Personio vs HourSquare: which fits your team?
Personio is a European HR platform for small and medium-sized businesses with recruiting, performance, surveys, a whistleblowing app, and native payroll for Germany, sold by quote. HourSquare is a self-serve HR platform that is free for now with every module, and runs payroll with tax packs for 24+ countries. Short version: a German company with an HR lead, a hiring pipeline, and budget for a sales-led rollout is better served by Personio. A team that wants self-serve setup without a quote and payroll outside Germany in the same system is better served by HourSquare. The facts behind that call are below.
ვისთვისაა ეს: Teams that want to know the price before talking to sales, do not want a 12-month term, or run payroll in a country Personio does not process natively.
- ფასი
- Free for now, every module included
- უფასო პაკეტი
- Free for now, every module, no card to sign up, no trial expiry
- გუნდის ზომა
- Any size, from 1 employee up
- როგორ ყიდულობთ
- Self-serve signup
- ჰოსტინგი
- EU-hosted
- ფასი
- Quote only
- უფასო პაკეტი
- Not published
- გუნდის ზომა
- small and medium-sized businesses
- როგორ ყიდულობთ
- Not published
- ჰოსტინგი
- EU-hosted
მომწოდებლის ფაქტები გამოქვეყნებული მდგომარეობით 2026-09-05. (წყარო)
აირჩიეთ HourSquare, თუ…
You want every module for free, without a quote or a demo. You want to start without talking to anyone, with no 12-month term. You run payroll outside Germany and want it in the same system (tax packs for 24+ countries). You want shift scheduling and time tracking built in and feeding payroll, not through a partner app. You want an audit log you can read yourself, covering sensitive-data reads and record changes.
აირჩიეთ Personio, თუ…
You employ people in Germany and want ITSG-certified native payroll from your HR vendor. You hire steadily and need recruiting in the same platform. You need performance and development reviews now. You depend on one of the 200+ marketplace integrations or need a native mobile app today. You have an HR lead with time for a sales-led implementation.
European SMEs, especially DACH companies, that want GDPR-first HR with German payroll and accept a sales-led purchase.
გვერდიგვერდ
Personio-ის თითოეული უჯრა იმ გვერდზე მიუთითებს, საიდანაც წავიკითხეთ. HourSquare-ის უჯრები აღწერს იმას, რაც დღეს მუშაობს — გეგმები არ ითვლება.
ფასი და შეძენა
თანამშრომლები და ჩანაწერები
შვებულება და დრო
ხელფასი
ჩართულობა და ანალიტიკა
წვდომა და უსაფრთხოება
პლატფორმა
Personio-ის ფაქტები გადამოწმდა 2026-09-05. თუ რამე შეიცვალა, მოგვწერეთ support@hoursquare.com-ზე და ერთ დღეში გავასწორებთ.
Personio-ის შესახებ
Munich-based HR platform for European SMEs covering core HR, recruiting, performance, and German native payroll, sold by quote.
რაშია Personio ნამდვილად ძლიერი
EU-hosted, GDPR-focused platform with ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certification. Native, ITSG-certified payroll for Germany. Native whistleblowing app addressing the EU Whistleblowing Directive. Marketplace of 200+ integrations plus native iOS/Android app. Full lifecycle coverage: recruiting, onboarding, performance, offboarding, surveys.
რაში ვერ აკმაყოფილებს ის ჩვენს ტიპურ მომხმარებელს
No published prices; quote-based sales process. Third-party guides report 12-month minimum terms and implementation fees. Native payroll limited to Germany; other countries rely on preparation/export or partners. Shift scheduling depends on third-party marketplace apps. Vendor site rate-limited automated access; some module details could not be verified.
საჯარო შეფასებები: G2 4.4/5 (763) · Capterra 4.3/5 (წყარო)
Pricing reality
Personio does not publish prices. Its pricing page could not be loaded during our check, and third-party guides report no public list prices, 12-month minimum terms, and implementation fees. Whether a free trial exists, whether you can sign up without a demo, and how long a typical rollout takes are also not published, so budget for a sales conversation before you know the cost. HourSquare is free for now with every module included. There is no minimum seat count, no annual commitment, and no card to sign up.
Where Personio is stronger
- Recruiting: a native recruiting app. HourSquare has no applicant tracking; onboarding starts at the signed contract.
- Performance and development: a dedicated module. HourSquare has no performance-review module today.
- Native, ITSG-certified payroll for Germany, plus payroll preparation and export for Spain, France, the Netherlands, and the UK.
- A marketplace of 200+ integrations. HourSquare offers a public REST API for time clocks, employees and time entries, plus calendar (ICS) feeds and exports, but no marketplace.
- A native iOS and Android app; HourSquare is a responsive web app with a phone layout and no native app.
Where HourSquare is stronger for a self-serve team
- Price and terms: free for now with every module, with no annual commitment. Personio is quote-only, with 12-month terms reported by third parties.
- Buying: sign up and set up yourself, no demo. Personio does not publish whether self-serve signup exists or how long implementation takes.
- Payroll coverage: pay runs, payslips, and payment and accountant exports with tax packs for 24+ countries, against one native country at Personio.
- Shift scheduling is built in; Personio relies on marketplace partners such as Planday, Shiftbase, and Quinyx.
- Audit trail: sensitive-data reads and changes to employee records and settings are logged and visible to you. Personio states that access is logged, but a customer-facing audit log is not confirmed.
Migrating from Personio
Personio has reporting and analytics and a large integration marketplace, so exporting your employee data as CSV is a reasonable expectation; confirm the exact exports with your Personio contact before your term ends, since third parties report 12-month minimums. Bring the export to HourSquare and set up people, departments, and leave policies from it. If you leave HourSquare later, the reports hub and the employee list export CSV and XLSX, and each person's data can be exported or erased from the product.
How to decide
- Check your contract position. If you are inside a 12-month Personio term, plan the switch for the renewal date.
- Count your people. HourSquare is free for now; at any size, Personio needs a quote.
- Check where you run payroll. Germany only: Personio processes it natively. Elsewhere, or several countries: HourSquare has tax packs for 24+ countries and a blank schedule with your own pay items for the rest.
- List the modules you need this year. Recruiting or performance reviews on the list favors Personio; both sides have surveys, a whistleblowing channel, SSO, 2FA, and EU hosting.
- Decide whether you want to buy through a sales process or set the system up yourself today.
ხშირად დასმული კითხვები
Is Personio pricing published?
Where is Personio data hosted, and is it GDPR compliant?
How do I switch from Personio to HourSquare?
Does HourSquare have recruiting or performance reviews like Personio?
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ნახეთ, როგორ ჯდება HourSquare თქვენს ყოველდღიურ სამუშაოში.
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