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

by DATEV eG · www.datev.de

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DATEV Unternehmen online at a glance

Vendor
DATEV eG
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates DATEV Unternehmen online 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. DATEV Unternehmen online, from DATEV eG of Nuremberg, is built as the hub for exchanging receipts, data and documents between a company and its tax adviser, and it is strongest there: adviser handoff scores run 7-9, its highest, crediting document release via MyDATEV Kanzlei and remote maintenance by the adviser's firm. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 1 Oct 2026 to 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Auditor

Weighted verdict

Arrives with a Betriebsprüfung and asks for the data export and the Verfahrensdokumentation. Wants postings that cannot be altered after the fact, corrections booked as reversals, a complete change history, and retention that survives the full statutory period.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Auditor

Panel median The Auditor This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Auditor
Bookkeeping core 2 of 5 2 of 5
GoBD, immutability & audit 2 of 5 2 of 5
Tax handling & filings 2 of 5 2 of 5
Receipts, banking & matching 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Tax adviser handoff 4 of 5 4 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 3 of 5

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 Auditor

The captured pages show an EÜR workflow — booked account balances and inventories transferred from Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen into the Anlage EÜR and AVEÜR, plus asset accounting and proper cash management — which is above simplified income-and-expense lists. But we found no public information on double-entry with SKR03/SKR04, manual postings, journals, opening balances or a period close with locking on these pages. 1 2 5 6

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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 Auditor

The GoBD pages offer members consulting on the Verfahrensdokumentation and publish specialist literature including a GoBD-update compendium and a book on replacement scanning, so documentation support genuinely exists. For the product itself, however, we found no public information on unalterable postings, corrections booked as reversals, a change history, or the statutory retention period — statements a Betriebsprüfung expects from the vendor, not from advisory. 3 4

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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 Auditor

The Anlage EÜR together with AVEÜR, SZ, SE and AVSE is created from transferred account balances and inventories and transmitted electronically to ELSTER, with the operator choosing individual or summary values and the profit carried into the income tax or Feststellung declaration. For the rest of the filing year — UStVA, reverse-charge, intra-community supply, OSS — we found no public information on these pages. 5 6

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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 Auditor

Bank connections arrive by four documented routes — EBICS 3.0, the DATEV data-center procedure retrieving every morning, PIN/TAN via finAPI, and camt.053 file import — and digital receipts flow from marketplace partner programs into the platform for exchange with the adviser. We found no public information on OCR, rule-based or suggested matching, or explicit linking of the receipt to its posting. 7 8 8

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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 Auditor

Here the product is the handoff itself: exchange of receipts, data and documents between company and Steuerberater, booking either in a DATEV program or handed over entirely to the adviser's Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen, document release via MyDATEV Kanzlei, and remote maintenance by the adviser's firm. What keeps this short of the top is that we found no public information on a period handover with locking or an audit of what the adviser changed. 2 5 9 10

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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 Auditor

Bank connections sit in the DATEV-Rechenzentrum, the platform is described as a secure cloud solution, and finAPI is at least named as the third-party interface. We found no public information on a published subprocessor list, a certification, or an export that satisfies statutory retention if the customer leaves the vendor — the piece a long audit horizon actually needs. 8 10 8

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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 Auditor

None of the captured pages shows any price, tier, booking or user limit, minimum term or VAT treatment — on this evidence a business cannot compute any part of the annual invoice from public pages. Every cost question is a conversation with the cooperative or the kanzlei. 1 9 10

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Questions about DATEV Unternehmen online

Is DATEV Unternehmen online European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies DATEV Unternehmen online as EU-Made.

Where does DATEV Unternehmen online store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does DATEV Unternehmen online have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to DATEV Unternehmen online?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Papierkram (3.5/5), sevDesk (3/5) and BuchhaltungsButler (3/5) highest among the other 24 Accounting products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Papierkram (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: DATEV Unternehmen online alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (10)

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

  1. 1 Bookkeeping core — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Bookkeeping core — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 GoBD, immutability & audit — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 GoBD, immutability & audit — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Tax handling & filings — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Tax handling & filings — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Receipts, banking & matching — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Receipts, banking & matching — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Tax adviser handoff — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Tax adviser handoff — found from sitemap www.datev.de Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →