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Time Tracking & Attendance

Crewmeister

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Panel rating · 6 judges · How to read the stars

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Sovereignty: 2 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Crewmeister GmbH · www.crewmeister.com

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The Agency Owner

Weighted verdict

Bills forty people's hours to clients and lives on the gap between recorded and billable. Wants project structure, rate cards that survive a mid-project change, budget warnings before the overrun, and an export the invoicing system takes. Attendance compliance is the floor, not the product.

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

Scored by The Agency Owner

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 Agency Owner

Mobile punch-clock apps, the browser and any standard tablet or PC turned into a terminal cover my desk and site crews, with offline capture and GPS stamping at check-in — that is the capture spread I need. What I do not see is a correction workflow with approval or any trail of who changed a stamped time, which is exactly where a billing dispute gets ugly. 1 6 7 8

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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 Agency Owner

They name the EuGH and BAG rulings and the minimum-wage documentation rules with automatic storage and overtime accounts, which is the floor a German shop needs. We found no public information on break handling, rest-period or daily-maximum checks, or change history that would survive an inspection. 6 8

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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 Agency Owner

Vacation requests with one-click approval, a holiday calculator, sickness and time-off-in-lieu that draws down the overtime account, plus a shift planner with automatic shifts and weekly templates — that covers the basics. We found no public information on carry-over, per-location holiday calendars or substitution and swap workflows. 2 1 7 10

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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 Agency Owner

Minute-precise allocation to customers, projects and activities with a two-click export by project or customer gives me the skeleton my billing runs on. But we found no public information on rate cards, a billable flag, budget warnings or an invoice-ready handoff into an accounting system — the parts that turn recorded time into money — so my team would still re-key into invoicing. 6 7 8

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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 Agency Owner

A licensed DATEV partnership with a direct interface, absence exports by Excel or that interface, surcharges named in the Pro package and automatic overtime accounts means the month reaches payroll without retyping. We found no public information on a lock or approval step before transmission, or on handling of mid-month changes. 6 7 8 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 Agency Owner

A German contracting entity in the Munich commercial register, servers stated to be exclusively in Germany, and a processing agreement concluded automatically with the terms are the basics I want for client data. Ownership is unknown, actual data residency is not confirmed beyond that statement, and the subprocessor chain includes processors from the US, which is where my exposure would sit. 3 1 5

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Pricing transparency

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 Agency Owner

Headline prices of 1,50 €, 2 € and 3 € per user per month "ab" with annual billing, VAT treatment stated, and the shift planner priced separately at from 2 € is a decent start. But every figure is a starting price and the vendor offers to calculate an individual price on request, so I cannot compute the real annual invoice for my headcount from the public pages. 2 6 10

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 5 Report an error

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Sources (10)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.crewmeister.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing www.crewmeister.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Imprint www.crewmeister.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Privacy policy www.crewmeister.com Checked 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Security / trust page crewmeister.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap crewmeister.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap crewmeister.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap crewmeister.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap crewmeister.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap crewmeister.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →