About
🎯 THE PROBLEM
When we scaled from 14 to 160 employees, Spanish labor law (RDL 8/2019) became a real issue:
- Digital time tracking is MANDATORY
- Fines can reach €187,515
- Inspections happen without warning
We explored 3 different HR platforms: Factorial, Personio, Sesame HR and many other HRIS .. but They all had the same problem: I just wanted time tracking and they offer you a big solution that as an startup we dit not need yet.
Why? Because these are full HRIS systems. They're powerful, but for a small tech team, they're overkill. We didn't need org charts, performance reviews, or document management. We just needed time tracking and vacation management.
And we definitely didn't want to force our team to open ANOTHER app every single day.
💡 THE INSIGHT
Our team use Slack for everything:
- Team communication
- GitHub notifications
- Quick questions
- Daily standups
- Project Management
- Internal calls via huddle
Why make them context-switch to a separate app just to clock in?
✨ WHAT CHANGED WHILE BUILDING
Initially, I thought we'd build a simple time tracker. Just /fichar (clock in/out) and that's it.
But while talking to our team, I realized:
- Vacation requests were equally painful (email threads, spreadsheets)
- People wanted autonomy (check their own balances without asking HR)
- We (HR) wanted simplicity (approve in Slack, not another dashboard)
So Susana became two things in one:
1. **Time tracking** (mandatory compliance)
2. **Vacation management** (quality of life)
Both in Slack. Both autonomous. Both simple.
🚀 HOW IT WORKS
Time Tracking:
- Clock in: `/fichar entrada`
- Clock out: `/fichar salida`
- Check hours: `/vacaciones saldo`
- Export reports: Admin dashboard (30 seconds)
Vacation Management:
- Request time off: `/vacaciones solicitar`
- Check balance: `/vacaciones saldo`
- Approve/reject: Slack notification → one click
- Automatic timestamps (can't be manipulated)
- 4-year retention (legally required)
- GDPR compliant (EU servers)
- Instant CSV/Excel exports for inspections
👥 WHO IT'S FOR
Perfect for:
- Spanish tech SMBs and startups (5-100 people)
- Remote or hybrid teams
- Companies that live in Slack
- Teams tired of complex HRIS systems
Not for
- Large enterprises needing full HRIS
- Companies not using Slack daily
- Teams outside Spain (for now—see below)
💰 PRICING (INTENTIONALLY LOW)
- FREE 14-day trial (no credit card)
- FREE up to 5 users--> (forever)
- €49/year for unlimited users (€4/month)