# Interflex — Absence Management

Interflex by Interflex Datensysteme GmbH holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 1.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: EU origin, foreign-owned; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH (https://interflex.com)
- Category: [Absence Management](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): EU origin, foreign-owned
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/interflex
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/interflex/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/interflex/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-01

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Interflex IF-6040 Zeit is a German time-and-absence suite whose bench scoring concentrates on one strength: sick leave and the electronic certificate of incapacity, where scores sit at a flat 7, crediting the eAU direkt add-on's fully automated direct retrieval from health insurers, automatic adoption of the insurer-reported period, status tracking, and an automatic prior-illness query on continued pay — held below the top by silence on child-sick days and on certificates from privately insured employees. Payroll handover scores 6-7 on certified interfaces for SAP R/3, S/4HANA and SuccessFactors plus an OpenAPI REST interface. Weaknesses are broad: requests and approvals sit at 2, with no public information on approval steps, substitutes or a team calendar; leave policies score 2-3; absence data protection 1-2, and we found no public information on who may see a sickness reason or certificate, on retention or on access logging. Sovereignty scores 3-4: a Stuttgart-registered German vendor, developed in Germany, cloud or on-premise — but no public information on cloud hosting or subprocessors, and the imprint ties the company to Irish-domiciled, US-run Allegion. No prices are published.

**Speaks for it:**
- The eAU direkt add-on retrieves electronic certificates of incapacity directly from health insurers, fully automated and without a third-party system.
- The insurer-reported absence period is adopted automatically, with retrieval status and insurer responses tracked per absence.
- An automatic prior-illness query checks continued pay without extra payroll programs or the insurer portal.
- Certified HR-PDC and OData/CICO interfaces transfer recorded data automatically into SAP R/3, S/4HANA and SuccessFactors payroll, with an OpenAPI REST interface besides.
- The software is developed in Germany, the contracting entity is a Stuttgart-registered GmbH, and on-premise deployment is offered alongside the cloud service.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on approval steps, approvers per team, substitutes, delegation or a team calendar.
- We found no public information on who may see a sickness reason or certificate, on retention or deletion of absence records, or on access logging.
- We found no public information on leave entitlement calculation, part-time proration, carry-over and expiry, or public holidays per federal state.
- We found no public information on payroll connectors outside the SAP family such as DATEV, on mapping absence types to payroll codes, or on locking past periods.
- We found no public information on where the cloud service is hosted or on any subprocessor, including push-notification delivery.

**Best for:**
- You run payroll on SAP R/3, S/4HANA or SuccessFactors and want certified, automated handover of time and absence data.
- You administer German sick leave at volume and want eAU retrieval, period adoption and continued-pay checks fully automated.
- You need to keep absence and sickness data on your own infrastructure, with software developed in Germany by a Stuttgart-registered vendor.

**Avoid if:**
- You depend on approval chains, substitutes and a team calendar to run leave requests — we found no public information on these.
- You must document for a works council who sees sickness reasons and certificates, how long records are kept, and whether access is logged.
- Your payroll runs outside the SAP family — we found no public information on connectors such as DATEV.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The Team Lead | The Managing Director | The Payroll Accountant | The Data Protection Officer | The HR IT Integrator | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Entitlements & German leave rules | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Requests, approvals & team calendar | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Sick leave, eAU & continued pay | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Payroll handover, time tracking & API | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| Health data, access & works council | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1.5/5** | **2/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **2/5** |

### The judges

- **The Team Lead** (v1.0): Approves leave for twelve people across two shifts and finds out about clashes too late. Wants requests and approvals on the phone, a named substitute on every request, minimum-staffing warnings before approval, and a team calendar that shows who is away without showing why.
- **The Managing Director** (v1.0): Runs a forty-person company in two federal states without an HR department and is liable when leave is calculated wrong. Wants part-time entitlements prorated correctly, the right public holidays per site, carry-over that lapses only after employees were told, and the eAU handled without a phone call to every health insurer.
- **The Payroll Accountant** (v1.0): Closes payroll in DATEV every month and corrects whatever arrived late. Wants absences exported with the right payroll codes, the eAU result attached to the sick day, the six-week continued-pay limit counted per illness, and past months locked once they are paid.
- **The Data Protection Officer** (v1.0): Treats every sick day as special-category data, because the law does. Asks who can see a reason or a certificate, how long absence records are kept and deleted, whether access is logged, where the data is hosted, and which subprocessors send the push notification that says someone is ill.
- **The HR IT Integrator** (v1.0): Wires the absence tool to payroll, time tracking, the identity provider and the calendar. Wants a documented API and webhooks, maintained connectors for the named German payroll systems rather than a CSV, SSO, and balances that agree with the time-tracking system on both sides.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Knows "eAU supported" can mean a photo upload, "DATEV integration" can mean a CSV, and "GDPR-compliant" can mean every manager sees every diagnosis-adjacent note. Reads for who actually retrieves the certificate, which leave rules are computed rather than typed in, and whether the carry-over expiry notice exists at all.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Accessibility: yes · screenreader support · keyboard navigation · high contrast [S2]
- Audit trail: yes [S2]
- Data storage: time data securely stored and traceable per legal and company requirements [S2]
- Eugh bag: Supports legal requirements including EuGH and BAG decisions on mandatory time tracking [S7]
- Itsg certified: yes [S5]
- Pentests: yes · yes [S2]
- Privacy policy: not visible in capture [S3]
- Security by design: yes · yes [S2]

**Hosting**
- Deployment options: yes · yes [S2]

**Integrations**
- API: yes · yes [S2]
- Interfaces: yes [S1]
- Sap payroll: yes · yes [S2]
- Systems: ERP · HR · payroll [S2]

**Legal**
- Address: Stuttgart · Epplestraße 225 (Haus 3) · Germany · 70567 [S4]
- Address: Stuttgart · Epplestraße 225 (Haus 3) · 70567 [S4]
- Bank: Deutsche Bank AG · DE92 6007 0070 0125 233700 · DEUTDESS [S4]
- Bank details: Deutsche Bank AG · DE92 6007 0070 0125 233700 · DEUTDESS [S4]
- Company address: Stuttgart · Epplestraße 225 · Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · 70567 [S6]
- Company name: Stuttgart · Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · Epplestraße 225 · 70567 [S5]
- Entity: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · Epplestraße 225, 70567 Stuttgart [S1]
- Entity: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · Epplestraße 225, 70567 Stuttgart [S2]
- Entity: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · Epplestraße 225, 70567 Stuttgart [S7]
- Entity name: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH [S4]
- Entity name: Stuttgart · Interflex Datensysteme GmbH · Epplestraße 225 · 70567 [S3]
- Legal entity: Interflex Datensysteme GmbH [S4]
- Register: Amtsgericht Stuttgart · HRB 757952 · Stuttgart [S4]
- Registration: Stuttgart · Amtsgericht Stuttgart · HRB 757952 [S4]
- Social media: Facebook · Instagram · Youtube · LinkedIn · Xing · induux [S4]
- Social media imprint coverage: Facebook: InsideInterflex · Instagram @interflex_datensysteme · Youtube · LinkedIn · Xing · induux [S4]
- VAT id: DE 813177480 [S4]
- VAT id: DE 813177480 [S4]

**Product**
- Absence period handling: Automatische Übernahme des gemeldeten Zeitraums (Standard) oder manuelle Anpassung [S5]
- Benefits: capture of clock-in/out events · real-time transfer of time events to SAP SuccessFactors · preprocessing and upload of captured data · transfer of SAP personnel info via OData interface · latest security technology · scalability and fail-s… [S6]
- Benefits: Automated data synchronization minimizes manual effort [S7]
- Break and overtime automation: yes · yes [S2]
- Certified interfaces: Certified HR-PDC interface for SAP R/3 and S/4HANA; cloud-capable OData and CICO API for SAP SuccessFactors [S7]
- Cloud based: Cloud-capable interface developed with SAP as complement to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central [S6]
- Deployment models: cloud · on-premise [S1]
- Developed in germany: yes [S1]
- Eau integration: eAU-Abruf in Abwesenheitsverwaltung der Zeitwirtschaft integriert [S5]
- Eau module name: IF-6040 Zusatzmodul 'eAU direkt' für Direktabruf elektronischer Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigungen [S5]
- Employee data via odata: Personnel information from SAP SuccessFactors is imported into IF-6040 [S6]
- Employee self service: app · pc · yes · time capture · leave requests · sickness reporting · overtime check [S2]
- Entgeltfortzahlung support: Abwesenheiten mit und ohne Entgeltfortzahlung kombinierbar mit eAU-Abruf [S5]
- Founded year: 1974 [S1]
- Full automation: Vollständige Automatisierung des eAU-Abrufs [S5]
- Hardware categories: Access Terminals · Locking Components · Access Manager · Time Recording Terminals · Desktop Readers & Coders [S1]
- Identification media: yes [S1]
- Industries: Automotive · Aviation · Chemistry · Energy · Food Industry · Manufacturing · Municipal waste disposal · Transport & Mobility · Water [S1]
- Industries: Automotive · Aviation · Chemie (KRITIS) · Energie (KRITIS) · Ernährung (KRITIS) · Fertigungsindustrie · Siedlungsabfallentsorgung (KRITIS) · Transport & Verkehr (KRITIS) · Wasser (KRITIS) [S4]
- Locations: yes · 12 · yes [S1]
- Mobile time tracking: yes · yes [S7]
- No duplicate data: Keine doppelte Datenpflege [S5]
- Realtime feedback: Real-time data exchange gives users immediate feedback on recorded attendance/absence at terminals or on smartphone [S6]
- Realtime sync: yes [S7]
- Realtime transfer to successfactors: Time bookings from Interflex terminals or mobile web interface are transferred in real time to SAP SuccessFactors Time Tracking [S6]
- Regular updates: yes · yes [S2]
- Related modules: IF-6040 Zeit · Zeitwirtschaft · Mobile Zeiterfassung per Smartphone · SAP S/4 HANA und R3 (HR-PDC) · SAP SuccessFactors (OData & CICO API) · OpenAPI [S7]
- Related terminals: IF-5735 · IF-5725 · IF-4735 · IF-815 [S7]
- Rules supported: individual employment contracts, collective bargaining rules, company agreements [S2]
- Sap integration: Integrates with SAP R/3, S/4 HANA and SuccessFactors via certified interfaces [S7]
- Sap partner: SAP Silver Partner · over 30 [S7]
- Sap silver partner recertified: yes · 30 · Silver [S6]
- Scalability: 500 · 20000 [S2]
- Scale: several thousand · 5800000 [S1]
- Scale users: 5800000 [S2]
- Self service absence entry: Abwesenheitserfassung durch zentrale Rollen oder Beschäftigte selbst [S5]
- Service packages: OnPrem SLA · Cloud Services [S1]
- Single sign on: yes · yes · yes [S2]
- Software line: IF-6040 software, version 14.3 available; includes eAU direct module [S1]
- Solution areas: access control · visitor management · time recording · time management · personnel scheduling [S1]
- Solutions: Zutrittskontrolle · Besuchermanagement · Zeiterfassung · Zeitwirtschaft · Personaleinsatzplanung [S4]
- Status tracking: Nachverfolgung von Abwesenheiten, Abrufstatus und Rückmeldungen [S5]
- Teamtime app: native mobile app for time capture, device-independent [S2]
- Third party system unnecessary: Kein Abruf über Drittsystem nötig [S5]
- Time management solution name: IF-6040 [S2]
- Tls certificate monitoring: Automatisierte TLS-Client-Zertifikatsprüfung mit Ablaufbenachrichtigung [S5]
- Updates: yes [S7]
- Vorerkrankungsanfrage: Automatische Vorerkrankungsanfrage ohne zusätzliche Programme oder Portale [S5]

**Support**
- Customer portal: yes [S1]
- Newsletter language: de · yes [S1]
- Services: Service · Support · Trainings [S2]
- SLA: yes [S1]

## Questions

### Is Interflex European?

Partly. whats-best.ai classifies Interflex as EU origin, foreign-owned.

### Where does Interflex store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### Does Interflex have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Interflex?

As of 15 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Kenjo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/kenjo), [flair (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/flair-hr) and [HRlab (2.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/hrlab) highest among the other 16 Absence Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Kenjo](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/kenjo) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Interflex alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/absence-management/interflex/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We found no public information on pricing on the pages we read (interflex.com, interflex.com/loesungen/zeitwirtschaft, interflex.com/datenschutz, interflex.com/impressum, interflex.com/produkte/elektronische-arbeitsunfaehigkeitsbescheinigung-eau, interflex.com/produkte/sap-successfactors-odata-cico-api and 1 more). If the vendor publishes it somewhere else, send us the page.
- 7 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 4 support facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.
- 6 of the readings below were written against an earlier fact sheet — a fact has been corrected, added or pulled since. Until the panel next runs on this product you are reading the older judgement.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor homepage: https://interflex.com/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Time and absence management: https://interflex.com/loesungen/zeitwirtschaft/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Privacy policy: https://interflex.com/datenschutz/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Legal notice: https://interflex.com/impressum/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Sick leave, eAU & continued pay — found from sitemap: https://interflex.com/produkte/elektronische-arbeitsunfaehigkeitsbescheinigung-eau/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Payroll handover, time tracking & API — found from sitemap: https://interflex.com/produkte/sap-successfactors-odata-cico-api/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Payroll handover, time tracking & API — found from sitemap: https://interflex.com/produkte/zeiterfassung-software-sap-if-6040/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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