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by Stopline Pty Ltd · www.stopline.com.au

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Stopline at a glance

Vendor
Stopline Pty Ltd
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Stopline 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Stopline Pty Ltd, an Australian external whistleblower hotline founded in 2001, earns its strongest marks on reporting channels: a flat 7 — 7 — for intake spanning 24/7/365 freecall lines answered by trained investigators, QR-code entry without an app install, end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing, mail, a National Relay Service, and an anonymous form with optional two-way dialog; judges found no public information on language coverage, which holds the score below the top band. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Compliance Officer

Weighted verdict

Runs the internal reporting office of a 600-employee company and answers for every missed statutory clock. Optimizes for case discipline: automated acknowledgment and feedback deadlines, role separation, documentation that survives a regulator. Rejects inbox-with-a-form products that make the deadlines her problem.

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Scored by The Compliance Officer

Panel median The Compliance Officer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Compliance Officer
Reporting channels & reporter experience 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Case management & deadline discipline 2 of 5 2 of 5
Legal compliance alignment 2 of 5 1.5 of 5
Security & anonymity assurance 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Group & multi-entity capability 1 of 5 1.5 of 5
European sovereignty 0 of 5 0 of 5

Reporting channels & reporter experience

How this is scored

The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.

0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.

3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.

5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.

8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.

10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.

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The Compliance Officer

Intake is engineered well beyond a form: an anonymous online report with optional two-way communication, a 24/7/365 freecall line answered by trained investigators, QR entry points with no app install, end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing, mail, and a National Relay Service for hearing-impaired reporters, all mobile-responsive. What holds it back is what I cannot see: we found no public information on language coverage or translation support, and none on how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself. 2 3

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Case management & deadline discipline

How this is scored

The case worker's side: triage, statutory deadlines (7-day acknowledgment, 3-month feedback), role separation, audit-proof documentation.

0 — Reports land in an inbox; deadlines, roles and history live in a spreadsheet next door.

3 — A case list with status fields, but deadlines are manual, permissions are all-or-nothing, and the record of who did what is thin.

5 — Deadline tracking with reminders for the statutory clocks, case notes and attachments, basic role separation between case handlers; reporting on the caseload is limited.

8 — Automated statutory clocks, conflict-of-interest handling (excluding implicated case handlers), complete tamper-evident case history, retention and deletion rules applied per case, and management reporting.

10 — A case system an external investigator can rely on: enforced workflows, full audit trail, legally aware retention/deletion automation, evidence handling, and statistics that survive a regulator's questions.

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The Compliance Officer

The pages show configurable investigation tracking and escalation, designated officers per case, role-based access for governance, risk, HR and executive teams, and Power BI dashboards with trend analysis and exportable reports — more discipline than a status list, and caseload reporting better than basic. But the statutory clocks are my problem until proven otherwise: we found no public information on automated acknowledgment and feedback deadlines, conflict-of-interest exclusion of implicated handlers, tamper-evident case history, or per-case retention and deletion rules. 2 3

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Legal compliance alignment

How this is scored

How specifically the product implements EU Directive 2019/1937 and national transpositions (HinSchG et al.) — not whether the marketing mentions them.

0 — Generic feedback software wearing a whistleblowing label; no reference to the legal obligations it claims to satisfy.

3 — The directive is invoked in marketing but the mapping is vague; deadline rules, documentation duties and retention periods are the customer's problem.

5 — The statutory duties are implemented as product features — acknowledgment and feedback clocks, documentation, deletion after the retention period — for at least one national law, with guidance for the rest.

8 — Multiple national transpositions supported with their differing details, legal templates and process guidance maintained by named counsel or documented review, and updates when the law moves.

10 — The product is a legal instrument: per-country rule sets kept current, documented legal review, guidance for edge cases (group-wide channels, external ombudsman setups), and the vendor shows its homework in public.

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The Compliance Officer

The pages name their law and show some homework — the Corporations Act, Public Interest Disclosure frameworks and WHS obligations, plus the published company-size tests and the 1 January 2020 policy deadline for public companies. For an EU-obligated buyer the picture is empty: we found no public information on EU Directive 2019/1937 or any national transposition, and none on statutory clocks, documentation duties or retention periods implemented as product features rather than service promises. 2 3

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Security & anonymity assurance

How this is scored

Whether the confidentiality promise is engineered and evidenced: encryption, metadata handling, penetration tests, certifications.

0 — Security is a paragraph of adjectives; no certificates, no test reports, no statement on metadata.

3 — TLS and encryption at rest asserted, but nothing audited: no ISO 27001 or equivalent, no published pentest, silence on IP and metadata logging.

5 — A current ISO 27001 (or equivalent) certificate for vendor or hosting, end-to-end encryption of report content claimed with some technical detail, an explicit no-IP-logging statement.

8 — Certified ISMS covering the product, regular third-party penetration tests attested, documented end-to-end encryption architecture, metadata minimization explained, security contact and disclosure policy published.

10 — Assurance a hostile auditor accepts: current certificates with visible scope, recurring pentest summaries public, cryptographic architecture documented, anonymity analysed against the operator itself — the vendor can answer "how would you unmask a reporter?" with "we cannot, and here is why".

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The Compliance Officer

Encryption is asserted in named places — end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing, a secure online form — but the assurance behind it is unaudited as far as the public pages go. We found no public information on ISO 27001 or equivalent certification, penetration tests, a security contact or disclosure policy, or on how IP addresses and metadata are handled. 2 3

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Group & multi-entity capability

How this is scored

Whether one contract can serve a corporate group: separate channels per legal entity, central oversight, ombudsman access, white-labeling.

0 — One company, one channel; a group buys and administers N separate instances.

3 — Multiple channels under one account, but no separation of case access per entity and no consolidated view.

5 — Per-entity channels with separated case handlers and a group-level overview; branding per entity is basic; external counsel access possible.

8 — Real multi-tenant group structure: per-entity channels, languages and branding, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles, group reporting that respects entity boundaries.

10 — Group compliance as architecture: hundreds of entities manageable centrally, per-country legal rule assignment per entity, white-label reporting pages, and access separation strong enough to satisfy each subsidiary's works council.

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The Compliance Officer

A client gets an externally branded, fully managed portal with configurable incident categories and reporting flows, plus consolidated Power BI dashboards for governance, risk and executive teams across small to large businesses nationally and internationally. For a corporate group the structure is invisible: we found no public information on separate channels per legal entity, separated case access per entity, delegated administration, or ombudsman access. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where reports about people actually live and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. In this category the data is by definition the most sensitive a company holds.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for whistleblowing data.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors for report content and metadata, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Compliance Officer

The vendor is Stopline Pty Ltd, an Australian company, and the only location information anywhere on the captured pages is a Victorian postal address. For the most sensitive data a company holds, we found no public information on where reports are hosted, on any EU hosting option, on a data processing agreement, or on a single subprocessor. 2 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether an obligated company can compute the real invoice — per entity, per employee band, per year — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but the tiers most obligated companies need are unpriced, or the maths is obscured by employee bands, per-report fees or mandatory setup charges.

5 — Most tiers carry real numbers with billing period and VAT treatment stated, but at least one commonly needed capability — extra entities, extra languages, phone intake — hides in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with employee-band boundaries, entity rules and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: every tier, band, add-on and renewal rule public, so the invoice for a 60-employee company and a 5-entity group is a two-minute exercise.

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The Compliance Officer

The public trail ends at the words 'Request a Quote' — we found no public information on any tier price, billing period, setup fee or tax treatment. An obligated company cannot compute even a starting invoice from the public pages, so every purchase is a sales conversation. 1

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Questions about Stopline

Is Stopline European?

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

Where does Stopline store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does Stopline have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Stopline?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (3.5/5), EQS Integrity Line (3.5/5) and Safecall (3.5/5) highest among the other 36 Whistleblowing Portals 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 preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Stopline alternatives.

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Sources (3)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →