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Pointchamp: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Pointchamp is a modular HR platform delivered as a cloud service and as an app. It combines applicant management and onboarding, 360-degree feedback, leave planning with substitute rules, project and shift planning, working-time recording, a document store for employees and a digital notice board. Roles and permissions are configurable, and a mobile app is available for iOS and Android. It is intended to replace scattered HR tools with a single environment for teams and HR staff.

Pointchamp is provided by Pointchamp GmbH in Cuxhaven, Germany. According to the vendor, the application is installed on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH located in Germany, and data is transmitted only over SSL-encrypted connections. The website names no parent company. For a European organisation this means that both the vendor and the hosting sit inside the EU. A separate data processing agreement for product data is not described on the vendor's public pages, so ask the vendor for one before you deploy the product.

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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 14, 2026
Headquarters
DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
HR
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Pointchamp

The European alternatives to Pointchamp come from our knowledge base of over 9,200 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 Pointchamp

Pointchamp is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

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

Pointchamp 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 Pointchamp 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 Pointchamp?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to Pointchamp?

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

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

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

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 14, 2026.

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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