Spreadly

Spreadly is operated by Spreadly GmbH, headquartered in Baierbrunn near Munich, making it one of the most distinctly German competitors in the comparison. Founded in 2022 by Darius Göttert and Florian Theimer, the company positions itself consistently under a "Made in Germany" promise and targets SMBs 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 87 out of 100 points, placing it among the leaders. This result is driven above all by the second-highest GDPR score in the test field (92, behind oneVcard with 94) as well as a broad feature set (90).

Enterprise integration (84), team and admin management (86) and value for money (84) are also above average; only in the support-language profile (82) and - outside the scores - in market maturity does it become apparent that this is a comparatively young company. Spreadly is a proprietary SaaS solution, not an open-source product.

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

At the same time, the website advertises hosting by "European providers", and the DPA lists further sub-processors - including Bunnyway (CDN/infrastructure). The company is certified to ISO 27001:2022 and provides a data processing agreement (DPA) under Art. 28 GDPR.

Encryption is provided via TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 at rest; this is complemented by daily backups, role-based access control (RBAC), audit logs, regular penetration tests and a documented 72-hour notification deadline. Spreadly thus brings exactly the evidence that German and EU procurement processes typically require.

One limitation should be noted: a SOC 2 certification is not stated. For purely German/European tenders this is usually irrelevant; for internationally 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 is ahead 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, and 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 (84) 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 features such as white-label and an SLA are reserved for the individual Enterprise plan, which is tailored to organizations with roughly 1,000 employees or more. Large, named reference customers are not yet available, which makes it harder to assess the market maturity of a provider founded in 2022.