Aplano vs Staffomatic

Aplano

Templates carry a role field and a staffing-requirement number, and a generator proposes a roster the planner can accept, reject or regenerate; but we found no public information on qualifications, multiple locations, coverage-gap warnings, or any demand source such as POS or occupancy feeding the plan. As a works council I also note the automation is advertised for saving planning time, with no statement of which rule drives an assignment.

Staffomatic

Templates, weekly plans, shift swaps and open-shift applications are evidenced, and qualifications and roles arrive from the Professional tier. But I found no public information on staffing requirements per shift, multiple locations or departments, or any demand-based forecasting and automatic roster proposals — the plan still rests on the planner's memory.

Aplano

Break rules and rest periods are named as configurable settings and overtime is tracked, which is more than a bare compliance claim; but no statute or ArbZG provision is cited, no Minijob or youth-protection check appears, and nothing says whether a violation blocks publication or only warns. Collective-agreement surcharges and works-agreement rule sets are entirely absent from the captured pages.

Staffomatic

The pages describe an overtime account and surcharges, but as payroll bookkeeping, not as checks — no rule is named, nothing on the eleven-hour rest period, breaks, youth protection, Minijob limits or collective agreements, and nothing on whether a violation blocks or merely warns. A roster that cannot show its rest-period checks is not one a works council co-signs.

Aplano

The app gives staff availability entry with start and end times, vacation requests with automatic account adjustment, swaps under manager confirmation, open-shift applications, push notifications, chat and clock-in by phone or tablet station — solid self-service on paper. We found no public information on whether swaps are checked against rest periods or qualifications before approval, on offline handling, or on language coverage, and nothing on employees exporting the data held about them beyond a generic rights list in the privacy policy.

Staffomatic

A mobile app with availability entry, vacation requests under approval, shift swaps, open-shift applications and a dedicated clock-in app is genuine self-service for deskless staff. I found no public information on offline handling, languages, team communication, or swaps and open shifts being checked against qualifications and rest periods before approval.

Aplano

Three permission types, a change log, a mandatory data-processing agreement, a 14-day log deletion and a stated renunciation of automated decision-making are a start, but location-precise time capture via geolocation and geofencing is advertised without a single word about switching it off. We found no public information on who may see absence reasons, on an audit log of who viewed an individual's data, on configurable deletion periods for employee records, or on any documentation offered for works-council approval — I could not co-sign a works agreement on this evidence.

Staffomatic

The privacy policy names an external data-protection officer, lists stored data types and deletion periods, and roles and rights exist from the Professional tier — but who may see absence reasons is not addressed, I found no published data-processing agreement or documentation for works-council approval, and the log's retention of 30, 60 or 90 days is set by price tier rather than by agreement.

Aplano

Hours and evaluations leave as CSV, PDF or Excel and the employee list imports and exports as CSV, but we found no public information on any named payroll system such as DATEV, on surcharge or wage-type handling, on POS or HR integrations, or on a documented API. The month is still something someone retypes.

Staffomatic

A DATEV export alongside surcharges, overtime and time accounts, plus a named Personio interface and API access, are evidenced at the upper tiers. I found no public information on vendor-maintained payroll integrations, a lock step before transmission, wage-type mapping per surcharge, or any POS connection.

Aplano

Aplano is a German GmbH with development in Germany and a published privacy policy naming its service providers and an external German data-protection officer. But we found no public information on where the application's employee data — availabilities, absences, stamped times, locations — is actually hosted, and the disclosed chain includes US companies such as Microsoft and Mailchimp for tracking and newsletters, so the sovereignty picture is assumed rather than evidenced.

Staffomatic

The controller is a Hamburg company and the privacy policy names its subprocessors with their countries and an EU-standard-clause mechanism — more disclosure than most. But the captured pages never state where employee data is hosted, and the chain includes US services: support routing through a US orchestrator plus US contact-form and advertising tools.

Aplano

All three tiers carry public per-employee monthly prices with a one-month minimum term, deactivated users are not billed, and the trial requires no payment details — a buyer can compute most of the invoice. We found no public information on VAT treatment, on pricing for the terminal hardware with fingerprint or RFID reader, or on which tiers include the time clock.

Staffomatic

All three tiers carry a per-person monthly price with a ten-person minimum, billing period, net-price VAT treatment and cancellation terms public, and the feature lists show what sits in each tier. How inactive or seasonal staff are counted, and any onboarding or hardware prices, I could not find in the captured pages.