# TimeLog — Time Tracking & Attendance

TimeLog by TimeLog Systems A/S holds a panel rating of 2/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2.5/5), as of 2026-10-15. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: TimeLog Systems A/S (https://www.timelog.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/timelog
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timelog/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timelog/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: TimeLog Systems A/S
- 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

TimeLog, from TimeLog Systems A/S, scored highest on project and billing at 8–9: rates applied by client, project, person and role, one-click invoicing with approval flows, budgets that update automatically with real-time early warnings, and finance connections to e-conomic, Visma and Fortnox. Payroll export follows at 6–8 on an automatically generated DATEV Lohn und Gehalt file carrying project time, absence, flex, expenses and mileage, plus single-entry payroll connections including Lessor Payroll. The weakest scores are pricing transparency at 0–1 — a Growth plan's features are public, but no price, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment is — and working time law at 1–2, with no public information on break rules, daily-hour limits, rest periods or retention. Time capture scored 3–4, a desk-and-road toolset. Judges spread on absence and planning, 2 to 4: higher scores credited holiday, sickness and flex recording that reaches payroll; lower scores weighed duty rostering, entitlement and carry-over, on which the judges found no public information. Sovereignty scored 1–3; no sovereignty attributes are on record.

**Speaks for it:**
- Project and billing scored 8–9, the bench's highest, on rates by client, project, person and role, automatic budget updates with real-time early warnings, and one-click invoicing with approval flows.
- Payroll export scored 6–8 on an automatically generated DATEV Lohn und Gehalt file carrying project time, absence, flex, expenses and mileage.
- Named single-entry payroll connections include Lessor Payroll for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Hogia Lön+, Zenegy, Crona, DataLøn, Danløn and Fortnox Lön.
- Finance connections to e-conomic, Visma and Fortnox are published, alongside custom integrations and APIs.
- Capture suits desk and road staff: mobile and desktop apps, a task stopwatch, Outlook calendar conversion, minute-level tracking, camera receipts and mileage via Google or Apple Maps.

**Held against it:**
- Pricing transparency scored 0–1: a Growth plan's features are listed, but the bench found no public information on any price, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment.
- Working time law scored 1–2, with no public information on break rules, daily-hour limits, rest periods, retention or guidance tying the product to the German recording duty.
- Sovereignty scored 1–3 and no sovereignty attributes are on record; the judges found no public information on hosting region, data-centre provider or a subprocessor list.
- Time capture scored 3–4, with no public information on offline capture, shared terminals or badge check-in for shift crews, or a correction-and-approval workflow for time entries.
- Absence and planning scored 2–4, and the planning on show is project capacity, with no public information on duty rosters, automatic entitlement, carry-over or absence approval.

**Best for:**
- You run a project-driven agency or consultancy billing at rates set per client, project, person and role.
- You close the month by turning time, expense and mileage registrations into invoices in one step, with approval flows and revenue recognition.
- You hand payroll to a tax adviser through DATEV Lohn und Gehalt, or run Lessor Payroll, and want single entry with no re-typing.
- Your staff are desk-based or travelling consultants who can register time on mobile, desktop, a task stopwatch or Outlook.

**Avoid if:**
- You must evidence compliance with the German working-time recording duty — the judges found no public information on break rules, daily-hour limits, rest periods or retention.
- You run shift or field crews needing shared terminals, badge check-in, offline capture or duty rosters with rest checks.
- You need to cost the product before talking to sales — every figure sits behind a sales conversation.
- Your works council or data-protection officer requires documented hosting region, contracting entity and subprocessors before approving an attendance tool.

## 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 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Working-time law & audit record | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Absence & shift planning | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 |
| Project, cost-centre & billing | 4.5/5 | 4.5/5 | 4/5 | 4.5/5 | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| Payroll handoff | 3.5/5 | 4/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3.5/5 | 3/5 |
| European sovereignty | 1/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **2/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** | **2.5/5** | **2/5** | **1.5/5** |

### 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**
- Isae certifications: ISAE 3000 GDPR · ISAE 3402 · yes [S7]

**Data**
- Privacy policy: yes [S3]
- Terms and privacy links: Security & GDPR · Terms & Conditions · Data protection & Privacy Policy [S5]

**Integrations**
- Accounting: yes [S2]
- Custom APIs: Custom integrations and APIs support the invoicing process [S4]
- Economics: Integration mit e-conomic (Kundenstimme) [S3]
- Finance systems: most · 15 · yes [S4]
- Finance systems: yes · e-conomic · Visma · Fortnox [S5]
- Lessor data transferred: project time · flex · sickness · holiday · employee-paid expenses · mileage settlement [S7]
- Lessor no manual entry: no [S7]
- Lessor payroll purpose: efficient payroll processing · Lessor Payroll for Microsoft Dynamics NAV [S7]
- Lessor setup: enabled via TimeLog system administration under integrations [S7]
- Lessor single entry: yes [S7]
- Other payroll named: Hogia Lön+, Zenegy, Crona, DataLøn, Danløn, Fortnox Lön listed as payroll integrations [S7]
- Payroll: yes [S2]

**Legal**
- Address: Frederiksberg · Lindevangs Allé 12, 2. · DK [S3]
- Address: Frederiksberg · Lindevangs Allé 12, 2. · DK-2000 [S6]
- Entity: TimeLog A/S [S1]
- Entity: TimeLog A/S · 2026 [S2]
- Entity: TimeLog A/S [S3]
- Entity: TimeLog A/S · DK [S6]
- Entity: TimeLog A/S [S5]

**Pricing**
- Datev addon free: 0 · TimeLog Growth [S6]
- Free trial: 14 · yes [S1]
- Trial: 14 [S5]
- Trial 14 days: 14 [S2]
- Trial 30 days: 30 [S2]

**Product**
- Absence flex: yes [S2]
- AI early signals: yes [S1]
- AI insights: KI-gestützte Einblicke mit proaktiven Empfehlungen [S3]
- API services: yes [S1]
- Approval flows: Simple approval flows for invoices [S4]
- Billing automation: Automatische Umwandlung erfasster Stunden in Rechnungen [S3]
- Company track record: 25 [S1]
- Cross platform: mobile · desktop · yes [S2]
- Datev auto file generation: TimeLog automatically generates a matching file with all relevant data for export to DATEV [S6]
- Datev file import: File integration imports recorded work and absence times from TimeLog directly into DATEV [S6]
- Datev integration purpose: TimeLog integrates with DATEV Lohn und Gehalt to streamline payroll and time registration processes [S6]
- Datev supported data types: absence · expenses · mileage · flex · project time [S6]
- Expenses: yes · yes · yes [S2]
- Experience years: 25 [S3]
- Growth plan features: Time and expense tracking · Project budgeting & forecasting · Resource planning · Project margins & financial visibility · Revenue recognition · Automated invoicing [S1]
- Intelligent hourly rates: yes · client · project · person · role [S5]
- Invoice approvals: FAQ covers invoice approvals (answer not shown) [S5]
- Invoice potential overview: Common overview of invoice potential; produce invoices for the entire month [S4]
- Invoice templates: Invoice templates can be assigned to customers or projects [S4]
- Invoice to vouchers: Invoice potential to booked invoices or vouchers [S4]
- Invoicing finance connection: TimeLog connects project data to the finance system for faster, more accurate billing [S5]
- Live revenue tracking: yes [S5]
- Mileage tracking: yes · Google Maps · Apple Maps · yes [S2]
- Minute level tracking: yes [S2]
- Mobile tracking: Mobile time tracking app TimeLog Mobile for employees on the go [S2]
- Modules: Zeiterfassung · Projektmanagement · Ressourcenplanung · Einblicke und Berichte · Rechnungsstellung und Finanzen · Personal- und Lohnverwaltung [S3]
- Multi currency billing: yes [S5]
- Multi legal entity: yes [S5]
- One click invoicing: One Click Invoicing turns invoice potential into booked invoices across customers and projects [S4]
- One click invoicing: yes [S5]
- Prepaid fixed tandm mixing: FAQ covers mixing prepaid hours, fixed price and time & material on one project (answer not shown) [S5]
- Registrations to invoices: Time, expense and mileage registrations can be turned into invoices automatically [S4]
- Reported results: 20-30 [S3]
- Reports dashboards: Berichte und Dashboards in Echtzeit [S3]
- Resource planning: Ressourcenplanung mit Echtzeit-Workload-Transparenz [S3]
- Startup workshop: Customised start-up workshop [S4]
- Status page: yes [S1]
- Survey source: Kundenergebnisse basieren auf TimeLog pNPS Umfrage 2025 [S3]
- Swipe timesheet close: yes [S2]
- Time entry methods: Mobile App · Aufgaben-Stoppuhr · Outlook-Integration [S3]
- Time savings claim: Users on average free up one workday per month invoicing [S4]
- Time tracking: Zeiterfassung zur Erfassung abrechenbarer Stunden [S3]
- Time tracking flexibility: Every employee can register time as they prefer [S6]
- Wip revenue recognition: FAQ covers WIP and revenue recognition tracking (answer not shown) [S5]

**Support**
- Datev help center guide: Customer Success · Help Center [S6]
- Implementation consultants: yes [S2]
- Lessor contact customer success: Customer Success contact [S7]
- Office hours: Monday to Friday · 09.00 AM–03.00 PM CET [S3]
- Office hours: Monday to Friday · weekends · Danish bank holidays · 09.00 AM–03.00 PM [S6]
- Onboarding: Onboarding includes implementation package and Growth specialist [S4]
- Onboarding materials: yes [S2]
- Onboarding workshop: yes [S2]
- Online support: interactive guide · in-product help · Help Center [S4]
- Support guarantee: Support and advice to guarantee full utilisation of the system [S2]

## Questions

### Is TimeLog European?

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

### Where does TimeLog store data?

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

### Does TimeLog have a free plan?

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

### What are the best alternatives to TimeLog?

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: [TimeLog alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/time-tracking/timelog/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 22 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.
- 21 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 support 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.
- 4 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.
- 2 pricing 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.
- 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://www.timelog.com (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S2] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/en/product/time-tracking-app (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S3] Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/de/produkt/zeiterfassung (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S4] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/en/product/one-click-invoicing (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S5] Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/en/product/invoicing (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S6] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/de/aps-integrationen/datev-lohn-und-gehalt/ (checked 2026-10-13)
- [S7] Payroll handoff — found from sitemap: https://timelog.com/en/integrations/lessor-payroll/ (checked 2026-10-13)

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

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