TIME JOB

TIME JOB is a specialised ERP for German staffing agencies and temporary-employment businesses, developed and marketed by GEDAT Gesellschaft für Datentechnik mbH. Unlike a horizontal Mid-Market ERP, TIME JOB is purpose-built for the operational, legal and commercial workflows of Arbeitnehmerüberlassung (temporary employment leasing) under German labour law — a vertical with unusually specific regulatory, contractual and payroll requirements that horizontal ERPs typically cannot handle without extensive customisation. The product covers the end-to-end staffing workflow from candidate recruiting through assignment management, time tracking, payroll preparation, client invoicing and equal-pay compliance. Within the DACH staffing-ERP segment, TIME JOB competes mainly with vendors such as zvoove and L1 Solutions for the upper Mid-Market staffing market.

Functional scope

TIME JOB covers the full staffing-agency workflow: applicant tracking with qualifications and availability, candidate pooling and pre-screening, customer and order management with contract templates, assignment planning with rule-based candidate-to-job matching, mobile time tracking by temporary staff on client sites, automated time-sheet approval workflows with the host client, comprehensive payroll preparation with the German staffing-specific compliance requirements (equal pay, sector-collective-bargaining adjustments, working-time act compliance), client invoicing with the staffing-specific calculation logic, and finance with GoBD-aligned bookkeeping and DATEV integration. The depth of the equal-pay logic, the collective-bargaining handling and the Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz compliance is the functional centre of gravity and the differentiator versus horizontal ERPs.

Target segment

The natural TIME JOB customer is a German staffing agency or temporary-employment business between roughly 5 and 200 internal staff that places several hundred to several thousand temporary workers across DACH client sites. The vertical depth means the product is not the right answer for organisations outside this segment: pure trade, manufacturing or services SMBs are better served by horizontal Mid-Market ERPs. Within the staffing-agency segment, TIME JOB is one of the established specialists with a customer base in industrial staffing, technical staffing, healthcare staffing and office-services staffing. At the upper end above 200 internal staff with multi-country operations, zvoove or larger international staffing platforms typically deliver more scale.

Architecture and deployment

TIME JOB is delivered both as an on-premises product and as a hosted managed cloud service through GEDAT. The architecture is conservative and aligned with the operational stability requirements of staffing agencies, where payroll errors and time-sheet processing delays translate directly into compliance and customer-satisfaction problems. Mobile time tracking by temporary staff is supported through dedicated mobile apps, and the time-sheet approval workflows with host clients run through portal-based interfaces. Integration with DATEV, banking, common job-board platforms and external payroll providers is part of the standard product. The product is not multi-tenant SaaS in the strict cloud-native sense.

Pricing and TCO

TIME JOB is sold under perpetual or rental licensing with annual maintenance, plus implementation services charged on a project basis. The vendor does not publish a public per-user price list. As a directional benchmark for a 25-internal-user staffing-agency deployment that processes around 1,000 temporary workers, software licences typically land between 30,000 and 80,000 euro, implementation services between 40,000 and 120,000 euro, and five-year total cost of ownership between 120,000 and 300,000 euro depending on customisation and integration depth. This places TIME JOB in the mid price segment of the DACH staffing-ERP market.

Selection considerations

TIME JOB is a strong choice for German staffing agencies that need a vertical ERP with deep Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgesetz compliance, equal-pay handling and collective-bargaining logic for the German market. The vendor's vertical focus is the competitive moat versus horizontal Mid-Market ERPs that cannot handle staffing-specific compliance without extensive customisation. The trade-offs are the smaller vendor profile, the focused partner network and the dependency on a specialist vendor's long-term roadmap. For organisations outside the staffing-agency segment, TIME JOB is not the right product. Within the German staffing-ERP segment, the long-list typically includes TIME JOB and zvoove for upper-Mid-Market deployments and a small number of regional specialists for smaller agencies.

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