What kind of company do you run?
Every type of business has different obligations. Choose yours to see what ZepDesk takes care of and what it costs.
One set of data, many results.
Whatever comes in is posted once. Filings, year-end accounts and reports come from the same journal.
- created and checked, submitted under your mandate
- produced and kept in ZepDesk
- for your tax firm
- sent by ZepDesk after your approval
- prepared, you submit it
export per company
transmission under mandate
create and read in
create and read in
What the one set of data looks like
Real view from ZepDesk: every entry names its source.
From receipt to a finished advance VAT return
A receipt on its way through ZepDesk, in four real recordings.
One price per company, by its legal form.
The legal form changes the price, not the features. All amounts are final prices including VAT.
- Always included
- Unlimited users
- Your tax firm at no extra charge
- 10 GB storage
- The same features in every plan
- No setup fee, cancellable monthly
A holding and its subsidiaries with one login.
Each company keeps its books in a company of its own in ZepDesk. You log in once and switch with the company switcher. A tax group (Organschaft) links two companies only if the subsidiary consents. The holding is then the controlling company and the subsidiary the controlled company: the key figures of the advance VAT return, trade income and income from shareholdings flow upwards, and every retrieval is recorded in the subsidiary's change log.
Key figures flow upwards, with the consent of each subsidiary.
No figures flow between the companies. One login, roles per company.
AI that proposes, and a person who approves.
Connect an AI assistant such as Claude to ZepDesk via MCP. It reads key figures, invoices and receipts and prepares postings as proposals; it may write nothing without your approval. The data is processed by the provider you choose, possibly outside the EU.
If the amount and invoice number match unambiguously, ZepDesk links the payment itself, without AI and without a click. Only unclear cases like this one reach you as a proposal.
We keep our own books with ZepDesk.
ZepDesk is developed in Harmsdorf by a small team that uses the software for its own accounting. Sign up now and you work with a product that is still growing, and you talk directly to the developers.
The application, databases and daily backups are hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH in Falkenstein. Who else processes which data, for example for receipt recognition or bank retrieval, is under Data locations and backup; who makes ZepDesk is under About us.
Frequently asked questions
The essentials before you sign up. All other answers are on the FAQ page.
All questions and answersCan I use ZepDesk today?
ZepDesk is available and in public early access. That means you can work with it productively today, new features are added continuously, and some areas are still new.
Can I bring over data from my old software?
Yes, master data, open items and receipts, as CSV or from sevDesk exports. Journal entries and balances cannot be imported; you post the opening balances as entries on the cut-off date. For larger migrations we help you shape the files.
Is ZepDesk GoBD-compliant?
Posted entries are reversed instead of deleted, every change is recorded in the change log, and at the end of the contract the complete export gives you receipts, invoices, bank transactions and DATEV batches, the annual accounts you download as PDF. Under § 147 AO you must keep books for ten years, vouchers for eight years. How this is secured under GoBD is under Security and GoBD.
Does it meet the e-invoicing obligation?
For sending and receiving: ZepDesk creates XRechnung and ZUGFeRD under EN 16931 and reads incoming e-invoices in as receipts. More under E-invoicing.
Does my tax firm work with ZepDesk?
You invite your tax firm into your company and give it the role Tax, at no extra charge. For the firm's own software there is the DATEV export per company.
How do I get back out of ZepDesk?
With the complete export under Administration, Company: receipts and invoices as a list and as original files, bank transactions, advance returns, BWA, DATEV batches and the change log. Customers, items and accounts you download per list as CSV. After the contract ends you have 30 days for this.
Create your company, choose the legal form and chart of accounts, write the first invoice. No setup fee, no minimum term, cancellable monthly.