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Invoicing and accounting

Five schemes, chosen once.

§ 25a Differenzbesteuerung, Regelbesteuerung, § 13b Reverse Charge, § 6 Ausfuhr, Kleinunternehmer. The scheme is set when you buy the piece and honoured on every document after it, which is why it stops being something you think about.

RechnungFinalised
RE-2026-0417
Allocated from the sequence at the moment of finalising, never before.
ZUGFeRD e-invoiceDATEV export
Locked. A mistake on this document is corrected with a storno and a new invoice, which is the only correction a tax office accepts.
The sequence
RE-2026-0414
RE-2026-0415
RE-2026-0416
RE-2026-0417

No gaps, no reuse, no renumbering after the fact. The sequence is the first thing a tax inspector reads.

01 · The fork

One watch. Three buyers. Three different documents.

The same piece, sold three ways. Change the buyer and watch the scheme, the totals and the mandatory wording change with it. This is the part that goes wrong by hand, and the part your tax advisor will check first.

Rechnung
RE-2026-0417
Private buyer · München, DE
§ 25a UStG
Differenzbesteuerung
Rolex Day-Date 36 · 18238
SN 8K42N19P · 1991 · Box
23.400 €
Purchase19.850 €
Trade margin3.550 €
VAT 19 % on the margin567 €
Gebrauchtgegenstände / Sonderregelung. Kein gesonderter Umsatzsteuerausweis gemäß § 25a UStG.
ZUGFeRD e-invoiceDATEV export
Gesamt
23.400 €
What you keep
2.983 €
Margin after VAT on the margin.
Figures are worked examples on one piece. Your own numbers, and your own tax advisor, decide. ChronoDesk applies the scheme you set at purchase and shows its working on every document.
02 · Immutability

A finalised invoice cannot be edited. Try it.

Gapless numbering, and no back door. The only way to undo a finalised document is a cancellation document that carries its own number and points at the original. That is not a limitation, it is the requirement.

Rechnung
RE-2026-0417
Finalised
Gesamt 23.400 €Read only
Gapless sequences
Numbers are allocated in order and never reused. A gap is a question you do not want to be asked.
Cancellation, not deletion
A storno document carries its own number, references the original, and reverses it in the books. Both survive.
Per-type sequences
Invoices, credit notes and purchase documents each run their own series, so one cannot disturb another.
03 · Documents

Your paper, not ours.

One document set across invoices, purchase agreements, offers and credit notes. Choose a template, set your accent, put your name on it. Every document type follows.

Template
Accent

Logo left, address block right, thin rules. What most tax advisor expect to see.

Münchner Uhren
Maximilianstraße 12
80539 München
Rechnung
RE-2026-0417
26.07.2026
Rolex Day-Date 36 · 18238
SN 8K42N19P · 1991 · Box
23.400 €
Rolex Datejust · 16233
SN E6xxxxx · 1996 · Papers
6.900 €
Tudor Black Bay 58 · 79030N
SN K4xxxxx · 2024 · Full set
3.690 €
Purchase total28.150 €
Trade margin5.840 €
VAT 19 % on the margin932 €
Gebrauchtgegenstände / Sonderregelung. Kein gesonderter Umsatzsteuerausweis gemäß § 25a UStG.
Gesamt
33.990 €
Same invoice. Same three positions. Same 33.990 €. Same law.
The same design applies to
Invoice
All five schemes
Purchase invoice
Private purchase
Credit note
Credit and storno
Quote
With expiry
Delivery note
Goods in transit
Consignment contract
Commission goods
04 · Month end

The month closes itself.

Every document issued this month, sorted, packaged in the format your tax advisor already imports, and sent. On a schedule you set once. The month-end evening you are used to does not happen.

Juli 202657 documents
RE-2026-0402RE-2026-0403RE-2026-0404RE-2026-0405RE-2026-0406AN-2026-0071RE-2026-0407GS-2026-0012RE-2026-0408RE-2026-0409AN-2026-0072RE-2026-0410
Collected.
Export packet
EXTF_Buchungsstapel_2026-07.csv
DATEV booking batch
rechnungen_2026-07.zip
46 PDFs with embedded ZUGFeRD
ankaufsrechnungen_2026-07.zip
11 purchase documents
ust_voranmeldung_2026-07.pdf
VAT figures per scheme
Sent
To
office@taxadvisor.example
Subject
Bookkeeping July 2026
4 attachments
Delivered, 1 August, 06:00
Runs on the first of each month, or whenever you choose.
05 · E-invoicing

One file. A document for him, data for his software.

Every invoice leaves as a ZUGFeRD PDF: the page a human reads, with the structured record embedded inside the same file. His accounting system imports it without anyone retyping a number.

What he opens
RE-2026-0417
Rolex Day-Date 36 · 1823823.400 €
Gebrauchtgegenstände / Sonderregelung
Gesamt23.400 €
What his software reads · same file
<ram:ID>RE-2026-0417
<ram:IssueDateTime>20260726
<ram:SellerTradeParty>ChronoDesk Testhändler
<ram:BuyerTradeParty>Privatperson, München
<ram:SpecifiedTradeProduct>Rolex Day-Date 36 · 18238
<ram:GrandTotalAmount>23400.00
<ram:TaxBasisTotalAmount>0.00
<ram:TaxExemptionReason>§ 25a UStG
Structured record embedded in the PDF.
06 · Handover

What your tax advisor actually receives.

DATEV
Monthly, in the format your tax advisor already imports. No mapping call.
CSV and Excel
Everything else, including the columns you will inevitably want in a different order.
VAT report
Per scheme, on demand, with the pieces behind each figure.
Profit and loss
By month, by brand, by channel.
ZUGFeRD
On every outgoing invoice, not as an upgrade.
One file
The page a human reads and the record a machine reads, together.

The scheme you chose in March is still right in November.