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

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JTL-Wawi at a glance

Vendor
JTL-Software-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
Yes, per the vendor’s own page source, captured 26 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates JTL-Wawi 3.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. JTL-Wawi, the Warenwirtschaft ERP of JTL-Software-GmbH in Hückelhoven, scores highest on orders and inventory at 8-9, built on automatic order import from Amazon, eBay and 30+ marketplaces and real-time stock synchronisation that prevents overselling. 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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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Online Retailer

Weighted verdict

Sells on a Shopware shop, Amazon and eBay from one warehouse with eight staff, and oversold a bestseller twice last Christmas. Wants stock synchronised across every channel, orders, labels and returns handled in one place, OSS VAT done right, and a price that does not jump with every thousand orders.

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

Scored by The Online Retailer

Panel median The Online Retailer 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 Online Retailer
Finance, tax & compliance 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Purchasing, inventory & order processing 4 of 5 4.5 of 5
Manufacturing, services & projects 3.5 of 5 3 of 5
Integration, API & data portability 3 of 5 3 of 5
Rollout, roles & operations 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5
Pricing transparency 3 of 5 3 of 5

Finance, tax & compliance

How this is scored

Whether the ERP keeps books a tax adviser and an auditor accept: general and subledgers, VAT per country, GoBD-compliant posting and archiving, e-invoices sent and received (XRechnung, ZUGFeRD), payments and dunning, and a DATEV export or a documented hand-over to the accountant.

0 — No accounting at all; invoices leave as PDFs and the books are kept somewhere else by hand.

3 — Invoices and credit notes are created in the system, but there is no ledger, no stated GoBD compliance and no export the accountant can import.

5 — Invoices, open items and payments in the system with a DATEV or accounting export, VAT rates per item, dunning, and e-invoices in XRechnung or ZUGFeRD format sent to customers.

8 — Full financial accounting or a live-synchronised one: general, receivables and payables ledgers, incoming e-invoices read and matched to purchase orders, bank feeds with payment matching, OSS and reverse-charge VAT, GoBD compliance stated with a procedure documentation, and several companies in one tenant.

10 — The money side closes inside the system: an auditor's GoBD or IDW PS 880 attestation published, consolidation and intercompany postings across entities, fixed assets and cost accounting, every posting traceable to the order, goods movement and user behind it, and period close with locked periods documented.

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The Online Retailer

Invoicing, dunning and tax management are already in the free Start edition, booking data exports to my accountant's DATEV software in a few clicks, VAT pre-registration can go straight to ELSTER, and One-Stop-Shop is explicitly named for EU selling — exactly the OSS handling I need. Bank accounts via HBCI/FinTS and payments from PayPal, Amazon Pay and Mollie are matched to orders in real time, ZUGFeRD and XRechnung documents are received and processed lawfully, and GoBD conformity is promised out of the box. A full general ledger or a published procedure documentation is not described on the pages I reviewed. 2 3 7 8

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Purchasing, inventory & order processing

How this is scored

The goods chain from supplier to customer: quotes, orders and order confirmations, purchasing and goods receipt, stock per warehouse and bin, batch and serial numbers, picking and shipping, returns — and whether each step posts through to the next document and to the ledger instead of being retyped.

0 — No order or stock handling; the product is a contact list or an invoicing tool.

3 — Items with a stock count and an order list, but purchasing, goods receipt and delivery are not connected and stock is corrected by hand.

5 — Quote, order, delivery note and invoice as one document chain, purchase orders with goods receipt booking stock, and stock levels with reorder points per item.

8 — Several warehouses and storage bins, batch and serial number tracking, mobile picking and scanning, carrier and shop or marketplace connections, returns with restocking and credit note, drop shipping, and stock valuation that flows into the books.

10 — The goods chain runs and is evidenced in the system: demand-driven purchasing proposals, EDI with suppliers and customers, fulfilment and multi-channel stock allocation, best-before and recall traceability per batch from supplier to customer, and every movement attributed and dated.

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The Online Retailer

This is my core business covered: orders from Amazon, eBay, Shopware 6 and 30+ marketplaces import automatically, stock levels synchronise in real time and overselling — my Christmas failure twice over — is explicitly prevented. Purchasing with demand determination, automatic purchase lists built from minimum stock, delivery times and sales forecasts, goods receipt, drop shipping, multi-warehouse, batch and best-before capture by barcode, mobile picking, shipping labels via Shipping 2.0 and returns with credit notes are all documented, plus EDI and a fulfilment network in the ecosystem. On serial-number tracking or a documented recall trace from supplier to end customer I found no public information. 3 5 7 10 11 13 14

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Manufacturing, services & projects

How this is scored

The depth for the buyer's own business model: bills of materials, work orders and capacity planning for manufacturers; projects, time, resources and milestone billing for service firms; contracts, subscriptions and field service. A product is judged on the models it says it serves.

0 — Nothing beyond trading goods; no bills of materials, projects or service billing.

3 — A simple kit or set of items, or a project tag on invoices, but no production orders, no time recording and no planning.

5 — For at least one model a working core: bills of materials with production orders consuming stock, or projects with time recording and billing from logged hours, with the supported models named on the vendor's pages.

8 — Multi-level bills of materials with routings, work centres and capacity planning, or projects with budgets, resource planning, milestone and recurring billing, and service or maintenance contracts — with costs flowing to cost accounting.

10 — Industry depth documented for the models served: MRP runs with material and capacity planning, shop-floor data capture and quality checks, variant configuration, or full professional-services automation with utilisation, contracts and revenue recognition — each described with its limits in public documentation.

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The Online Retailer

For my finishing-style production the core is there: multiple bills of materials per article, three production types, production orders with automatic stock movements plus batch and best-before handling directly in the ERP, demand-driven manufacturing and a touch workbench with instructions at the line. Multi-level bills of materials, routings, work centres and capacity planning are not described on the pages I reviewed — enough depth for a trading house like mine, thin for a real factory. 3 11

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Integration, API & data portability

How this is scored

How the ERP connects and how the data gets in and out: a public API reference, webhooks, standard connectors for shops, marketplaces, banks, payroll, DATEV and BI, data import from the previous system, and a documented full export when the company leaves.

0 — No API, no import and no export beyond printing.

3 — CSV import and export of some lists, a few named integrations, but no public API documentation and no full export.

5 — A documented REST or OData API, CSV or Excel import for master data and open items, and standard connectors to common shops, banks and DATEV.

8 — A public, versioned API reference covering all main objects with webhooks, a connector marketplace, a documented migration path from named predecessor systems, and a full data export of master data, documents and postings available to the customer.

10 — Open by design and evidenced: complete API coverage with sandbox tenants and rate limits stated, open data formats or open-source code, a contractual exit with export format and timeline, and self-hosting or on-premise as a documented alternative to the vendor's cloud.

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The Online Retailer

A REST API is named (in the Enterprise plan as beta) plus 700+ extensions in the store, and out-of-the-box connectors cover Amazon, eBay, Kaufland, Otto, Shopify and precisely my Shopware 6, with setup said to need no developer knowledge. A migration team transfers data from my previous system, banks connect via HBCI/FinTS, the DATEV export exists, and running it locally on my own server is an option. I found no public information on a versioned API reference with webhooks or a documented full export of my data when leaving. 1 3 8 9 13

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Rollout, roles & operations

How this is scored

What it takes to go live and run the system: implementation path (self-service, vendor, partner network), onboarding and training, roles and permissions, audit log, updates and customisation that survive them, support channels and service levels, and availability.

0 — No information on implementation, roles, support or availability.

3 — A contact form and a help page, but no stated implementation path, no role model and no support terms.

5 — A described onboarding or implementation offer, user roles with permissions, a help centre with current documentation, and support channels with hours.

8 — Implementation methods with typical duration stated, a certified partner network or vendor services listed, fine-grained permissions with a change log, customisation without code that survives updates, and published service levels for support and availability.

10 — Operations are evidenced: a status page with uptime history, release notes and an update policy, a field-level audit trail, sandbox or test tenants, and support, training and implementation terms public enough to plan a go-live without a sales call.

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The Online Retailer

Free initial consultation, installation by remote maintenance from support staff, certified service partners with on-site care, plus the JTL-Guide, help centre, video tutorials and free webinars give my eight-person crew a clear path to go live. Response times are published per edition (community forum at Start, phone callback within half a working day at Gold), an availability promise at the data-centre router exit with three-day maintenance notice and status pages exist, and every posting is timestamped and traceable. On typical project durations, uptime history or sandbox tenants I found no public information. 1 3 5 7 9 15

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where the ERP data — customers, suppliers, prices, postings, employees — is hosted, and who the subprocessors are (cloud infrastructure, email, support tooling, AI features). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; an ERP holds a company's entire commercial record, so the ownership chain counts, not only the server location.

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

3 — A privacy policy exists, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the processors behind the service are not named.

5 — EU hosting stated and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain (US hyperscaler, AI features, support or email tooling) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with locations, a data processing agreement offered, and an on-premise or EU-only hosting option stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, data export and deletion documented, and a certification such as ISO 27001 or BSI C5 published rather than implied.

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The Online Retailer

The contracting party is JTL-Software-GmbH of Hückelhoven with a German commercial register entry and a named data protection officer, and the hosted software stays on JTL's own server — where that server sits is not stated on the pages I reviewed. The firms behind the modules are at least visible (JERA, countX, FOC, GREYHOUND, Dealavo), but I found no public information on hosting location, an infrastructure subprocessor list, a data processing agreement or an ISO 27001 or BSI C5 certification; running it locally on my own server is the one sovereign option stated. 3 4 5 6

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a company can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per user, module, company or transaction volume, which modules (accounting, warehouse, production, POS) cost extra, implementation and onboarding fees, minimum term, and what happens to the data on cancellation.

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

3 — A starting price or "from" figure exists, but what is included and how it scales with users, modules or companies is unclear.

5 — Prices per edition or module are public with the main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (implementation, extra companies, warehouse or production module, API use) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with its scaling rule (per user, company or volume), onboarding and implementation packages priced, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given company size and module set, with every add-on, implementation, support and hosting cost and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Online Retailer

Prices sit in the open: Start at 0 € / Monat, Advanced ab 99 € / Monat, Pro ab 329 € / Monat, Enterprise only 'Preis auf Anfrage', with add-ons like Cloud ERP ab 49,99 € / Monat, Auftragsbezogene Produktion 69 € / Monat and Workbench 125 € / Monat per user. My catch: orders from Amazon, eBay and Shopware need an order package, 'Ab 0,22 € je weiterem Auftrag' at Start and 'Ab 0,11 € je weiterem Auftrag' at Pro — the bill grows with every thousand orders, though at least it is openly published. Implementation fees, minimum term, VAT treatment and what happens to my data on cancellation I found no public information on. 1 3 5 9

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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 — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about JTL-Wawi

Is JTL-Wawi European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies JTL-Wawi as EU-Made.

Where does JTL-Wawi store data?

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

Does JTL-Wawi have a free plan?

Yes. JTL-Wawi has a free plan, per the vendor’s page captured 26 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to JTL-Wawi?

As of 29 Oct 2026, the panel rates Odoo (4/5), weclapp (3.5/5) and Haufe X360 (3.5/5) highest among the other 13 ERP 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 Odoo (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: JTL-Wawi alternatives.

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Sources (16)

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

  1. 1 Features page (JTL-Wawi) www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Vendor homepage www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Pricing page www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Terms of service www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap www.jtl-software.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →