Ordio vs. ZEP

ZEP is the software for management consulting, IT consulting and engineering. Every hour is booked to a client and a project — the same booking produces utilization, cost calculation, the invoice and a real-time view of your margin. The ZEP AI chat (ZEP Assistant) is included in all product lines. Each line has a defined scope; as your project business grows, you move up a line and take your data with you, without switching tools:

• ZEP Track - Project Time Tracking: book hours to clients and projects, keep budgets in view. From €9.00 on an annual contract.

• ZEP Control - Project Management with a commercial view: plan work items and capacity while revenue, costs and utilization come out of the hours your team has booked. From €19.00 on an annual contract.

• ZEP Operations - Professional Services Automation: the entire project cycle, from the proposal through the booked hour to the invoice. From €29.00 on an annual contract.

• ZEP Business - ERP for Professional Services: run your project business across several legal entities, with intercompany billing, Document Management, the HR module and Resource Planning. From €39.00 on an annual contract.

All prices per user and month. 

Don't need project hours? Then there is ZEP Clock, a line of its own for legally compliant employee time tracking: from €4.50 on an annual contract, €6.00 monthly, with Travel Expense Management and the HR module available as options. If projects play a role in your business — today or in the foreseeable future — start with ZEP Track.

Included in every product line:

• employee time tracking, Absences & Overtime

• employee administration, Locations & Departments

• payroll accounting export

• all integrations unlimited — ZEP's own APIs (REST, SOAP), single sign-on (Google, Azure, Keycloak, Okta, OAuth, LDAP) and third-party integrations

• booking via app and in the browser, ZEP Terminal as an add-on

• support via Help Center, Help Center AI, email and phone

From ZEP Track: project time tracking, project and client administration, ZEP Assistant, ZEP Pulse, ZEP MCP.
From ZEP Control: Work Items, Project Planning, Revenue & Costs.
From ZEP Operations: Proposals, Invoicing, Travel Expense Management, supplier administration, project-specific financial accounting export.
ZEP Business only: multiple legal entities with intercompany billing, Document Management, HR module, Resource Planning included, prioritized handling in support.

Available as add-ons: Resource Planning (€5.00 per user), Ticketing System (€4.00 per user), ZEP Terminal (€15.00 per terminal).

Around 3,000 companies run their project business with ZEP, with a focus on management consulting, IT consulting and engineering. As your company grows, you don't switch software — you switch product line: what you book in ZEP Track, you later manage in ZEP Control, ZEP Operations or ZEP Business, and your data stays with you. Employee time tracking with ZEP Clock works in any industry.

ZEP is developed in Germany and stores its data exclusively with ISO 27001-certified hosting providers in Germany. Full details on data protection are set out in our terms and conditions and in the data processing agreement.