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Fakturia

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by Luminea IT Services GmbH · www.fakturia.de

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Fakturia at a glance

Vendor
Luminea IT Services GmbH
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Fakturia 3.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Fakturia is subscription-billing and recurring-invoicing software from Luminea IT Services GmbH (Amtsgericht München, HRB 233747), built for German B2B and SaaS sellers. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 26 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 28 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Billing Engineer

Weighted verdict

Wires billing into the product and gets paged when a webhook goes missing. Wants a documented API for usage events, idempotent webhooks, entitlements the app can read, a sandbox that behaves like production, and a migration path that moves subscriptions and payment tokens out again if the company outgrows the tool.

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

Scored by The Billing Engineer

Panel median The Billing Engineer 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 Billing Engineer
Plans, pricing models & subscription lifecycle 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Invoices & e-invoicing compliance 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Cross-border VAT & tax handling 3 of 5 3 of 5
Payment collection, dunning & portability 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Revenue reporting & accounting handoff 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Pricing transparency 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5

Plans, pricing models & subscription lifecycle

How this is scored

How the product models what is sold and to whom: plans, add-ons and price points, trials, upgrades and downgrades with proration, usage-based and seat-based pricing, contract terms and renewals, quotes, and a self-service portal where the customer changes or cancels their own subscription.

0 — No subscription model; recurring charges are set up by hand per customer or per invoice.

3 — A recurring invoice or a fixed plan that repeats on a schedule, but no proration, no trials, no add-ons and no usage component.

5 — Plans with add-ons and trials, upgrades and downgrades with proration, renewals and cancellations handled by the system, and a customer portal for viewing and changing the subscription.

8 — Usage-based, tiered, volume and seat-based pricing with metering through an API, contracts with minimum terms, ramps and notice periods, quotes that convert into subscriptions, multiple currencies and price books, and the subscription history kept per customer.

10 — The commercial model lives in the product: hybrid pricing (commitments, prepaid credits, overage) without custom code, price changes rolled out to existing customers with grandfathering, entitlements exposed to the selling application, and every change to a subscription versioned and attributed.

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The Billing Engineer

Trials with automatic conversion or termination, mid-period upgrades and downgrades billed day-exact with proration credit, minimum terms, automatic renewal, per-contract notice periods, usage-based billing and multi-currency invoicing are all stated, and customers self-serve contracts, payment methods and cancellations through a whitelabel portal with a cancellation button. I found no public information on metering usage events through an API, seat or volume tiers, price books, entitlements for the selling application, or versioned subscription history per customer. 2 6 7

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Invoices & e-invoicing compliance

How this is scored

Whether the invoices the product issues are legally valid where the customer is: mandatory invoice content, sequential numbering, credit notes and cancellations instead of edits, retention and archiving to GoBD, and structured e-invoices (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD/Factur-X, Peppol) for business customers and public bodies.

0 — No invoices; the product charges cards or sends payment requests and the seller writes invoices elsewhere.

3 — PDF invoices from a template, but numbering, mandatory content, corrections and retention are not described.

5 — Invoices with sequential numbering and the mandatory content stated, credit notes and cancellations instead of edits, invoices in several languages and currencies, and a documented archive.

8 — Structured e-invoices to EN 16931 issued as XRechnung or ZUGFeRD/Factur-X and sent through Peppol, GoBD-compliant numbering and unalterable archiving stated, invoice data exportable for a tax audit, and the e-invoicing mandates in named EU countries addressed.

10 — Invoicing that stands up in any audit it may face: e-invoicing to public bodies and businesses in several EU countries with the channels named, clearance and reporting models (France, Italy, Poland) supported where they apply, a Verfahrensdokumentation or equivalent offered, and every invoice traceable to the subscription event that produced it.

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The Billing Engineer

Invoices are issued as XRechnung and ZUGFeRD, described as hybrid PDFs with the XML embedded and law-conform since 2019, with GoBD-conform revision-safe archiving, exact service periods on every invoice line, and cancellations and corrections posted as counter-bookings instead of edits. The German 2025 B2B e-invoicing duty is addressed on the accounting-export page. I found no public information on Peppol sending, sequential numbering rules, or e-invoicing channels outside Germany. 1 9 13

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Cross-border VAT & tax handling

How this is scored

How the product gets tax right when the seller sells across borders: VAT rates per country and product type, reverse charge for business customers with VAT ID validation (VIES), the EU One-Stop-Shop, US sales tax — or, for a merchant of record, which tax liability it takes on in its contract and which it leaves with the seller.

0 — No tax handling; the seller types the rate on every invoice.

3 — One configurable VAT rate or a manual rate table, with no customer-location logic and no VAT ID check.

5 — Tax rates applied by customer country and status, reverse charge for business customers with a VAT ID field, and tax shown correctly on invoices and in reports.

8 — Automatic VAT per country and product type, VIES validation of VAT IDs, OSS reporting data, evidence of customer location kept, US sales tax through a named engine — or a merchant-of-record contract that states the tax liability it assumes and in which countries.

10 — Tax is discharged and evidenced: filings or filing data for OSS and the countries sold into, rate changes maintained by the vendor with a stated process, tax decisions per invoice explainable, and the division of liability between seller and vendor written into the terms.

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The Billing Engineer

The feature list names VAT ID checking, the accounting export carries reporting for the German ZM summary and the MOSS/OSS digital-services scheme, and the vendor publishes a booking guide for reverse-charge invoices. I found no public information on automatic VAT rates per country and product type, a named VIES validation, or US sales tax. 2 10 13

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Payment collection, dunning & portability

How this is scored

How invoices turn into money: which payment providers and methods the product works with, SEPA direct-debit mandates, automatic retries and dunning sequences, payment reconciliation, collections handover — and whether the seller can move subscriptions and stored payment details to another provider.

0 — No collection; invoices are sent and payment is chased by hand.

3 — One built-in payment provider with card payments, and failed payments reported but not retried or chased.

5 — Several payment providers or methods including SEPA direct debit with mandates, automatic retries of failed payments, dunning emails with configurable steps, and payments matched to invoices.

8 — Gateway-agnostic collection across named providers, smart retries and card updaters, dunning with escalation and service suspension rules, bank-transfer reconciliation, a handover to a collection agency, and recovery reported.

10 — Collection is portable and measurable: subscriptions and payment tokens importable and exportable with a documented migration path, routing across providers per country or method, recovered revenue reported per dunning step, and no lock-in to the vendor's own payment service stated in the terms.

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The Billing Engineer

Collection is documented gateway-agnostic across named providers — SEPA, Stripe, Adyen, Unzer and PayPal — with direct debit either self-collected through online banking or handed to a provider, and return debits processed automatically through finAPI account matching. Dunning is multi-step in every tariff with unlimited escalation levels, individual texts per level and the original invoice attached, and migrating existing contracts in is offered as a service. I found no public information on smart retries or card updaters, a collection-agency handover, or a documented path to move subscriptions and stored payment details to another provider. 7 11 12 13

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Revenue reporting & accounting handoff

How this is scored

What finance gets out of billing: MRR, ARR, churn and cohort reporting, revenue recognition and deferred revenue, the export or sync to the accounting system and to DATEV, CRM and data-warehouse integrations, an API and webhooks, and a complete export of customer and subscription data.

0 — No reporting and no export beyond downloading individual invoices.

3 — A revenue overview and a CSV export of invoices, with no subscription metrics and no accounting integration.

5 — Subscription metrics (MRR, churn) on a dashboard, an export or sync to at least one named accounting tool, and a documented API with webhooks.

8 — Revenue recognition with deferred revenue schedules, a DATEV export or booking-ready journal for the ledger, native CRM and accounting integrations named, MRR movements explainable per customer, and a full data export documented.

10 — Billing is the system of record for revenue: recognition to IFRS 15 / ASC 606 stated, month-end close supported with reconciled reports, data-warehouse sync, audit trail of every financial event, and a complete export of customers, subscriptions and invoices that a successor system can import.

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The Billing Engineer

Finance gets a certified direct DATEV connection on booking-data-service 2.0 since early 2024, invoice PDFs pushed together with the booking records, automatic passive revenue deferral released month by month, postings to individual debtor accounts or a central receivables account, Lexware CSV, ZM and OSS reporting, and a REST API documented with OpenAPI plus webhooks on contract start, payment, cancellation and dunning. I found no public information on MRR, ARR or churn metrics, data-warehouse sync, or a complete export documented for a successor system to import. 6 13 14

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where customer, invoice and payment data are hosted, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, payment providers, tax engines, email delivery). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; billing data is personal and financial at once, so the whole chain counts, not only the database.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (tax engine, email, analytics, support) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Billing Engineer

The chain is documented as German: Luminea IT Services GmbH with a Munich commercial-register entry and private ownership, hosting in a TÜV-certified Nuremberg data centre with a private-cloud option on the vendor's own infrastructure, a contractual data-processing agreement obligation, and return and deletion of data after termination. The privacy policy names processors with locations, including US ones for website chat and security, while another capture states no data is passed to third countries, and the pages give different signals on scope. I found no public information on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification for the product, or a formal subprocessor list for the billing chain itself. 3 4 5 6 13

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: platform fee, percentage of billed revenue or per-invoice fees, which modules (revenue recognition, e-invoicing, tax, extra gateways) cost extra, overage above a revenue band, setup and minimum term, and the merchant-of-record fee where it applies.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with billed revenue, invoices or modules is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their main inclusions and revenue bands, but at least one commonly needed piece (e-invoicing, revenue recognition, extra gateways, overage) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling rule (revenue percentage, per invoice, per subscriber), overage and add-ons listed, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given billed revenue, invoice volume and module set, with every add-on, setup, support and payment or merchant-of-record fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Billing Engineer

The Flex series is computable from the public page: 0 € Grundgebühr with a monthly net-revenue fee of 1,9% (Flex one) or 2,4% (Flex two), three included users with each further user at 25,- € / Monat, 7.500 API-Aufrufe / Monat included with extras at 0,004 € / Aufruf, premium onboarding at 1.200 EUR einmalig, prices net plus statutory VAT, monthly cancellation on four weeks' notice, and the page dated August 2026. Dunning, ZUGFeRD/XRechnung and the DATEV interface sit inside the listed tariffs rather than as unpriced add-ons. The Business and Enterprise tiers set term, amount and payment per order sheet, so their cost is not publicly derivable. 2 5 11

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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 — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified 0/2 pts 1 Report an error

Questions about Fakturia

Is Fakturia European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Fakturia as EU-Made.

Where does Fakturia store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

Does Fakturia have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Fakturia?

As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates Chargebee (3.5/5), Younium (3.5/5) and Stripe Billing (3.5/5) highest among the other 12 Billing & Invoicing 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 Younium (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Fakturia alternatives.

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Sources (14)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Pricing page www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms of service www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Plans, pricing models & subscription lifecycle — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Plans, pricing models & subscription lifecycle — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Invoices & e-invoicing compliance — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Invoices & e-invoicing compliance — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Cross-border VAT & tax handling — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Payment collection, dunning & portability — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Payment collection, dunning & portability — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Revenue reporting & accounting handoff — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Revenue reporting & accounting handoff — found from sitemap www.fakturia.de Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →