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Panel rating · 6 judges · How to read the stars

Category median

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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Softworks Workforce Management Solutions Ltd · www.softworks.com

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Payroll Officer

Weighted verdict

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.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Payroll Officer

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 Payroll Officer

Biometrics, proximity devices, digital clock terminals, geofenced mobile access and honour-based timesheets for salaried and off-site staff give me several real capture paths, and an edited timesheet lands on a manager for approval before it counts. But we found no public information on offline capture when the network drops, on the stated limits of the geofencing, or on bulk correction with attribution of who changed what. 1 3 4

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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 Payroll Officer

The pages claim minimum rest periods, mandatory break times, maximum weekly working hours, overtime rules and audit trails under the European Working Time Directive, which is more than a flat break deduction. But everything is generic EU-level language: we found no public information on the German recording duty, daily maximum-hour warnings, a stated retention period, or an export built for an inspection. 1 3 6 7

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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 Payroll Officer

Accruals computed from length of service, hours worked and company policies, Bradford Factor reporting, return-to-work handling, shift swaps pre-checked against skills before manager approval, demand forecasting with over- and understaffing alerts, and gaps filled automatically by SMS to qualified colleagues — planning and recording clearly live in one system. What holds it back: we found no public information on public-holiday calendars per location or rest-period checks at the moment a roster is published. 1 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 Payroll Officer

Time, activity, budget and cost per project with work breakdown structure, dependencies, critical path and actual-versus-budgeted-hours reports is real allocation work. But we found no public information on a billable flag, rate cards by person or role, or an invoice-ready output — the reporting stops at reports that can be "exported for further analysis", which is where re-entry begins. 7 8 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 — 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 Payroll Officer

"Direct integration with Payroll" with no system named is a promise, not a handoff; the pieces I need before a run exist — digital sign-off verifying clockings, premium rates and overtime rules costed into rosters, absences tied to time and attendance. But we found no public information on a named provider or documented format, a lock step before transmission, or handling of corrections that arrive after the close. 1 5 6 3

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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 Payroll Officer

GDPR compliance and ISO 27001 are claimed and an on-premise deployment option is offered, which is more than nothing. But we found no public information on where cloud data is held, the jurisdiction of the contracting entity, or a single named subprocessor — and the office list spanning Canada and the USA raises exactly the question the captured pages leave unanswered. 1 6 7

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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 Payroll Officer

Not one figure appears anywhere on the captured pages: a pay-as-you-use cloud subscription and named modules such as Task Management, Time Clock Integration and Predictive Scheduling, all unpriced, with no billing period or minimum stated. The annual invoice for a given headcount is a sales conversation, and I cannot budget what I cannot compute. 6 1

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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.

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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 www.softworks.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Legal notice — found from the homepage www.softworks.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →