gastromatic vs Skello

gastromatic

Fully automated scheduling with over- and under-capacity display is sold as an add-on, and a revenue book plus connectable cash registers and booking systems exist, so the raw ingredients for demand-based planning are on the pages. Nothing captured states that the plan actually draws on POS or occupancy data, shows labour cost against budget while the plan is still editable, or documents the method behind the automation — I read "automatisierte Dienstplanung" as a claim, not a method. We found no public information on roles, qualifications, open shifts, staffing requirements per shift or cross-site staff sharing, though the Enterprise tier speaks of management across locations and structures.

Skello

Smart Planner's automatic proposals are documented in method, not just marketing: constraints default from the collective agreement, daily amplitude and weekly rest are set, and assignment rules that favour the lowest hourly rate are published, with staffing forecasts in the top plan and multi-establishment management. But we found no public information tying the forecast to a named demand source such as POS revenue or footfall, none on labour cost against budget while the plan is still editable, and none on sharing the same staff across sites — the loop I plan by stays open.

gastromatic

The Professional tier names configurable time-recording and break rules, surcharges, eAU and Sofortmeldung, which is more specific than a blanket compliance claim. We found no public information on checks for the ArbZG daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period, Minijob earnings limits, youth or maternity protection, or Tarifvertrag rule sets — and nothing states whether any check warns or blocks before publication.

Skello

The roster carries rules rather than leaving them to my memory: rules default from the collective agreement, daily amplitude and weekly rest days are named in the automatic planner, overtime is configurable against company policies and workplace agreements, and time accounts with TOIL, annualised hours and month-end compensation are handled. We found no public information on youth-protection limits, on named night, Sunday and holiday surcharge rule sets, or on whether a violation blocks publication or only warns.

gastromatic

The employee app ships in the base package and carries 2000+ reviews, Professional adds stationary and mobile time capture, and documents are requested and signed directly in the app — more than a read-only view. We found no public information on availability entry, shift-swap requests with approval, open-shift claiming, push notifications of changes, multilingual coverage or shared-device use.

Skello

The employee app gives real actions, not a PDF: availability and leave requests, shift-transfer requests, own HR file and documents, the hour tracker, and clock-in from mobile or shared tablet with a personal PIN. We found no public information on push notification of changes, offline handling at the clock, interface languages, swaps resolved under the rule set without a manager, or employees seeing and exporting the data held about them.

gastromatic

Individual rights models when several people plan, plus concrete deletion terms — customer data fully deleted 80 days after trial end or contract termination, logfiles seven days — and an external data protection officer give a works council something concrete to examine. We found no public information on visibility limits for absence reasons, an audit log of who viewed or changed an individual's data, configurable deletion periods, a processor agreement, or any vendor documentation offered for works-council approval.

Skello

The permission system is more than basic — four default levels plus further manager tiers, read-only access for external accountants and CFOs, strict hierarchical visibility, and restricted access possible for sensitive employee data — and retention is published (3 years for user data after contract end, 6 for client data, 10 for billing). Geolocation at the clock-in is presented as a feature, and we found no public information on whether it can be switched off, on an audit log of views and changes, on configurable deletion periods, or on works-council documentation.

gastromatic

Payroll preparation sits in the base tier, Professional adds payroll interfaces, surcharges, eAU and exports for payroll and controlling, and a fully integrated payroll service with free setup is sold as an add-on; named HR integrations (Personio, softgarden, Belonio, hotelkit) run over an open real-time API and cash registers are stated as connectable. No payroll system is named on the captured pages — DATEV or otherwise — and we found no public information on a lock step before transmission, wage-type mapping per surcharge, an HR master-data sync, or published API documentation.

Skello

The handoff is documented end to end: variable pay calculated into a single report, the week locked for payroll with a green padlock, a red lock after the payrolls are sent, only the system administrator able to unlock, plus payroll-tool connections, an HR and payroll data sync, and partner accounting firms that finalise payroll. But we found no public information naming a single payroll or POS system, and no public API documentation beyond a mention of a time-clock API, so I cannot verify my own stack before a sales conversation.

gastromatic

The vendor's own imprint shows a German GmbH in Darmstadt (HRB 92563), and the privacy policy names AWS Frankfurt as storage, Google in Frankfurt as an alternate primary store for scheduling and revenue-book data, and a processor list running from HubSpot Dublin and Demodesk Munich to Zoom, MailChimp and Google in the US, with standard contractual clauses and Art. 44–49 GDPR stated as the basis for third-country transfers. That is a real EU core with named safeguards, but the independently collected sovereignty attributes record residency and subprocessor exposure as unconfirmed, and we found no public information on the app's own chain — push notification services in particular.

Skello

The contracting entity is a French SAS with a named DPO and a stated preference for EU and EEA subcontractors, which is where the good news ends. The only concrete storage statement, in the legal notices, names Webflow, Inc. of San Francisco under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, the region of the AWS multi-AZ database is not stated, and we found no public information on a full subprocessor list for the product — thin comfort for a tool that geolocates employees at the clock.

gastromatic

The pricing page lays out Starter and Professional feature lists and puts Enterprise at "Preis auf Anfrage", but the captures contain no euro figure for any tier, no per-employee maths, and no statement on how seasonal staff are counted, minimum terms or VAT treatment. A buyer cannot compute an annual invoice from what is public, and the add-ons — automated scheduling, the API, payroll, the document creator — appear without prices.

Skello

Most of the bill is public: Duo Standard Dès 99€ /mois, Duo Max Dès 129€ /mois, the payroll service Dès 20€ /mois par employé, Recrutement Dès 40€ /mois, RH Expert Dès 20€ /mois, with a 10% annual commitment discount and a 14-day free trial. But the captured pages leave the basis of the "Dès" tiers unstated, and we found no public information on VAT treatment, minimum term, or how inactive and seasonal staff are counted — so the annual invoice for thirty sites is not computable from public pages alone.