Schengen compliance software compared

These take a set of dates and return a day count. Most require no signup and keep no record, which is exactly right for an individual traveller sanity-checking a booking.

The limitation is structural rather than a quality problem: there is nothing to come back to. Next month you re-enter every trip from memory, and there is no shared answer if a colleague asks the same question about the same employee.

Our own free calculator sits in this category and we are not pretending otherwise — it is a genuinely useful tool for one traveller and nothing more.

Team Today is primarily workplace management software — desk booking, meeting rooms, parking, and hybrid-work visibility. Schengen day monitoring sits alongside that as a compliance feature, drawing on whereabouts data the platform already holds.

If you already run your office on it, having Schengen days monitored next to everything else is a real advantage: the travel data is partly there already, and you are not adding another subscription.

If you do not, you are buying a workplace platform to solve a travel compliance problem. That can still be the right call — but the fit depends on whether you want the rest of it.

Jobbatical presents immigration, relocation, and compliance services alongside free visa and immigration calculators. Topia presents a broader global-mobility platform spanning international assignments, business travel, remote work, and cross-border compliance.

If you sponsor visas, relocate staff, or manage immigration casework, this is the right shape of product and a dedicated Schengen compliance tool will not replace it.

The mismatch is when short business trips are the whole problem. You are then buying — and being onboarded onto — a relocation platform to answer a counting question, usually through a sales process rather than a signup form.

These do one thing: keep a running 90/180 position for each employee, show the trips behind it, and forecast what a proposed trip would do before it is approved.

The argument for the category is that repeat Schengen business travel is a distinct problem from relocation. It is high-frequency, low-complexity, and the cost of getting it wrong lands on the employee at a border.

The argument against is equally real: it is a narrow tool. ComplyEur does not handle visa sponsorship, work permits, relocation, or immigration casework, and does not connect to the EU Entry/Exit System. If those are your problems, look at the mobility platforms above.

A spreadsheet stores trip dates perfectly well. The rolling-window arithmetic is where it gets difficult: without new travel, the answer stays the same until an old presence day ages out, then improves, so every proposed date still needs its own calculation.

What actually breaks is rarely the formula. It is version drift: a trip cancelled in one copy and not another, a date typed as US format, an employee whose last two trips only exist in an email thread.

For a small team with predictable travel this is a reasonable choice and we would not argue otherwise. It stops being reasonable at roughly the point where more than one person needs to trust the number.