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Protime: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Protime is a European workforce management specialist offering time tracking, workforce planning and access control. Employees record hours via terminals, apps or a browser; the hours are checked against contract, collective agreement and working-time rules, approved by managers and passed on to payroll. Scheduling takes availability, skills, preferences, contracted hours and legal requirements into account. Protime also sets access permissions by door, zone or time slot and offers visitor management.

Protime NV is based in Mechelen, Belgium, and is part of the SD Worx Group. According to Protime, customer data is primarily hosted in Belgium and some applications run in Microsoft Azure's West Europe region. The company cites ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and ISAE 3402 and ISAE 3000 Type I reports. The software is not open source. For European organisations this means hosting within the EU, partly with a US cloud provider as subprocessor.

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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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	BE (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
Compliance documents	1 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US (US)Technically measured
Category	HR
Type	Product
Website	protime.eu ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Protime

The European alternatives to Protime 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 Protime

Protime is headquartered in BE 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 Protime scores best on data residency.

Protime 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 Protime 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 Protime?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Protime 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 Protime?

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

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

Protime is headquartered in BE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Protime 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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): protime.eu/privacy

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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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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