Amazon DATEV integration: simply automate Amazon accounting
You sell via Amazon and finally want to prepare your accounting cleanly, automatically and in a DATEV-compatible way?
With AccountOne, you connect Amazon and DATEV via a smart integration. Sales, payment and tax data are processed automatically – including fees, refunds, OSS, PAN-EU, EFN and intra-community transfers of own goods. This creates solutions that do not just transfer Amazon sales data, but make it usable for the accounting of growing companies. You can find out more about an Amazon DATEV integration in this article.
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- Shipment (currently only at Amazon)
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What you'll learn here:
- An Amazon DATEV integration transfers Amazon sales and payment data into a structure that can be processed directly in DATEV.
- In the process, revenues, fees, refunds and payouts are linked with each other correctly and automatically.
- In addition, the integration ensures that the relationships between individual transactions remain recognizable.
- The Amazon DATEV export then provides the prepared data every month in a DATEV-compliant structure.
- As a partner of DATEV and Amazon, we offer a technically tested integration. It enables automated, clean data exchange and is one of the solutions specifically designed for the requirements of e-commerce.
- The setup is clearly divided: the online retailer connects Amazon, the tax consultant continues to take care of the accounting fundamentals.
- This is how reliable accounting works through consistent structures, clear handovers and complete transparency from sale to posting.
Connect Amazon and DATEV – why an Amazon DATEV integration is important
Amazon provides a lot of data. For accounting, however, it is only helpful once it is classified correctly. A sale in e-commerce can be linked to fees, refunds, payment deductions and tax information. Later, often only a payout appears on the bank statement. For DATEV, however, the individual transactions behind it are needed.
An Amazon DATEV integration closes this gap. It ensures that Amazon data is not just transferred, but prepared in a way that is usable for accounting. This automation reduces the manual effort in month-end closing. At the same time, the relationships in e-commerce between sale, payment and posting remain easy to trace.
AccountOne is an Amazon Software Partner and DATEV Partner. The solution is technically tested and designed for stable, secure data exchange between Amazon and DATEV. As a result, the company, the tax firm and the technical partner work on a shared data basis.
Amazon accounting with DATEV: what needs to be clarified beforehand
Before data from e-commerce can be processed in DATEV, it has to be prepared cleanly from a professional point of view. What matters is not only that all information is available. It also has to fit together correctly.
Above all, the following are important:
- Revenues and orders
- Fees and commissions
- Refunds and returns
- Payouts and payment reports
- Tax information and country references
The difference between a simple data export and accounting becomes apparent precisely at this point. An export delivers data. Accounting preparation explains how this data is related. Especially for retailers with many Amazon transactions, it is crucial that they do not have to be laboriously sorted only at month-end closing. AccountOne takes care of this preparation automatically.
Amazon DATEV integration: how transactions become posting data
The integration automatically transfers Amazon transactions into a form that can be processed further directly in DATEV. This is not just about technical transfer. What matters is the structure behind it.
Every transaction has to remain unambiguous: Where does the amount come from? Which order does it belong to? Which fee was deducted? Which tax logic is relevant? Only when this information is preserved does a reliable data flow from Amazon into accounting emerge.
Through automation, a multitude of individual marketplace movements thus becomes an orderly posting process.
Automatic assignment of payments, fees and payouts
In practice, Amazon often shows collective movements. A payout can contain many orders, refunds and deductions. For retailers and tax consultants, the automatic assignment of these components is therefore crucial.
The integration links the relevant transactions with each other automatically. In addition, it makes visible which individual items lie behind a payout. This allows the individual items to be checked more clearly. Open questions arise less often because accounting does not only see the final amount.
Amazon DATEV export: which data ends up in DATEV
The Amazon DATEV export is the result of the preceding, automated preparation. It provides everything in a DATEV-compliant structure so that it can easily be processed further in the tax firm.
This includes, for example:
- Posting batches
- Account assignments
- Posting texts
- Tax keys
- Document information
- DATEV-compliant export structure
What is important: the export is not the beginning of the process, but its result. It shows whether the data was previously assigned cleanly, given account assignments and prepared correctly for tax purposes. AccountOne ensures that this structure is traceable and available month after month.
Set up Amazon DATEV: step by step to a finished connection
In practice, setting up Amazon DATEV is clearly divided. The online retailer establishes the technical connection to Amazon. The tax firm defines the accounting fundamentals. This keeps it clear for retailers and tax consultants who takes care of which part. AccountOne accompanies the process as a partner for the technical connection between Amazon and DATEV. This relieves companies of the technical effort and leaves the tax firm room for the accounting.
For online retailers, the focus is on the connection:
- Connect the Amazon account
- Authorize data retrieval
For tax consultants, it is about client onboarding and setting up the accounting:
- Define account assignments
- Define tax keys
- Check the export
The Amazon DATEV integration can be tested free of charge for 14 days. If required, AccountOne provides support with the setup. In addition, the software can easily be viewed directly in the live demo.
Once everything is set up, the export can be downloaded month after month and processed automatically in DATEV.
DATEV integration for Amazon: what tax consultants should pay particular attention to
In the day-to-day work of an e-commerce tax firm, a DATEV integration for Amazon has to deliver one thing above all: it has to deliver auditable data. Tax consultants do not need confusing raw data, but clear posting suggestions with a uniform structure – even with many Amazon clients.
Particularly important are:
- clear account assignment
- clearly recognizable posting texts
- clean separation of revenues and fees
- uniform tax keys
- traceable document and export structure
In the end, what counts is whether a transaction can be traced back completely when questions arise. This is exactly what shows whether the integration simplifies month-end closing or creates additional reconciliation.
More features of our Amazon DATEV integration
- PAN-EU and EFN
- AFN and MFN
- COS
- Europe, USA, Canada and Mexico
- Pro forma invoices for intra-community transfers of own goods included
- OSS reporting data included
- Multi-shop capable - connects several Amazon accounts with one AccountOne account
- Multichannel capable - works hand in hand with all systems, such as your own shop with Shopify or Shopware, even if data exists twice
- Delivery threshold monitoring historically for the entire EU and currently for OSS
- B2B and B2C sales - including verification of customers' VAT IDs
- Individual posting - GoBD-compliant individual posting procedure with automatic open item clearing
How Amazon data becomes reliable accounting
Reliable Amazon accounting does not come from a simple download. It comes from a stable e-commerce data process: Amazon data is retrieved, checked, assigned automatically and then provided directly in a DATEV-compliant form.
Companies and tax firms benefit from this equally. The retailer reduces manual work. The tax firm receives structured data from its clients every month for further processing. And the entire path remains traceable – from the sale on Amazon to the finished posting in DATEV.
In short: an Amazon DATEV integration turns complex marketplace data into a clear accounting process.
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Frequently asked
What is an Amazon DATEV integration?
An Amazon DATEV integration transfers and processes Amazon sales, payment and tax data so that it can be used for accounting and the DATEV import.
How do I connect Amazon with DATEV?
With AccountOne, Amazon is connected via an API connection. After authorization in Amazon Seller Central, AccountOne retrieves all the necessary data automatically.
How does the setup of the Amazon DATEV integration work?
Log in to AccountOne. In the dashboard, click on “+ Neue Schnittstelle anbinden” and select Amazon. Select the appropriate Amazon integration, i.e. Europe, North America or Far East. AccountOne forwards you to Amazon. Log in to Amazon Seller Central with your credentials and confirm the data access. Amazon redirects you back to AccountOne and the integration is set up automatically.
Can I create an Amazon DATEV export with AccountOne?
Yes, AccountOne prepares Amazon sales data for accounting and enables the export or handover to DATEV.
Which Amazon data is processed?
Processed data includes sales, refunds, customer payments, customer repayments, fees, intra-community transfers of own goods and commingling.
From which Amazon marketplaces can the data be retrieved?
All marketplaces that run under Amazon Europe, Amazon North America and Amazon Far East can be connected to AccountOne via API.
Can I also file local tax returns via AccountOne?
Yes, with our partner tax.fish, local tax returns can be supported on the basis of the data from AccountOne.
Is Amazon Pay included in the Amazon DATEV integration?
No, Amazon Pay is a separate payment service provider and can be connected to AccountOne via a separate integration.
Do I need a professional Amazon account?
Yes, AccountOne can only retrieve Amazon sales data if a professional Amazon account is available.
Can I connect several Amazon marketplaces with DATEV?
Yes, with AccountOne, Amazon marketplaces from Europe, North America and the Far East can be connected via API.
Does AccountOne support Amazon PAN-EU and FBA?
Yes, AccountOne supports complex Amazon setups such as PAN-EU, EFN, AFN/MFN, intra-community transfers of own goods and OSS.
What our customers say:
“We want to support our clients, many of whom are online retailers and Amazon or eBay sellers, as individually as possible and still efficiently. AccountOne's time-saving solution for automatic accounting import via the DATEV integration is an indispensable working basis for our digital tax office.”
Diplom Betriebswirt (FH) Daniel GöllnerTax consultant, tax consultancy Daniel Göllner, GroßschwabhausenTest 14 days free of charge & in full
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