be+ is a cloud-based HR and employee app from be+ GmbH in Schwabach, Germany. Employers use it for everyday personnel processes: time recording, leave requests, digital personnel files with electronic signature, distribution of documents such as payslips, internal communication and a section for employee benefits. Employees open the app on their smartphone, while administrators work in the browser. The vendor targets employers that want to replace paper-based HR routines.
be+ GmbH is headquartered in Germany, and no foreign parent company is named. According to its security page, the platform is hosted in Germany, connections and databases are encrypted, and be+ states that it has no access to company and employee data unless requested. The vendor also publishes technical and organisational measures under the GDPR. For a European organisation this keeps data within a single EU jurisdiction. Before signing, still ask for the data processing agreement and the list of sub-processors.