- Do I have to install anything?
- Not to get started: domelo opens in a browser, on a computer as on a phone, and adds itself to your home screen like an app. A real iOS and Android app exists too, for photographing a receipt in the wings or checking your dates with no signal — it's in closed beta, and the Contact page is where you ask to join. Everything syncs: what you do on one side is there on the other.
- How long before it's actually useful?
- As long as it takes to send one contract. Your rehearsal and performance dates fill the diary, the production appears, and the counter starts moving. The rest fills in across the season, without you having to come back to it.
- Do I have to retype all my documents?
- No. You forward the emails you already receive — contract, schedule, hotel bill — to your domelo address. They're read, filed, attached to the right production. Whatever you have on paper, you photograph.
- Where does my hour count come from?
- From your own documents, and nothing else. At the start, domelo estimates from the dates in your contract: that's a ballpark figure, and it says so. Then your schedules sharpen it, your manual corrections override it, and your AEM and payslips replace the estimate with what the employer actually declared. The total tightens as the season goes on.
- Is this counter official?
- No, and it doesn't claim to be. domelo adds up what you give it and shows you the detail, line by line, so you can check it and spot a missing document before your appointment. The decision on your rights belongs to France Travail, not to us.
- Does this replace my accountant?
- No, it does the groundwork for them. domelo files the year and produces a clean export, as PDF or spreadsheet, to hand over when they ask. What they do on their side, nobody else does.
- Who can read my documents?
- You, and nobody on our side. They're encrypted at rest on European servers, and only the automatic reading opens them, just long enough to file them. The documents you put in the sealed vault are encrypted on your own device, with a key that never reaches us — those, we literally can't open.
- And if I stop one day?
- You export everything — documents, expenses, diary — and you leave with it. No data is sold, to an advertiser or to anyone else, and deleting your account deletes your files.