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Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by BuchhaltungsButler GmbH · www.buchhaltungsbutler.de

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The Bookkeeper

Weighted verdict

Posts the month and closes it. Wants a real ledger with SKR03/04, recurring entries, cost centres and a close that locks. Judges receipt capture by how many exceptions are left after the automation, not by the demo video.

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Bookkeeping core

How this is scored

Double-entry, the chart of accounts (SKR03/SKR04), postings, journals, opening balances and period closing — the ledger underneath the pretty screens.

0 — Income-and-expense lists only; no double-entry, no chart of accounts, no journal.

3 — Simplified bookkeeping suitable for EÜR with a fixed account list; no free posting, no period close.

5 — Double-entry with SKR03/SKR04, manual postings, journals, opening balances and a month-end close.

8 — Full ledger with cost centres, recurring and reversing entries, accruals, multi-year comparatives, and a documented close checklist with locking.

10 — An accountant's ledger: configurable charts including customised accounts, period locking with audit, foreign currency with documented valuation, group or multi-entity handling, and reporting that reconciles to the trial balance.

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The Bookkeeper

The pages show EÜR and Bilanz modes, cost centres with project accounting, fixed-asset management and Kontenblätter and BWA/SuSa down to the cheapest tier, which is more than an income-and-expense list. But the only charts of accounts named are the association charts SKR42 and SKR49, and I found no public information on SKR03/SKR04, manual postings, journals, opening balances or a month-end close that locks the period. 1 2

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GoBD, immutability & audit

How this is scored

Whether the record survives a tax audit: unalterable postings, complete change history, retention across the statutory period, and a Verfahrensdokumentation the vendor actually supplies.

0 — Postings can be edited or deleted without trace; no retention statement, no GoBD claim, no documentation.

3 — GoBD asserted on the marketing page with nothing behind it — no described audit trail, no documentation offered, no statement on retention.

5 — Postings become unalterable after close with corrections booked as reversals, a change log exists, and the statutory retention period is stated.

8 — Documented GoBD conformity with a supplied Verfahrensdokumentation template, complete and exportable audit trail, receipts linked to postings, and a GoBD-compliant data export (GDPdU/Z3) for the auditor.

10 — Audit-ready as a product feature: an independent GoBD certification or attestation published, Verfahrensdokumentation maintained per release, tamper-evident journals, retention executed across the full statutory period, and an export the Betriebsprüfer accepts without argument.

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The Bookkeeper

GoBD conformity appears as a single sentence — "Wir arbeiten Datenschutz- und GoBD-konform" — with nothing behind it: no described audit trail, no Verfahrensdokumentation offered, no statement on the retention period. That is an assertion on a page, not a product feature I could put in front of a Betriebsprüfer. 3 1

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Tax handling & filings

How this is scored

VAT logic and the filings that follow: UStVA, ELSTER submission, EÜR or Bilanz, OSS for cross-border sales, and reverse-charge handling.

0 — No VAT logic beyond a rate field; no filings, no ELSTER.

3 — VAT rates and a UStVA figure to copy out by hand; no electronic submission, no special cases.

5 — UStVA prepared and submitted electronically via ELSTER, EÜR or a simple balance sheet produced, and reverse-charge and intra-community supply handled.

8 — The above plus OSS handling for cross-border B2C, Zusammenfassende Meldung, small-business (§19) and Ist/Soll taxation, permanent extension (Dauerfristverlängerung), and E-Bilanz where relevant.

10 — The filing year is handled end to end: every routine German filing generated and submitted electronically with validation before sending, cross-border VAT determined from the transaction rather than by hand, and correction filings supported.

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The Bookkeeper

The USt-Voranmeldung goes out electronically via ELSTER directly from the software, the Smart tier adds the Zusammenfassende Meldung, and EÜR and Bilanz evaluations are produced, which covers the monthly VAT routine. The special cases stop there: I found no public information on OSS for cross-border B2C, small-business or Ist/Soll taxation, Dauerfristverlängerung, E-Bilanz or correction filings — "Umsatzsteuerfälle: Standard bis exotisch" is a slogan, not a list. 1 2

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Receipts, banking & matching

How this is scored

How evidence and money get into the ledger: bank feeds, receipt capture, OCR, matching rules, and whether the digital receipt is legally sufficient on its own.

0 — Manual entry only; no bank connection, no receipt storage.

3 — Bank statement import by file and receipt upload as plain attachments; matching is entirely manual.

5 — Automatic bank feeds for the major German banks, receipt upload with OCR, suggested matches, and receipts linked to their postings.

8 — PSD2 feeds across many institutions, rule-based automatic matching with learning, e-invoice handling (ZUGFeRD/XRechnung) both directions, and replacement scanning (ersetzendes Scannen) documented so paper can be destroyed.

10 — The evidence chain is closed: every posting reaches its receipt in one click, e-invoicing inbound and outbound as standard, documented compliant archiving of the digital original, and matching accurate enough that exceptions rather than transactions are the work.

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The Bookkeeper

Over 5,000 bank and service integrations plus credit cards and PayPal, AI receipt recognition with learning pre-categorisation, and rules with automatic and batch matching — that is the machinery that should leave exceptions rather than transactions. Two gaps hold it back: I found no public information on replacement scanning or compliant archiving of the digital original, and the e-invoice formats are never named even though sending and receiving e-invoices is listed in every plan. 1 2

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Tax adviser handoff

How this is scored

How the books reach the Steuerberater — DATEV above all — and whether the adviser can work in the system rather than around it.

0 — No adviser access and no accounting export; the year-end is a pile of PDFs.

3 — Generic CSV or Excel export described as "suitable for your tax adviser", with no named format.

5 — A documented DATEV export (postings and, ideally, receipts) plus a read-only login for the adviser.

8 — DATEV export including receipt images with correct linking, or a maintained DATEV interface; the adviser gets their own scoped access with an audit of what they changed.

10 — The adviser is a first-class user: bidirectional DATEV exchange including corrections coming back, or a certified interface; period handover with locking, and a workflow where adviser queries are resolved inside the system.

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The Bookkeeper

Even the cheapest tier ships a free Steuerberater login and export, and the pages promise task-sharing with the Steuerberatung. But the export format is never named — I found no public information on a DATEV export — and nothing says what the adviser may change in the system or whether those changes are audited. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the books live and who could be compelled to produce them — plus, uniquely here, whether statutory retention survives leaving the vendor. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated or non-EU, subprocessors unnamed — with a ten-year retention obligation attached to data held abroad.

3 — EU hosting offered while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — OCR, AI categorisation, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or German hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, full subprocessor list published, and a stated export that satisfies retention if the contract ends.

10 — Sovereign and durable: German or EU hosting throughout, every subprocessor European, certification published, and a documented archive export that keeps the customer compliant for the full retention period after they leave.

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The Bookkeeper

The captured pages state that data is stored exclusively in German high-security data centres, and the contracting entity is a Berlin GmbH registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, which places both the books and the contract in Germany. Beyond that it goes dark: no subprocessor list, no published certification, and no public information on an export that would satisfy statutory retention if the customer leaves — group membership in the Visma Group is stated but its consequences for the data chain are not. 3 3 1

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a business can compute the real annual invoice — including the bookings, users, bank accounts and adviser access they actually need — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline monthly price exists, but booking or document limits, extra users or the tier where DATEV export begins are unstated.

5 — Tier prices public with billing period stated and the main limits given, but at least one commonly needed piece (DATEV export, extra bank accounts, adviser seat) sits in an unpriced tier.

8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with limits, overage, minimum term and VAT treatment stated; adviser access priced or explicitly free.

10 — Complete price computability: annual invoice derivable for a given transaction volume, user count and feature set, including overage and the year-end extras.

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The Bookkeeper

Tier prices with monthly billing, VAT treatment stated as "zzgl. der gesetzlichen Mehrwertsteuer", a 500-document monthly fair-use limit in every plan, explicitly free adviser access, and priced add-ons from assisted accounting to onboarding make most of the annual invoice computable from public pages. The gaps: the E-Commerce Branchenpaket carries no price, seats beyond the bundled ones are unpriced and the Smart tier's seat count is not stated, nothing says what happens past the 500 documents, and the captured pages give different figures for the Light standard price — 29,90 € in the tier table and 39,90 € in the billing terms. 2

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
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Sources (12)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 28 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 28 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Imprint www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Bookkeeping core — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Bookkeeping core — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 GoBD, immutability & audit — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 GoBD, immutability & audit — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Tax handling & filings — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Tax handling & filings — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Receipts, banking & matching — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Receipts, banking & matching — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Tax adviser handoff — found from sitemap www.buchhaltungsbutler.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →