# Factorial

> HR, time, shifts, expenses and IT for small firms, quoted by module

Factorial is a Barcelona-based business platform that keeps employee records, documents, time off, time tracking and shift planning together, with recruiting, performance reviews, expenses and device management as further modules. Its AI assistant, One, answers questions and prepares documents from company data. Every customer gets a quote for the modules it picks.

- **Category:** HR Software
- **Made by:** Factorial
- **Website:** https://factorial.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Factorial is a paid product, starting at $8 per user / month and up, by quote.

- **Pricing model:** Paid
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tailored plan | $8 per user / month and up | Factorial Core (directory, onboarding, payslip delivery, bulk documents, e-signature) plus the modules chosen. Quoted and sold through sales. |

Read from https://factorial.com/pricing on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Factorial before buying.

## Key features

- **Core HR and documents:** Every plan has the employee directory, onboarding and offboarding, payslip distribution, bulk document sending, fillable PDFs and legal e-signatures.
- **Time off and time tracking:** Unlimited time-off policies and custom absence types, plus clock-ins by geolocation or QR code with overtime compensation.
- **Shift planning:** Build shifts in bulk, set rotating patterns or generate them automatically, and share the schedule with staff.
- **Recruiting, reviews and training:** Post jobs to several boards with AI CV parsing, run 360-degree performance reviews, track goals and manage training with certificates.
- **Expenses, projects and IT:** Read receipts with OCR, route expenses through multi-step approvals, log hours to projects, and manage devices and SaaS licenses.
- **One, the AI assistant:** An AI agent that searches and analyzes company data, builds reports and prepares policies, contracts and payroll documents for review.

## Good for

- Small and mid-sized firms in Spain, Germany or Mexico, where it has offices
- Businesses with shift workers that need time tracking and rotas
- Teams wanting HR, expenses and IT devices in one system

## Worth knowing

- Only the $8 starting figure is published; the real price comes in a quote that depends on the modules and the headcount.
- Monthly plans bill for the employees present at the start of each month; annual plans bill extra only in months above the agreed count.
- Offices are in Spain, Germany and Mexico; the about page says both 12 and 120 countries for its customers and does not list where payroll works.
- The free-trial links on its pages lead to a missing page, so a trial could not be confirmed.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Factorial puts records, time off, clock-ins and shift planning together, then adds hiring, reviews, expenses and even company devices if you want them. It's strongest for firms with shift workers. But only an $8 starting figure is published, and the real price comes in a quote.

- **Value for money: C.** Factorial starts at $8 a user a month, so a ten-person company pays $80 and up, right on this category's middle. That's for Core, with records, onboarding, payslips and e-signatures; any modules you add are quoted on top.
- **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan, and the trial links on its pages led to a missing page, so no trial is on record.
- **Features: B.** Records, documents and e-signatures, time off, clock-ins by location or QR code, shift planning, hiring, reviews, training, expenses and device management. The whole job, with a fair bit more besides.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record, and picking modules with sales, then setting up shifts and policies, takes a while.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Slack, Google Workspace, Zapier, DATEV, Sage 200, Okta and Power BI. No desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Factorial's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among HR software

- Factorial's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 9 other HR software we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on features (B, above 1 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $8 a month for each person, against a middle price of $9 for the category: 2 of the 6 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Factorial you could make: employee records, time off, time tracking, applicant tracking and expense tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 6 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 5 of the 9 other HR software grade higher. It costs $96 a year.

- You could make: Employee records, time off, time tracking, applicant tracking and expense tracking: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Google Workspace and Zapier among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Slack, Google Workspace, Zapier, DATEV, Sage 200, Okta, Microsoft Power BI, LinkedIn

**Tags:** Employee records, Time off, Time tracking, Shift scheduling, Applicant tracking, Expense tracking, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Personio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/personio): European HR platform for records, absences, time and recruiting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-personio)
- [Sesame HR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sesame-hr): Modular HR from Spain built around clock-ins, time off and shifts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-sesame-hr)
- [HiBob](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hibob): HR platform for mid-sized global firms, with US and UK payroll. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-hibob)
- [Zoho People](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-people): Low-cost HR records, attendance, shifts and reviews from Zoho. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/factorial-vs-zoho-people)
- [Breathe](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breathe): UK HR software for small firms, priced per business, not per person. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/breathe-vs-factorial)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://factorial.com/pricing
- https://factorial.com/
- https://factorial.com/payroll
- https://factorial.com/aboutus
- https://factorial.com/integrations

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/factorial
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