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Mitrefinch

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by Mitrefinch Ltd · www.mitrefinch.com

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Mitrefinch at a glance

Vendor
Mitrefinch Ltd
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Mitrefinch 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Mitrefinch, acquired by OneAdvanced, sells a cloud-based Time and Attendance product scoped as time tracking, absence management and rostering, alongside its own HMRC-recognised payroll. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 4 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Operations Lead

Weighted verdict

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.

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Scored by The Operations Lead

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 — Not a time-recording tool; working time cannot be captured in the product.

3 — Clocking in and out or a timer in the browser or an app, with manual entries; offline use, shared terminals and corrections are basic or not described.

5 — Web and mobile apps for clocking in and out, a shared kiosk, terminal or badge option or offline capture that syncs, and corrections requested by the employee and approved by a manager.

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 Operations Lead

The captured page names a cloud-based Time and Attendance product with time tracking, so working time can be recorded in principle. But it describes no capture path at all: we found no public information on mobile apps, terminals, kiosks or badges for workshop and field crews, offline handling, or how corrections are requested and approved. 1

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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 — A project or task timer that keeps no attendance record of working time (start, end, breaks).

3 — Start, end and break times recorded per day with a working-time report per employee; ArbZG checks and retention are basic or not described.

5 — Start, end and breaks recorded for the recording duty (BAG 2022 or ArbZG named), automatic break rules, warnings on the daily maximum or the rest period, and overtime balances.

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, a change log on entries, 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 Operations Lead

This is sold as Time and Attendance software, which is an attendance product rather than a task timer, but the page stops at the category name. We found no public information on the German recording duty, break and rest rules, retention, overtime balances or an inspection-ready export; the only compliance reference on the page is HMRC recognition on the payroll side, a UK tax matter. 1

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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 — Neither absence handling nor shift planning is part of the product.

3 — Vacation requests with approval and an absence calendar, or a basic shift plan; entitlement rules and rostering are basic or not described.

5 — Absence management with entitlement balances, sickness recording and an absence calendar, plus shift or duty planning with templates or employee availability.

8 — Public-holiday calendars per location, pro-rata entitlement and carry-over, 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 Operations Lead

Absence management and rostering are both named alongside time tracking as what the software simplifies, which covers the halves of attendance at name level. Everything I need to run 200 people is undocumented: we found no public information on entitlement balances, sickness handling, holiday calendars, substitution or swap workflows, or rest-aware shift templates. 1

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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; the product records time without any project, task or cost-centre dimension.

3 — Time booked to projects or clients with a report per project; rates and billable status are basic or not described.

5 — Projects and tasks with a billable flag, hourly rates, reports per project and client, and an export or integration toward invoicing.

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 Operations Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on project, cost-centre, billable status or client-reporting capabilities. The captured page names time tracking, absence management and rostering plus a payroll product, and says nothing about projects, clients or billing, so no level on this criterion can be judged from what was read. 1

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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 — Payroll is outside the product: it records client or project time only and prepares nothing for payroll.

3 — An export (CSV, Excel or PDF) of hours and absences for the payroll office; named formats and surcharges are basic or not described.

5 — A named payroll integration or a documented export format for at least one major system (e.g. DATEV LODAS/Lohn und Gehalt), 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 Operations Lead

Payroll exists as the vendor's own HMRC-recognised product with automated pay cycles, payslip access and pay rate control, which suggests the month can be paid inside one vendor's suite rather than retyped into a third party. We found no public information on how time records actually flow into that payroll, on DATEV or any German payroll format, or on surcharges, time accounts and lock steps before transmission. 1

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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. Dimensions not proven either way are unknown, not non-European.

0 — Vendor, contracting entity and hosting shown to be outside the EU, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist and one European element is proven (an EU contracting entity or representative, or EU hosting as an option); the rest of the chain is not stated.

5 — An EU contracting entity and EU hosting stated, with a data processing agreement; the subprocessor list is not published in full or includes non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, the full subprocessor list published with locations, 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 Operations Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on where the data is hosted, the contracting entity, a data processing agreement, or the subprocessor chain; no sovereignty facts were established in either direction. The one corporate fact is the acquisition by OneAdvanced, and the captured page does not state where that group or its data centres sit. 1

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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 public "from" price per user or one priced tier; how cost scales with modules, hardware or minimum seats is unclear.

5 — Per-user prices public for the main tiers with the billing period stated and the main inclusions given; some pieces (terminal hardware, planning module, payroll export) may be unpriced.

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 Operations Lead not rated — no public information

We found no public information on pricing: the captured page gives no figures, tiers or terms and routes buyers to consultants and a demo. From what was read, an annual invoice for a 200-person mixed workforce cannot be computed from anything public. 1

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Questions about Mitrefinch

Is Mitrefinch European?

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

Where does Mitrefinch store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does Mitrefinch have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Mitrefinch?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates TimeTac (3.5/5), clockodo (3/5) and GFOS (3/5) highest among the other 27 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: Mitrefinch alternatives.

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