Time Tracking & Attendance
Hubstaff
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Hubstaff at a glance
- Vendor
- Hubstaff
- Headquarters
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- Data hosting
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- Free plan
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- Panel verdict
- The AI panel rates Hubstaff 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. Hubstaff scores highest on project and billing at 7-8: per-person bill rates, hour and budget limits with real-time over-budget alerts, and invoices generated from tracked time with locked line items that cannot be billed twice. how scores are made
- As of
- Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources
Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The panel's verdict
Hubstaff scores highest on project and billing at 7-8: per-person bill rates, hour and budget limits with real-time over-budget alerts, and invoices generated from tracked time with locked line items that cannot be billed twice. Payroll export follows at 5-6 on seven payment gateways, timesheet approvals on by default and a locked date range, though exports are PDF and CSV and we found no public information on DATEV or any German payroll system. Time capture and absence and planning score 4, working time law 3: rostering is real, but published legal guidance is US state overtime law, and we found no public information on the German recording duty or rest-period checks. Weakest are sovereignty and pricing transparency at 0-1: the pages state customer data is retained in the United States, with certification under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, with Netsoft Holdings, LLC as the contracting entity; beyond a 14-day trial with no credit card required and a one-time $100 credit, no per-user price, billing period or VAT treatment is published. No notable disagreements were computed.
Speaks for it
- Desktop, web, mobile and browser apps with geofences that automatically start and stop tracking around job sites
- Invoices generate automatically from tracked time at per-person bill rates, and locked line items cannot be added to two invoices
- Hour and budget limits fire real-time over-budget alerts when a project is at risk of overrun
- Timesheet approvals are enabled by default and lock the date range from further edits before payroll runs
- Scheduling offers recurring shifts, minimum hours, grace periods and four attendance statuses, from the Team plan and up
Held against it
- The vendor's pages state that customer data is retained in the United States with certification under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the contracting entity is Netsoft Holdings, LLC
- We found no public information on per-user prices, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment for any plan, and the only dollar figure published is a one-time $100 integration credit
- The published legal guidance covers US state overtime law, and we found no public information on the German recording duty, daily maximum or rest-period checks, or a retention period
- Timesheet exports are PDF and CSV, and we found no public information on DATEV or any German payroll system, or on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges
- We found no public information on offline capture, a shared kiosk or terminal, or bulk corrections with a change history
Best for
- You bill clients from tracked hours and need budgets, alerts and locked invoice lines that flow from time to invoice without re-entry
- You pay your team through named gateways such as Wise, PayPal, Payoneer, Bitwage, Deel, Gusto or Remote and want approved, locked timesheets behind each run
- You roster teams with recurring shifts and attendance statuses and compare scheduled against worked hours
- Your field crews record time on their own devices at geofenced job sites
Avoid if
- Your requirements call for data retention inside the EU — the vendor's own pages state that customer data is retained in the United States
- Your payroll run depends on a German payroll system or on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges — the documented handoffs are payment and HRIS platforms such as Deel, Gusto and Remote, with PDF and CSV exports
- You must compute an annual invoice from public pricing — the pages publish trial terms, plan gating and a one-time $100 credit, and steer larger deployments to a demo call
- Your crews need shared terminals or offline capture — the documented capture paths run on personal desktop, mobile and browser apps with geofenced auto start and stop
The scores
| Criterion | Panel median |
|---|---|
| Capture in the real workplace | 2 of 5 |
| Working-time law & audit record | 1.5 of 5 |
| Absence & shift planning | 2 of 5 |
| Project, cost-centre & billing | 4 of 5 |
| Payroll handoff | 3 of 5 |
| European sovereignty | 0.5 of 5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0 of 5 |
Capture in the real workplace
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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.
The Operations Lead
Desktop, web and mobile apps cover the desk, and geofenced auto clock-in with GPS and route visibility is genuinely built for my field crews. But we found no public information on offline capture or a shared kiosk or terminal, which is what my workshop floor needs where a personal phone per fitter is not the reality — so it sits between the anchors rather than reaching the shared-terminal tier. 1 3 4 10 12
The Payroll Officer
Apps cover Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android and the browser, with GPS and geofenced automatic start/stop plus reminders for field crews, and approvals that lock the recorded day. But I found no public information on a shared kiosk or terminal for site crews, on offline capture that syncs, or on bulk corrections with a named who-changed-what trail — editing happens in the timesheets view and the approval trail carries the weight. Several capture paths, yes, but none of them shared or offline. 1 2 3 4 11 12
The Works Council Advocate
Desktop, mobile and browser apps plus geofenced GPS start and stop give desk and field crews several ways to record, and timesheets can be edited, approved and then locked. But every capture path runs on the employee's own device — with background tracking on Android — and we found no public information on a shared terminal, on offline capture, or on bulk correction with a change history. As the body that co-determines monitoring, I note that GPS and background location are marketed as features with no stated storage limits. 1 2 3 4 11 12
The Agency Owner
Desktop, web, mobile and browser apps are all there, and geofences that automatically start and stop the timer with reminders cover field crews properly. Timesheets can be edited and approvals lock the date range before payroll runs, which is a real workflow rather than an admin chore. We found no public information on shared terminals, offline capture that syncs, or bulk corrections with an audit trail naming who changed what. 1 3 4 11 12
The Field Supervisor
Desktop, web, phone and Chrome apps, with GPS and geofenced auto start/stop around job sites and location-based clock-ins, is a genuine field story, and timesheet approvals with the date range locked after sign-off are a real workflow. But we found no public information on offline capture or on any shared terminal or kiosk, and that is the whole question on a site with no signal — the mobile apps are presented as always connected, which in my world means Friday's memory entry. 1 3 4 2 12
The Skeptic
Desktop, web and mobile apps plus GPS and geofences that auto-start and auto-stop tracking around job sites cover desk and field staff, and timesheet approvals with a date-range lock give a correction workflow rather than an admin chore. But the captured pages show no kiosk, terminal or badge as a shared capture point, and we found no public information on offline capture that syncs, or on bulk correction with an attributable change history. 1 3 4 12 2
Working-time law & audit record
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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.
The Operations Lead
Overtime limits and automatic overtime tracking exist, and break and time-off policies can be managed, but the published guidance is all US state overtime law. We found no public information on daily maximum or rest-period checks, a retention period, or any mapping to the German recording duty after the BAG ruling, so the record as evidenced would not survive my inspection regime. 5 12 2 3
The Payroll Officer
Breaks appear as a payroll policy alongside overtime limits, and the vendor's own guidance is US state overtime law — I found no public information on daily maximum or 11-hour rest checks, on a stated retention period, or on any mapping to the German recording duty. An approval trail and audit logs are a start, but a record that cannot show rest enforcement and retention will not survive an inspection. 2 5 12
The Works Council Advocate
Break, time-off and overtime policies are configurable, and timesheets carry an approval trail and a lock. But the vendor's own guidance is US state overtime law, and we found no public information on the German recording duty, daily maximum or rest-period checks, a retention period, or tamper-evident change history — for a record that must survive a German inspection, that is decisive. 2 5 7 12
The Agency Owner
Overtime is tracked automatically with configurable limits, breaks sit among the payroll policies, and every timesheet carries an approval trail backed by audit logs. But the vendor's own guidance runs to US state overtime and California law — we found no public information on the German recording duty, rest-period checks, daily maximums, or a retention period an inspector would ask for. 2 5 7 12
The Field Supervisor
Break and overtime policies exist, overtime limits are configurable, and timesheets carry a full approval trail, but every legal guide on the pages is American — state overtime law, California, travel pay — and we found no public information on daily maximum warnings, eleven-hour rest checks, a retention period or an export built for inspection. For the German recording duty that leaves a record that sums time and shows limits, with nothing evidencing it would survive being looked at by an auditor. 5 12 2
The Skeptic
Overtime limits, automatic overtime tracking and payroll policies covering work breaks exist, but every legal guide on the overtime page is US state law — California overtime, not the ArbZG. We found no public information on the 8/10-hour daily maxima, the 11-hour rest period, a retention period for the records, or any mapping of features to the German recording duty. 5 12 2
Absence & shift planning
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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.
The Operations Lead
Shift planning is real, not a stub: recurring shifts, timezone handling, minimum hours, grace periods, attendance statuses, and a calendar that filters by holidays, time offs and teams, plus a schedule-versus-hours-worked comparison. We found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement and carry-over, sickness handling, or substitution and swap workflows, which keeps it below the full anchor. 7 8 3
The Payroll Officer
Shift creation with recurring patterns, timezones, minimum hours and grace periods, a calendar that filters by scheduled shifts, time offs and holidays, and attendance statuses of On Time, Late, Missed and Abandoned — the roster half is genuinely there. I found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement and carry-over, sickness recording, per-location public-holiday calendars, or swap and substitution workflows; absence here is a request to track, not an entitlement engine. 3 7 8
The Works Council Advocate
Recurring shifts with minimum hours and grace periods, four attendance statuses, an absence-aware calendar with holiday and time-off filters, and a schedule-versus-worked comparison are all documented. We found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement or carry-over, on sickness recording, or on substitution and swap workflows — the roster half is real, the absence half is a calendar entry. 7 8
The Agency Owner
Recurring shifts with minimum hours, grace periods and attendance statuses, plus a calendar that filters by holidays and time off, mean the rostering half is genuinely built, and the schedule-versus-worked-hours comparison is what a team lead acts on. We found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording, or substitution and swap workflows. 3 7 8 12
The Field Supervisor
Shift creation with recurring patterns, grace periods and the four attendance statuses, a calendar that filters holidays and time off, and schedule-versus-worked-hours comparison add up to a workable roster. But we found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording, or swap and substitution workflows — the foreman still sorts coverage by phone. 7 8 3
The Skeptic
Shift creation with recurring patterns, minimum hours, four attendance statuses and a calendar filtering holidays and time off is genuine rostering, not just a request queue, and it sits on the Team plan and up. But we found no public information on automatic vacation entitlement or carry-over, sickness recording, substitution and swap workflows, or coverage warnings before a schedule is published. 7 8 3
Project, cost-centre & billing
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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.
The Operations Lead
Client, project and task tracking with bill rates, hour and budget limits with alerts, invoices generated straight from tracked time, and line-item locking so an hour cannot be billed twice — approval before billing and named QuickBooks and FreshBooks handoffs are all on the pages. We found no public information on a cost-centre dimension or how a rate change mid-project is handled, which is what holds it at the strong-but-not-complete level. 2 3 9 10 12
The Payroll Officer
Internal and client work stay separated, bill rates sit on team members, non-billable time is a toggle, budgets alert before overrun, and invoices are generated from tracked time with locked lines that cannot be billed twice — approval before billing and client payment via PayPal included. I found no public information on cost centres or role-based rate cards, which is what keeps the allocation one level short of the full structure a professional-services firm bills from. 1 2 3 9 10
The Works Council Advocate
Client, project and task dimensions, per-person bill rates, hour and budget limits with over-budget alerts, and invoices generated from tracked time with locked line items, expenses and recurring terms are all evidenced, alongside QuickBooks and FreshBooks export. We found no public information on cost centres or role-based rate cards, which keeps this below the top band. 1 3 9 10
The Agency Owner
This is the part I would buy: bill rates per team member, hour and budget limits with real-time over-budget alerts, invoices auto-generated from tracked time with locked hours that cannot be billed twice, and time export into QuickBooks and FreshBooks. The gaps are cost centres, role-based rate cards, and any statement on whether a rate change mid-project re-prices or preserves earlier hours — we found no public information on those. 1 2 3 9 10 12
The Field Supervisor
Client, project and task structure with bill rates, hour and budget limits with alerts, and invoices generated straight from tracked time — with locked time that cannot land on two invoices — means time reaches the invoice without re-entry, plus an export into QuickBooks and FreshBooks. We found no public information on cost centres as their own dimension or on role-based rate cards, which is what keeps it short of the top. 1 9 10 2
The Skeptic
Projects and tasks carry a bill rate per member, hour and budget limits fire real-time over-budget alerts, and tracked time becomes invoice line items that lock so they cannot be billed twice, with a maintained export to QuickBooks and FreshBooks. We found no public information on cost centres as a dimension, rate cards by role, or how a rate change mid-project is handled. 9 10 1 2 12
Payroll handoff
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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.
The Operations Lead
Named maintained integrations (Gusto, Deel, Remote plus a QuickBooks export), policies for overtime, bonuses and deductions, and a genuine approval-then-lock step before payment are all evidenced. But for a German payroll we found no public information on DATEV or any Lohn und Gehalt system, nor on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges — the month would leave as PDF or CSV for my tax adviser to retype. 12 10 11
The Payroll Officer
The month reaches named systems — Deel, Gusto and Remote as HRIS syncs, QuickBooks for time — and timesheet approvals lock the date range before anything is paid, which is more than a bare export. But I found no public information on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, no DATEV or Lohn und Gehalt is named, the generic path is a CSV timesheet, and corrections arriving after the close are not addressed; that earns the named-integration level and no more. 8 10 11 12
The Works Council Advocate
Pay periods, hourly and fixed pay types, default timesheet approval before payment, and a documented calculate-and-export path plus named integrations with Gusto, Deel and Remote cover hours, overtime and time off. Every named system is a payment or HRIS platform, though, and we found no public information on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges or on any German payroll format — a German payroll office would still retype the month. 10 11 12
The Agency Owner
Named gateways (Wise, PayPal, Payoneer, Bitwage, Deel, Gusto, Remote), an export of payment calculations for paying outside the system, approvals switched on by default, and payroll locked until setup is confirmed give a genuine lock step before transmission. The timesheet export itself is PDF or CSV, and we found no public information on DATEV or any German payroll format, or on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges. 10 11 12
The Field Supervisor
Named integrations — Gusto, Deel, Remote, plus Wise, PayPal, Payoneer and Bitwage — with timesheet approval, a setup lock and a lock on edited hours before payment, and a calculate-and-export path for paying outside the system. But we found no public information on DATEV or any German payroll system, and nothing on night, Sunday or holiday surcharges, so for Lohn und Gehalt the month would still be rebuilt by hand. 12 11 10
The Skeptic
Named gateways (Gusto, Deel, Remote among seven), a Calculate & Export path for paying outside the tool, timesheet approvals on by default and a lock of the date range after approval give a real handoff with a lock step. But we found no public information on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, time accounts, retro corrections after the close, or any German payroll system such as DATEV — the export formats named are PDF and CSV. 12 11 10
European sovereignty
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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.
The Operations Lead
The captured pages state customer data is retained in the United States, the contracting entity is Netsoft Holdings, LLC, and certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework is claimed alongside SOC 2 Type II. We found no public information on EU or DACH hosting, an EU contracting entity, or a published subprocessor list, which from my side of the table is a non-EU stack end to end. 2 8 11
The Payroll Officer
The contracting entity is Netsoft Holdings, LLC and the captured pages state that customer data is retained in the United States, with GDPR compliance and the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework offered as the stated safeguards. I found no public information on an EU hosting option, a named data-centre provider, or any subprocessor list — for a payroll record that means data leaving the EEA on assumptions. 2 8 11
The Works Council Advocate
The captured pages state that customer data is retained in the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and the contracting entity is Netsoft Holdings LLC, and we found no public information naming subprocessors. GPS locations, screenshots and app-URL histories of colleagues would therefore sit outside the EU with an unnamed processor chain — that matches the bottom band, with slight credit for stating the residency openly rather than leaving it unstated. 2 8 11
The Agency Owner
The vendor states that customer data is retained in the United States under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the contracting entity named on the pages is Netsoft Holdings, LLC. We found no public information on an EU hosting option or any subprocessor list — for German employee time data that is a conversation with legal before anything else. 2 8 11
The Field Supervisor
The captured pages state customer data is retained in the United States under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and the contracting entity named is Netsoft Holdings, LLC; we found no public information on any EU hosting option or on a published subprocessor list. US-hosted working hours with an unevidenced processor chain is not a package I can put in front of a works council. 2 8
The Skeptic
The vendor's own page states customer data is retained in the United States, the contracting entity is Netsoft Holdings, LLC, and the only transfer safeguard named is the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework — a shield, not a home. We found no public information on any EU hosting option or on a subprocessor list, so a European buyer is sending the working-time record of their workforce across the Atlantic on trust. 2 8 11
Pricing transparency
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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.
The Operations Lead
We found no public prices at all — no per-user figure, no billing period, no minimum term and no VAT treatment anywhere on the captured pages. Plan gating is stated (schedules and payroll from the Team plan, invoicing on Team and Enterprise) and a 14-day no-card trial is clear, but for 200 heads I cannot compute even a rough annual invoice. 4 7 9 12
The Payroll Officer
I found no public information on per-user prices, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment — the pages carry a 14-day trial without credit card, plan names such as Team and Enterprise gating invoicing and payroll, and a one-time $100 integration credit. A buyer cannot compute the annual invoice for their headcount from what is published. 4 9 12
The Works Council Advocate
Only the trial terms — 14 days, no credit card — and a one-time $100 credit for first-time payment-integration users are priced on the captured pages. Plan names like Team and Enterprise appear without any per-user price, billing period, VAT treatment or minimum, and larger deployments are steered to a demo call, so a buyer cannot compute an annual invoice from public information. 4 8 10 12
The Agency Owner
We found no public information on prices for any plan — not per-user rates, not the billing period, not VAT treatment. What is public is a 14-day trial without credit card, which features sit on which plan, and a one-time $100 credit, and none of it lets me compute an annual invoice for forty people. 4 8 9 12
The Field Supervisor
A 14-day trial with no credit card required and notes on which plan unlocks scheduling, payroll and invoicing are the only pricing information captured; we found no public information on per-user prices, billing period, minimum terms or hardware costs. I cannot compute what a crew of twenty costs me per year from what is published, so the annual invoice stays a sales conversation. 4 7 9 12
The Skeptic
The captured pages name plans — invoicing on Team and Enterprise, payroll and scheduling on Team and up — and offer a 14-day trial without credit card, but we found no public information on per-user prices, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment for any tier. A buyer cannot compute so much as one month's invoice from what is published; the only figure anywhere is a one-time $100 integration credit. 4 9 12 7
European sovereignty — proven facts
0 of 4 dimensions provenBuilt only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
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| Ownership | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
| Data residency | Not determined ⚠ unverified | — | uncited Report an error |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | uncited Report an error |
Questions about Hubstaff
Is Hubstaff European?
Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Hubstaff is based.
Where does Hubstaff store data?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.
Does Hubstaff have a free plan?
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.
What are the best alternatives to Hubstaff?
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: Hubstaff alternatives.
Where this could be wrong
- Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 20 Oct 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
- Weak sourcing — Data residency. Not confirmed on the vendor’s own pages as captured.
- AI can misread a source. Extraction and judgement are automated; a citation guarantees traceability, not infallibility. If something here is wrong, say so — no account needed, every report is decided within 5 business days, and accepted corrections are published.
What we left out
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- 15 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. Know more? Tell us
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 legal fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 pricing fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown. Know more? Tell us
Sources (12)
The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.
- 1 Vendor page hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 2 Security / trust page — found from the homepage hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 5 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 6 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap support.hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 7 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap support.hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 8 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 9 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap support.hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 10 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 11 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap support.hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
- 12 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap support.hubstaff.com Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →