The HR side, without the HR overhead.
Employee records, onboarding and working-time compliance in the same workspace as the work, so people admin stops living in spreadsheets and inboxes.
- Free forever plan
- ArbZG-ready
- No HR suite
Everything in HR & people
People admin that runs itself.
Every person, one profile.
Role, contract, hours and start date on one card, so the answer isn’t buried in a folder somewhere.
The whole team in one place.
A directory of who’s who and what they do, kept current without a spreadsheet.
New hires, up to speed.
An onboarding checklist so contracts, equipment and accounts are done before day one.
Working time, kept compliant.
Daily hours checked against the ArbZG limits, so the record holds up when it’s asked for.
Leave, always in sync.
Vacation, remote and sick balances update themselves, so HR isn’t the bottleneck.
We run Pistacio on Pistacio.
It's how we replaced five separate tools for our own company. We hit the rough edges before you do, because we're in here every day too.
Bootstrapped, and built by the people who use it daily.
For every team
How teams use hr & people
Agencies
Records and equipment for a team of freelancers and staff, without a separate HR tool.
- Records
- Contracts
- No HR suite
Consultancies
Onboard consultants fast, with equipment and accounts ready before their first billable day.
- Onboarding
- Fast start
- Equipment
Software teams
A lightweight people directory that lives next to the work, not in a suite nobody logs into.
- Directory
- Lightweight
- One login
Startups
Proper records from your first hire, free, instead of contracts scattered across a drive.
- Free plan
- First hire
- Records
Mittelstand
Working-time compliance and clean records, ready the day an audit asks for them.
- ArbZG
- Audit-ready
- Records
Pricing that scales with you.
Start on the free forever plan. Move up when the team grows.
Free
€0
Free forever
Time tracking and invoices for a tiny team.
Includes
- Up to 5 users
- 5 clients
- 3 projects
- 1 year of history
Growth
€10
per user / month · billed annually
Run client delivery end to end.
Includes
- Unlimited seats
- expenses
- budgets & rates
- utilization
Business
€20
per user / month · billed annually
Pipeline, finance ops and compliance.
Includes
- CRM
- bank bookkeeping
- working-time compliance
None of the three fit? Build your own from €3 a module.
Frequently asked questions
No. It’s the people admin a small team actually needs, records, onboarding and working-time, next to the work, not a separate system.
Yes. Daily hours are checked against the ArbZG limits, so the record holds up when it’s asked for.
An onboarding checklist covers contracts, equipment and accounts, so nothing’s missed before day one.
Vacation, remote and sick balances update themselves in the same workspace, so HR isn’t the bottleneck.
People records are part of the workspace; the free forever plan covers a small team.
Built for German business
The standards Pistacio is built on.
- Pistacio creates e-invoices in the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats, Germany’s standards for electronic invoicing.
- E-Rechnung (Bund)
- Invoices and receipts are kept GoBD-compliant, with clean sequential numbering and proper retention.
- GoBD (BMF)
- The books export cleanly to DATEV for your Steuerberater at quarter-end.
- DATEV
- Working time is checked against the limits of the German Working Hours Act (ArbZG).
- ArbZG (Gesetze im Internet)
Start running the day from one place.
Free forever plan, no credit card. You'll be set up before the coffee's cold.
- Free forever
- No credit card
- Cancel anytime