CatCode Accounting Export with DATEV for WooCommerce

In Germany the bookkeeping of most shops ends up with a tax adviser working in DATEV, and what the adviser asks for every month is a booking batch (Buchungsstapel) in the DATEV format. This plugin builds that file from your WooCommerce orders:

• DATEV-Format, EXTF, booking batch format version 13 — header version 700, the 125 columns of the format description, semicolons, CR/LF, quoted text, decimal comma, Windows-1252 (or UTF-8 with BOM).
• One posting per VAT rate: an order with 19 % and 7 % products and shipping becomes as many postings as it has rates — debtor on the debit side, the revenue account of the rate on the credit side. Products, shipping and fees are counted after discounts, and the postings add up to the order total to the cent.
• Refunds as credit postings on the date of the refund, split like the order; a refund entered as an amount only is spread over the order’s rates in proportion.
• Your account mapping: a revenue account and an optional BU key per VAT rate, an account for lines without VAT, the debtor account. For SKR 03 and SKR 04 a button fills in the accounts with automatic VAT from the DATEV chart 2026 (8400 / 8300 or 4400 / 4300, debtor 10000) — for your adviser to confirm.
• Batch header from your settings: consultant and client number, fiscal year start, G/L account length, chart of accounts, dictation code, fixing (Festschreibung).
• Preview before download: postings, totals per account, and every problem named with its order — an order whose rate has no account stops the download, so the file never reaches the adviser half-booked.
• No double postings: orders and refunds in a downloaded file are marked, and the next batch can leave them out. An export log keeps when, which period, how many postings, by whom.
• Document number from the order number or from an invoice plugin’s meta key; posting text with placeholders; document date = order, payment or completion date.
• HPOS (custom order tables) supported.

Not tax advice

The plugin writes the file your settings describe. Which account a sale goes to, which BU key applies and how EU or export sales are treated is decided by you and your tax adviser, who checks the batch before posting it. DATEV is a trademark of DATEV eG; this plugin is not made or endorsed by DATEV.