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Everhour

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Everhour at a glance

Vendor
Everhour
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
Free plan
Yes, per the vendor’s own page source, captured 20 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Everhour 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. Everhour, a time-tracking and attendance product, is strongest at project and billing and weakest at sovereignty and pricing transparency, where the only public terms are a 14-day free trial with no credit card. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

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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

Panel median The Skeptic This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Skeptic
Capture in the real workplace 2 of 5 2 of 5
Working-time law & audit record 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Absence & shift planning 2 of 5 2 of 5
Project, cost-centre & billing 4.5 of 5 4.5 of 5
Payroll handoff 2 of 5 1.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 0.5 of 5

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

Timer paths run browser, desktop, mobile and Apple Watch, with fix-a-bad-entry edits and a real approve, reject or partially-approve workflow before time is used, plus a visible change history on clock-ins, clock-outs and breaks. What I cannot see is capture for a site or shop floor: I found no public information on hardware terminals, badge readers, kiosks, or GPS and geofenced check-in, and the offline story sits on a content page about offline timesheet apps that calls a free offline timesheet "enough for a short period away from the main system" — advice, not a product mode. "Turn any device into a time clock" is the closest thing to a shared capture point, and it lives on the Shifts pages, which carry their own legal terms. 1 2 3 4 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 Skeptic

The only working-time law on the captured pages is US federal FLSA — the 40-hour week, the 684 $ per week salary test, two-to-three-year record retention — written in German on a calculator page and explicitly presented as general information, not a product compliance claim. On the German recording duty, the 8/10-hour daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period and statutory retention of time records I found no public information at all; breaks appear only as a flat "first clock-in to last clock-out minus breaks" calculation, and the seven-day application-log retention and 30-day backup window describe operations, not a record built to be inspected. 2 4 5 11 12

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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

The rostering half is real — schedules with templates and recurrence, open shifts workers can claim, swaps and drops, availability and time-off requests funnelled into an admin inbox, scheduled-versus-actual totals — but all of it sits in "Shifts by Everhour", which has its own legal terms and an FAQ "Is Shifts free?" whose answer the captured text does not show. On the absence half I found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording or per-location public-holiday calendars, and no rest-period or qualification check before a roster publishes — only availability conflict warnings. 2 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

This is where the product earns its keep: billable flags, cost versus billable rates kept separate, per-person defaults with per-project overrides, and dated rate history so an approved month keeps its original rates after a rate change. Budgets alert at 75, 90 and 100 percent and can stop logging outright, invoices build from uninvoiced time while excluding non-billable work, and time must pass approve, reject or partially-approve review "before payroll or billing use", then flows to QuickBooks Online, Xero or FreshBooks with status synced back. No cost-centre dimension appears in the captured pages, which is what keeps this below the top. 1 6 9 10 12

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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

The month leaves as CSV, Excel/XLSX or PDF exports, or through "Full API access" into unnamed payroll, accounting or billing systems — I found no public information naming DATEV, Lohn und Gehalt or any payroll provider, and the page's own line that "a payroll system should flag time already exported" is framed as what such a system should do, not as a stated capability. Night, Sunday and holiday surcharges appear only in a free overtime calculator with time-and-a-half and double-time multipliers, US-style. Approve, reject and lock before export is genuinely present, but locking a file is not a payroll handoff. 1 6 7 11 12

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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

Hosting is AWS in two regions — Oregon (USA) and Frankfurt (Germany) — with data "replicated across these two regions for redundancy", so US processing is part of the standard setup rather than an option a buyer can decline. The contracting entity's jurisdiction, ownership and the subprocessor chain beyond AWS and S3 are unconfirmed on the vendor's own captured pages, and the SOC 2 report is downloadable from the host's compliance manager — the host's assurance, not the vendor's. 2

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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

The only commercial facts are a 14-day free trial, no credit card, cancel anytime, and sign-up with Google; I found no public per-user price, no plan names with figures, no billing period, no minimum seats, no hardware or module pricing — even whether Shifts is free is asked in an FAQ whose answer the captured text does not show. A buyer cannot compute even a rough annual invoice from these pages. 1 7 11 12

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 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 Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

Questions about Everhour

Is Everhour European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Everhour is based.

Where does Everhour store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does Everhour have a free plan?

Yes. Everhour has a free plan, per the vendor’s page captured 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Everhour?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates TimeTac (3.5/5), clockodo (3/5) and ZEP (3/5) highest among the other 25 Time Tracking & Attendance 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 TimeTac (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Everhour alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (12)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Security / trust page — found from the homepage everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap everhour.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →