MOCO
Agency operations with time tracking at the centre - European alternative based in Germany
Quick Overview
| Company | MOCO |
|---|---|
| Category | Time Tracking Software |
| Headquarters | Hamburg, Germany |
| EU/European | Yes - Germany |
| GDPR Compliant | Yes |
| Main Features | Time plus projects & invoicing, Agency planning, German accounting export |
| Pricing | Per user, per month |
| Best For | Agencies that want time, projects, planning and invoices in one place |
| Replaces | Harvest, Toggl + FreshBooks, Scoro |
Detailed Review
MOCO is a Hamburg product for agencies and consultancies where time tracking is the entry point to something larger: the same hours drive project budgets, capacity planning, invoices and the handover to accounting.
What Makes MOCO Stand Out
MOCO is the answer to the agency stack problem — a timer in one tool, projects in another, invoices in a third, and nobody sure which one is right. Because the hours, the budget and the invoice are the same record, project profitability is a report rather than a spreadsheet exercise.
What the Software Does
Time tracking, project and budget management, resource planning, offers and invoicing, expenses, and exports into DATEV and the common German accounting systems, with an API and integrations for the rest.
European Data Protection and Works Councils
MOCO is based in Hamburg with German hosting, and its accounting exports are built for German practice rather than translated into it. For an agency whose Steuerberater expects DATEV, that is the difference between an export and a monthly argument.
Timesheets are employee data, and in much of Europe that pulls in more than the GDPR: works council agreement, purpose limitation, and strict limits on anything resembling behavioural monitoring. A vendor built inside that framework tends to ship defaults that keep you on the right side of it.
Pricing
Per-user monthly pricing with the planning and invoicing modules included rather than tiered separately — the comparison against a stack of single-purpose subscriptions is usually favourable.
MOCO vs the US Alternatives
Against Harvest, Toggl + FreshBooks, Scoro, the European difference is less about the timer and more about what surrounds it: statutory working time rules, accounting exports the local bookkeeper accepts, and a much narrower appetite for surveillance features that would be unlawful to switch on here anyway.
Who Should Use MOCO
MOCO fits agencies and consultancies of roughly five to a hundred people who want one system from timer to invoice.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- Time, projects, planning and invoicing in one system
- Project profitability without a spreadsheet
- DATEV and German accounting exports
- Resource planning included
- API and integrations for the rest
Cons
- More system than a solo freelancer needs
- Agency-shaped — less general purpose
- German market focus
- Per-user pricing across the whole team
Alternatives to MOCO
Looking for other European time tracking tools? Here are the alternatives worth comparing:
Frequently Asked Questions
MOCO is based in Germany and operates under European data-protection rules including the GDPR. Timesheet data is employee data, so it stays under European jurisdiction rather than under US legislation.
MOCO is based in Germany. We list European time tracking tools because timesheets are employee data and, in much of Europe, a works council matter as well.
Time tracking, project and budget management, resource planning, offers and invoicing, expenses, and exports into DATEV and the common German accounting systems, with an API and integrations for the rest.
Per-user monthly pricing with the planning and invoicing modules included rather than tiered separately — the comparison against a stack of single-purpose subscriptions is usually favourable.
MOCO is a European alternative to Harvest, Toggl + FreshBooks, Scoro, with European working time rules and accounting exports handled as core behaviour.
This is the question to ask of any tool in this category, and the answers differ sharply. Toggl Track deliberately has no screenshots, keystroke logging or activity scoring. Timeular captures activity locally on the employee's own machine. TimeCamp offers automatic capture that needs a clear legal basis and usually works council agreement before you switch it on.
MOCO is built as a European alternative to Harvest: Agency operations with time tracking at the centre. It will not be a like-for-like feature match in every respect, so check the review above for where the two genuinely differ before switching.
MOCO is one of several European Time Tracking Software covered on this site. See the full Time Tracking Software category page for how it ranks against its closest European competitors.