Sesame HR

Sesame HR is built outward from the time clock. Shift planning and working-time recording are the centre of the product, with leave and absence and a performance module around them — which reflects where it comes from, since Spain implements the European requirement for an objective daily record of hours more stringently than most member states and a Valencian vendor cannot treat it as an optional module.

Companies whose first HR problem is proving who worked when, rather than storing contracts, will find the product organised the way they think.

Sesame Labs, S.L. publishes its prices on the Spanish site: Essential at €4.75, Connect at €5.50, Growth at €6.25 and Scale at €8.00 per employee per month excluding VAT, with a custom plan on request.

There is a 14-day free trial with no commitment, so the product can be tested on real staff before anything is signed. Two caveats belong with those figures. The Spanish price page also shows a second, higher set of numbers without saying plainly which applies to annual and which to monthly billing, so the quote is worth confirming in writing. And the minimum is 15 employees, which rules out the smallest teams altogether.

On infrastructure Sesame HR is mixed rather than pure: hosting is OVHcloud, with Amazon Web Services in the EU alongside it, and customers in Latin America are additionally served through IPXON in the United States and Latin America. It states ISO 27001.

What the company does not publish is anything about itself — no founding year, no owners or investors are named on the site or in the legal notice, which for a platform holding personnel records is a gap a buyer should close in the contract rather than assume away.

What Sesame HR does well

• Time clock, shifts and working-time records are the core of the product, not an add-on
• Four plans with published prices, from €4.75 per employee per month excl. VAT
• 14-day free trial with no commitment
• Spanish operating company, hosting on OVHcloud with AWS in the EU
• States ISO 27001

Where Sesame HR falls short

• Minimum of 15 employees — smaller teams cannot buy it
• The Spanish price page shows a second, higher set of figures without saying which billing cycle each belongs to
• Amazon Web Services sits alongside OVHcloud, so it is not European infrastructure throughout
• Latin-American customers are served through IPXON in the US and Latin America
• Names no founding year, owners or investors anywhere on its own site

Standout feature. Built around the clock-in: Sesame HR is the platform where the working-time record is the product and the personnel file is what grew around it.