# Kelio — Time Tracking & Attendance

Kelio by Bodet Software (Groupe Bodet) holds a panel rating of 3/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: Bodet Software (Groupe Bodet) (https://kelio.com)
- Category: [Time Tracking & Attendance](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/kelio
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/kelio/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/kelio/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-15 · oldest source captured 2026-10-13

**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: Bodet Software (Groupe Bodet)
- 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

Kelio, Bodet Software's time tracking and attendance suite, is strongest at time capture, scored 6 to 8: in-house-manufactured terminals rated IP65 and IK08 operate from -15°C to 50°C, store events through an outage, sync standalone via USB, and allow per-employee real-time or retrospective declaration from PC or smartphone. Absence and planning follows at a uniform 6, with entitlement calculated automatically from contract, collective agreement and seniority, multi-level approvals and a coverage team calendar. The floor is working time law at 4 — compliance alerts are generic and the pages give no public information on the German recording duty or on daily-maximum, rest-period and retention rules — alongside sovereignty at 2-3, where we found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors; terminals made in France and a CNIL mention are origin signals, not a documented data path. Payroll export and project and billing sit at 5-6, held back by unnamed payroll systems and no public rate or invoice detail. No substantive disagreements were computed. Prices are not published; the only commercial step is a free, no-obligation demonstration.

**Speaks for it:**
- Terminals designed and manufactured in-house, rated IP65 and IK08 for -15°C to 50°C environments, store events during outages and sync standalone via USB.
- Real-time or retrospective declaration is configurable per employee across PC, smartphone and touchscreen, with smartphone badging and geolocated clocking for mobile staff.
- Leave entitlement and remaining leave calculate automatically from contract, collective agreement and seniority, with configurable multi-level approvals and a team calendar showing shift, project and service-time coverage.
- Kelio Paylink transfers variable payroll items and employee data automatically to more than 160 payroll packages with no re-entry, over email or FTP for outsourced payroll.
- Optional three-level activity clocking with cost centres feeds per-project reporting of hours, overtime and break times, with totals written back to the named ERP Exact.

**Held against it:**
- Working time law scores a uniform 4: alerts are generic and we found no public information on the German recording duty, daily-maximum or rest-period checks, or a retention period.
- Sovereignty scores 2-3: we found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors, with terminals made in France and a CNIL mention as origin signals only.
- Traceability with time-stamped history is documented for absences only; we found no public information on a correction workflow or audit trail for time entries.
- None of the more than 160 compatible payroll systems is named, and we found no public information on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges or a lock step before transmission.
- We found no public information on rate cards, a billable flag or an invoice-ready export, so the billing half rests on the Exact handoff.

**Best for:**
- You run mixed site, office and mobile crews and need hardware rated for cold rooms, 50°C heat and high-pressure cleaning that keeps capturing through outages.
- Your heaviest administrative load is absence management, with entitlement driven by contract, collective agreement and seniority and multi-level approvals to route.
- You already create projects in Exact and want hours clocked in Kelio to flow back as project totals.
- You hand payroll to an external bureau or in-house team and want an automatic export with no re-entry.

**Avoid if:**
- You must demonstrate German working-time compliance to an inspector — ask the vendor: the public pages we read do not show it
- You bill time directly out of the recording tool and need rates, a billable flag or an invoice-ready export before committing.
- Your works council must approve employee monitoring before rollout: geolocation is marketed to check that declarations are accurate, and we found no public information on who reads location data or on its limits.

## 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 Operations Lead | The Payroll Officer | The Works Council Advocate | The Agency Owner | The Field Supervisor | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capture in the real workplace | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 |
| Working-time law & audit record | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 |
| Absence & shift planning | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Project, cost-centre & billing | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 |
| Payroll handoff | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 2.5/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Pricing transparency | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r | n/r |
| **Weighted verdict** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2.5/5** | **3/5** | **3/5** | **2.5/5** |

### The judges

- **The Operations Lead** (v1.0): Runs a 200-person operation with office, workshop and field staff, and has to record all of them since the BAG ruling. Wants capture that fits each of those groups and a roster that reflects reality. Unmoved by a beautiful desktop timer that half the workforce cannot use.
- **The Payroll Officer** (v1.0): Turns the recorded month into an payroll run and answers for it. Cares about surcharges for night, Sunday and holiday work, time accounts that reconcile, and corrections that arrive after the close. Treats "export to CSV" as an admission that the handoff was never designed.
- **The Works Council Advocate** (v1.0): Has co-determination over how working time is recorded (BetrVG §87 (1) 6) and will not approve a system that watches more than it measures. Asks what GPS actually stores, who can read an individual's day, what is logged and what can be switched off. Reads "productivity insights" as a warning.
- **The Agency Owner** (v1.0): 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.
- **The Field Supervisor** (v1.0): Supervises crews on sites with no reliable signal and no desks. Judges everything by whether it works in a basement at 6am: offline capture, a shared terminal, corrections a foreman can make without a support ticket. A cloud-only app is a tool that will be filled in from memory on Friday.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): 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.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

No sovereignty finding yet.

## Key facts

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

**Compliance**
- GDPR storage: Geschützte Speicherung personenbezogener Daten mit geregelten Zugriffsrechten; Seite wirbt mit DSGVO-KONFORMER SPEICHERUNG [S5]
- ISO certified: yes [S2]
- ISO certified: yes [S3]
- ISO certified: yes [S5]

**Data**
- Audit traceability: yes [S4]
- Payroll export: yes [S4]
- Secured archiving: yes [S4]

**Hosting**
- International presence: Belgium · Germany · Netherlands · Spain · Switzerland · United Kingdom [S1]
- International presence: Belgien · Frankreich · Niederlande · Schweiz · Spanien · Vereinigtes Königreich [S5]

**Integrations**
- Erp interfacing: Interfacing with other HR or ERP tools (FAQ topic) [S1]
- Erp linking: ERP · yes [S6]
- Exact erp flow: project created in Exact, hours clocked in Kelio, totals written back to Exact · Exact [S6]
- Kelio modules: Kelio Tijdregistratie · Kelio Planning [S6]
- Paylink payroll export: 160 · Kelio Paylink · payroll packages [S6]
- Payroll compatible count: >160 [S8]
- Payroll count: 160 [S4]
- Payroll transfer channels: email · ftp [S8]
- Related modules: Zeiterfassung · Zutrittskontrolle · Talentmanagement [S5]

**Legal**
- Address: Boulevard du Cormier - CS 40211, 49302 Cholet Cedex, FRANCE [S1]
- Address: Cholet · FRANCE [S2]
- Address: Westvlietweg 68R, 2495 AA Den Haag, Nederland [S6]
- Company address: Boulevard du Cormier - CS 40211, 49302 Cholet Cedex, FRANCE [S4]
- Company description: HRIS, time & attendance management, payroll and access control software publisher [S2]
- Company group: Bodet-Gruppe · 39 [S5]
- Entity address: 44149 · Dortmund · Wandweg 5 · Deutschland [S5]
- Entity experience: 35 [S6]

**Product**
- Absence request workflow: Digitale Antragstellung (PC oder mobil) mit mehrstufigen, konfigurierbaren Genehmigungswegen [S5]
- Absent view by section: yes [S4]
- Absenteeism reporting: yes [S4]
- Access 24 7: yes [S5]
- Access control capabilities: Time-window/area based access, movement view, presence tracking [S1]
- Access devices: Leave requests, absences, remote working, advocacy hours accessible from PC, smartphone or tablet [S4]
- Access reader: yes [S3]
- Activity clocking: optional [S3]
- Activity cost centre tracking: yes [S2]
- Admin capabilities: Centralised HR data, medical appointments, certifications, onboarding [S1]
- Admin effort claim: 60 [S5]
- Auto notifications: yes [S4]
- Automatic balance calculation: Automatische Berechnung von Urlaubsansprüchen und Resturlaub [S5]
- Automatic cost calculation: task · project · client · yes [S6]
- Automatic leave calculation: yes [S4]
- Break tracking: yes [S2]
- Central database: Zentrale Datenbasis für Urlaube, Fehlzeiten und Resturlaube unternehmensweit [S5]
- Client count: 20000 [S1]
- Clocking options: Clock-in via terminals or software schedule declaration [S1]
- Cloud https: yes · yes [S3]
- Cnil authorisation: yes [S3]
- Comm modes: IP · RS485 OSDP V2 [S3]
- Compliance alerts: yes [S4]
- Continuous updates: yes [S6]
- Custom access rights: yes [S1]
- Customer count: 20000 [S4]
- Customer count: 20000 [S5]
- Customisable workflows: yes [S4]
- Dashboards reports export: dashboards and reports · PDF · Excel [S6]
- Declaration formats: hours start/finish · duration · with or without activities [S2]
- Declaration mode: declaration · yes [S2]
- Demo request: personal non-binding demonstration · yes [S6]
- Detailed analysis reports: yes [S6]
- Digital badge: yes · yes [S3]
- Duress code: yes [S3]
- Employee capacity: unlimited · yes [S3]
- Employee self service: yes [S4]
- External calendar sync: Synchronisation with external calendars (Outlook, Google, etc.) [S4]
- Feature list: Genehmigungsworkflow · Urlaubsberechnung · Vollständigkeit · Teamkalender · Anbindung [S5]
- Feature modules: time tracking · HR management · applicant management · access control [S8]
- Fixed rate executive declaration: yes [S2]
- Geolocation clocking: yes [S2]
- Group validation: yes [S4]
- Hardware manufacturing: Kelio designs and manufactures its own clocking terminals and access readers [S1]
- Hours per project: Track hours per project, client or client assignment [S6]
- HR modules: urenregistratie · toegangscontrole · personeelsplanning · personeelsadministratie · onboarding · selfservice [S6]
- Hris scope: Complete HRIS covering working time monitoring, schedules, absences, remote working and access control [S1]
- Ik08: IK08 [S3]
- Input methods: boekingsterminal · computer · smartphone · tablet [S6]
- Installed on pc: yes [S2]
- International multilanguage: yes · yes [S5]
- Ip65: IP65 · yes [S3]
- Made in france: yes [S3]
- Max operating temp: 50 [S3]
- Min operating temp: -15 [S3]
- Mobile access: yes [S4]
- Mobile clocking: yes [S2]
- Mobile leave management: yes [S2]
- Modes configurable: yes [S2]
- Monthly statements: Monthly statements can be extracted for individual payroll processing [S8]
- Networked capacity: yes · 1000 [S3]
- No training required: yes [S2]
- Notifications: Automatische Benachrichtigungen über offene Genehmigungen [S5]
- Oled screen: OLED · yes [S3]
- Osdp v2: OSDP V2 · MIFARE DESFire badge · Bluetooth/NFC virtual badge · keyboard code · fingerprint [S3]
- Other features: Time and Attendance · Access control · Talent management [S2]
- Overlap alerts: yes [S4]
- Paylink description: Kelio Paylink transfers payroll variables and employee data in a payroll-software-compatible format [S8]
- Paylink multi company: yes [S8]
- Paylink no reentry: yes · yes [S8]
- Paylink rights by person: Configuration by employee typologies (rights management per person) [S8]
- Paylink transfer method: ASCII files · yes [S8]
- Payroll: yes [S1]
- Payroll synchronisation: yes [S4]
- Personal results portal: yes [S2]
- Planned vs actual comparison: planned vs actual hours comparison · yes [S6]
- Planning filters: yes [S4]
- Real time mode: real-time · HR Portal personal area [S2]
- Realtime balance: yes [S4]
- Realtime project insight: yes [S6]
- Reports per project: total worked hours · overtime · break times [S6]
- Rest period declaration: yes [S2]
- Return to work rules: yes [S4]
- Saas available: yes [S2]
- Satisfaction survey: 6500 [S1]
- Scalability: Flexible Erweiterung um Teams, Abteilungen oder Standorte [S5]
- Spec badge types: MIFARE DESFire · Bluetooth/NFC · Electronic Marin Stid [S3]
- Spec battery: yes · 30 [S3]
- Spec comm: yes · http/https TLS 1.2 · TLS 1.3 [S3]
- Spec function keys: 2 [S3]
- Spec power: PoE · 12 VDC · 24 VDC · optional mains adapter [S3]
- Spec relay: bell ringing · 230 V 1 A [S3]
- Standalone mode: yes · yes [S3]
- Ta capabilities: Flexible schedules, overtime, part-time hours management [S1]
- Talent management: yes [S1]
- Team calendar visibility: Teamkalender zeigt Verfügbarkeit für Schichten, Projekte und Servicezeiten [S5]
- Time tracking integration: Kombinierbar mit Zeiterfassung für lückenlose Übersicht geplanter und tatsächlicher Abwesenheiten [S5]
- Toil accounts: TOIL and paid leave accounts [S4]
- Virtual clocking devices: PC/workstation · smartphone · touchscreen terminal [S2]
- Web pc clock entry: web-app · pc · klok [S6]
- Working time models: Teilzeit, individuelle Arbeitszeiten und standortspezifische Vereinbarungen getrennt verwaltbar [S5]
- Xtrem overview: Kelio Xtrem robust clocking terminal for extreme environments [S3]

**Support**
- Channels: BSupport Customer Services and distributors' extranet [S1]
- Channels: Blog · Schulung · Support · Kundendienst BSupport [S5]
- Dedicated contact: yes [S5]
- Demo offer: yes [S1]
- Training: yes [S1]

## Questions

### Is Kelio European?

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

### Where does Kelio store data?

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

### Does Kelio have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to Kelio?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [TimeTac (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timetac), [clockodo (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/clockodo) and [ZEP (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/zep) 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](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timetac) (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: [Kelio alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/kelio/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- We could not confirm any pricing information on the vendor’s own pages as captured, so this page shows none rather than a statement we cannot stand behind.
- 13 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.
- 5 integrations 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.
- 3 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.
- 2 compliance 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 support 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.
- 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 page: https://kelio.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.com/hardware/clocking-in/virtual-clocking-terminal.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.com/hardware/clocking-in/robust-clocking-terminals.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.com/features/workforce-management/leave-absence.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.de/funktionen/zeiterfassung/urlaub-und-fehlzeiten.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.nl/oplossingen/tijdregistratie/order-en-projectregistratie.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.co.uk/our-offering/time-and-attendance/payroll-interface.html (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S8] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://www.kelio.ch/de/features/zeiterfassung/lohnabrechnungsschnittstelle.html (checked 2026-10-13)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Kelio — Time Tracking & Attendance", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/kelio

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