weclapp vs Xentral

weclapp

The dedicated GoBD page gives me what my auditors ask for: GoBD conformity support stated with a procedure documentation, immutable data with full version history, complete logging of every processing step, plus incoming and outgoing e-invoices, bank transaction retrieval with open-item offsetting, automated dunning, and a DATEV export with automated pre-booking, posting-to-receipt linkage and free tax-advisor access. We found no public information on matching incoming e-invoices to purchase orders, OSS and reverse-charge VAT, or running several companies in one tenant, which keeps it below the top band.

Xentral

Invoices leave as e-invoices in ZUGFeRD and XML, incoming ones are read in ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, XML and PDF with the booking prepared for release, and a one-click DATEV export covering invoices, credit notes, liabilities and accounts is exactly the hand-over my tax adviser wants. But the books close elsewhere: the vendor itself states that BWA, Saldenliste and UStVA directly from Xentral are a long-term goal, direct booking is only planned in limited scope, the immutable journal is marked as coming soon, and we found no public information on a GoBD procedure documentation or several companies in one tenant.

weclapp

The goods chain is documented end to end — quote through order confirmation, procurement, goods receipt, picking, shipping label, invoice and return with credit note — with serial and batch numbers including best-before management, a mobile warehouse app, carrier data transfer for parcel registration, drop shipping via Streckengeschäfte, shop and marketplace connections, and stock valuation per HGB and IFRS as balance-sheet preparation. We found no public information on several warehouses and storage bins or on demand-driven purchasing proposals.

Xentral

The goods chain is documented end to end: orders from shops and marketplaces flow in automatically and update stock in real time, purchase orders come with scanned goods receipt and over/under-delivery detection, multiple warehouses carry batch, serial and best-before tracking with FiFo and LiFo, mobile batch picking scans the storage location, and ready-made carrier connections print the label while packing, with returns turned into credit notes and order proposals and EDI on top. Stock is valued from purchase price and every order logs who processed what and when; we found no public information on drop shipping or recall traceability per batch from supplier to customer.

weclapp

Both served models are named and documented: bills of materials with tree structure and sub-positions, work plans and production orders on the manufacturing side, and on the services side projects as orders with minute-level time recording, billing from logged hours via service records, resource planning with workload view, budget monitoring and Gantt charts, with contract management and helpdesk available as add-ons. We found no public information on work centres with capacity planning, MRP runs, or milestone and recurring billing, so the industry depth stops short of the top level.

Xentral

Both models are named with working cores: piece lists with production orders including material consumption and time per order, outsourced production on the same platform, and for service firms projects with sub-projects, hours booked to the project and invoiced with two clicks, plus subscription and rental invoices and digitally signed service reports. The vendor itself states the limits — simple to medium production, not built for several manufacturing stages, capacity planning or machine connection — and we found no public information on project budgets or resource planning.

weclapp

An open REST API with read and write access plus a standard API, a plugin store, bidirectional interfaces to shops, marketplaces, payment service providers and shipping services, CSV, XML and EDI exchange, DATEV and BMD exports with free tax-advisor access, help with migrating data from the previous system, and contractually documented export and switching rights paint a well-connected picture. We found no public information on a public versioned API reference, webhooks, or a migration path from named predecessor systems.

Xentral

A connector marketplace with over 200 named integrations priced per month covers shops, marketplaces, payment providers, carriers, DATEV and BI, other channels attach via CSV, XML or the open API, and legacy documents come in through a document importer. We found no public information on a public versioned API reference, webhooks, or a documented full export of master data, documents and postings when a company leaves.

weclapp

A go-live is plannable: onboarding packages from Bronze to Gold with defined contents, a seven-step introduction path, training by user group, a self-service portal with webinars and knowledge base, vendor professional services and a partner network with named certified partners — alongside role management with function-level access rights, complete audit logging, automatic updates, a 99.5 % availability commitment and maintenance-window terms. We found no public information on typical implementation duration, a status page with uptime history, or published release notes.

Xentral

Go-live is planned in 8 to 12 weeks with named customer examples from 18 days, a tiered network of 56+ certified partner agencies covers implementation and first-level support, and support runs through helpbot, help centre, community, academy and tickets with an emergency flag. Customisation without code exists in Xentral Flows with automatic updates; we found no public information on user roles and permissions or on published service-level figures beyond a Premium-SLA label in the top plan.

weclapp

The chain is documented further than most: a German GmbH as contracting entity under German law, hosting exclusively in Germany on the named AWS region Frankfurt, a published ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification statement as part of the Exact Group, an Article 28 data processing agreement template, subprocessors named with their addresses, and the weclappOn private-cloud option for hosting on site. US-headquartered providers sit in the chain — AWS as the host and ProductBoard Inc. of San Francisco for idea collection — with EU standard contractual clauses stated, and we found no public information on a complete subprocessor list for the ERP service itself.

Xentral

The contracting entity is the German Xentral ERP Software GmbH with register court and VAT ID in Augsburg and a data processing agreement is offered, while the privacy policy names Amazon Web Services Inc. of Seattle as the provider and states the server location as Germany — a US hyperscaler in the chain. We found no public information on the ownership chain, further subprocessors behind the ERP service, or a certification such as ISO 27001 or BSI C5.

weclapp

Edition prices per user are public with their inclusions (ERP Starter "€ 39 pro Monat/Nutzer", ERP Dienstleistung "€ 86", ERP Handel "€ 163"), single licences and add-ons "ab 55€ im Monat pro Nutzer", a 12-month minimum term with renewal and notice rules, VAT treatment stated, and deletion 14 days after termination with export rights documented. Onboarding and support packages are listed only as "auf Anfrage", and the captured pages give different figures for implementation costs — the homepage states none exist while the onboarding page sells packages on request — so the real first-year cost is not computable from public pages alone.

Xentral

Four of five editions carry public from-prices — Launch ab 99 €/Monat up to 500.000 € annual revenue, Starter ab 349 € with 500 orders a month and unlimited users, Business ab 649 €, Pro ab 849 € — with a feature matrix per plan and marketplace connectors priced individually. The top plan Scale is auf Anfrage, the prices are stated to depend on revenue and shipping volume without a published rule, and we found no public information on implementation fees, minimum term, VAT treatment or what happens to the data on cancellation.