ZEP is available in five product lines. Each line comes with a defined set of features tailored to a specific way of working. This article shows which features belong to which line and where to find your own product line.

The five product lines

The lines build on one another, from time recording through project control to company-wide billing. ZEP Clock sits alongside them and addresses companies that only record working hours and do not run projects.

Product line	Category	Suitable for
ZEP Track	Project Time Recording	project time recording without commercial processes
ZEP Clock	Working Time Tracking	working time tracking only, without project references
ZEP Control	Project Management	project control and controlling
ZEP Operations	Professional Services Automation	the project lifecycle from proposal to invoice
ZEP Business	ERP for Professional Services	company-wide management

Finding your product line

You will find your active product line under Administration > Account. It appears in the Product Line row, followed by your optional modules and interfaces.

Note: This row shows the category of your line, for example "Project Management" for ZEP Control or "Project Time Recording" for ZEP Track. Use the table above to match it to the name of your product line.

Features by product line

The overview below shows which product lines include a given feature. Features that do not appear here are part of the basic features and are available everywhere.

Feature	Included in
Working time tracking	all product lines
Automatic time recording	all product lines
Employee management	all product lines
Absences & Overtime	all product lines
Locations & Departments	all product lines
Payroll accounting export	all product lines
Interfaces and single sign-on	all product lines
Project time recording	ZEP Track, ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
Project and customer management	ZEP Track, ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
ZEP Assistant	ZEP Track, ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
Work Items	ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
Project Planning	ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
Revenue & Costs	ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
Travel Expense Management	ZEP Operations and ZEP Business, can be added in ZEP Clock
Invoicing	ZEP Operations and ZEP Business
Proposals	ZEP Operations and ZEP Business
Supplier management	ZEP Operations and ZEP Business
Export for Accounting	ZEP Operations and ZEP Business
Document Management	ZEP Business, as the employee file in ZEP Clock
Prioritized handling of support requests	ZEP Business

Note: Two exports have similar names. The payroll accounting export is included in all product lines. The Export for Accounting covers project-specific financial accounting and is included from ZEP Operations onwards.

Add-ons

Three features can be booked independently of the product line. They extend your line without requiring you to switch lines.

Add-on	Included in	Can be added in
Resource Planning	ZEP Business	ZEP Track, ZEP Control, ZEP Operations
Ticketing System	—	ZEP Track, ZEP Control, ZEP Operations, ZEP Business
ZEP Terminal	—	all product lines

Booking runs through the ZEP Self-Service Tool under Administration > Account. Resource Planning and the Ticketing System require project references and are therefore not available in ZEP Clock. The ZEP Terminal is used particularly often there, because it handles working time tracking at the device.

Tip: If you work in ZEP Clock and want to settle travel expenses, Travel Expense Management can be added as an exception for working time tracking. In ZEP Track and ZEP Control it is not available, and the path there leads through ZEP Operations.

Interfaces

The ZEP interfaces REST and SOAP as well as single sign-on via Google, Azure, Keycloak, Okta, OAuth, and LDAP are included in all product lines. The same applies to third-party interfaces, with one exception.

The interfaces finAPI, Tidely, and Lexware require billing and are therefore only available from ZEP Operations onwards. The DATEV interface, by contrast, belongs to every product line. An interface is still activated deliberately before it exchanges data. Individual interfaces are still in their test phase and are enabled on request through support.

Switching to another product line

Whatever a product line does not include cannot be added there either. The exceptions are the three add-ons and Travel Expense Management in ZEP Clock. If you need a feature your line does not provide, switch to the line that includes it.

Switching upwards is possible at any time. Your recorded data remains fully intact, and the additional features become available after the change.

Note: A feature that belongs to your product line is not active automatically. Some features must first be enabled under Administration before they appear in the menus.

Product Lines at a Glance