European Professional Services Automation Software

Professional services automation software joins the sales quote, the project plan, the timesheet, the staffing schedule and the client invoice into one system, so an agency or consultancy can see margin per project. It holds client names, billing rates and your people's hours, which is why the vendor's jurisdiction matters. The tools below are run by companies in the EU, the UK and Switzerland.

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11 European Professional Services Automation Platforms

Scoro

Modular PSA covering quotes, projects, resourcing and billing

Estonia
Pick-your-apps pricing Resource planning Quote-to-cash billing

TimeLog

Project time, resourcing and invoicing with servers in Denmark

Denmark
Time and project accounting Resource management Multi-currency invoicing

Visma Severa

CRM, projects, hours and invoicing for expert businesses

Finland
CRM and sales Resourcing Azure North Europe hosting

MOCO

Agency time tracking, planning and invoicing in one place

Switzerland
Time and invoicing Agency planning German accounting export

Projektron BCS

Project management and ERP for service firms, cloud or on-premise

Germany
PPM and ERP functions On-premise option German data centres

awork

Planning, time tracking and workload for agencies

Germany
Workload view Time tracking German hosting

Teamwork.com

Client work from brief to invoice, run from Cork

Ireland
Billable time Budgets and retainers ISO 27001 and SOC 2

Resource Guru

Resource scheduling, leave and timesheets without the full PSA

United Kingdom
Scheduling Capacity planning Timesheets

Timewax

Resource planning for IT, accountancy and consultancy firms

Netherlands
Drag and drop planning Utilization forecast ERP integrations

Teamleader

CRM, projects and invoicing in one platform from Ghent

Belgium
CRM Quotations and invoicing Time tracking

Teamdeck

Lightweight resource scheduling and timesheets for small teams

Poland
Resource calendar Timesheets Leave management

Key takeaways

  • Scoro of Tallinn ranks first because it covers quote, project, time, resourcing and invoice in eight combinable apps, with prices from €15 per user per month and a hosting region the client picks.
  • TimeLog states that its servers are in Denmark, and Projektron BCS cloud runs in German data centres with dogado GmbH, so those two answer the hosting question with a country rather than a hyperscaler.
  • Projektron BCS stands alone in this category as software you can buy outright and install yourself (€300 to €350 per user), the one route on this page where client data never has to leave your own building.
  • Resource Guru, Timewax and Teamdeck schedule people and log time but, on the vendor pages checked, issue no client invoices, so each replaces the resourcing block of a PSA and leaves billing in the accounting package.
  • Teamwork.com combines two audit reports (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2) with a free tier for five users, while its AWS hosting spans US and EU regions and so leaves an American provider in the chain.

European professional services automation (PSA) software ties an agency's, consultancy's or engineering firm's quotes, project plans, timesheets, staffing and invoices together so that margin per project becomes visible, and it is supplied by a company established in Europe. The vendor's jurisdiction matters because a PSA is where a firm keeps its bill rates, its people's hours and its client list in one database.

European professional services automation (PSA) software compared

European professional services automation (PSA) software tools compared on position, country, entry price and best use
PositionToolEstablishedEntry priceBest for
#1 Scoro Estonia Combinations from €15 per user per month, Quote to Cash €25, End-to-end €52, minimum 5 users Service firms of five or more that want sales, delivery, resourcing and billing in one system, bought as apps
#2 TimeLog Denmark Starter €14, Growth €34.5, Professional €53 per user per month; Enterprise on request Consultancies and project firms that want time, staffing and invoices tied to finance and payroll
#3 Visma Severa Finland Basic €25, Business €39, Platinum €49, Enterprise €69 per user per month, excluding VAT Project-based firms, especially Nordic ones, that want CRM, delivery and billing from a company inside the Visma Group
#4 MOCO Switzerland Per user, per month Agencies of about five to a hundred people who want the timer, the plan and the invoice under one roof
#5 Projektron BCS Germany BCS on-premise licence €300 to €350 per user; BCS.light €200 per licence or €20 per month in the cloud, excluding VAT IT, engineering and consulting firms, German-speaking ones in particular, that want PSA with ERP depth and possibly on-premise
#6 awork Germany From €5/user/month billed annually (€8 monthly), Standard €12, Professional €22 Agency teams of designers and account managers that need phases, time tracking and workload planning more than a ledger
#7 Teamwork.com Ireland Free up to 5 users / $9.99/user/month (Basics) / $24.99 (Accelerate), billed yearly Agencies selling retainers and billable hours that need audit evidence for procurement
#8 Resource Guru United Kingdom Grasshopper $5, Blackbelt $8, Master $12 per person per month (USD, billed monthly); lower with annual billing Agencies, consultants and engineering teams that mainly need to book people and equipment and track leave
#9 Timewax Netherlands Per scheduled FTE, quoted on request Planners and operations managers at IT, accountancy, consultancy and technical services firms that already run an ERP
#10 Teamleader Belgium From €50/month (Focus) / From €66/month (Orbit) Small European service businesses that want customer records, quotes, projects and invoices in a single suite
#11 Teamdeck Poland Full Member $6 and Light Member $2 per month (USD); Enterprise on request Small creative agencies and software teams that want a resource calendar, timesheets and leave management

Every European professional services automation (PSA) software tool reviewed

#1 Scoro

Tallinn, Estonia Combinations from €15 per user per month, Quote to Cash €25, End-to-end €52, minimum 5 users 14-day trial, no card

Best for: Service firms of five or more that want sales, delivery, resourcing and billing in one system, bought as apps

  • Operating company. Scoro Software OÜ
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Estonia)
  • Where the data sits. AWS, region chosen by the client (Frankfurt, Stockholm, Toronto or Sydney)
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001, stated by the vendor
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata, Accelo, ConnectWise PSA

Scoro is a PSA built by Scoro Software OÜ in Tallinn around a refusal to sell the product as one block. Eight apps (Do, Deliver, Track, Resource, Sell, Estimate, Spend and Invoice) share a single data model, and the pricing page prices combinations: from €15 per user per month, Quote to Cash at €25 and End-to-end at €52, with a minimum of five users. Hours logged on a project reach budgets, margin reports and invoices without a sync step.

The privacy policy refers to Estonian law, and each client picks the hosting region, with Frankfurt, Stockholm, Toronto and Sydney listed on the security page. The hosting provider is AWS, and the company says it is ISO 27001 certified. Finance connections named on the site are Xero, QuickBooks and Sage Intacct, plus a REST API, webhooks and an MCP server. There is a 14-day trial, no free plan, and paid onboarding for teams above 15 people.

What Scoro does well

  • Modular apps, pay only for what you use
  • Quote, project, time and invoice share one data model
  • Hosting region selectable, including Frankfurt and Stockholm
  • Estonian contracting entity
  • Multi-entity and multi-currency support

Where Scoro falls short

  • Minimum of five users
  • AWS as hosting provider
  • Onboarding is paid for teams above 15 people
  • No free plan

Standout feature. Scoro is the only PSA here where you buy the product as a set of apps and see a price for each combination.

#2 TimeLog

Denmark Starter €14, Growth €34.5, Professional €53 per user per month; Enterprise on request 14-day trial

Best for: Consultancies and project firms that want time, staffing and invoices tied to finance and payroll

  • Operating company. TimeLog A/S
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Denmark)
  • Where the data sits. Denmark (hosting partner Global Connect)
  • Independent checks. ISAE 3402 declarations for TimeLog and its hosting partner, per the vendor
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata, ConnectWise PSA, Accelo

TimeLog is the PSA from TimeLog A/S in Denmark that begins at the timesheet. Hours are registered on mobile, web or desktop, approved, and then feed invoicing, project accounting and salary administration, so a controller gets one source for the numbers. Starter costs €14, Growth €34.5 and Professional €53 per user per month, and Enterprise is priced on request.

Plan content matters here. Starter covers time and expense logging, project features and invoicing for time spent and fixed rates, while integrations, APIs and salary administration begin at Growth. Professional adds retainers, pre-paid deals, KPI reporting and automated invoicing. The security page says all servers are in Denmark with the hosting partner Global Connect, and that both companies hold ISAE 3402 declarations. Support hours in the terms run weekdays 8 to 16 CET.

What TimeLog does well

  • Servers in Denmark with a Danish contracting entity
  • Time, resourcing, invoicing and salary in one system
  • Published per-user prices
  • Multiple legal entities module
  • Outlook time registration add-on

Where TimeLog falls short

  • Integrations and APIs not in the Starter plan
  • Enterprise price on request
  • Support limited to weekday office hours CET
  • Less suited to creative workflow

Standout feature. TimeLog is the only tool here that carries approved hours all the way into salary administration.

#3 Visma Severa

Lappeenranta, Finland Basic €25, Business €39, Platinum €49, Enterprise €69 per user per month, excluding VAT 30-day trial, no card

Best for: Project-based firms, especially Nordic ones, that want CRM, delivery and billing from a company inside the Visma Group

  • Operating company. Visma Solutions Oy
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Finland)
  • Where the data sits. Microsoft Azure, North Europe region
  • Independent checks. Visma's ISO 27001 certified framework, per the vendor
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata, Accelo, ConnectWise PSA

Visma Severa links a sales pipeline, quotes, projects with phases and dependencies, work hours with approval, resourcing and invoicing, and sells it in four packages: Basic €25, Business €39, Platinum €49 and Enterprise €69 per user per month, excluding VAT. Resourcing, work hour approval, travel expenses and the REST API start at Business, and revenue recognition and multi-currency at Platinum.

The privacy statement names Visma Solutions Oy of Lappeenranta, Finland, and the site says Severa is part of the Visma Group. The information security page states that it follows Visma's ISO 27001 certified framework and that servers sit in the Azure North Europe region. Invoice data can go to Netvisor, Fortnox and Visma Sign, among more than 50 ready-made integrations, and a 30-day trial needs no card.

What Visma Severa does well

  • Full chain from CRM to invoice
  • Azure North Europe hosting
  • Published prices per package
  • ISO 27001 framework via Visma
  • 30-day free trial without card

Where Visma Severa falls short

  • Microsoft Azure as hosting provider
  • Resourcing not in the Basic package
  • Revenue recognition only from Platinum
  • Part of a large group, not an independent vendor

Standout feature. Visma Severa is the PSA here whose vendor names Nordic bookkeeping packages, Netvisor and Fortnox, as ready integrations.

#4 MOCO

Binz, Canton Zurich, Switzerland Founded 2014 Per user, per month Demo on request

Best for: Agencies of about five to a hundred people who want the timer, the plan and the invoice under one roof

  • Operating company. everii Switzerland GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. Switzerland
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Harvest, Toggl + FreshBooks, Scoro

MOCO starts at the timer and widens from there: the hours a person logs also move the project budget, the staffing plan, the offer and the invoice that goes to the bookkeeper. With budget and invoice drawn from the same record, a firm reads its margin per project off a report. The tool page on this site targets teams of roughly five to a hundred people.

The legal notice on mocoapp.com names everii Switzerland GmbH, Binz, Canton Zurich, as provider and developer, registered in the Zurich commercial register and founded in 2014. Exports for DATEV and other German accounting systems are part of the product, with an API and integrations for the rest. Pricing is per user per month with planning and invoicing included, and the vendor shows demo access rather than a free tier.

What MOCO does well

  • One record carries the hours, the project budget and the invoice
  • Margin per project is a built-in report
  • DATEV and other German bookkeeping exports
  • Staff planning sits inside the same licence
  • API and integrations cover the remaining systems

Where MOCO falls short

  • Too much system for a solo freelancer
  • Shaped around agencies, so less general purpose
  • Strongest in the German-speaking market
  • Every team member is a paid seat

Standout feature. With MOCO the DATEV export for the bookkeeper ships as a standard feature rather than a side project.

#5 Projektron BCS

Berlin, Germany BCS on-premise licence €300 to €350 per user; BCS.light €200 per licence or €20 per month in the cloud, excluding VAT Demo on request

Best for: IT, engineering and consulting firms, German-speaking ones in particular, that want PSA with ERP depth and possibly on-premise

  • Operating company. Projektron GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Germany (cloud hosted with dogado GmbH) or your own servers
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001 certified security standard, per the vendor
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata, ConnectWise PSA

Projektron BCS goes past a typical PSA. Projektron GmbH of Berlin ships project planning and controlling, multi-project and portfolio management, resource management, time recording, ticketing, quotation and invoicing, CRM, expenses and document management in one product. The vendor reports that more than 850 companies use BCS, and the product supports PRINCE2, IPMA, Scrum and Kanban in ten interface languages.

Buying options are unusual for this category. The on-premise licence costs €300 to €350 per user, BCS.light €200 per licence or €20 per month in the cloud, excluding VAT. The cloud edition is hosted only in German data centres with dogado GmbH on individual virtual machines, includes four releases a year, and carries a stated ISO 27001 security standard. The company is registered at the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg (HRB 79669).

What Projektron BCS does well

  • PSA plus ERP functions in one product
  • On-premise or German cloud hosting
  • Published licence prices
  • Ten interface languages
  • Supports PRINCE2, IPMA and Scrum

Where Projektron BCS falls short

  • Wide scope means a longer setup
  • SaaS price period not stated for BCS
  • Training and consulting are separate services
  • Less light than modern SaaS-only tools

Standout feature. Projektron BCS is the only product in this category you can buy as a licence and run on your own servers.

#6 awork

Hamburg, Germany Founded 2019 From €5/user/month billed annually (€8 monthly), Standard €12, Professional €22 Free trial, no card required

Best for: Agency teams of designers and account managers that need phases, time tracking and workload planning more than a ledger

  • Operating company. awork GmbH
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Germany)
  • Where the data sits. Germany, on Microsoft infrastructure
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Asana, monday.com, Wrike

awork comes from awork GmbH in Hamburg and follows how agencies work: a project is split into phases, hours are booked against them, and a workload screen warns when someone is overbooked ahead of a promised date. Designers and account managers adopt it quickly, and the ladder is short: €5 per user per month on yearly billing (€8 if paid monthly), Standard at €12, Professional at €22.

Founded in 2019, the company says its infrastructure sits on ISO 27001 certified Microsoft servers in Germany: German location, American operator. A trial runs without a card. Budgets and hours are tracked, yet awork does not issue invoices, so a firm that wants quotes and bills in the same screen is better served by the Scoro or Teamleader entries.

What awork does well

  • A workload view across the whole team, where others expect a spreadsheet
  • Hours are tracked inside the product, with no extra module to buy
  • Hamburg company, German servers, ISO 27001
  • Entry price of €5 per user per month on yearly billing undercuts most tools on this page
  • Phases, budgets and client projects suit agencies better than sprint boards

Where awork falls short

  • Microsoft infrastructure puts a US provider beneath the German company
  • A trial only, with no permanent free tier
  • No sprints or backlog in the agile sense, so it is not a software delivery tool
  • Fewer integrations than the American products it stands in for

Standout feature. The overbooking warning on awork's workload screen arrives before the deadline is promised, not after it slips.

#7 Teamwork.com

Cork, Ireland Founded 2007 Free up to 5 users / $9.99/user/month (Basics) / $24.99 (Accelerate), billed yearly Free plan for five users; 14-day trial on paid plans

Best for: Agencies selling retainers and billable hours that need audit evidence for procurement

  • Operating company. Teamwork Crew Limited
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Ireland)
  • Where the data sits. AWS, in both US and EU regions
  • Independent checks. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Asana, monday.com, Basecamp

Teamwork.com is the product of Teamwork Crew Limited, an Irish firm operating from Cork since 2007, which makes it the oldest company on this list. Chargeable hours, retainers, budgets and invoices are kept next to the tasks, so month-end reconciliation against a separate ledger shrinks. Two external audits are held: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2.

Teams of up to five pay nothing; beyond that Basics is $9.99 and Accelerate $24.99 per user per month on yearly billing, and the paid plans come with a 14-day trial.

Hosting is a decision the buyer has to make, because the vendor says its servers run on Amazon Web Services in both US and EU regions. With seat-based prices the bill climbs faster than on plan-priced tools, and a team building its own software would use only part of the feature set.

What Teamwork.com does well

  • Chargeable hours, retainers and invoices live beside the tasks they belong to
  • Holds both ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2, the broadest audit evidence listed here
  • Contracting party is an Irish company inside the EU
  • Five users pay nothing, and paid seats start at $9.99 a month
  • Two decades of development behind the product mean fewer rough edges

Where Teamwork.com falls short

  • AWS in both US and EU regions leaves a US provider in the chain
  • Years of added features make the interface busy
  • Seat-based pricing grows faster than the plan-based tools on this page
  • Built around client work, so an in-house product team leaves much of it unused

Standout feature. Teamwork.com treats the invoice as an object of the project itself, where board-style tools ask you to fake it with custom fields.

#8 Resource Guru

United Kingdom Founded 2012 Grasshopper $5, Blackbelt $8, Master $12 per person per month (USD, billed monthly); lower with annual billing 30-day trial, no card

Best for: Agencies, consultants and engineering teams that mainly need to book people and equipment and track leave

  • Operating company. Resource Guru Limited
  • Jurisdiction. UK (England and Wales)
  • Where the data sits. Google Cloud Platform, region not stated
  • Independent checks. SOC 2 Type II, per the vendor
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata resource planning, Float, Runn

Resource Guru is a scheduling tool from Resource Guru Limited, a company registered in England and Wales (07622607) whose product the vendor says was released in May 2012. People, equipment and rooms are booked on one shared calendar, clashes and leave are visible, and a timesheet fills itself from the bookings so managers can compare scheduled and actual hours. Bookings can be tentative, repeated or given as total hours.

Prices are in US dollars: Grasshopper $5, Blackbelt $8 and Master $12 per person per month billed monthly, lower on annual billing, with a 30-day trial and no card. The security page states SOC 2 Type II compliance, annual penetration tests and hosting on Google Cloud Platform, without naming a region. The pages checked mention no quotes or invoice generation, and because the company sits in the UK it relies on an EU representative in Ireland.

What Resource Guru does well

  • Clear scheduling with clash detection
  • Leave, equipment and room booking
  • SOC 2 Type II
  • 30-day free trial
  • Low entry price per person

Where Resource Guru falls short

  • No invoicing in the pages checked
  • Prices in US dollars
  • Hosting region not stated
  • Google Cloud as hosting provider

Standout feature. Resource Guru books equipment and meeting rooms on the same calendar as people, a scope the other scheduling tools here do not list.

#9 Timewax

Amsterdam, Netherlands Per scheduled FTE, quoted on request Free trial offered

Best for: Planners and operations managers at IT, accountancy, consultancy and technical services firms that already run an ERP

  • Operating company. Timewax B.V.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Netherlands)
  • Independent checks. ISO 27001 badge shown in the vendor footer
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Kantata resource management

Timewax is a planning platform from Timewax B.V. in Amsterdam for organisations that schedule people across projects. Planners drag staff onto projects, see skills and availability, run a leave workflow and a resource request workflow, and compare planned hours with actuals so utilisation and expected margin show while the work runs. Outlook sync warns about double bookings.

The pricing page says you pay per scheduled FTE rather than per user, which means managers and colleagues can look at the plan without raising the bill; amounts are quoted on request and onboarding carries a fixed setup fee.

Listed integrations are AFAS, Exact Online, Microsoft Dynamics, Autotask, Exact Synergy and Simplicate. The terms are concluded with Timewax B.V., the footer shows an ISO 27001 badge, and the pages checked say neither where the data is hosted nor anything about invoicing.

What Timewax does well

  • Planning built for service organizations
  • Pay per scheduled FTE, not users
  • Outlook sync and double booking alerts
  • Integrations with AFAS and Exact
  • Dutch company with ISO 27001 badge

Where Timewax falls short

  • No invoicing in the pages checked
  • No published prices
  • Fixed setup fee for onboarding
  • Hosting location not stated

Standout feature. Timewax is the only tool here that bills by scheduled FTE, so viewers of the plan cost nothing.

#10 Teamleader

Ghent, Belgium Founded 2012 From €50/month (Focus) / From €66/month (Orbit) Demo on request

Best for: Small European service businesses that want customer records, quotes, projects and invoices in a single suite

  • Operating company. Teamleader NV
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Belgium)
  • Source code. Closed source

Teamleader is a Belgian platform from Teamleader NV, founded in 2012 by Jeroen De Wit in Ghent, that puts the customer record at the centre and hangs quotes, invoices, projects and time tracking on it. Focus is the general small-business product, from €50 per month, and Orbit, from €66 per month, is aimed at agencies of roughly 10 to 50 people and adds capacity planning, project budgeting with real-time profitability and utilisation dashboards.

The site's tool page lists six active markets (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain and Italy) with native VAT handling per country and links to local accounting software. Accepted quotes can be converted to projects and then to invoices, and tracked time feeds the invoice. The tool page itself says project management is lighter than that of a dedicated tool and that CRM depth is below a sales-first product.

What Teamleader does well

  • An accepted quote turns into a project, tracked hours and an invoice
  • VAT rules for several European countries are built in
  • Links to bookkeeping packages used in its home markets
  • The Orbit plan brings capacity planning and project profitability
  • Belgian company under EU jurisdiction

Where Teamleader falls short

  • Project features are thinner than in a specialist project tool
  • Plan-based pricing sets a floor for very small teams
  • The CRM goes less deep than a sales-first product such as Pipedrive

Standout feature. Teamleader is the only tool here that starts from the customer record and ends at a VAT-correct invoice in six European markets.

#11 Teamdeck

Poznan, Poland Full Member $6 and Light Member $2 per month (USD); Enterprise on request 14-day trial

Best for: Small creative agencies and software teams that want a resource calendar, timesheets and leave management

  • Operating company. Teamdeck sp. z o.o.
  • Jurisdiction. EU (Poland)
  • Where the data sits. Amazon Web Services among the processors, region not stated
  • Source code. Closed source
  • Replaces. Float, Kantata resource planning

Teamdeck is the narrowest tool in the list, from Teamdeck sp. z o.o. of Poznan: a resource calendar, timesheets, availability, leave and reports. Two seat types keep the bill low. Full Members at $6 per month plan and manage, and Light Members at $2 per month are booked on the calendar, log hours and see their own plan. The pricing page says all features stay available whatever seat mix you pick.

Reports cover utilisation, time off, project budgets, payroll from timesheets and revenue forecasts, with rates per project or per resource in several currencies. Integrations named are Google Calendar, Slack, Podio, Sage HR and Zapier, plus an API. The feature list shows budgets and forecasts but no quoting or invoice generation. The data protection policy names the Polish company as controller and lists Amazon Web Services among the processors, with no region stated.

What Teamdeck does well

  • Cheap seats, with a $2 Light Member
  • 14-day free trial
  • Polish company under EU law
  • Budgets and revenue forecast reports
  • API and Zapier

Where Teamdeck falls short

  • No invoicing
  • Prices in US dollars
  • AWS as processor, region not stated
  • Less depth than a full PSA

Standout feature. Teamdeck's $2 Light Member seat lets a firm give every freelancer a timesheet and a view of their own schedule for almost nothing.

What should a firm check before choosing a PSA tool?

Start with the direction the tool grew from, because it shapes everything that follows. Scoro, TimeLog, Visma Severa and Projektron BCS start from money: rates, budgets, revenue and the invoice, with projects hung around them. Teamwork.com, awork and MOCO start from the project or the timesheet and add billing. Timewax, Resource Guru and Teamdeck start from the calendar and stop before the invoice.

Then test with real data. Take five finished projects, including one that lost money, and load them. A PSA earns its price when the margin report matches what the finance team calculated by hand. Ask each vendor which accounting packages it exports to, since a bookkeeper working in DATEV, Fortnox, Netvisor, AFAS or Exact Online will reject a generic CSV.

How are PSA tools priced, and what does the cheapest route cost?

Most charge per user per month, but the ladders differ. TimeLog runs €14, €34.5 and €53 per user. Visma Severa runs €25, €39, €49 and €69, excluding VAT. Scoro prices combinations of apps from €15 and bundles at €25 and €52, with a five-user minimum. awork starts at €5 on annual billing, and Teamleader sells plans at €50 and €66 per month rather than per seat.

Three tools break the pattern. Timewax charges per scheduled FTE, so a manager who only looks at the plan adds no cost. Teamdeck sells a $2 Light Member seat for people who just log hours, beside a $6 Full Member seat. Projektron BCS sells a licence at €300 to €350 per user with an alternative cloud edition, and BCS.light costs €20 per month in the cloud with a six-month minimum term, according to the vendor.

The cheapest honest route for a ten-person agency is usually a scheduling tool plus the accounting package already in place, which is where Resource Guru ($5 to $12 per person) and Teamdeck land. It stops being cheap once someone re-types project codes into invoices every month.

Does a European PSA keep client data out of US hands?

The contract stays in Europe while the infrastructure often does not. Every vendor in this category has its legal home in the EU, the UK or Switzerland. Underneath, Scoro runs on AWS, Visma Severa on Microsoft Azure (North Europe), awork on Microsoft servers in Germany, Teamwork.com on AWS in US and EU regions, Resource Guru on Google Cloud and Teamdeck on AWS among its processors.

Two answer differently. TimeLog states Danish servers with the hosting partner Global Connect, and Projektron BCS offers German data centres with dogado GmbH or your own servers on-premise. For a firm whose clients write "no US sub-processors" into the tender, those two, and only those, are the plain yes.

For everyone else the useful step is to choose the region deliberately and read the sub-processor list. Scoro lists Frankfurt and Stockholm among its regions. Teamwork.com says its servers sit in both the US and the EU, so ask for the EU one in writing.

How do you move from Kantata or another US PSA to a European one?

Plan three tracks in parallel: open projects, financial history and people. Open projects move with their budgets and logged hours, so do the move at a month end. Financial history (issued invoices, work in progress) is often archived as exports instead of imported. People data, meaning rate cards, skills and availability, needs rebuilding in the new tool, and that is where a week of clean-up pays for itself.

Kantata states more than 1,200 connectors, and its pricing is a request form, so the first job is an inventory of what is attached to it. A firm that used Kantata for forecasting and billing should compare Scoro, TimeLog and Visma Severa. A firm that used it mainly for staffing should compare Timewax, Resource Guru and the Orbit plan of Teamleader.

Run the old and the new system side by side for one invoice cycle, and compare totals per client before you cancel anything.

When is a full PSA the wrong purchase?

When a firm has fewer than ten people, invoices a few clients on retainer, and mainly needs to know who is free next week. In that case awork (workload view, from €5 per user), Resource Guru or Teamdeck solve the problem at a fraction of the effort. Teamwork.com is free for up to five users and covers billable time inside the project.

It is also the wrong purchase when the sales process is the weak spot rather than delivery. Teamleader is a CRM first, with quotes, projects and invoices added, and for a firm of two to fifty in Benelux, Germany, France, Spain or Italy it handles VAT per country. And if you need on-premise software with ticketing and personnel records, a PSA is too narrow and Projektron BCS is the better fit.

Which of these connect to European accounting software?

The answer depends on the country you book in. MOCO exports to DATEV and the common German systems. Visma Severa names Netvisor and Fortnox, which are Finnish and Swedish packages. Timewax lists AFAS, Exact Online, Microsoft Dynamics, Autotask, Exact Synergy and Simplicate, which suits the Netherlands. Teamleader integrates with local accounting platforms in its six markets.

Scoro names Xero, QuickBooks and Sage Intacct plus a REST API and Zapier. If your books run on a local package that is on none of these lists, ask the vendor for the API documentation before the trial and have your accountant read it.

How we selected and ranked these 11 tools

Every tool on this page is in the European Purpose directory, which means the operating company is established in Europe and we have verified that from the company register or the vendor's own legal notice rather than from a marketing page. Tools headquartered outside Europe are not eligible, however good they are.

  1. Feature verification (weight: 40%). We check each capability against the vendor's own documentation and product pages, and record what the tool does rather than what the category is assumed to include.
  2. Ease of adoption (weight: 30%). Integrations, published API access, trial availability and how much configuration stands between signing and a usable result.
  3. Value and transparency (weight: 30%). Published pricing counts in a vendor's favour; quote-only pricing is recorded as quote-only rather than estimated. We weigh what a buyer gets for the entry price, not the headline feature count.
  4. Editorial review. Every page is researched and drafted with AI assistance, and the compliance and pricing claims are checked against the vendor's documentation before it is published under the founder's editorial responsibility. The three weights above decide the order; a position is a ranking against the other European tools in this category, not an absolute score.

Vendor-reported outcomes — ROI figures, margin uplift, time saved — are labelled as vendor claims wherever they appear on this page. We have not audited them, and neither has anyone else who quotes them. Read our full editorial process for how pages are re-verified.

Frequently asked questions

Scoro, TimeLog and Visma Severa are the closest to a full PSA, covering quotes, projects, resourcing and invoicing, with Projektron BCS as the ERP-sized option that can run on-premise. MOCO, awork, Teamwork.com and Teamleader suit smaller agencies, and Timewax, Resource Guru and Teamdeck cover resource planning only.

TimeLog states that all its servers are in Denmark, with the hosting partner Global Connect, and awork states German servers on Microsoft infrastructure. Projektron BCS cloud is hosted in German data centres with dogado GmbH. Visma Severa uses the Azure North Europe region, and Scoro lets the client choose, among others Frankfurt or Stockholm.

Scoro, TimeLog, Visma Severa, awork, Teamwork.com, Resource Guru, Teamdeck and Projektron BCS publish figures, and Teamleader lists plan prices. Timewax quotes per scheduled FTE on request, and MOCO lists a per-user monthly price without a figure we could verify, so check the vendor page for the current number.

Teamwork.com has a free plan for up to five users. Trials are offered by Scoro (14 days), TimeLog (14 days), Visma Severa (30 days), Resource Guru (30 days), Teamdeck (14 days) and awork, and none of the full PSAs has a permanent free tier.

For firms of a few dozen to a few hundred people, Scoro, TimeLog, Visma Severa and Projektron BCS cover the chain from quote to invoice. None of the vendors documents the AI forecasting that Kantata markets, so a global consultancy leaning on that layer should run a pilot before it commits.

Scoro (CRM and pipeline), Visma Severa (CRM and sales pipeline), Projektron BCS (CRM module) and Teamleader (CRM with quotations) include one. TimeLog, MOCO, awork, Timewax, Resource Guru and Teamdeck do not set out a CRM on the pages we checked.