# Skello review (2026): is it worth €59 a month?

> Staff scheduling, time clocking and payroll prep for field teams

Checked Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Skello is a French workforce management platform for hospitality, retail, pharmacy and similar field teams. It builds compliant schedules, records clock-ins on a tablet or phone, tracks absences and prepares payroll variables. A payroll service, recruitment add-on and HR tools are sold alongside.

- **Category:** Shift Scheduling
- **Made by:** Skello
- **Website:** https://www.skello.io/en
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you're outside France, because the legal rules follow French employment law.
- **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026

## Pricing

As of Nov 13, 2026, Skello is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €59 per month and up (Standard Clocking), basis not stated.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial on every plan.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Standard Clocking | €59 per month and up | Tablet and mobile clocking with geolocation, hours tracking and employee records. Clocking Max starts at €89. |
| Scheduling Standard | €79 per month and up | Compliant schedules, absence tracking, payroll variables and a mobile app. |
| Planning Max | €107 per month and up | Standard plus staffing forecasts, automatic schedule creation, e-signed timesheets and unlimited AI assistant. |
| Duo Standard | €99 per month and up | Scheduling and clocking together. Duo Max adds forecasts, automatic scheduling and AI assistant from €129. |
| Business | Custom | For 200 to 10,000 employees: HR system connections, priority support and training. |

Read from https://www.skello.io/en/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Skello before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **10% off with an annual commitment** (Annual discount): The pricing page states a 10% discount on the Scheduling, Clocking and Duo plans with an annual commitment. Source: https://www.skello.io/en/pricing

## Key features

- **Compliant scheduling:** Week, month and day views with regulatory alerts set from the collective agreement, schedule locking and templates.
- **Smart scheduling:** Planning Max and Duo Max forecast staffing needs and create schedules automatically; Smart Planner is an optional extra on lower tiers.
- **Time clocking:** Staff clock in on a tablet or mobile with geolocation, and hours worked are tracked for payroll.
- **Absences and counters:** Leave and absence management with paid-leave, RTT, overtime and annualized-hours counters.
- **Payroll preparation:** Payroll variables are calculated automatically; a separate payroll service starts at €20 a month per employee.
- **Employee files:** Contracts, documents and the staff register are stored per employee, with automatic payslip distribution on higher tiers.

## Good for

- French hotels, restaurants, retail and pharmacy teams
- Managers who need schedules checked against collective agreements
- Businesses wanting rostering and payroll variables in one place

## Worth knowing

- Prices are in euros and shown as a starting figure; the page does not say what the monthly amount is based on, such as site or headcount.
- The Business plan for 200 to 10,000 employees has no published price.
- Several features, including the Smart Planner and unlimited document storage, depend on the plan tier.
- Legal rules built in, such as RTT and DPAE, follow French employment law.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Skello does scheduling, clocking and payroll prep from EUR 59 a month, with French labor rules built in. But the page doesn't say what that monthly amount is based on, and the Smart Planner needs the dearer tiers.

- **Value for money: C.** From EUR 59 for clocking, EUR 79 for scheduling and EUR 107 for Planning Max, with the basis (site or head) not stated. A 10% annual discount is offered.
- **Free plan and trial: D.** A 14-day trial on every plan; the page doesn't say whether a card is needed.
- **Features: B.** Compliant scheduling, clocking, absences, payroll prep and employee files. Nothing in the listing is missing from the core job.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Legal rules and payroll prep take configuring.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web with an employee app on the listing. No integrations are named and no desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Skello's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among shift scheduling apps

- Skello's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 17 of the 49 other shift scheduling apps we grade, and level with 8.
- It stands best on features (B, above 23 of 49) and worst on free plan and trial (D, above 23).
- Its paid plans start at about $65.91 a month, against a middle price of $16.76 for the category: 27 of the 28 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 12 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/shift-scheduling

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Skello you would be making payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $790.98 a year.

- You could make: Time off and employee records: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Payroll taxes worked out and filed with the government for you.
- You could not: A rota the whole staff sees on their phones, with swaps and alerts.
- You could not: Clocking in from a phone, checked against where and when.
- 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.

**Tags:** Shift scheduling, Time clock, Time off, Payroll, Employee records, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Planday](https://toolgpa.com/tools/planday): Rota planning, punch clock and payroll reports for shift-based teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/planday-vs-skello)
- [Shiftbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/shiftbase): Dutch shift scheduling, time clock and absence app, free to 15 staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/shiftbase-vs-skello)
- [Deputy](https://toolgpa.com/tools/deputy): Shift scheduling, time clock and labor-law tools for hourly teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/deputy-vs-skello)
- [Agendrix](https://toolgpa.com/tools/agendrix): Employee scheduling, time tracking and light HR from Canada. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agendrix-vs-skello)
- [Quinyx](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quinyx): Enterprise workforce management with forecasting and scheduling. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/quinyx-vs-skello)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026:

- https://www.skello.io/en/pricing
- https://www.skello.io/en

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