What is PeopleMuster, and who is it for?
PeopleMuster is HR software for companies that run on people and client projects at once: agencies, software houses, studios and consultancies. Attendance management, leave management, timesheets and resource planning share one database. PeopleMuster costs $3 per person per month with every module included, connects to five named tools and runs in your own database.
Think of PeopleMuster as two systems that share one set of records. The HR half holds the employee record, attendance, leave, shifts and holidays. The delivery half holds timesheets by project, a capacity grid, project health scores and client records. Because both halves read the same database, an approved day off is already out of the capacity plan before anyone schedules against it.
That's the gap most teams close by hand. Your capacity grid says someone has forty hours free. Your leave system says they're away on Thursday. When the two live apart, somebody reconciles them every week, or the plan is wrong.
You'll get the most from PeopleMuster if you bill clients for time, or track whether time went to client work. People move between projects. Utilisation is a number somebody watches. Leave approvals shift delivery dates.
Operations sit in the same price. You get an IT device register and SOP checklists for onboarding and offboarding. An internal helpdesk takes HR questions, and HashBot searches your policy library for answers.
Pricing is public: $3 per person, per month, and every module is included. There's no seat minimum, no setup fee and no base fee, and annual billing is $30 per person per year. Every new customer gets 14 days free with no card. For reference, BambooHR Core lists at $10 per employee and Float Starter at $7 per scheduled person, both read on the vendors' own pricing pages in September 2026.
Five integrations connect PeopleMuster to the tools around it. Slack receives reminders, reports and announcements. Fireflies files meeting transcripts against the right project. A ZKTeco fingerprint terminal syncs punches over your local network, and the fingerprints themselves stay on the terminal. OpenAI powers policy search and meeting signals, while Turnstile guards the sign-in page.
Your data lives in your own database, in your own account, in the region you choose. People sign in with a one-time code sent to their work email, so there are no passwords to leak. Access rules are enforced in the database itself as well as on screen.
Every convention is a setting you control: leave types, quotas, holidays, shifts and which modules are switched on. We set it up with you, including your modules, your roles and your people.
Related questions
Is PeopleMuster a good HR software for an agency?
PeopleMuster fits an agency well because HR and project delivery share one database. Leave comes out of the capacity plan the moment it's approved, and timesheets feed utilisation by person, project and department. The whole bill is $3 per person per month, with 14 days free to try it.
Is PeopleMuster only for software companies?
Agencies, studios and consultancies fit just as well. The pattern PeopleMuster suits is people assigned to client projects, where hours and leave affect delivery.
What team size does PeopleMuster suit?
Any size. There's no seat minimum, so a team of five pays $3 per person just like a team of two hundred, and the bill grows in step with headcount.
Does it work for a team without shifts?
Yes. Shifts set the lateness yardstick and the browser check-in window. Without one, people record attendance through a manual punch request, and every other module works the same.