gastromatic vs Skello

gastromatic

The pricing page promises fully automated roster building with over- and under-capacity displayed, so the system proposes a plan rather than only drawing one. But we found no public information on qualification matching, staffing templates, open shifts or which demand figure drives the automatic proposal — and an automated distribution of hours whose logic is undocumented is exactly what I would have to negotiate under co-determination before signing anything.

Skello

Templates, positions with primary and secondary assignments, multi-site management and an automatic Smart Planner that proposes rosters under availability, daily amplitude and weekly-rest constraints are well documented, with staffing forecasts sold at the top tier. However, we found no public information tying the forecast to a named data source such as POS revenue or footfall, no labour-cost-against-budget display while planning, and no cross-location staff sharing.

gastromatic

Individual time-recording and break rules plus surcharge handling are named as configurable, which hints at hospitality Tarif practice, but no actual legal check is described — we found no public information on the daily maximum hours, the eleven-hour rest period, Minijob limits or youth protection, nor whether anything blocks a violation rather than merely recording it. Distributing overtime and rest periods under co-determination requires the rules to sit in the plan, not just in the payroll export.

Skello

The rules genuinely steer the plan rather than trailing it: daily amplitude, weekly rest days and an overtime system are set by default from the collective agreement, regulatory alerts are named, and overtime is configurable per company policies and workplace agreements with annualised hours, time-off-in-lieu counters and month-end compensation workflows. What we did not find: named night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, youth-protection limits, any statement whether a violated rule blocks publication or only warns, and no recorded, reasoned override.

gastromatic

An employee app with over 2000 reviews is included from the smallest package upward, and mobile time capture plus in-app document signing are evidenced at the higher tier, which is more than a read-only view. We found no public information on availability entry, shift swaps, open-shift claiming, push notification of changes, or what employees can see and export of the data held about them — for people who never open a laptop, the app's actual powers are the crux.

Skello

Employees get a real app on iOS and Android — published schedules, availability and leave requests, shift-transfer requests, their own documents and hour tracker, and clock-in by phone or tablet with a personal PIN. We found no public information on push notification of changes, open-shift claiming, offline clock-in or language coverage, and the geolocation taken at each badge is exactly the kind of employee tracking a works agreement must govern before it ships.

gastromatic

Individual rights models for multiple planners exist, and the privacy policy states deletion of data eighty days after trial end or termination, with log files deleted after seven days and an external data protection officer named. But we found no public information on whether absence reasons can be hidden from colleagues, on an audit log of who viewed or changed an individual's data, or on any documentation prepared for works-council approval; nothing here is yet something I could take into a works agreement.

Skello

The permission model is genuinely granular — four customizable levels, managers seeing only strictly lower levels, sensitive employee data access for schedulers restricted where needed, and read-only roles for accountants and CFOs — and retention periods for user, client and billing data are published. But geolocation at clock-in is presented with no statement that it can be switched off, we found no audit log of who viewed or changed an individual's data, no configurable deletion periods and no documentation offered for works-council approval, and with performance analytics sitting in the top tier I would want a feature-by-feature data inventory before signing anything.

gastromatic

Payroll preparation sits in every package, a fully integrated payroll service with a dedicated clerk is offered as an add-on, and an open real-time API names Personio, softgarden, Belonio and hotelkit, with surcharges and eAU handled at the professional tier. However the payroll interfaces themselves carry no system name — we found no public information on DATEV or other wage accounting connections, on a lock step before transmission, or on wage types mapped per surcharge.

Skello

The handoff has discipline: the schedule locks for payroll with a green padlock, turns red once payrolls are sent, and only the system administrator can unlock, while variable pay elements, absences, bonuses, advances and meal allowances are consolidated into one exportable report and HR and payroll data sync is offered. But no payroll system and no POS tool is ever named — the connections stay generic — and we found no public API documentation beyond passing mentions of a time-clock and analytics API.

gastromatic

A German company registered in Darmstadt, hosting on AWS in Frankfurt named in the privacy policy, and a subprocessor list with locations plus standard contractual clauses for the US services such as Zoom and MailChimp — that is more documentation than most. Two reservations: the revenue book and automatic scheduling may store data with Google LLC in Frankfurt, a US company, and we found no public information on push-notification or support subprocessors, on a customer data processing agreement, or on published certification.

Skello

The contracting entity is Skello SAS in Paris and the privacy policy names providers including AWS, Cloudflare and Salesforce while promising to prefer subcontractors located in the EU and EEA — a best-effort statement with no named data-centre region for the product. The captured pages give different pictures of hosting, with the legal notices describing storage by Webflow Inc. of San Francisco under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, and we found no published certification and no subprocessor list with legal bases; for employee availability, absence and badge-location data that is not enough to draft a works agreement on.

gastromatic

Tier composition is public, with Starter and Professional features listed in detail, but we found no public price figures for either tier, Enterprise is quoted only on request, and the add-ons — automatic scheduling, the API, the document creator, payroll — carry no prices. Anyone asked to approve this budget, works council included, would be approving a sales conversation.

Skello

Monthly from-prices are public — "Duo Standard Dès 99€ /mois", "Duo Max Dès 129€ /mois", with the payroll module at "Dès 20€ /mois par employé", Recrutement at "Dès 40€ /mois" and RH Expert at "Dès 20€ /mois" — plus a 10% annual-commitment discount and a 14-day trial. But the basis of the main tiers' from-prices is never named as per employee or per location, and we found no public information on VAT treatment, minimum term, or how inactive or seasonal staff are counted, so a buyer still cannot compute the real annual invoice.