Aplano vs Staffomatic

Aplano

Drag-and-drop shift and week templates carry a role, a staffing-requirement field sits in the plan, and the automatic scheduler proposes a roster I can accept, reject or regenerate — that covers a Thursday night. I found no public information on qualifications guarding who lands on which shift, demand forecasting from sales or footfall, planning against a labour budget, or a coverage-gap check before publication.

Staffomatic

Shift and week-plan templates with swap and shift applications, plus absences or double bookings visible while planning, is a real Thursday-night toolkit, and roles, qualifications and availabilities arrive with Professional. But I found no public information on staffing requirements per shift, planning across several locations, or any demand-based forecasting, so the plan stays in my head rather than being proposed.

Aplano

Break rules and rest periods are named features that can be configured in the settings, and overtime sits in the Core plan — more than a generic compliance badge. But the captured pages name no ArbZG daily maximum, no eleven-hour rule, no Minijob earnings warning, no youth-protection or collective-agreement surcharges, and I cannot tell whether anything blocks publication or only warns afterwards.

Staffomatic

The pages show an overtime overview and, from Premium, a working-time account with surcharges and an overtime account — but those feed the payslip, not the roster. I found no public information on any check of the 11-hour rest period, daily maximum hours, breaks, Minijob limits or collective-agreement rules before I publish a week.

Aplano

My people get an Android and iOS app with availability entry down to start and end times, vacation requests that adjust the account automatically, swaps and open-shift applications with manager confirmation, push on changes, team chat, and clock-in by phone, tablet station or fingerprint/RFID terminal with geofencing. I found no public information on swap approvals being checked against qualifications or rest periods, on offline clock-in, or on language coverage and accessibility.

Staffomatic

Staff get a mobile app with shift swaps, open-shift applications, a holiday planner with approvals, and clock-in via the punch-clock app, with availabilities from Professional — that covers most of what my floor crew needs. I found no public information on push notification of roster changes, multilingual interface, or whether swaps are checked against qualifications and rest periods before approval.

Aplano

Three permission levels, a change log, an external German data-protection officer, a required data-processing agreement and published retention statements (log files after fourteen days) give a works council something to start from. But geolocation clock-in is presented with no statement that it can be switched off or is off by default, and I found no public information on configurable visibility of absence reasons, per-employee data export, or vendor material supporting works-council approval.

Staffomatic

Roles and rights exist from Professional, an external data protection officer is named, and the privacy policy states deletion periods for server logs, application data and accounting records. But I found no public information on configurable visibility of absence reasons, an audit log of who viewed or changed an individual's data, or any documentation offered for works-council approval.

Aplano

The month leaves the system as CSV, PDF, Multi-PDF or Excel files from the Pro plan plus a CSV employee list — I found no public information on a named payroll system such as DATEV, on surcharge handling, on any POS or HR integration, or on a documented API. That means someone retypes the spreadsheet into Lohn und Gehalt.

Staffomatic

Premium carries the DATEV export alongside surcharges and overtime accounts, Professional adds the Personio HR interface and API access, and time tracking is billed as preparation for payroll. I found no public information on POS integrations, a lock step before transmission, or how wage types map to each surcharge.

Aplano

Aplano GmbH in Berlin is the contracting entity with a German register number, an external German DPO, and a data-processing agreement required before app use; the privacy policy names its subprocessors, including US-based ones like Mailchimp and Microsoft for marketing and newsletter tasks. I found no public information on where the product's employee data is hosted or which provider runs it — "developed in Germany" says nothing about the servers, and no certification or product-side subprocessor list is published.

Staffomatic

The contracting entity is a Hamburg limited company, and the privacy policy names its processors with country and purpose, with EU standard contractual clauses stated for transfers outside the EU — the list does include non-EU names such as Make.com (Celonis, USA), HubSpot and Microsoft. Server management runs through a partner from Germany, but I found no public information naming the data-centre provider or the hosting region itself.

Aplano

All three tiers are priced per employee per month — Core 0,50€, Basic 2€, Pro 4,50€ — with the monthly billing period, a one-month minimum term, deactivated staff not billed, and a fourteen-day Pro trial without payment details. The pricing page is silent on which tier includes the time clock and its fingerprint/RFID hardware and on VAT treatment, so the real annual invoice for a shift business with terminals still needs a conversation.

Staffomatic

Three tiers at 2, 4 and 6 euros net per person per month, each with a published feature list, a ten-person minimum, monthly or yearly billing with up to 17 percent saving on annual payment, VAT treatment stated, and cancellation to the end of the billing period — I can compute my year from the page. I found no public information on how inactive or seasonal staff are counted.