As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates weclapp 3.5/5 and Xentral 3/5 in ERP. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick weclapp and 0 pick Xentral. weclapp scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (European sovereignty, Finance, tax & compliance, Pricing transparency, plus 3 more). Xentral scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Purchasing, inventory & order processing). Provenance — weclapp: EU-Made; Xentral: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
weclapp holds the higher mean on six of seven criteria; Xentral leads the seventh, orders and inventory, 8.0 versus 7.8, where 5 judges tie and 1 leans Xentral. weclapp's widest gap is sovereignty, 8.0 versus 4.3 with 6 judges leaning weclapp, citing German-law contracts, hosting exclusively in Germany on AWS in Frankfurt, published ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and the weclappOn private-cloud option. Xentral's verdict reports the privacy policy names Amazon Web Services Inc. of Seattle and we found no public information on where the ERP's business data is hosted. weclapp also leads finance and compliance 7.0 vs 5.8, production and projects 7.0 vs 6.2, integration and portability 6.7 vs 6.0, rollout and operations 7.0 vs 6.5, and pricing transparency 6.7 vs 5.5. The five weighted totals listed favor weclapp, 7 to 7.3 against 5.8 to 6.8. No overall winner is declared; the criterion-level split is the finding.
Choose weclapp if
You must document data control for auditors or regulators: sovereignty stands 8.0 to 4.3 with 6 judges leaning weclapp, citing German-law contracts, hosting exclusively in Germany on AWS in Frankfurt, a published ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate and an Article 28 data processing agreement template.
You want a private-cloud deployment: the weclappOn private-cloud option is documented in weclapp's sovereignty verdict; we found no public information on a private-cloud option for Xentral.
Your finance team needs HGB and IFRS stock valuation available now: finance and compliance stands 7.0 to 5.8 with 6 judges leaning weclapp, and Xentral's pages mark the balance list, VAT advance returns and direct booking as a long-term goal or limited to corrections.
Your projects exceed simple-to-medium complexity: production and projects stands 7.0 to 6.2 with 5 judges leaning weclapp, against Xentral's vendor-stated simple-to-medium ceiling.
You need published per-user prices before committing: pricing transparency stands 6.7 to 5.5 with 5 judges leaning weclapp, with public edition prices of ERP Starter €39, ERP Dienstleistung €86 and ERP Handel €163 — onboarding packages are priced on request.
Choose Xentral if
Your warehouse runs on scanner goods receipt and batch picking: orders and inventory is Xentral's best score, 8.0 versus 7.8, with 1 judge leaning Xentral, 5 tying and 0 leaning weclapp.
You track batch, serial and best-before data across several warehouses: Xentral documents this and holds 8.0 on orders and inventory to weclapp's 7.8; weclapp's verdict found no public information on several warehouses with storage bins.
You sell across multiple channels and need real-time stock played back to each channel: this is documented in Xentral's orders and inventory verdict, the one criterion whose mean favors Xentral at 8.0 to 7.8.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Managing Director
Runs a sixty-person wholesaler that outgrew an invoicing tool, two Excel stock lists and a shop backend nobody reconciles. Wants one system that goes live without stopping the business for a quarter, an implementation path and cost they can plan before signing, and a vendor that will still be there when the contract renews.
weclapp
This judge's pick
Xentral
Criterion by criterion
Finance, tax & compliance
weclapp
The accounting module covers postings, open items and controlling, e-invoices go out and incoming e-invoices are captured, bank transactions are retrieved with open-item reconciliation and automated dunning, and the DATEV export with automated pre-booking, booking-to-receipt linkage and free tax-advisor access gives my accountant a documented hand-over. GoBD is addressed as a supported technical basis with procedure documentation via workflows and revision-safe storage, though the vendor itself states conformity does not arise automatically; we found no public information on several companies in one tenant or OSS and reverse-charge VAT.
Xentral
Invoices, payments and dunning run in the system with automatic VAT splitting, OSS readiness, e-invoices sent as ZUGFeRD and XML and received in XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, XML and PDF, plus a one-click DATEV export and DATEVconnect online — exactly the hand-over my accountant wants, and GoBD-compliant invoicing is stated. The ledger side is still moving: the immutable journal is marked coming soon, the receivables overview and tax module are in further development, and direct booking is described as planned and limited mainly to corrections.
Purchasing, inventory & order processing
weclapp
This is the part my business lives or dies on, and it is documented end to end: inquiry, quote, order confirmation, procurement and goods receipt, picking, shipping with data transfer to the carrier, invoicing, and returns with credit note as one chain, plus serial and batch numbers, a mobile warehouse app, drop shipping via Streckengeschäfte, connections to Shopware, WooCommerce, Shopify, Amazon, eBay and kaufland.de, and stock valuation to HGB and IFRS. We found no public information on several warehouses with storage bins, which is the next thing a wholesaler running two Excel stock lists would ask.
Xentral
Orders from shops, marketplaces or CSV run through payment, picking, shipping, invoice and posting; goods receipt with scanner books stock, batch picking scans location, article and box, and multiple warehouses, batch, serial and best-before tracking, returns with credit notes, carrier connections and stock valuation from purchase prices are all described. Purchase orders and order proposals are absent in several lower packages and the AI purchasing agent is announced as not yet available; we found no public information on drop shipping.
Manufacturing, services & projects
weclapp
Both models are named and have a working core: production with bills of materials in tree structure, work plans and production orders, and services with projects, minute-level time recording, resource planning with a workload view, budget monitoring and billing from logged hours via PDF service records. We found no public information on work centres and capacity planning on the production side, or on milestone and recurring billing on the project side.
Xentral
The vendor names its models: bills of materials with production orders, time recording per production order by tablet or scanner, internal and outsourced production on one platform, and for services projects with logged hours billed in two clicks plus subscription and collective invoicing. The pages themselves cap the depth — Xentral is stated as built for simple to medium production and not laid out for several manufacturing stages, detailed capacity planning or machine connection — and we found no public information on project budgets, resource planning or milestone billing.
Integration, API & data portability
weclapp
An open REST API with read and write access, a plugin store, CSV, XML and EDI as exchange formats, bidirectional shop and marketplace connections, DATEV and BMD exports, and paid help migrating data from the old system cover the interfaces I would need on day one. The exit is unusually well documented — administrator exports at any time, a contractual switching right with a 30-day retrieval period, deletion 14 days after termination, and a private-cloud option called weclappOn — though we found no public information on webhooks or a versioned public API reference.
Xentral
An open API and the Xentral Connect middleware are named, order import runs via CSV, XML or API, a document importer brings receipts from the previous system in already allocated and booked, and a marketplace with monthly prices covers shops, marketplaces, carriers and finance software including DATEV. We found no public information on a public versioned API reference with webhooks or on a full export of master data, documents and postings when leaving — the two points that decide my exit risk.
Rollout, roles & operations
weclapp
Implementation is offered as a seven-step path with tiered onboarding packages from Basic to Gold and named partners carrying certificate levels, and running the system is covered by a permissions concept with roles, complete processing logs, daily backups, a knowledge base with webinars, and a published availability of 99.5 percent with the transfer point named as the data-centre router output. What I cannot plan from these pages is the calendar and the bill: no typical go-live duration is stated, the onboarding packages are marked on request, and we found no public information on a status page with uptime history.
Xentral
Go-live planning is concrete: typical go-live in 8–12 weeks with named customer examples at 18 days, six weeks and under two months, standard processes and certified partners carrying the switch without a delivery stop, 56+ partner agencies listed by tier, support via helpbot, help centre, community and ticket with an emergency flag, and no-code Xentral Flows built without waiting for the next release. Beyond a per-order log of who did what and when, we found no public information on a role and permission model, a change log, or published service levels and availability beyond the Premium-SLA named for the top package.
European sovereignty
weclapp
The contracting entity is weclapp GmbH of Kitzingen, registered at Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main and described on the certification page as part of Exact Group B.V.; data is stored exclusively in Germany in the AWS region Frankfurt across multiple data centres, a private-cloud option (weclappOn) and an Article 28 data-processing-agreement template are offered, ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is published, and the privacy policy names its processors with locations. It stops short of sovereign end to end: ProductBoard Inc. of San Francisco is named for idea collection, and the US-headquartered AWS behind the Frankfurt hosting is subject to the US CLOUD Act regardless of the server region.
Xentral
The contracting entity is Xentral ERP Software GmbH in Augsburg with a German commercial register entry, hosting is stated as in Germany, a data processing agreement is offered and a German external data protection officer is named. But the named provider is Amazon Web Services Inc. with a Seattle address, Google and Facebook marketing tools and ChatGPT or Claude connections via MCP run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard, and we found no public information on the ownership chain or a certification; an on-premise option appears only in a general explanation of operating models while all published packages are cloud.
Pricing transparency
weclapp
Recurring costs are computable from public pages: ERP Starter at €39, ERP Dienstleistung at €86 and ERP Handel at €163 per month and user, single licences for CRM at €68, Projekt at €19 and Buchhaltung at €39, add-ons such as Helpdesk, Vertragsmanagement and weclapp POS from €55 monthly per user, a 12-month minimum term with 30-day notice, prices excluding statutory VAT, and data deleted 14 days after termination. The first-year total is what I cannot compute: above ten licences an individual offer is invited, and the captured pages give different figures for implementation — one states implementation and maintenance costs do not exist, while the onboarding page prices its packages on request and adds travel expenses for on-site days.
Xentral
Editions are public with their inclusions — Launch ab 99 €/Monat through Pro ab 849 €/Monat — users cost nothing extra, the plan matrix shows which functions sit in which package, and marketplace connectors carry monthly prices. But prices are stated as depending on revenue and shipping volume, the top package Scale is "Auf Anfrage", and we found no public information on implementation or onboarding fees, minimum term, VAT treatment or data return on cancellation — so I cannot compute my real annual cost without a sales call.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
weclapp
Xentral
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
US CLOUD Act reach
US CLOUD Act reach
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates weclapp higher: 3.5/5 against 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick weclapp and 0 pick Xentral. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is weclapp or Xentral European?
weclapp is European (EU-Made). Xentral is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.