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Staffcloud: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Staffcloud is workforce scheduling and time-tracking software for organisations that work with flexible staff, such as catering, events, promotion, healthcare and staffing agencies. It covers shift planning by qualification and availability, time recording, an absence calendar, a digital personnel file, recruitment, contracts with digital signatures, a payroll module, reporting and invoicing. Employees and team leaders use separate apps, and Tempcloud is a client portal for staffing agencies and their customers. Staffcloud is a web service with an API.

Staffcloud is provided by Smartbridge AG in Zurich, Switzerland, which according to the site also has a subsidiary in Romania. Switzerland is not an EU member state, but it is an EFTA country with an adequacy decision from the European Commission. According to the vendor, data is stored in a data centre in Frankfurt (Germany), each customer has its own database and document management system, and the service complies with the Swiss data protection act and the GDPR. No owner or parent company is named, and no self-hosting option is mentioned.

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Sovereignty score
71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in Switzerland: Swiss law, recognised by the EU as adequate
  • 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
CH (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
Time Tracking
Type
Product
Website
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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Staffcloud

The European alternatives to Staffcloud 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 Staffcloud

Staffcloud is headquartered in Switzerland and falls under Swiss law, including the revised Swiss data protection act. Switzerland is not an EU member, but the European Commission recognises its level of data protection as adequate. Its Swiss headquarters does not by itself bring it under US legislation such as the CLOUD Act.

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

Staffcloud 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 Staffcloud 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 Staffcloud?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Staffcloud include 123erfasst, ADMIA Chrono and amacos. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Staffcloud?

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

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

Staffcloud is headquartered in CH (EFTA) and hosts data in EU. That makes Staffcloud 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 Time Tracking

Time Tracking: Apps for tracking time spent on tasks and projects. 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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