Too small for enterprise, too basic for a bare punch clock
An HR suite built for a 500-person company solves a problem you don't have — and is priced to match. A free punch-clock app, on the other hand, usually can't handle part-time hours, parental leave, or a public-holiday exception, and rarely produces a report your accountant can use without reworking it. SMEs with 5 to 50 employees fall between those two extremes — and that's exactly where most time registration systems forget about them.
What an SME actually needs
- No dedicated HR staff needed to manage the system
- Schedules that account for part-time hours, leave, and exceptions automatically
- A fixed price per employee, visible before you even call
- A monthly report your accountant or payroll office can use directly
- Running within a day — not a months-long rollout project
Sound familiar?
The owner who does HR on the side
At many SMEs, no one has the title "HR manager" — the owner or an employee juggling three other roles tracks hours, usually in Excel. That works until the company grows or the law changes.
The workshop or shop floor with part-time shifts
Rotating shifts, part-time staff, and occasional overtime make a fixed schedule useless. A system that treats every exception as a special case costs more time than it saves.
The team with mobile or remote staff
Not everyone clocks in at the same door. A system that only works with a physical punch clock automatically excludes part of your team.