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Time Tracking & Attendance

TimeCamp

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

by Time Camp sp. z o.o. · www.timecamp.com

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The panel's verdict

TimeCamp is a time tracker whose published strengths are billing and price clarity. Project and billing scores run 5-6, built on custom billing rates per user or project, a billable/non-billable split, invoicing inside the system and a timesheet approval module. Pricing transparency scores run 5-6: Starter at $3.99/mo per user billed annually or $5.49 month-to-month, Premium at $6.99 or $9.99, Ultimate at $9.99 or $13.99, plus a free plan and a 14-day trial with no credit card required. The floor is attendance: absence and planning scores cluster at 0, no vacation, sickness or roster handling appearing on the captured pages; working time law runs 0-1, the compliance references shown being GDPR, HIPAA and DCAA; payroll export runs 0-2, its only outputs an Excel report export and a general data export. Time capture clusters at 4 — web, Windows/Mac/Linux desktop and offline sync — with no public information on mobile or kiosk check-in. Judges sit close; the widest ranges, payroll export and sovereignty, reflect different weights on Enterprise self-hosting and private cloud against differing corporate names and no published subprocessor list.

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Speaks for it

  • Public per-user prices for Starter, Premium and Ultimate with both billing periods stated, plus a free plan and a 14-day trial with no credit card required
  • Client invoicing, custom billing rates per user or project and a billable/non-billable split are built into the system
  • Desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, a web app and an offline mode that syncs on reconnect
  • Timesheets pass through a manager approval module before use
  • The Enterprise tier lists self-hosted deployment and private cloud hosting, and AI features are said to run on the customer's own infrastructure

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Held against it

  • Absence and planning scores cluster at 0, with no vacation, sickness or shift-roster handling on the captured pages
  • Working time law scores run 0-1, with no break rules, rest periods, retention or German recording-duty references appearing and the compliance mentions being GDPR, HIPAA and DCAA
  • Payroll export scores span 0-2, the only outputs shown being an Excel report export and a general data export with no named payroll system or format
  • The captured pages give different figures for the contracting entity — Time Camp sp. z o.o. in the vendor line, 'TimeCamp. Inc.' in the copyright — while hosting region and subprocessor list are unevidenced
  • The AI Time Tracker is 'billed by token usage' with no rate published and Enterprise is 'On Request', so those annual costs are not computable from public pages

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Best for

  • You run a desk-based agency or professional-services team that bills clients on time and wants rates, invoicing and approvals in one tool
  • You want to price the product yourself, with per-user rates public for three tiers, a free plan and a 14-day trial with no credit card required
  • Your staff track at desks and laptops, where Windows, Mac and Linux apps and an offline mode that syncs on reconnect cover the work
  • You need self-hosted deployment or private cloud hosting and are prepared to take the Enterprise tier priced 'On Request'

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Avoid if

  • You must satisfy the German working-time recording duty, with break and rest enforcement, retention periods and inspection-ready records
  • Your payroll run needs a named payroll system or defined export format rather than a spreadsheet someone retypes
  • You manage field, shift or deskless crews who would clock in on a mobile app, shared kiosk or GPS check-in
  • You need vacation requests, sickness recording or shift rosters alongside the time record

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The scores

Capture in the real workplace

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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 Operations Lead

The web app, desktop clients for Windows, Mac and Linux, and an offline mode that keeps tracking and syncs once back online cover my desk staff, and a timesheet approval module gives managers control over submitted entries. For the workshop and field half of my workforce I found no public information on a mobile app, a shared kiosk or badge terminal, or GPS check-in, and a desktop timer those crews cannot reach is worth little to me. 1

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The Payroll Officer

Web, desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, offline tracking that syncs on reconnect, and a timesheet approval module give desk staff a workable path. I found no public information on a mobile app, a shared terminal or kiosk for site crews, or GPS and geofenced check-in, so capture beyond the desk is unevidenced. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

Web app, desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, and offline tracking that syncs on reconnect are confirmed, and timesheets carry an approval module — but I found no public information on a mobile app, a shared terminal, geofenced check-in, or who stands behind each correction. For field and shift crews that is still a desk-centred picture. The automatic app and website tracking, the background AI agent that fills timesheets, and screenshots that an administrator can switch on make me ask what else the capture watches, not just what it measures. 1

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The Agency Owner

Web app, a desktop client for Windows, Mac and Linux, and offline tracking that re-syncs are evidenced, plus a timesheet approval module for managers — but we found no public information on a mobile app, a kiosk or badge terminal, GPS or geofenced check-in, or any audit trail of corrections. Fine for my desk staff; nothing shown for field or shift crews. 1

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The Field Supervisor

Web, Windows/Mac/Linux desktop apps and a stated offline mode that syncs once the connection returns — that part passes the 6am basement test for anyone carrying a laptop. But I found no public information on a mobile app, a shared kiosk or terminal a crew clocks in on together, or GPS check-in, and the correction story stops at a timesheet approval module with nothing published on bulk fixes or who changed what. 1

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The Skeptic

A web app, desktop apps for Windows, Mac and Linux, and an offline mode that keeps tracking and syncs when back online are all stated, plus a timesheet approval module — but we found no public information on a mobile app, a shared kiosk or terminal, GPS or geofenced check-in, or bulk corrections with an audit trail. The AI agent's zero-touch logging is a desk-worker story; nothing shown addresses deskless or field crews. Offline as a designed behaviour and manager approval put this above the basic tier, but the missing capture paths hold it well short of the top. 1

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Working-time law & audit record

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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 Operations Lead

I found no public information on break handling, the daily maximum, rest periods, retention or any mapping to the German recording duty; the only compliance regimes named are HIPAA and DCAA, which are American and serve nothing under ArbZG. GDPR compliance is claimed, but that says nothing about break and rest enforcement or a record that survives a German inspection. 1

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The Payroll Officer

Nothing captured addresses the German recording duty: no break rules, no daily maximum or rest-period checks, no retention statement, and no per-employee report framed for an inspection. The compliance mentions are security certifications plus HIPAA and DCAA pages, which are not working-time law. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

Nothing captured addresses the German recording duty or the Working Time Act: I found no public information on break rules, daily maximum or rest-period checks, retention periods, or an export built for an inspection. The GDPR, HIPAA and DCAA references speak to a privacy posture, not to working-time law. A timesheet approval module alone does not make the record evidence. 1

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The Agency Owner

A GDPR-compliance claim and a security page are the only compliance facts evidenced; we found no public information on break rules, daily maximum or rest-period warnings, retention periods, or anything aimed at the German recording duty. For a shop billing German clients this is a floor I'd have to build elsewhere. 1

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The Field Supervisor

The captured pages give me nothing on German recording duty: I found no public information on break rules, daily maximum or rest-period checks, retention, or an export built for an inspection — the compliance talk points at HIPAA and DCAA instead. GDPR compliance is claimed, but that is the whole of it. 1

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The Skeptic

The security page says the product "meets the highest security and data privacy requirements" and lists HIPAA and DCAA — US frameworks — while we found no public information on break rules, warnings on the 8/10-hour daily maximum or the 11-hour rest period, a retention period for the record, or any reference to the German recording duty. Not even a conformity claim is made for German working-time law; the GDPR badge is privacy, not ArbZG. Timesheet approvals are the only structural feature shown that an inspector would recognise, and they are not enough. 1

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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.

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The Operations Lead

I found no public information on vacation requests, entitlement or carry-over, sickness recording, public-holiday calendars or any shift rostering. As these pages show it, the entire absence half of attendance lives somewhere else. 1

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The Payroll Officer

I found no public information on vacation requests or entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording, holiday calendars or any shift roster. Without absence handling and planning, the recorded month cannot be reconciled against who was actually supposed to work. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

I found no public information on vacation requests or entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording, public-holiday calendars or any shift roster. Vacation and absence would have to live in some other system entirely, which means the attendance data means less than it should. 1

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The Agency Owner

We found no public information on vacation requests, entitlement or carry-over, sickness recording, an absence calendar, or any shift rostering. There is nothing here to evaluate the second half of attendance at all. 1

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The Field Supervisor

I found no public information on vacation requests, entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording or any shift roster — the captured pages describe a time tracker and leave the other half of attendance entirely unaddressed. For a crew that runs on a duty roster, there is nothing here to buy. 1

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The Skeptic

We found no public information on vacation requests or entitlement, carry-over, sickness recording, public-holiday calendars, or any shift or duty roster — nothing absence-related appears on the captured pages at any tier. The integrations shown reach Asana, Trello and Jira, which plan work but not absences or coverage. Per the published anchors, a wholly unevidenced capability scores at the bottom. 1

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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.

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The Operations Lead

Billing rates per user or project, the separation of billable and non-billable hours and invoicing clients inside the system are all evidenced, so recorded time can reach an invoice without re-entry. I found no public information on cost centres, budget tracking with warnings or rate cards by role, which is what jobs in my workshop would demand. 1

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The Payroll Officer

Billable and non-billable hours are separated, billing rates per user or project are configurable, invoicing happens inside the product, and submitted timesheets pass an approval module. No multi-level client and cost-centre structure, budget tracking or role-based rate cards appear in the captures, so agency-grade allocation is not evidenced. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

Billing rates per user or per project, a clean separation of billable from non-billable hours, invoicing inside the product, and a timesheet approval step before use are all confirmed, which covers a serviceable core for an agency. I found no public information on cost centres, budget tracking with warnings, or a maintained handoff into named accounting systems. 1

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The Agency Owner

Custom billing rates per user or project, billable versus non-billable separation, client invoicing built into the system, timesheet approvals, Excel export and nine named project-management integrations are all evidenced. But we found no public information on budget tracking with warnings, cost centres, or a handoff into named accounting systems — and the overrun warning before it happens is exactly what I live on. 1

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The Field Supervisor

Billable and non-billable hours are separated, billing rates can sit per user or per project, and clients are invoiced inside the system — a real billing path rather than a Friday retype. I found no public information on cost centres, budget tracking with warnings, role-based rate cards or client-facing reports. 1

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The Skeptic

Custom billing rates per user or project, a billable/non-billable separation, invoicing inside the system, Excel report export and a BigQuery pipeline are all stated, and the cheapest paid tier is literally named "Time & Billing". We found no public information on cost centres, budget tracking with warnings, or rate cards by role, and no named handoff into an accounting or invoicing system. In-system invoicing exceeds a mere export, but the professional-services chain stops before multi-level allocation. 1

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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.

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The Operations Lead

The documented path is an Excel report export and a data export on the top tier, and I found no public information on DATEV or any named payroll format, surcharge handling or a lock step before transmission. For my month that means a spreadsheet someone retypes into whatever the tax adviser uses. 1

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The Payroll Officer

No payroll path is stated: no named system, no defined format, no night, Sunday or holiday surcharges, no time accounts and no lock step. What exists is an Excel report export on the Starter tier and a generic data export on Ultimate, which is a spreadsheet someone retypes. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

I found no public information on any payroll path — no named payroll system, no documented export format, no night, Sunday or holiday surcharge handling. An Excel report export and a general data export exist, but that leaves the month to be retyped, and no lock step before transmission is evidenced. 1

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The Agency Owner

Only a generic Excel report export and a data export on the top tier are evidenced; we found no public information on any named payroll system, a defined payroll format, surcharge handling or a lock step. As far as the captured pages show, the month leaves as a spreadsheet someone retypes. 1

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The Field Supervisor

The month leaves as an Excel report or a general data export, and that is the whole payroll path: I found no public information on a named payroll system, a defined format, or night/Sunday/holiday surcharges. Someone retypes it. 1

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The Skeptic

We found no public information on any payroll path — no DATEV, no Lohn und Gehalt, no named payroll system, not even a generic CSV said to be usable for payroll; the integrations shown are project-management and BI tools. No surcharge, time-account or lock handling appears anywhere. The only month-end output shown is the Excel report export, which is exactly the spreadsheet-someone-retypes situation the lowest anchor describes. 1

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European sovereignty panel opinion

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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.

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The Operations Lead

No sovereignty attributes are on record: hosting region unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and I found no public information on data-centre certification. The captured pages give different figures for the contracting entity — a Polish sp. z o.o. as vendor, an Inc. in the copyright line — and the one documented mitigation is the Enterprise self-hosted and private-cloud option. 1

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The Payroll Officer

The vendor record and the site copyright give different figures for the contracting entity, the vendor line reading Time Camp sp. z o.o. and the copyright reading TimeCamp. Inc. Hosting region is unstated, no data-centre provider is named and no subprocessor list is published; a bare GDPR-compliant flag alongside HIPAA and DCAA pages is not a posture a German buyer can contract on. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

The captured pages give different figures for the contracting entity — a Polish limited-liability company in the vendor line against "TimeCamp. Inc." in the copyright — while no hosting region is stated and no subprocessor list is published. The Enterprise self-hosted and private-cloud options, and AI features running on the customer's own infrastructure, are the only real sovereignty levers I can confirm. 1

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The Agency Owner

The captured pages give different figures for the contracting entity — the vendor line reads Time Camp sp. z o.o. while the site copyright reads TimeCamp. Inc. — and we found no public information on hosting region or subprocessors beyond a GDPR-compliance claim. Below what I'd want to sign before putting German client data in it. 1

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The Field Supervisor

GDPR compliance is claimed and the Enterprise tier offers self-hosted deployment and private cloud hosting, which a buyer with hard requirements can lean on. But the captured pages give different names for the entity — a Polish sp. z o.o. in the vendor line, 'TimeCamp. Inc.' in the copyright — and I found no public information on hosting region, data-centre provider or any subprocessor list. 1

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The Skeptic

The vendor line names a Polish limited company while the page footer reads "Copyright © 2026 TimeCamp. Inc." — two different corporate suffixes, and the pages do not say which entity contracts; hosting region, data-centre provider and subprocessor list are all unevidenced and no sovereignty attributes were independently sourced. GDPR compliance appears as a badge claim, the AI features are said to run on the customer's own infrastructure, and a self-hosted/private-cloud option exists — but only in the Enterprise tier priced "On Request". An apparently European entity plus a self-hosting option lifts this just off the floor; nothing is documented. 1

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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.

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The Operations Lead

Per-user prices are public with the billing period stated for three tiers — Starter "$ 3.99 /mo per user billed annually or $5.49 month-to-month" — plus a free plan and a 14-day trial without a card. But the AI tracker is "billed by token usage" with no number, Enterprise is "On Request", and I found no public information on VAT treatment or a minimum term, so the real annual invoice is not computable. 1

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The Payroll Officer

Four tiers are priced per user with both billing periods quoted, alongside a free plan and a 14-day trial with no credit card. The Enterprise tier is on request, the AI time tracker is billed by token usage, and VAT treatment is unstated, so a full annual invoice still cannot be computed from public pages. 1

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The Works Council Advocate

Three paid tiers and the free plan carry public per-user prices with both the monthly and annual figures stated, so a buyer can do the arithmetic for their headcount. Enterprise is "on request" and the AI tracker is billed by token usage with no number attached; I found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum contract term. 1

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The Agency Owner

Four tiers carry public per-user prices with both the annual and month-to-month figures stated, plus a free plan and a no-credit-card trial — I can nearly compute my annual line. But the AI time tracker is "billed by token usage" with no public rate, Enterprise is "On Request", and we found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum term. 1

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The Field Supervisor

Starter, Premium and Ultimate carry public per-user prices in USD with the annual and month-to-month split stated, plus a free plan, so a buyer can price most of the headcount. But Enterprise sits at 'On Request', the AI tracker is 'billed by token usage' with no rate published, and I found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum term. 1

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The Skeptic

Four tiers are publicly priced with both billing periods stated — Starter at $ 3.99 /mo per user billed annually or $5.49 month-to-month, Premium at $ 6.99 /mo or $9.99, Ultimate at $ 9.99 /mo or $13.99, and a free plan with unlimited users — so the SaaS arithmetic for a headcount is computable. But the AI Time Tracker is "billed by token usage" with no rate published, Enterprise is "On Request", and we found no public information on VAT treatment or minimum contract term. A buyer wanting the AI features or the self-hosted option cannot compute the annual invoice from public pages. 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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What we left out

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Sources (13)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.timecamp.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.timecamp.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security / trust page — found from the homepage www.timecamp.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap help.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap help.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap help.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap help.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap www.timecamp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →