MyArkevia is based on a technical foundation dedicated to the probative preservation of electronic payslips. This positioning immediately distinguishes it from simple cloud storage spaces or generalist document management systems. Comparing its features to those of its competitors requires going beyond the marketing list and examining what truly differentiates the platforms in practice.
Probative value and compliance: MyArkevia versus competing safes
The confusion between digital safes and storage spaces remains common. A digital safe compliant with regulatory requirements guarantees the integrity, traceability, and non-repudiation of the deposited documents. MyArkevia relies on specialized infrastructure, which gives it a probative value that solutions like Google Drive, OneDrive, or even some enterprise document management systems do not claim to offer.
Digiposte shares a similar positioning in the employee safe market. The difference lies in the distribution channel: MyArkevia is deployed by the employer through its payroll software, while Digiposte offers direct access to individuals. In practice, an employee can receive their payslips in MyArkevia without having created a Digiposte account, and vice versa.
Platforms like PeopleDoc or Silae also offer an employee safe, but their architecture primarily targets the complete HR chain. The safe is just one module among others, which can complicate the assessment of compliance taken in isolation. As detailed in the comparison by Jeune et Actif, the granularity of compliance criteria varies significantly from one publisher to another.
Retention period for payslips: a often misunderstood criterion
The Labor Code requires that the electronic payslip remains available for 50 years. This obligation falls on the employer or their service provider, not on the employee themselves.
MyArkevia contractually commits to this duration. The employee retains access to their documents even after leaving the company, at no additional cost. This is a point that deserves verification with competitors: some solutions terminate access a few months after the end of the employment contract, unless the employee takes voluntary action to migrate their documents.
What competitors really promise
- PeopleDoc offers an employee safe whose access sustainability post-employment depends on the conditions stipulated in the employer contract.
- Silae integrates the distribution of payslips into its payroll software, but the sustainability of the employee safe depends on the maintenance of the contract between the employer and the publisher.
The question to ask each provider is straightforward: what happens to the employee’s access if the company changes payroll solutions or ceases operations?
Reversibility and document export: the overlooked criterion
Reversibility is the blind spot of most comparisons. The ability to export documents en masse with their metadata (submission date, integrity fingerprint, consultation history) conditions any future migration.
MyArkevia allows for individual downloading of payslips by the employee. However, bulk export with metadata falls under the employer’s scope, via dedicated APIs. This operation is common in the industry: employee-side portability often limits itself to downloading PDFs piece by piece.
Comparison of export capabilities
| Criterion | MyArkevia | Digiposte | PeopleDoc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual employee download | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bulk employee export | No (employer API) | No | No (limited portal) |
| Exportable metadata | Via employer API | Not documented | On request |
| Export format |
None of these platforms currently offer an employee export that includes submission and integrity traces. Real portability remains an open issue for the entire sector.
Functional scope beyond the payslip
MyArkevia focuses on the distribution and preservation of payslips. Its functional scope remains deliberately narrow: no integrated document management system, no validation workflow, no native electronic signature.
This choice is an advantage or a disadvantage depending on the context. For an SME looking solely to comply with the obligation of providing dematerialized access, MyArkevia meets the need without unnecessary complexity. For a company that wants to centralize contracts, amendments, certificates, and payslips in one space, PeopleDoc or document management systems like Zeendoc offer a broader spectrum.
The distinction between a digital safe and an electronic archiving system (EAS) is structural. An EAS aims to preserve integrity and traceability over time, with its own normative requirements. Confusing the two is akin to comparing a bank safe and a filing cabinet: their uses only partially overlap.
The choice between MyArkevia and its competitors is not limited to a checklist of features. The guaranteed access duration, data reversibility, and the exact scope of the service condition the real value of the chosen solution, well beyond the user interface.
