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Kelio

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by Bodet Software (Groupe Bodet) · kelio.com

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Vendor
Bodet Software (Groupe Bodet)
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Kelio 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. 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. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Works Council Advocate

Weighted verdict

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.

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Scored by The Works Council Advocate

Panel median The Works Council Advocate 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 Works Council Advocate
Capture in the real workplace 3.5 of 5 3 of 5
Working-time law & audit record 2 of 5 2 of 5
Absence & shift planning 3 of 5 3 of 5
Project, cost-centre & billing 3 of 5 3 of 5
Payroll handoff 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 1 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 Works Council Advocate

The hardware story is genuinely strong: terminals built by the vendor itself, events stored when an outage occurs, standalone synchronisation by USB, and a virtual terminal on workstation, smartphone or touchscreen with real-time and retrospective declaration modes configurable per employee. But geolocating mobile staff "to check that their declarations are accurate" is marketed as verification, and I found no public information on what the location data stores, who can read an individual's day, or whether the tracking can be switched off — the same platform also lets managers "view people's movements" and "track everyone present", which is a system that watches more than it measures. I also found no public information on a correction workflow showing who changed a time entry and why, so the capture paths are first-class while the answers a works council needs before approval are absent. 1 2 3

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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 Works Council Advocate

Breaks are tracked, fixed-rate executives can declare their statutory rest periods, and the pages mention "integrated alerts to guarantee legal and internal compliance" and "secured archiving of HR data in case of audits" — but I found no public information on the German recording duty, ArbZG daily-maximum or rest-period checks, or any stated retention period. Change traceability is documented for absences only, and I found no public information on tamper-evidence or change history for the time entries themselves. A record I cannot see surviving an inspection is a record I cannot recommend approving. 2 4 5

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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 Works Council Advocate

Absence is clearly the vendor's home ground: entitlement calculated automatically from contract, collective agreement and seniority, remaining leave carried over, multi-stage configurable approval paths, return-to-work rules, overlap and negative-balance alerts, and a team calendar showing whether shifts, projects and service times are covered. Sickness and absences reconcile against the time record for a complete planned-versus-actual picture. I found no public information on substitution or swap workflows, qualification checks on rosters, or public-holiday calendars per location. 4 5 6

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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 Works Council Advocate

Time lands on the project ledger: three-level activity clocking, activities and cost centres, hours per project, client or assignment, per-project reports on total hours, overtime and breaks, and a budget-versus-actual comparison to steer projects proactively. Automatic cost calculations per task, project or client, plus totals written back to the named ERP Exact, give a genuine allocation path. I found no public information on rates, a billable flag or an invoice-ready export, so the billing half rests on the ERP handoff alone. 2 3 6

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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 Works Council Advocate

More than 160 payroll packages are named as reachable through Kelio Paylink, with payroll variables and employee data transferred automatically as ASCII files with no re-entry, email or FTP channels for outsourced payroll, rights configurable per person, and monthly statements extractable for payroll processing. The captured pages give a count rather than a single named German provider such as DATEV. I found no public information on night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, a lock and approval step before transmission, or retro handling after the close. 4 6 8

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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 Works Council Advocate

The sovereignty record came back empty: I found no public information on hosting region, contracting entity or subprocessors, so where our employees' time data would live is not documented on these pages. What is visible is national colour — terminals made in France, a group presence across Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and the United Kingdom, and a mention of the French data protection authority CNIL — which is reassurance of origin, not a documented data path. For a body that co-determines time recording, a data path known only by inference is not something we can approve. 3 5

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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 Works Council Advocate

Not a single price appears in the captured material; every path on these pages leads to a free, no-obligation demonstration or a personal demonstration request. I found no public information on tiers, per-user rates, terminal hardware costs, modules or minimum terms. A buyer cannot compute an annual invoice from these pages, and a works council cannot weigh the cost of what it is being asked to approve. 1 6

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Questions about Kelio

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), 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: Kelio alternatives.

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Sources (8)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page kelio.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.kelio.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.kelio.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.kelio.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.kelio.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.kelio.nl Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.kelio.co.uk Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.kelio.ch Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →