gastromatic vs Skello

gastromatic

The pricing page sells a fully-automated scheduling add-on with over- and under-capacity display and promises planning metrics in the Professional tier, so the system proposes rather than merely draws. What drives the proposal stays dark: we found no public information on a named demand source — POS revenue, footfall, occupancy or bookings — nor on qualifications, staffing requirements per shift, templates, open shifts or cross-location sharing.

Skello

The Smart Planner method is unusually documented — constraints for availability, daily amplitude, weekly rest and overtime defaulting to the collective agreement, plus transparent assignment priorities like lowest hourly rate and schedule history — and templates and automatic proposals genuinely exist. But the staffing forecasts in the top plan are given no data source, and we found no public information on open-shift claiming, coverage gaps before publication, labour cost against budget, or cross-location staff sharing.

gastromatic

Individually configurable time-recording and break rules plus surcharges are named Professional-tier features, which is more concrete than a bare compliance claim. Still, we found no public information on checks for the ArbZG daily maximum or the 11-hour rest period, no Minijob earnings warning, no collective-agreement or youth-protection rule sets, and nothing saying whether a violation blocks publication or merely warns.

Skello

The rules are actually named — daily amplitude, weekly rest days, an overtime system set by collective agreement by default, workplace-agreement overtime policies, TOIL and annualised-hour counters, and regulatory alerts in scheduling. What the pages never say is whether a violation blocks publication or only warns, and we found no public information on night, Sunday or holiday surcharge rule sets, youth or maternity limits, or a recorded and reasoned planner override.

gastromatic

The employee app ships from the cheapest tier with 2,000+ store reviews, and it does more than display: mobile time capture and document requests with in-app e-signature are documented for Professional. We found no public information on availability entry, shift-swap or cover requests, open-shift claiming, push notifications, offline handling, shared terminals or supported languages.

Skello

The employee app does schedules, availability, leave and shift-transfer requests, and staff clock in by phone or tablet with a personal PIN. The swap flows are described only as requests, with no statement that qualifications or rest rules are checked before approval, and we found no public information on open-shift claiming, push notifications of changes, offline clock-in, or language coverage of the interface.

gastromatic

Individual rights models for when several people plan are a Professional feature, and the privacy policy states deletion of stored data 80 days after trial end or contract termination, seven-day logfiles, encryption and a named external data protection officer. But we found no public information on a view-access audit log, on switching monitoring functions off, on retention of absence and availability data specifically, or on documentation the vendor offers for a works-council agreement.

Skello

Permission levels are granular and well documented — managers see only strictly lower levels, sensitive employee data can be restricted, read-only access exists for external accountants and CFOs — and retention periods for employee data are published. But geolocation at the badge is presented as a feature with no statement that it can be switched off or is off by default, and we found no public information on an audit log of views and changes, configurable deletion periods, or materials supporting a works agreement.

gastromatic

The tier ladder is visible: payroll preparation in Starter; payroll interfaces, surcharges and exports for payroll and controlling in Professional; a fully-integrated in-house payroll service as an add-on with free setup; plus an open API naming HR tools such as Personio, softgarden, Belonio and hotelkit, with POS and booking systems merely "anbindbar". We found no public information naming a payroll system such as DATEV or LODAS, and nothing on a lock step before transmission, wage types per surcharge, or retro corrections after the close.

Skello

The month-end path is real and described in detail — payroll variables calculated, a consolidated report, a padlock-confirmed lock before and after transmission, an accountant note, partner accounting firms and payslip distribution. Yet not a single payroll system, POS or HR tool is named anywhere, the payroll connection is just "your payroll tool", and we found no public information on a documented API or on handling corrections after the close.

gastromatic

Hosting is EU as standard — AWS in Frankfurt — with Google LLC servers in Frankfurt named as primary storage where the revenue book or automated scheduling is used, and the contracting entity is a Darmstadt GmbH with its register number published. The named subprocessors under standard contractual clauses (Zoom, MailChimp, Facebook, Google, HubSpot) cover website, newsletter and webinar traffic, but we found no public information on the scheduling app's own chain, such as push notification or app analytics; the independently sourced attributes also leave ownership and overall subprocessor exposure unknown.

Skello

The contracting entity is French and some subprocessors are named, which keeps this off the floor. But the only concrete storage statement names Webflow Inc of San Francisco under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the AWS region is never stated, the preference for EU and EEA subcontractors names no provider, and we found no public information on an EU hosting option for the product itself.

gastromatic

The pricing page does allocate features to tiers — stationary time capture from Starter, mobile capture, surcharges and payroll interfaces in Professional — and Enterprise is explicitly "Preis auf Anfrage". But we found no public price figure for Starter or Professional at all, nor anything on billing period, how seasonal or inactive staff are counted, minimum term or VAT treatment.

Skello

Tiers and add-ons carry public monthly from-prices with the feature split shown — clock-in sits in the standard plan, forecasts and the assistant in the top plan, payroll at a per-employee monthly rate. But every figure is a starting price, the per-employee or per-location basis of the main plans is never stated, the enterprise tier is custom, and we found no public information on how seasonal or inactive staff are counted, minimum term or VAT treatment.