Matthias S.
MS
Senior HR Compliance & Employee Data Manager
Human Resources
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Essential for GDPR Compliance in HR"
4.5/5
What do you like best about PaperTrail?

The unchangeable audit logging is the core value for our HR compliance work. Any opening, adjustment or deletion of employee contracts, payroll sheets and applicant files gets a fixed timestamp paired with the exact user account responsible. German data auditors accept these complete trace records without pushback. The search filter function makes it fast to locate all modifications to a specific personnel file, which slashes the tedious manual sorting I used to do before every internal DPO audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PaperTrail?

There are no pre-made log templates tailored to BDSG and German HR retention obligations, so I have to manually sort and filter records to meet official inspection standards. The platform has no German UI translation, creating extra friction for our junior HR team members. Mass export of audit logs often outputs messy formatting that I must rework before handing files to our data protection officer. Connecting it to our domestic HR management software needed custom API tweaks, and without pre-built German HR compliance workflows, initial rule configuration took far longer than expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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