Software for recording working hours

ZEP stands for time recording for projects and offers with the products ZEP Professional and ZEP Compact a powerful and intuitively operable software solution for the Project time tracking, travel expense accounting, project planning, project controlling, resource planning, invoicing and much more. The third product ZEP Clock is the software for working time recording.

Time recording is an essential part of any business to document employees' hours, evaluate them and then bill them correctly. Time tracking software replaces the traditional time clock and enables your employees to record their working hours easily and accurately. With the range of functions of our time recording system, you always keep an overview, e.g. of absences & project times.

With our time recording system, all judicial requirements of the ECJ as well as the specifications of the Federal Labour Court of September 2022 fulfilled. With our software solution, your time management is already legally compliant.

Yes, ZEP Working Time Recording works on smartphone, tablet and desktop. For the smartphone and tablet, there is the ZEP Clock app in the App Store and Google Play Store.

ZEP Clock is available from €1.50 per user. Find out more in our Price calculator.

In an increasingly digitalised corporate world, we want to ensure that ZEP harmonises with the rest of your IT infrastructure. In addition to our standardised ZEP interfaces (SOAP & REST), we are therefore constantly integrating new partners with direct interfaces. From Hubspot and Personio to Salesforce for data exchange with the rest of the world. Find out everything about ZEP interfaces here.

The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs gives employers a free hand in choosing their method of electronic working time recording. In accordance with the judgement on working time recording, employers who have not previously recorded working times are now obliged to encourage their employees to register themselves. The options for this are diverse: from already established electronic time recording devices to the use of apps on mobile devices or working time recording software on laptops as well as the traditional Excel spreadsheet. The use of electronic shift schedules to record working hours is also conceivable, as long as they show the start and end times and the duration of each employee's daily working hours. However, it is not permitted to simply use a scan of a paper document that has already been completed, as this does not fulfil the requirements for electronic recording, but merely corresponds to electronic archiving.

The German government is currently examining the implementation of a law on recording working hours, including for smaller companies, in order to avoid bureaucracy. The results are not expected to be published until the second quarter of 2024. This process is delaying the introduction of the expected law. The government is waiting for the results of a project to introduce working time recording for small companies so as not to place an excessive burden on them. A new bill will probably not be drafted until these results have been analysed. One controversial point is the planned obligation to record working hours electronically in the current draft bill, which has not yet led to a harmonised bill. There is also discussion about linking the recording of working hours with a flexibilisation of working hours, as demanded by the FDP. Nevertheless, following the ECJ judgement, time recording has been mandatory in Germany since 2019!