Odoo Community Association

L10n DE Accounting App

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OCA Accounting Add-ons — German Odoo Setup

A curated catalogue of the Odoo Community Association (OCA) modules we use to run a complete German accounting workflow on Odoo: dunning, bank statement import, DATEV exchange with the tax adviser, VAT return preparation, SEPA payments, and DIN 5008 compliant PDFs.

The list is organised by accounting function rather than by repository, so each section answers a single question — “which module handles X?” — and gives the OCA repo it lives in, with a short note on why we picked it (and where there are trade-offs between alternatives, what to weigh).

Everything listed here is either installed or qualified as the default choice for the corresponding need.

Reference: OCA’s own must-have accounting modules list at https://www.odoo-community.org/list-of-must-have-oca-accounting-modules.

Each repository linked below lives under https://github.com/OCA. Module names are given without a version pin — use the branch matching your Odoo version.

Invoice Import/Export EDI

Source: Odoo standard.

  • account_edi_ubl_cii — Replaces the older OCA account_invoice_facturx, which is no longer needed.

Followup (Mahnwesen)

From OCA/credit-control:

Two alternatives — pick by the feature you need.

  • account_invoice_overdue_reminder — Advantage: handles credit notes.
  • account_credit_control — Advantage: supports dunning fees (Mahngebühren).

Reporting

From OCA/l10n-germany:

  • l10n_de_mis_reports — Profit/Loss, Balance Sheet, SKR03, SKR04.

Bank Import

From OCA/bank-statement-import:

More connectors are available in the same repository.

  • account_statement_import_sheet_file — CSV / Excel bank statement import.
  • account_statement_import_camt54 — CAMT.054 schema.
  • account_statement_import_online_paypal — PayPal online statement fetching.
  • account_statement_import_online_ponto — Ponto API, fetches statements automatically.
  • account_statement_import_online_stripe — Stripe API, fetches statements automatically.

DATEV

From OCA/l10n-germany:

Workflow choice:

  • Tax adviser does not need PDFs → use datev_export_dtvf for everything.
  • Tax adviser needs PDFs → use datev_export_xml (upload to DATEV Unternehmen Online) + datev_export_dtvf for the remaining journals.
  • datev_export_dtvf — Exports all accounting entries in DTVF format. No PDF attachments.
  • datev_export_xml — Exports bills/invoices with PDF attachment for upload to DATEV Unternehmen Online.
  • datev_import_csv_dtvf — Imports accounting entries from DATEV. Mainly used for payroll postings (Lohnsteuer).

VAT Report (USt-VA) + ZM

From OCA/l10n-germany:

  • l10n_de_tax_statement — Produces a report for manual entry into ELSTER (no API connection).
  • l10n_de_tax_statement_zm — Extension for the Zusammenfassende Meldung (intra-community).

Payment

From OCA/bank-payment:

  • account_payment_mode — Payment modes.
  • account_payment_order — Group outgoing payments into one order containing multiple vendor payments, for easy SEPA Credit XML generation.
  • account_banking_sepa_credit_transfer — Required to create SEPA Credit files for vendor payments.
  • account_banking_sepa_direct_debit — Required for SEPA direct debit (Bankeinzug).

PDF Report

From OCA/l10n-germany:

  • l10n_din5008_move_name — Adds the invoice number to the PDF subject line per DIN 5008.

Nice to Have

From OCA/account-financial-tools:

  • account_move_name_sequence — Assign an own number sequence to each journal instead of the shared default.

Table of contents

Installation

All modules toggled from this app’s settings page must already be available in the Odoo addons_path.

Clone each repository on the branch matching your Odoo version and add it to addons_path (or install the corresponding odoo-addon-* PyPI packages).

Why these modules are not declared as dependencies

The modules listed in the configuration page are intentionally not added to the depends key of this addon. Two reasons:

  1. Opt-in by design. This addon is a curated catalogue, not a hard bundle. A user installing it should be able to pick the workflows they need (e.g. SEPA Credit but no DATEV XML, or DATEV without SEPA). Declaring them as dependencies would force-install every single module on first install.
  2. Avoid hard coupling to many external repositories. If any of the listed modules is missing, renamed, or unavailable for a given Odoo version, installing this addon would fail outright. Keeping them as toggleable module_* settings means a missing module only affects that one toggle — Odoo will simply report it as uninstallable in the UI — instead of blocking the whole addon.

Bug Tracker

Bugs are tracked on GitHub Issues. In case of trouble, please check there if your issue has already been reported. If you spotted it first, help us to smash it by providing a detailed and welcomed feedback.

Do not contact contributors directly about support or help with technical issues.

Credits

Authors

  • MT Software

Contributors

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

Odoo Community Association

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

Current maintainers:

mt-software-de smaddlsoft

This module is part of the OCA/l10n-germany project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.