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 Operations Lead
Runs purchasing, two warehouses and a small assembly line, and is the one called when a delivery is promised from stock that is not there. Wants goods receipt booked on a scanner, stock per bin and batch, purchase proposals from real demand, and bills of materials that plan next week's production instead of a whiteboard.
weclapp
This judge's pick
Xentral
Criterion by criterion
Finance, tax & compliance
weclapp
The books live in the system: an accounting module with postings, open items and controlling, bank transaction retrieval with open-item reconciliation and automated dunning, and an automated DATEV export with free tax-advisor access and correct VAT mapping. GoBD-conformant working is supported through workflows, access restrictions and revision-safe filing — the vendor itself states conformity does not arise automatically — while outgoing and incoming e-invoices are named without the format; I found no public information on OSS or reverse-charge VAT or several companies in one tenant.
Xentral
Invoices go out automatically and GoBD-compliant, e-invoices in ZUGFeRD and XRechnung, incoming documents in ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, XML and PDF are read by an agent for my release, payments are matched from PayPal, Stripe, Klarna and Amazon against a bank connection, dunning sits in the higher plan, and a one-click DATEV export with DATEVconnect carries everything to the accountant. The captured pages themselves say the finance suite cannot yet produce the balance list, BWA or VAT pre-registration directly from within the system and that an immutable journal is coming soon, so the books close next door in DATEV rather than inside this ERP.
Purchasing, inventory & order processing
weclapp
The goods chain is documented end to end — quote, order confirmation, disposition and procurement, goods receipt with inspection, picking, shipping with data transfer to carriers, invoice and payment — plus serial and batch numbers with best-before management, a mobile warehouse app, shop and marketplace connections, returns with credit notes, drop shipping and stock valuation to HGB and IFRS. EDI alongside CSV and XML is stated; I found no public information on several warehouses with storage bins or demand-driven purchase proposals.
Xentral
This chain is real: goods receipt on the scanner with allocation to replenishment or picking areas and label printing, multi-order batch picking that scans storage location, article and box, a counting app capturing batch, serial number and best-before date, stock per warehouse and channel in real time, DHL, DPD and UPS labels printed while packing, returns with credit notes through the 8returns portal, and reorder-triggered purchase suggestions with an AI purchasing agent announced. I found no public information on recall traceability per batch from supplier to customer, and EDI appears as a listed feature and a partner connector. Two warehouses of mine would run on this without a whiteboard.
Manufacturing, services & projects
weclapp
Both served models show a working core and more: bills of materials in a tree structure with sub-positions, work plans and production orders on the manufacturing side, and projects with budgets, resource planning and utilisation view, minute-accurate time recording billed from effort records on the services side, plus helpdesk and contract-management add-ons. I found no public information on work centres, capacity planning, MRP runs or shop-floor data capture, which is what would plan next week's line instead of my whiteboard.
Xentral
Bills of materials with traceable resource use in the finished product, production orders with time booked per order on a tablet or scanner including material consumption, outsourced production managed on the same platform, and costing that folds shipping, energy and wages into the article price; service firms get projects, time recording and invoicing of logged hours. The vendor states its own ceiling: simple to medium production, not designed for multiple production stages, detailed capacity planning, fine scheduling or machine connection. That is honest scope and enough for my one assembly line.
Integration, API & data portability
weclapp
An open REST API with read and write access, a plugin store with partner solutions, CSV, XML and EDI exchange, connectors to shops, marketplaces, payment providers and shipping services, and DATEV and BMD exports cover the links I need between shop, warehouse and accountant. Exit is contractually documented — a switching right with two months' notice, transition support, a 30-day retrieval window and deletion on termination — but I found no public information on webhooks or a versioned public API reference.
Xentral
The marketplace is broad — Shopify, Shopware and WooCommerce sync orders and stock back in real time, Amazon, eBay and Zalando and many more are free, partner connectors carry monthly prices, and anything without a connector goes over an open API, Xentral Connect or CSV, XML and API bulk import, with legacy documents importable from the previous system. I found no public information on a public API reference covering the main objects, on webhooks, or on a documented full export of master data, documents and postings when a company leaves; rate limits appear only as a top-tier plan feature.
Rollout, roles & operations
weclapp
Onboarding is a described product: Basic, Bronze, Silver and Gold packages with kick-off, setup roadmap and basic training, training by user group, video manuals, webinars and a knowledge base, plus a partner network with named partners and certificate levels. A 99.5 percent availability commitment, complete processing logging and a permissions concept are published, but I found no public information on typical implementation duration, a status page with uptime history or response-time commitments for support.
Xentral
Implementation is planned and timed: typically eight to twelve weeks with certified partners, named customer go-lives from 18 days to two months, 56-plus partner agencies in tiered levels covering implementation and first-level support, Help Center, Academy and ticket support with an emergency flag, no-code automations via Flows, and automatic updates in a cloud-native setup. Each order also carries a log of who handled what and when. I found no public information on a user and permissions model, on sandbox or test tenants, or on a status page with uptime history, and a guaranteed-availability service level appears only as a top-tier plan marker.
European sovereignty
weclapp
The chain is visible and European: a German contracting entity in Kitzingen, data hosted exclusively in Germany on AWS in Frankfurt, membership of the Exact Group per the security page, a published ISO 27001 certification, a data processing agreement template, and a private-cloud option with weclappOn. Subprocessors are listed with locations in the privacy policy, though AWS remains a US-headquartered provider subject to the US CLOUD Act regardless of the Frankfurt region, and one listed tool sits in San Francisco.
Xentral
The contracting entity is a German GmbH in Augsburg with register court and VAT ID published, a data processing agreement is offered, and an external German data protection officer is named. The privacy policy names Amazon Web Services Inc. with a Seattle address as its provider along with Google Analytics and the Facebook pixel, and states the website server sits in Germany. We found no public information on the ownership behind the GmbH, on where the ERP's customer data itself is hosted, or on a certification such as ISO 27001.
Pricing transparency
weclapp
Per-user prices are public for all three editions — ERP Starter at 39 euros per month per user, ERP Dienstleistung at 86, ERP Handel at 163 — the add-ons contract management, helpdesk and POS cost 55 euros monthly, single licences are priced, minimum term and VAT treatment are stated, and deletion 14 days after termination is documented. Onboarding packages are only priced on request and above ten licences or 40 users it becomes an individual offer, so a go-live cost is not computable from public pages alone; one captured page states implementation and maintenance costs do not exist while another lists onboarding packages on request.
Xentral
The plan ladder is public with real numbers: Launch from 99 € per month for companies up to 500,000 € annual revenue, Starter from 349 € per month including 500 orders per month and unlimited users, Business from 649 € per month, Pro from 849 € per month, users never cost extra, and feature matrices show where purchase orders, purchase suggestions or the MCP server drop out. But prices are stated to depend on revenue and shipping volume with no stated rule, the Scale tier is on request, and I found no public information on implementation and onboarding fees, minimum term or data return on cancellation. I can budget a range, not the real annual cost.
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.