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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by Timeular GmbH · timeular.com

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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.

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

Scored by The Works Council Advocate

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 vendor lists five capture methods — terminal, app, PC, tracker, NFC — and documents offline capture as a designed state in the desktop app, complete with sync notifications and conflict resolution when offline entries overlap online ones. The same help pages state offline capture is currently unavailable in the mobile app, however, and we found no public information on a correction workflow with approval or any record of who changed what. The homepage also sells automatic tracking of apps and documents as "100% private" while saying nothing about what is actually stored or who can read an individual's day — exactly the sentence I would need answered before any works agreement. 1 2 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 Works Council Advocate

What is documented is a time-account: overtime calculated on working hours or total time tracked, compensated by pay-out, time off in lieu or carry-over, adjusted only by Owners/Admins with a mandatory note. Around the ArbZG itself we found no public information — nothing on break handling, the 8/10-hour daily maximum, the 11-hour rest period or a retention period — and the line "All legal requirements in the DACH region fulfilled" is marketing copy that maps no feature to any statute. A time entry can be deleted from the mobile app with a confirmation, and we found no public information on change history or tamper-evidence, so I could not co-sign this record for an inspection. 2 3 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

Leave is genuinely built in: typed entries with per-user quotas, a pending/approved workflow reserved to Owners/Admins, workspace-wide company and public holidays, and working hours automatically reduced when a full-workday leave is booked. Quotas default to unlimited and are entered by hand rather than calculated, carry-over appears only as time-off-in-lieu balances adjusted in days, and we found no public information on sickness recording or on any shift and duty rostering. Absence yes, planning no. 5 6 7

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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

Entries carry a billable flag, are filterable by folder, activity, tag, member and billable status, and time budgets with percentage- and time-based alerts monitor client and project profitability — that is real per-project reporting. We found no public information on rates or rate cards, no cost-centre dimension, and the documented exports are column-selectable CSV, XLSX and PDF rather than anything invoice-ready. The "3000+ tools" integrations claim names no accounting or invoicing system. 1 8 10

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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

The only payroll statement is that "payroll-relevant data is prepared exactly as payroll needs it", while the documented path is a general export to CSV, XLSX or PDF with selectable columns and time-format options — a file someone else maps by hand. We found no named payroll system such as DATEV, no defined payroll format, and no public information on night, Sunday or holiday surcharges. Pay-out exists as one of three overtime compensation types, which is a balance concept, not a transmission. 2 5 10

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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

EU server location and ISO 27001 certification appear in homepage marketing copy, with no contractual terms establishing whether the EU location is the default for every customer, and we found no public information on the data-centre provider. We found no public information on subprocessors, ownership or the contracting entity's jurisdiction, and the captured pages run under three names — Timeular, EARLY and TimeTac — with new sign-ups directed to TimeTac, so who the data-processing party actually is remains open. For a works council that must know who can read an employee's day, this is thin ground. 1 2

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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

We found no public price at all — no per-user rate, no billing period, no minimum term, no VAT treatment — so a buyer cannot compute any invoice for any headcount. What is published is a 30-day trial with no obligation and no credit card, plus the words "No hidden costs", while plan names surface only indirectly through feature scopes such as one budget on the Personal plan and up to 50 on Personal Pro or Team. 2 8

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency EU only ⚠ unverified 3/3 pts 2 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

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Sources (10)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page timeular.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Imprint — found from the homepage early.app Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Working-time law & audit record — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Payroll handoff — found from sitemap support.early.app Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →