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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

by Intuit Inc. · quickbooks.intuit.com

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

The Integrator

Weighted verdict

Connects the books to the shop, the payment provider and the payroll system. Wants a documented API, e-invoicing both directions, and imports that reconcile rather than duplicate. Reads a Zapier logo as an outsourced integration.

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Scored by The Integrator

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 Integrator

The captured pages are a privacy statement, and the only ledger-related detail anywhere is that Intuit may use "your bookkeeping details from QuickBooks" to power other products. We found no public information on double-entry bookkeeping, an SKR03/SKR04 chart of accounts, manual postings, journals, opening balances or a period close — the ledger underneath the screens is undocumented here. 1 1

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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 Integrator

The captures show no GoBD claim, no described audit trail, no Verfahrensdokumentation and no auditor export, and the only retention language keeps personal information "as long as it is necessary" for legal compliance and running the business — nothing about accounting records or the statutory period. Whether postings can be changed without trace, and whether corrections are booked as reversals after close, is something we found no public information on. 1 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 Integrator

The only tax facts captured concern United States tax-return information stored in the US and TurboTax data being shared across the Intuit platform. We found no public information on VAT logic, UStVA preparation, ELSTER submission, EÜR or a balance sheet, OSS, or reverse-charge handling — there is nothing here from which to run a German filing year. 1 1

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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 Integrator

The third-party services these pages do name — YouTube, Twilio, credit bureaus, FullStory and Medallia — serve video, messaging, credit scores and session replay, and not one of them connects the books to a bank, a payment provider or payroll. We found no public information on bank feeds, statement import, receipt capture or OCR, matching rules, or ZUGFeRD/XRechnung e-invoicing in either direction. 1 1

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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 Integrator

We found no public information on a DATEV export, any other named export format for the Steuerberater, or an adviser login of any kind. How the year-end reaches the tax office's desk is entirely undocumented in these captures. 1 1

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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 Integrator

Intuit Inc. and its group companies act as controller, self-certify under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and state that United States tax-return information is "processed and stored in the United States", with international transfers papered by standard contractual clauses rather than EU hosting. No EU hosting option is named in the captures and no subprocessor list is published — only incidental names like Twilio, FullStory and Medallia — and we found no public information on an archive export that would keep statutory retention intact if the customer leaves. 1

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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 Integrator

The captures contain no prices of any kind — no tiers, no booking or document limits, no per-user, bank-account or adviser-access pricing, and no statement of VAT treatment. We found no public information from which a business could begin to compute its annual invoice. 1 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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
Data residency US by default ⚠ unverified 0/3 pts 1 Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (1)

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

  1. 1 Privacy policy www.intuit.com Checked 15 Sep 2026 +1 earlier capture: 11 Sep 2026 Details →