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Landing Platform vs Factorial: HR and time that bill
Factorial joins HR, time, shifts and project hours in one tool, priced per user with modules tailored to you. Landing does the people and time work too, then carries those hours into quotes, invoices, retainers and profit per client.
Landing suits you if
- You sell your team's time to clients
- You want hours to become invoices without an export
- You want sales, marketing and service on the same record
Where the hours stop.
Factorial records project time well. What happens to it next is someone else's tool.
Hours without a client
Project hours export for analysis, but the deal, the quote and the invoice live elsewhere.
Modules by the user
Time, talent, finance and IT management are modules added to the per-user price.
No sales side
There is no CRM, email marketing or helpdesk to connect the work to the client who pays for it.
Landing Platform vs Factorial, line by line.
Level on HR and project time. Further ahead on everything those hours are for.
| Feature | Landing Platform |  Factorial |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Builders for the people who run it every day; everyone else is a Member, at £4 to £9 a month | Per user, with modules |
| Records and org chart | One record per person: role, manager, contract, documents and emergency contacts, with an org chart that draws itselfCore | Factorial Core: directory, onboarding, documents |
| Time off | Balances, carryover, bank holidays and part-time patterns per person, approved in one click from the email, and approved leave lands on the timesheet by itselfCore | Time management module |
| Shift rota and clock-in | Rota per branch with open shifts, swaps, kiosk PIN clock-in and UK Working Time checks, including the 17-week averageCore | Shift management; automatic planning on Enterprise |
| Timesheets | Filled overnight from each person's Outlook calendar, with approvals and reminders that go out on their ownCore | Project time tracking at task level |
| Projects and capacity | Boards, Gantt, capacity and workloads, using each person's own working weekCore | Project management with time and cost tracking |
| Retainers | Monthly hours with capped carryover, time banks and a retainer reportCore | Not included |
| CRM, quotes and invoices | Contacts, deals, quotes with e-signature, and invoices from hours, milestones or retainersCore | Not included |
| Hours to profit | Real salaries cost every hour worked, so margin per client, project and person is read off the pageGrowth | Project cost reports |
| Reviews, progression and pay | Reviews, goals and pay bands, and progression plans that apply the promotion and pay rise when every goal is metGrowth | Talent management module |
Plan tags show where a feature starts on Landing: Core, Growth or Scale. Factorial details reflect its publicly available plans as of 2026; check current details on its own site.
What it costs, side by side.
Factorial starts per user and adds modules to a plan a specialist designs with you. Landing publishes one price per seat, with everything in the plan.
Factorial, as it lists it
How Factorial is sold, as its public pages describe it.
Starting price as listed on their site, September 2026. And still to buy separately: a CRM, quotes and invoicing, and email marketing.
a month on Landing, billed yearly, ex VAT
Includes HR, leave, rota, Outlook-filled timesheets, projects, retainers, CRM, quotes, invoices from hours and profit per client.
Work out your own priceExample team: three people who run delivery, finance and sales every day, forty-seven who book leave, log time and approve. No marketing contacts. Credits for AI, SMS and lookups come from a shared pool each Builder adds to.
Switching is our job, not yours.
We move you over one tool a month, against success criteria we agree with you up front. You don't pay until we prove each one is ready.
We map people, time and billing
Your Factorial modules, projects and whatever sends the invoice. We agree what "ready" means.
We move Factorial across
We move your data as part of the switch: people, balances, documents and projects, checked before anyone logs a day.
You sign it off
Billing starts only once it meets the criteria you set. Then we move the next tool, one a month.
But Factorial already has projects.
Fair. Here are the questions teams ask us most.
How is Landing's project time different?
Timesheets fill themselves overnight from each person's Outlook calendar, matched to the right client from who was invited. Then those hours become invoices, draw down retainers and cost at each person's real salary.
Can we invoice straight from hours?
Yes. Invoices come from hours, milestones or retainers, on the same record as the client, the deal and the quote they signed.
Do we get reviews and pay bands too?
Yes, on Growth, with progression plans that apply the promotion and pay rise when every goal is met.
What do people who only log time cost?
They are Members, from £4 a month. Clients and guests are free.
Finding hours you never billed?
Use the free unbilled hours calculator to see what slips through.
“We were running PR, social scheduling and the rest of our marketing across half a dozen tools that never talked. Now we plan, schedule and measure from a single screen.”
From hours logged to hours paid, on one record.
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