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
The captured pages show posting, open items and controlling in the accounting module, bank transaction retrieval with offsetting of open items and automated dunning, a DATEV-compliant export with automated pre-booking plus free adviser access, incoming e-invoices captured, and GoBD-conformant working supported by a procedure documentation with revision-safe storage and complete logging. We found no public information on OSS or reverse-charge VAT or running several companies in one tenant, so it sits clearly above a simple invoicing tool but below full financial accounting depth. 1 4 9 10 11