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Category median

Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by ATOSS Software SE · www.atoss.com

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Has read a great many pages claiming to be "BAG-konform" and wants to know which feature makes that true. Reads compliance claims for what they do not say: which module, at which tier, and whether the terminal in the photograph costs extra.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

Capture in the real workplace

How this is scored

How time actually gets recorded across the workforces a buyer has — desk staff, field and site crews, shift and deskless workers — and what happens when the network is not there.

0 — One browser timer and nothing else; anyone away from a desk records nothing.

3 — Web plus a mobile app, but no offline capture, no shared terminal, and corrections are an admin task rather than a workflow.

5 — Web, mobile and at least one shared capture point (kiosk, terminal or badge), with offline capture that syncs, and a correction workflow with approval.

8 — Several capture paths including hardware terminals or badge readers, reliable offline handling, GPS or geofenced check-in where the vendor states its limits, and bulk correction with an audit trail of who changed what.

10 — Capture fits the workforce rather than the reverse: desk, deskless, field and shift models all first-class, offline as a designed state rather than a failure mode, and every correction attributable, reasoned and reversible.

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The Skeptic

Terminal, smartphone, tablet, PC and even POS capture are all named, group bookings for mobile crews exist, and corrections are said to be traceably documented — a wide net. What no page says is what happens when the network is gone: offline capture and sync are never mentioned, nor GPS or geofenced check-in with stated limits. Correction approval and bulk handling are also not described; only that corrections are quickly possible and documented. 3 4 6

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Working-time law & audit record

How this is scored

Whether the record satisfies the German recording duty (BAG 2022, § 3 ArbSchG) and the ArbZG rules around it — breaks, maximum hours, rest periods, retention — and whether it survives being inspected.

0 — Hours are summed and nothing else; no break handling, no limits, no retention statement.

3 — Break deduction exists but is a flat rule; no daily maximum or rest-period checks, and no stated retention period.

5 — Configurable break rules, warnings on the 8/10-hour daily maximum and the 11-hour rest period, and per-employee reports covering the recording duty.

8 — The ArbZG rules are modelled rather than approximated: break and rest enforcement with documented exceptions, overtime and time-account rules, the two-year retention handled by the system, and an export built for an inspection.

10 — The vendor treats the record as evidence: tamper-evident entries with full change history, retention and deletion executed per statute, documented handling of on-call, standby and travel time, and published guidance mapping features to the ArbZG sections they serve.

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The Skeptic

"Erfüllung aller EuGH Anforderungen" is asserted in one line, and the vendor candidly notes the BAG has confirmed the EU ruling while German law has not caught up — but no page shows the feature that makes the claim true. Rest period requirements and overtime limits appear once, in a description of what payroll specialists apply, and time evaluation runs by defined parameters. We found no public information on break rules, warnings on the daily maximum or the 11-hour rest period, retention of records, or an export built for an inspection. 5 6 10

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Absence & shift planning

How this is scored

Vacation, sickness and the shift or duty roster — the half of attendance that decides whether the time data means anything.

0 — No absence handling; vacation lives in a separate calendar or spreadsheet.

3 — Vacation requests with approval, but entitlement is manual, carry-over is not handled and there is no rostering.

5 — Automatic entitlement and carry-over, sickness recording, an absence calendar, and basic shift planning with availability.

8 — Public-holiday calendars per location, pro-rata entitlement, substitution and swap workflows, shift templates with qualification and rest-period checks, and coverage warnings before publication.

10 — Planning and recording are one system: rosters that respect statutory rest and the works agreement, absence that reflows the plan automatically, and forecast-versus-actual reporting a team lead can act on.

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The Skeptic

Absence requests run through electronic workflows with employee self-service, leave calendars show in real time, and scheduling handles replacements, an integrated shift-exchange board, and staffing-level analysis — with a claim that plans comply with local laws and union agreements, though no page names the check that performs this. We found no public information on automatic entitlement calculation, carry-over, sickness recording, per-location holiday calendars, or qualification and rest checks before publication. Planning breadth is real; the entitlement mechanics behind it are not shown. 3 7 8

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Project, cost-centre & billing

How this is scored

Whether recorded time can carry the allocation an agency, workshop or professional-services firm needs — project, task, cost centre, billable status — through to an invoice or a client report.

0 — Attendance only; no project, task or cost-centre dimension at all.

3 — A free-text note or a single project field, with no rates, no billable flag and no per-project reporting.

5 — Projects and tasks with a billable flag and per-project reports, plus a rate per person or per project.

8 — Multi-level structure (client, project, task, cost centre), rate cards by person, role and project, budget tracking with warnings, and an invoice-ready export.

10 — Time becomes revenue without re-entry: approval before billing, rate rules that survive a rate change mid-project, client-facing reports, and a maintained handoff into named accounting or invoicing systems.

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The Skeptic

Times can be booked to orders and projects and directly to cost centres, even from a customer site or construction site — allocation exists. Beyond that the captured pages show nothing: no billable flag, no rates, no per-project reporting, no budgets, no invoice-ready export, and the published module list contains no project or billing entry. We found no public information on rates or any path from recorded time to an invoice. 3 10

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Payroll handoff

How this is scored

How the recorded month reaches payroll — DATEV, Lohn und Gehalt, an in-house system or the tax adviser — and how much of it is automated rather than retyped.

0 — No payroll path stated; the month leaves as a spreadsheet someone retypes.

3 — Generic CSV said to be usable for payroll, with no named system, no defined format and no handling of surcharges.

5 — A named payroll integration or a documented export format for at least one major system, covering hours, absences and overtime.

8 — Vendor-maintained integration with a named provider, covering night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, time accounts and mid-month changes, with a lock step before transmission.

10 — Payroll is designed for, not exported to: several named systems maintained, an auditable approval and lock, retro handling for corrections after the close, and the tax adviser given their own scoped access.

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The Skeptic

A DATEV technology partnership is named for two specific products, data is said to transfer directly to the payroll system, and the payroll flow shows validation before transfer, approval monitoring with escalation before payroll deadlines, and corrections after initial processing — retro handling that most vendors never document. Night, Sunday and holiday surcharges are not named, only generic premiums, and time accounts and mid-month changes go unmentioned. This is the most concretely evidenced capability the vendor publishes. 6 9 10

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the data lives, who the contracting entity is, who the subprocessors are, and whether that is documented rather than assumed. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting region unstated or non-EU, subprocessors not named.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option, but the contracting entity is non-EU or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but the subprocessor chain includes non-EU providers without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, full subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor in the EU, data-centre certification published, and an on-premises or private-cloud option for buyers who need it.

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The Skeptic

The contracting entity is ATOSS Software SE of Munich with a German register entry and VAT ID, a DPA is linked in the footer, and cloud or on-premises deployment is offered — the on-premises option is real. But we found no public information on hosting region or data residency, and no subprocessor list anywhere; the chain is documented only down to the front door. The German entity alone does not tell a buyer where the time data sleeps. 2 3 10

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual invoice for their headcount — including terminals, modules and minimums — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-user headline exists, but hardware, modules or a minimum seat count are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-user prices public for the main tiers with the billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed piece (terminal hardware, planning module, payroll export) sits in an unpriced bundle.

8 — Every tier and module priced publicly with per-user maths, billing period, minimum term and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom work lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator or table producing the annual invoice for a given headcount and module selection, including hardware, setup and renewal terms.

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The Skeptic

No price appears anywhere in the captured material: no per-user figure, no tiers, no billing period, no minimum term, no VAT treatment, and no price for the terminals named among the capture channels. The only published step toward buying is "Schedule a demo now." For an enterprise vendor this may be convention, but a buyer cannot compute any part of the annual invoice from these pages. 4 6

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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What we left out

A claim that does not survive our checks costs us the claim, not the page. This is what was taken off this one.

Sources (10)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.atoss.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 30 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Imprint www.atoss.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.atoss.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →