For accountants and firms

Shopify clients without rework: booking batches and documents the way your firm needs them

Your client sells through Shopify. On the first of the month you receive a booking batch with revenue accounts per tax case, the PDF archive to go with it and, in an audit, the Z3 data carrier – without ever logging into a shop.

What Shopify clients cost today

  • Documents arrive as loose PDFs, as screenshots, or not at all
  • VAT cases (OSS, § 13b, export, § 19) are missing or wrong on the documents
  • A “DATEV CSV” from the shop that cannot actually be imported
  • To record accounts, you are asked to take Shopify admin credentials

What you get from Easy Invoices

A real booking batch

EXTF format category 21, format version 13, cp1252 – one entry per document and tax rate, debtor to revenue account, with document field and a stable document link.

Receivable and settlement in one batch

On request the batch carries the settlement of each receivable beside the receivable itself: clearing account to collective debtor, one line per confirmed payment-provider payment, both lines with the same document number. The collective debtor nets to zero per transaction – you no longer match a collective payout against the individual invoices. The payout itself stays with you: one booking per payout, bank and fees against the clearing account, from the bank statement you post anyway. Bank transfer, prepayment, cash on delivery and cash deliberately stay open items – there the money went straight to your client’s own account.

Tax case instead of rule book

Every document carries its tax treatment frozen inside it. The account is a lookup – the booking cannot contradict the document.

Accounts in your hands

Your client invites you by email. In the accountant portal you sign in with a one-time code, review the SKR03/SKR04 defaults, collective debtors and cadence – and adjust any time after the first export. No Shopify access, no registration.

Document images included

Optionally a ZIP with document.xml in which every booking points to its PDF. Re-exports create no duplicates in DATEV Unternehmen online.

How the collaboration works

  1. 1

    Receive the invitation

    Your client invites you by email from the app. The first click on the link signs you straight in to the accountant portal – no Shopify access, no registration. After that the link is spent.

  2. 2

    Sign in to the portal

    From the second visit on you sign in with your email address and a one-time code – with no time limit, months later too – and see every client that invited you in one place.

  3. 3

    Set accounts & cadence

    Choose chart of accounts, revenue accounts per tax case, collective debtors, destination address and monthly, quarterly or yearly, then “save permanently”. The scheduled DATEV export is created automatically.

  4. 4

    Review and adjust

    The batch arrives as a download link with the checklist attached. Whatever your firm books differently, you change afterwards in the portal at any time – without a new invitation.

The capabilities that concern your firm

How you can tell it is done carefully

  • The EXTF export is tested automatically against a reference file from DATEV: 125 columns, 31 header fields, quoting per column
  • Three tax cases deliberately have no default account (including destination tax) – the firm decides, not a guess
  • GoBD audit log with a SHA-256 seal per entry; documents immutable once issued
  • Z3 export under § 147 Abs. 6 AO with index.xml for audit software

Software, not tax advice: We are not tax advisers: Easy Invoices applies the rules you configure to your shop’s data – checking your documents for tax correctness stays with you and your accounting firm. Details in § 2a of the terms

Frequently asked questions

Does the batch also contain payments and payment-provider fees?

No, and that is stated deliberately: these are revenue bookings. Payouts, fees and transfers are not available to the app and come from the payment providers’ reports. An optional collective debtor per payment method makes clearing easier.

How is the margin scheme handed over?

Gross, on its own account. The margin cannot be booked because the app does not know the purchase price – the calculation stays with the firm.

Are the default accounts verified?

They come from published sample charts (SKR03/SKR04) and are a default, not a recommendation. That is exactly why the invite exists: you decide what gets booked.

Can we still change the accounts after the first export?

Yes. As long as your client has not taken editing back, open the client in the accountant portal, change the configuration and save again. The existing scheduled export is updated, not duplicated – no new invitation needed.

What if we do not use DATEV?

Then you configure the CSV export with the columns of your import wizard (templates for Lexoffice/Lexware included) or work with the PDF archive. Every format can be delivered to your address on a schedule. Like the DATEV export, the CSV export is still part of the closed beta; the PDF archive and Z3 are unlocked for every client.

Recommend a clean batch to your Shopify clients

Questions about the account logic or the import? We speak bookkeeping.

Contact us: support@easy-invoices.de