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Xentral at a glance

Vendor
Xentral ERP 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
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 26 Oct 2026
Starting price
“Starter Für Betriebe, die wachsen und mehr Überblick brauchen. Ab 349 €/Monat” (vendor’s words) source, captured 26 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Xentral 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Xentral, a cloud ERP from Xentral ERP Software GmbH of Augsburg, earns its best score on orders and inventory — a flat 8 — for scanner goods receipt, batch picking, batch, serial and best-before tracking across warehouses, and real-time stock played back to every channel. 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 of 5 3 of 5
Purchasing, inventory & order processing 4 of 5 4 of 5
Manufacturing, services & projects 3 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 2.5 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

One-Stop-Shop readiness, a one-click DATEV export covering invoices, credit notes, liabilities and accounts, automatic VAT splitting and GoBD-compliant invoice processing are exactly what my tax adviser wants, and invoices go out as PDF (ZUGFeRD) and XML while incoming ZUGFeRD and XRechnung are read in. But the finance pages state that balance lists, VAT advance returns and direct booking from inside Xentral are a long-term goal, with the journal and the customer/supplier balance view still in development — so the ledger itself stays with the accountant. A solid hand-over rather than full accounting. 8 9 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

This is the strongest part for me: ready-made Shopware, Amazon and eBay connections with orders flowing in automatically and stock played back to every channel in real time, which is precisely what would have prevented my overselling. Multiple warehouses with storage-location scanning, batch and best-before tracking, pick-and-pack with the label printed while packing, DHL/DPD/UPS, returns with credit notes and automatic reordering at minimum stock are all documented, plus EDI and purchase-order suggestions. The plan comparison greys out purchase orders and order proposals in lower plans, and I found no public information on drop shipping, so it sits just below the top. 3 10 11 13 4

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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

Bills of materials with production orders, material consumption and time per order via tablet or scanner are documented, and service firms get projects with sub-projects, logged hours exported to the invoice in two clicks, plus subscriptions, repair orders and digitally signed service reports — both models are named publicly. The vendor itself states the system is built for simple to medium production and not for multi-stage manufacturing, capacity planning or machine connection, which is honest but caps the depth. Fine for my kit sets, not for a factory. 12 13

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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

The connector marketplace is broad — Shopware, Amazon and eBay at no charge, over 200 further integrations, CSV/XML/API fallback for other channels, legacy documents importable via the document importer, and an old warehouse system like Pixi connectable via API, FTP or CSV. I found no public information on API reference documentation, webhooks, or a documented full export when a company leaves, and the Scale plan promises maximum API rate limits without stating them. Open in practice, less open on paper. 2 14 8 11 4

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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

A typical go-live of eight to twelve weeks with named customer examples as fast as 18 days, 56+ certified partner agencies for implementation and first-level support, help centre, community and academy, a ticket system with an emergency flag, and no-code flows that survive automatic updates give me a migration I can plan. I found no public information on an uptime figure behind the premium service level, a status page, or a role and permissions model beyond the per-order processing log. Rollout is plannable; the operations guarantees stay vague. 2 3 17 4

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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 entity is clearly German — Xentral ERP Software GmbH in Augsburg, registered at Amtsgericht Augsburg — with a data processing agreement offered and an external German data protection officer. The privacy policy names Amazon Web Services Inc., a Seattle company, as provider while locating the server in Germany, and Google and Facebook tools run on the website; I found no public information on where the ERP data itself is hosted, on the ownership chain, or on further subprocessors. European front door, partly unproven chain behind it. 5 7 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

Edition prices are public — from 99 €/Monat for Launch up to 849 €/Monat for Pro, users unlimited at no extra cost, a 14-day trial without credit card — and the inclusions per plan are listed in detail. But the Scale plan is only on request, implementation costs are not priced, and the pricing page itself says prices depend on revenue and shipping volume without publishing the rule — for me that is exactly the bill that moves when Christmas orders spike. I can see the entry price, not my real annual cost. 4 2 3

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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 4 Report an error

Questions about Xentral

Is Xentral European?

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

Where does Xentral store data?

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

Does Xentral have a free plan?

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

What are the best alternatives to Xentral?

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: Xentral alternatives.

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Sources (17)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page (ERP) xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (inventory) xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Pricing page xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Legal notice xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Terms of service xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Privacy policy xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Finance, tax & compliance — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Purchasing, inventory & order processing — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Manufacturing, services & projects — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Integration, API & data portability — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Rollout, roles & operations — found from sitemap xentral.com Checked 26 Oct 2026 Details →