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Planday: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Planday is a workforce management platform from Denmark for scheduling, time tracking, leave management and payroll reporting. Its homepage addresses employees who work in shifts and the businesses that employ them. The product is offered as a cloud platform with HR and payroll reporting features and is connected to Xero.

Planday was founded in Copenhagen, and third-party listings place its head office there. Xero announced its acquisition of Planday in 2021, and Xero said Planday would operate as a Xero subsidiary. Xero is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, so the parent company sits outside both the EU and the United States. The homepage does not state where customer data is hosted or name a data processing agreement, so a European organisation should request the hosting location and sub-processors in writing. The product is not described as open source.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
    Key management with a European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
    Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 10, 2026
Headquarters
DK (EU)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company
NZVerified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
NoVendor-stated
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Planday

The European alternatives to Planday come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Planday

Planday is headquartered in DK and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data. The ultimate owner is based in NZ. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Planday scores best on data residency.

Planday is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Planday together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Planday?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Planday include AFAS, AlexisHR and ATOSS Workforce Intelligence. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Planday?

Our list of EU alternatives to Planday is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Planday GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Planday is headquartered in DK (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Planday an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in HR

HR: Human resources — personnel management, payroll, recruiting. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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