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Flowtly vs Skello
Skello is staff scheduling and time management for shift-based teams, made in France with collective agreements built in. Flowtly is built for project-based service firms: projects, time, invoices and margin.
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The short answer
Pick Skello if your team works in shifts, rotas are daily work, and French collective agreements must be checked on every schedule. Pick Flowtly if your team works on client projects and you bill for its time.
Who Skello is for
- Restaurants, hotels and shops with shift rotas
- Multi-site businesses that plan staff site by site
- French employers who need collective-agreement checks
Who Flowtly is for
- Service firms of 5–50 people that bill for their team’s time
- Owners who want each project’s margin before month-end
- Teams that want projects, time, invoices and their people in one tool
Pros and cons
Each point names its source and the date we checked it.
| Product | Pro or con | What it means | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flowtly | Pro | Projects, time, invoices, budgets and team costs share one record, so each project’s margin is current. | Flowtly featureschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Pro | E-invoices through EU Peppol and Factur-X, and through KSeF for Polish entities. | Flowtly featureschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Con | No Gantt chart yet; it is on the public roadmap as planned. | Flowtly roadmapchecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Con | A short list of native integrations (Google Calendar, Make, Polish banks) plus an open API, not a marketplace. | Flowtly integrationschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Skello | Pro | Shift planning with compliance alerts based on the collective agreement and each contract. | Skello product pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Skello | Pro | A tablet and mobile time clock, absence counters and payroll preparation. | Skello product pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Skello | Con | No client invoicing: billing for hours worked happens in another tool. | Skello product pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Skello | Con | Prices are not published; you ask for an offer. | Skello pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
When Skello is the better choice
- Your team works shifts and the rota changes every week.
- You must check French collective-agreement rules on every schedule.
- Payroll preparation from clocked hours matters more than client billing.
Pricing model
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Flowtly
Per user, per month, on three plans, with annual billing cheaper than monthly. Free trial.
Moving from Skello
Typical effort: two to four weeks for a team of 20, with both tools running side by side for one billing cycle
- 1
Export
Export your team list and contracts from Skello.
- 2
Import and check
Add your team members and work schedules in Flowtly; we help with the first import.
- 3
Run in parallel
Run one month of time and invoicing in Flowtly; keep Skello where you still plan shifts.
See Flowtly with your own projects
Bring a sample of your projects into the free trial. We help with the first import.
Other comparisons
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- Flowtly vs OdooThe broadest suite here; a service firm configures the apps it needs and leaves the rest.
- Flowtly vs AsanaExcellent for planning and tracking tasks; billing and margin live in other tools.
- Flowtly vs Bitrix24A wide collaboration and CRM workspace at a flat price; project finance is lighter.
- Flowtly vs spreadsheetsFlexible and familiar until several people edit the numbers every month.
Sources and review
Written by Flowtly’s team, who build one of the two products compared. Every point about Skello is checked against its public pages on the date shown.
- Skello product page, checked 24 Oct 2026