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proALPHA at a glance

Vendor
PROALPHA Group
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates proALPHA 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. proALPHA is an ERP for mid-sized companies from Proalpha GmbH of Weilerbach, Germany. how scores are made
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Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 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.

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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 4 of 5 4 of 5
Purchasing, inventory & order processing 3 of 5 3 of 5
Manufacturing, services & projects 4.5 of 5 4.5 of 5
Integration, API & data portability 2 of 5 2.5 of 5
Rollout, roles & operations 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 1.5 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

The books look serious: fully integrated financial accounting with balance sheets, P&L and receivables for any number of companies and currencies, GoBD compliance stated with audit-proof archiving that independent auditors regularly certify, automatic incoming invoice processing, cost accounting and fixed assets. What I could not find is anything on OSS VAT for my cross-border EU sales, e-invoice formats, or a DATEV export for my accountant. 3 4

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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

Purchasing is well documented — purchase orders generated automatically from MRP suggestions, supplier portals where suppliers read current stock and demand under controlled privileges, EDI and supplier evaluation. But for my world the crucial pieces are undocumented: no connector for Shopware, Amazon or eBay appears anywhere, and I found no public information on picking, scanning, returns or restocking, so nothing here shows I would stop overselling my bestseller. 5 6 9

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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

Deep for manufacturers: production planning with product process models instead of classic bills of materials and routings, an APS that warns of bottlenecks and suggests alternate resources, master production scheduling, MES, a product configurator, capable-to-promise and a digital shopfloor. I only trade goods, so this is depth I would never use, but the manufacturing model is documented at a high level. 7 8

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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 central Integration Workbench on a service-oriented architecture connects systems, machines and sites, API interfaces for third-party systems are mentioned, EDI is supported, and data migration with test runs and three options is described. But I found no public API reference, no webhooks, and — decisive for me — no named connectors for the shops and marketplaces I sell on, nor a documented full export when leaving. 1 9 10

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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

Implementation is well described: the proMETHEUS method with defined phases, big bang or rollout strategies, a project board and steering committee including a proALPHA CEO, in-house consultants, a partner network, templates from more than 1,800 projects, and training through seminars and workshops. I found no public information on typical duration for their own projects, support hours or service levels, availability, or a change log. 1 11 12

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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 vendor is a German GmbH in Weilerbach with a detailed privacy policy that names its website analytics providers, including US services backed by standard contractual clauses. For the ERP itself I found no public information on where the data is hosted, which subprocessors run the cloud, or a data processing agreement — only that cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment exist. 1 2 10

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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

Across every page I read — homepage, product areas, consulting pages — I found no public information on prices, editions, user fees or contract terms; the path shown is a demo request, a no-obligation phone call or an appointment. For a shop of eight staff that means I cannot compute an annual cost before talking to sales. 1 9 11

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 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.

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Questions about proALPHA

Is proALPHA European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where proALPHA is based.

Where does proALPHA store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

Does proALPHA have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to proALPHA?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Odoo (4/5), weclapp (3.5/5) and Haufe X360 (3.5/5) highest among the other 15 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: proALPHA alternatives.

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Sources (12)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap www.proalpha.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →