existing WMS or TMS.

• Zebra Workcloud Time and Attendance: choose it if compliant time entry and payroll integration are the goal.

Red flags: a vendor that will not show a sample labor report before the contract, reporting that depends on a field your order data does not carry, and a price you cannot put in writing for your user count.

Decision checklist

• Write down the three reports you need, such as hours by person, output by person per shift, and overtime by week.

• Confirm where each number comes from: a time clock export, an order event, or a WMS task.

• Get a written price for your exact user count and billing period.

• Ask for a sample report built from a week of your own data.

• Name one owner for access rights, duplicate-event checks and exception review.

Common mistakes

• Buying a full labor suite when the only question is payroll hours.

• Treating "not named" on a vendor page as "not included" instead of asking for it in writing.

• Comparing a published per-user price with a quote-based total.

• Relying on directory price lists, which conflicted with each other and with vendor pages for several products here.

• Skipping the export test, so the reports never reach payroll in the format you need.

Market signals from 2026 surveys

The most useful 2026 signal is a Modern Materials Handling survey run by Peerless Research Group and published July 1, 2026. Survey: 38% are holding off on software investments according to Modern Materials Handling (2026), up from 34% in 2025. The same article says 29% cite improved labor management as a reason to upgrade a WMS, and 13% plan to evaluate or buy a labor management system within two years, according to Modern Materials Handling (2026). The article does not state the sample size, so read these as direction, not a precise measure of your market.

On hiring, a Supply Chain Dive report on DC employment outlook says Hourly hiring: 90% of DCs are struggling to hire according to Supply Chain Dive (undated 2026 page). The page gives no sample size or sponsor, and it says software investments lead the way on labor efficiency without giving a figure.

Frequently asked questions

Do small warehouses need a labor management system, or is time tracking enough?

Time tracking is enough if you only need paid hours for payroll, but it is not enough if you need output per person. A time clock export records hours and cannot show how many picks or packs happened during them. Decide which question you need answered first, then choose the category.

Which of these tools publish prices?

Only Connecteam publishes plan prices on the pages we opened. ShipHero, Infoplus, Manhattan Active Labor Management and Zebra Workcloud Time and Attendance publish no plan prices there, and Logiwa describes its plans as quote-based. Get any quote in writing for your exact user count.

Can a time clock export replace per-person productivity reporting?

No, a time clock export replaces the hours side of the report and leaves the output side unanswered. Output per person needs an event from the order, task or WMS side, which is why the workflows above pair a time export with a packing or picking event.

What is the cheapest place to start?

On the pages we opened, the cheapest published option is the Small Business plan covered in the pricing section. Use it to test the export and the report format before you commit to a larger plan or a quote.

Is US Tech Automations the right choice for a small warehouse?

Often not, if a time clock product or a WMS with dashboards already answers your questions. A simpler tool wins in three cases: you only need hours for payroll and the time-and-attendance product exports them; your WMS already shows per-person picks and packs, so a new layer adds a second source of truth; or you cannot provide the order events, time exports or API access the workflow needs, so the design stops at the data step. In those cases US Tech Automations would add cost without changing the decision.

Where to start

Start with the report you need, not the brand. If payroll hours are the question, shortlist a time-and-attendance product and check its export format before you sign. If output per person is the question, ask ShipHero, Manhattan Active Labor Management, Logiwa or Infoplus for a sample report built from your own order data, and treat any quote as a number you have seen in writing. For the workflow side, see how US Tech Automations configures this.