easybill alternative for online stores: e-invoices, archive and DATEV bookings

For invoices from Shopify, WooCommerce, Shopware and Stripe, yes, and Rechnungskit also turns them into DATEV bookings including fees and payouts. It cannot replace the invoice upload to Amazon, the other marketplaces, e-invoice receiving, quotes and dunning in easybill.

Yes, and that's the usual way to switch. You run both systems in parallel for one billing period and compare documents and bookings before you switch over.

They stay where they are. Rechnungskit doesn't import or archive invoices created elsewhere; you keep meeting your retention duty for old documents (eight years under § 14b (1) UStG and § 147 (3) AO) in your previous system. What Rechnungskit can pull in are past orders and payments from your connected shops and payment providers, which then become new, validated invoices. For the number sequence, you set the number Rechnungskit continues from, so nothing overlaps with your old documents.

Documents are stored tamper-proof and unchangeable for eight years for as long as your account exists (WORM archive with checksums). Eight years is the retention period for invoices and accounting records (§ 14b (1) UStG, § 147 (3) AO); the requirements for the archive are set out in the GoBD. You can export them at any time, and for 90 days free of charge after you cancel. The final assessment of your process documentation (Verfahrensdokumentation) is up to your tax advisor.

easybill only connects stores and marketplaces from the Professional plan up. Billed monthly it costs €39 for 500 documents, €65 for 1,000 and €99 for 2,000, or €25, €49 and €79 net a month on annual billing. Every document counts, including delivery notes, quotes and incoming receipts; above the quota each document costs €0.29, capped per volume tier. Once more than 1,000 documents are stored, the archive fee is added. If you want fees and payouts booked, you also need a partner tool such as PayJoe at €4.20 per payment account plus 5 cents per record. With one payment provider that comes to about €68 a month at 500 orders and about €119 at 1,000. Rechnungskit costs a €9 base fee plus €0.15 to €0.03 per document, so €68 at 500 documents and €105.50 at 1,000, including the archive and DATEV bookings with fees (as of October 12, 2026). For invoices alone, easybill is cheaper. With fee and payout bookings on monthly billing, the two are level at 500 orders and Rechnungskit is cheaper from 1,000; on the easybill annual plan, easybill stays slightly ahead up to about 1,000 orders until the archive fee grows.

easybill charges for the archive by the number of all stored documents, not the new ones each month. Professional and Premium include 1,000 documents; above that the archive costs €5 up to 2,000 documents, €7 up to 5,000, €9 up to 10,000, €11 up to 25,000, €13 up to 50,000 and €15 a month beyond that. If you write 500 invoices a month, you reach 6,000 documents after a year and pay €9 extra. If you switch the archive off, easybill permanently deletes all documents beyond the first 100 after six weeks. In Rechnungskit the archive is included in the price.

Yes, on the Free plan with 50 documents a month and up to 3 contacts. It doesn't include a connection to Shopify, WooCommerce or Amazon; those start at Professional. You can try Rechnungskit for free in test mode with your real store, and billing only starts at go-live.

easybill says yes, but according to its own help center it does not "currently" issue a certificate and is aiming for certification. Finalized invoices and credit notes can still be edited in easybill: every change needs a reason, and easybill creates a new version. easybill considers that GoBD compliant. If you want no more changes allowed, support can switch the account to a "tax-office-compliant mode". The GoBD require that a record cannot be changed without leaving a trace (§ 146 (4) AO); your tax advisor judges whether your process meets that. In Rechnungskit every invoice is locked from the moment it is created, and corrections only happen through a new document.

Both. easybill creates ZUGFeRD 2.5 in the EN 16931 and EXTENDED profiles and XRechnung 3.0.2; you enter the Leitweg-ID as "buyer reference" in the customer record. easybill checks the invoice against EN 16931 before sending. It accepts incoming e-invoices by upload or email and displays them in readable form, but they count toward your document quota. Rechnungskit also creates e-invoices as ZUGFeRD 2.5 and XRechnung 3.0 with a check before sending, but it does not receive them.

Not by itself. easybill passes revenue and document images to DATEV and matches payments through finAPI and open-item clearing for PayPal and Amazon. For fees and payouts, easybill names partner tools such as JERA or PayJoe; Mollie fees reach DATEV through Mollie's own DATEV service. Stripe is not documented in the easybill help center. Rechnungskit sends revenue, payments, fees and payouts from Stripe, Mollie and PayPal to DATEV as matched bookings.

You cancel in your account, or by email with seven days' notice before the end of the term. The account then drops to the Free plan, and you keep access to your data. The archive fee keeps running until you switch the archive off yourself; easybill then deletes all documents beyond the first 100 after six weeks. Download your invoices first, because the eight-year retention duty is yours (§ 14b (1) UStG, § 147 (3) AO). Rechnungskit doesn't take over invoices from other systems; you choose the number at which its invoice sequence continues.

It depends on where your work is. Billbee is order management with shipping, a warehouse and an invoicing module. easybill is invoicing software with strong Amazon and marketplace coverage and e-invoice receiving. Rechnungskit turns orders and payments in Shopify, WooCommerce, Shopware or Stripe into locked e-invoices and the finished DATEV bookings, fees and payouts included. If you mainly sell on Amazon, easybill is the closer fit; if your tax advisor needs bookings all the way to the payout, Rechnungskit is.

From the providers' publicly available sources, checked on October 12, 2026, with footnotes for each row. Where we found no reliable source, the table says "Not documented". If you spot a mistake, write to support@rechnungskit.de and we'll correct it and re-date the page.