Zucchetti
Zucchetti HR is the people-management line of Gruppo Zucchetti, the Lodi software house founded in 1978 that describes itself as Italy's largest software company by revenue. The suite covers Italian payroll (paghe), attendance (presenze), HCM, corporate welfare, travel expenses and fleet, with one employee master record shared across modules.
Pricing model
Custom quote per module and company size; no public price list
Deployment
Cloud/On-premise
Platforms
Web, iOS, Android
Free trial
No self-serve trial; demo on request
Legal name
Zucchetti
No list prices are published for any Zucchetti HR product. Cost depends on which modules you license (paghe, presenze, HCM, welfare), headcount, hardware for time clocks, and whether the deal is struck directly or through one of Zucchetti's regional partners.
There is a second route: Service Paghe, where Zucchetti processes payroll for you. That turns a software project into a service fee and suits companies without an in-house payroll specialist. Ask for both options in the same proposal so you can compare them on a per-cedolino basis.
Pricing last checked on September 25, 2026. View source
Editorial verdict
I would put Zucchetti HR on the list for any Italian employer with a dedicated HR or payroll office that wants to run paghe in-house. The CCNL tables, arrears handling when a contract is renewed and the year-end CU and 770 outputs are the parts that generic international HR suites leave to a local payroll bureau, and here they are the core of the product.
The breadth is the second reason. Zucchetti sells attendance terminals, a shift planner, a recruiting product (InRecruiting), an LMS (Skillato), a welfare platform (ZWelfare) and a travel and expense tool (ZTravel) from the same vendor. A company that wants one Italian supplier for everything touching employees can get it.
The trade-off is that this is a modular enterprise catalogue, not a product you switch on in an afternoon. Zucchetti says it runs four separate HR software platforms for different company sizes, so the first job is working out which one you are being quoted. Outside Italy the fit drops quickly: the group has offices in countries such as Spain, Germany, France and Brazil, but the HR pages are written for Italian law.
Mid-sized and large Italian employers with an internal HR office, multiple CCNLs or shift-based workforces, and a preference for one domestic vendor covering payroll, attendance hardware, welfare and expenses.
It is a weaker pick for a 15-person Italian startup that only needs leave tracking and payslip delivery: TeamSystem's Dipendenti in Cloud or a labour consultant's portal covers that with less set-up. It is also the wrong tool for a company whose Italian entity is one of many, where a global HRIS plus a local payroll service is the usual pattern.
Few vendors cover as much Italian HR ground from one catalogue. Zucchetti reports more than 700,000 customers and over 9,000 staff across the group, sells its own time-clock hardware, and extends into areas most HR suites ignore, such as company canteen booking, car-pooling (Up2Go) and fleet management (ZCarFleet). The ZConnect app gives employees payslips, leave requests and clock-ins on phones, tablets and smartwatches.
Zucchetti fits a buyer who is already talking to Italian labour consultants and wants the software to match how Italian payroll is actually run. It fits poorly for a multinational that needs one HRIS across ten countries; there, Zucchetti is more often the local Italian payroll engine sitting under an international HR platform chosen at group level.
Zucchetti HR comes from Zucchetti, an Italian software group, and covers HR and payroll for mid-market and enterprise employers. It can run in the cloud or on premise, which few vendors in this directory still offer. Pricing is quote-based, so budget from a formal proposal.
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Software Paghe Zucchetti calculates pay, contributions and tax, manages absences and overtime fed from attendance, and flags errors with diagnostic checks before payslips are issued.
Certificazione Unica, Modello 770 in simplified and ordinary form, and communications to the Centro per l'Impiego.
Arrears (arretrati) are recalculated automatically when a CCNL is renewed.
Attendance, absence and leave tracking works with Zucchetti's own time-clock hardware. ZScheduling handles shift planning, and AWMS targets workforce management in manufacturing.
A meal-booking module links the company canteen to attendance data.
Activity timesheets for project cost allocation.
The HCM line adds recruiting, training, skills assessment, compensation and appraisal. Welfare covers flexible benefit plans (ZWelfare) and fringe-benefit cards, and mobility covers fleet, travel expenses and sustainable commuting plans.
Employee app for iOS, Android and Huawei AppGallery, also on smartwatches.
Self-service portal for payslips, documents and requests.
Evaluating Zucchetti HR means separating what sounds strong in the demo from what holds up after implementation for HR software teams.
Where Zucchetti HR earns its place for mid-market teams
CCNL contracts are pre-loaded, contract renewals trigger arrears calculations, and the software produces the Certificazione Unica, the Modello 770 (simplified and ordinary) and the hiring communications to the Centro per l'Impiego.
Zucchetti sells time-clock terminals alongside its presenze software, so clock-in data flows into payroll without a third-party integration.
For factories and retailers with badge readers at every site, that removes one of the more fragile links in an Italian payroll chain.
Recruiting (InRecruiting), e-learning (Skillato), soft-skill assessment (Eggup), compensation and appraisals, HR analytics and a document dematerialisation module (Dig Dem) all come from the same group.
Service Paghe lets a company hand payroll processing to Zucchetti and keep only the employee-facing tools.
What to press on in Zucchetti HR pricing calls before signing
Every module is quoted. You cannot estimate cost per employee from the website, and partner quotes can differ.
The payroll logic, forms and documentation target Italian law. Employers with staff in several countries will need other payroll providers for those countries.
Zucchetti runs four HR platforms for different company sizes plus dozens of add-on modules. Buyers need to pin down exactly which platform and modules the proposal covers.
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Module count matters most. Payroll alone is one line; adding attendance terminals, ZScheduling for shifts, InRecruiting and Skillato multiplies the licences and the implementation days. Hardware for presenze is a separate purchase.
Ask whether the proposal is for the cloud service or an installed licence, and who does the CCNL set-up: Zucchetti directly, a partner, or your labour consultant.
If your HR team is two people, Service Paghe may be cheaper in practice than running the payroll software and keeping up with every INPS and fiscal change yourselves. Larger HR offices usually keep payroll in-house and buy the software.
Before you sign
Zucchetti sells through direct sales and a partner network across Italy, so the demo is usually run by whoever will implement it. Go in with your CCNLs and headcount ready.
List every CCNL you apply and your pay-cycle quirks before the demo, because the payroll engine's value lies in how it handles those contracts and the arrears when they are renewed.
Ask which of Zucchetti's four HR platforms the quote is for, since the platform sets the module list, the deployment options and the partner who will support you.
Price Service Paghe next to the software licence, because a small HR office may pay less to outsource payroll to Zucchetti than to run it internally.
Confirm the attendance hardware and integrations in writing, as time-clock terminals, badge readers and any link to a non-Zucchetti ERP are separate line items.
OSHA 1910.38 emergency action plan with roles, assembly points, fire, weather, medical and active-threat procedures, a drill log, and a continuity section.
Attendance policy template with a points system, tardiness rules, call-in procedure, rolling 12-month window, protected-leave exclusions, job abandonment.
Bereavement leave policy: days by relationship, pay, travel time, reproductive loss leave, CA/OR/IL mandates, UK rules and a manager message.
The HR and payroll products are designed around Italian law (CCNL contracts, CU, Modello 770). Zucchetti Group operates in other countries, but its Italian HR pages do not describe multi-country payroll.
Prices are not on Zucchetti's website. Each module is quoted based on headcount and scope, directly or through a partner.
Yes. Service Paghe is Zucchetti's payroll outsourcing service for companies that prefer not to run payroll software themselves.
Yes. ZConnect is Zucchetti's employee app for smartphones, tablets and smartwatches (iOS, Android, Huawei AppGallery), covering payslips, leave requests and clock-ins.
Zucchetti was founded in 1978 by Domenico Zucchetti in Lodi; he handed leadership to his children Alessandro and Cristina in 2008. The group reports more than 9,000 employees and 700,000 customers.
Italian employers usually compare Zucchetti with TeamSystem, the other large domestic vendor, or with a global HR suite that relies on a local payroll partner.
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