Spreadly

Spreadly is operated by Spreadly GmbH, based in Baierbrunn near München, making it one of the most distinctly German competitors in this comparison. Founded in 2022 by Darius Göttert and Florian Theimer, the company positions itself consistently under the promise of "Made in Germany" and targets SMEs and large enterprises in the DACH region that are looking for a centrally manageable solution for digital business cards, lead capture, and email signatures with German hosting.

In our test, Spreadly achieves an overall score of 88 out of 100 points, placing it among the leaders. This result rests above all on the second-strongest GDPR score in the test field (92, behind oneVcard with 94) as well as a broad feature set (90).

Enterprise integration (88) and team and admin management (86) are likewise above average; only in the support language profile (82) and, outside the scores, in market maturity does it show that this is a comparatively young company. Spreadly is a proprietary SaaS solution, not an open-source product.

The GDPR score of 92 points is among the highest in the comparison (rank 2 behind oneVcard with 94) and can be justified in a comprehensible way. According to the provider, Spreadly stores customer data in Germany at Hetzner; the data is not supposed to leave the EU.

At the same time, the website advertises hosting with "European providers", and the DPA lists further subprocessors, among them Bunnyway (CDN/infrastructure). The company is certified to ISO 27001:2022 and provides a data processing agreement (DPA/AVV).

Encryption uses TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest; added to this are daily backups, role-based access control (RBAC), audit logs, regular penetration tests, and a documented 72-hour notification period. With this, Spreadly brings exactly the evidence that German and EU procurement processes typically require.

One limitation should be noted: no SOC 2 certification is listed. For purely German/European tenders this is usually irrelevant; in international or US-oriented processes, however, SOC 2 may be required. The test winner oneVcard has no ISO 27001 certificate of its own; on this point Spreadly leads in terms of formal evidence.

For the B2B rollout, Spreadly covers the central requirements. Available are single sign-on via SAML 2.0 and OAuth 2.0, SCIM for automated provisioning, as well as bulk import via CSV, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. HRIS connections to Personio and BambooHR enable automatic on- and offboarding directly from the HR system.

Via a REST API and CRM integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics, and Zapier, captured leads can be transferred into existing sales processes. Added to this are a central admin console, email signature management, NFC, QR code, Apple and Google Wallet, as well as custom branding.

This feature set supports the scores for enterprise integration (88) and team/admin management (86). Two points should be noted in the assessment from a German B2B perspective: first, no classic device MDM (Intune, Jamf) is documented; distribution runs via identity and HR systems, not via device management.

Second, central enterprise functions such as white-label and an SLA are reserved for the individual Enterprise plan, which is tailored to organizations with around 1,000 employees or more. Large, named reference customers are not yet available, which makes assessing the market maturity of a provider founded in 2022 more difficult.