softgardenATS scope, costs and alternatives

Where this ATS fits

The pricing matrix includes a Federal Employment Agency integration and describes German hosting. All-in-One documents multi-tenancy, advanced access controls and internal approvals, making it relevant to a multi-location employer.

Deletion settings can distinguish hired and rejected applications and the talent pool. Periods can be adjusted or disabled. In a tenant structure, settings do not automatically propagate from the main tenant; each sub-tenant needs configuration.

Price the proposed plan

Core starts at €199/month excluding VAT; All-in-One has custom pricing based on hiring volume. All-in-One includes 20 active postings and personal onboarding. SSO is separately bookable; HR-system and calendar/email integrations are optional. Price media spend and extra interfaces separately.

What changes the decision

The support article says automatic deadlines apply to final hired/rejected stages, not applications left in earlier stages. Anonymized reporting metadata can remain after deletion. A stagnant applicant pipeline therefore creates a different retention risk from a closed one.

• No verified All-in-One quote or extra-slot price.
• Local board effectiveness outside Germany was not assessed.
• German hosting and configurable policies do not alone establish compliance with all buyer obligations.

What to demonstrate before buying

Demonstrate twelve roles across the actual countries, including a German job-board handoff and a sub-tenant. Leave a synthetic candidate in an early stage, close another and show which deletion rules apply. Require the quote to include SSO, calendar, HRIS, onboarding and media.

• Teamtailor: Compare cross-country presentation and included privacy controls.
• Recruitee Advance: Compare unlimited postings and multilingual careers-site scope.

Which alternatives belong on your shortlist?

• Teamtailor

  A European employer with 12 live roles can use the documented unlimited jobs/users model without a five-job entry-tier constraint. Country-specific privacy settings are relevant to the three-country scenario; they still require an administrator to configure the account.

  Trade-off: the most recent application can change the candidate's applicable location policy. When an application spans several locations, the strictest applicable setting wins. Flagged records are removed after a one-week delay; hired candidates can be excluded.

• Tellent Recruitee

  Start is capped at five active job posts. Advance documents unlimited postings, multi-language/multi-location support and a branded multi-page careers site, so its published scope is closer to this European scenario.

  Trade-off: the retention clock starts at application. When profiles merge, the latest application determines retention; manually specified periods can take precedence through the furthest date. Support states GDPR automation is available on Advance and Optimize.