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.
The Online Retailer
Financial accounting is a documented module, and the captured pages show dunning and open-item management, payment transactions that pull bank statements and PayPal and match open items automatically, DATEV exports for the accountant, e-invoices in ZUGFeRD and XRechnung that can be sent, received and processed, and a published IDW PS 880 testation on the homepage. What decides it against a higher mark for me as a cross-border seller: we found no public information on OSS or per-country VAT handling, no procedure documentation for GoBD, and no statement that incoming e-invoices are matched to purchase orders. 1 2 4 8 9