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DATEVconnect Gateway scope

What does the DATEVconnect Gateway cover?

The DATEVconnect Gateway brings together a family of local interfaces for DATEV desktop applications. This overview shows the complete functional scope available through the Gateway without listing individual API endpoints.

8 interface areas
Read or write – depending on the area
Local to the DATEV environment
01

Client Master Data

Firm-wide client, addressee, and organizational data maintained in DATEV.

Available with: DATEV Zentrale Stammdaten

Included data and capabilities

  • Clients

    Read & write

    Retrieve client lists and individual clients, create new clients, and update existing ones. This includes responsibilities, categories, groups, next available numbers, and the deletion log.

  • Addressees

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, and update people and organizations with addresses, communication channels, bank and tax-authority links, legal-form details, and a deletion log.

  • Firm employees and responsibilities

    Read & write

    Read firm employees, responsibility areas, and their specific client assignments, and maintain them where supported by the respective function.

  • Corporate structures

    Read

    Organizations, establishments, and branches with their assignments in the firm and corporate structure.

  • Reference data

    Read

    Banks, tax authorities, legal forms, and countries for consistent master data.

  • Relationships, categories, and groups

    Read & write

    Relationships between addressees, including relationship types, and client categories and groups with their definitions and assignments.

02

Accounting

Master data, transactions, and reports from supported DATEV accounting applications.

Available with: DATEV Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen, supported DATEV Mittelstand accounting variants, and DATEVkommunal

Included data and capabilities

  • Clients and fiscal years

    Read

    Client datasets and fiscal years with consultant and client numbers, periods, account lengths, charts of accounts, base currency, taxation, and date and service settings.

  • Open items

    Read

    Accounts receivable and payable – open or settled, condensed or individual – with accounts, invoice and date details, amount and currency, payment method, dunning level, cost centers, SEPA, tax, and source-document information.

  • Debtors, creditors, and other addresses

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, and update customers, suppliers, and other addresses. Data includes account numbers, addresses and communication channels with usage types, bank details, legal form, and tax details.

  • Accounting sequences and posting proposals

    Read & write

    Submit accounting sequences with their records and retrieve captured sequences and postings. Incoming-invoice and cash-document data can be supplied as posting proposals.

  • Posting rules and learning data

    Read

    Retrieve saved assignment rules for incoming invoices, outgoing invoices, and cash-register entries.

  • Accounts, tax keys, and payment terms

    Read & write

    Read labelled and already-used general-ledger accounts and tax keys. Payment terms can be retrieved and created with the next available number.

  • Asset accounting

    Read & write

    Retrieve asset lists and individual assets with their inventory data and update inventory data in bulk.

  • Cost accounting

    Read & write

    Retrieve cost systems, cost centers and units, their properties, and tax keys. Depending on the data type, properties, internal services, cost sequences, and cost-accounting records can be read or submitted.

  • Reports and posting history

    Read

    Retrieve sums-and-balances lists, monthly accounting statistics, and primary-entry sequences with their captured postings.

  • Account postings

    Read

    Retrieve the account postings of a selected fiscal year with allocation, amounts, dates, and the associated source-document information.

    Requires the additional DATEVconnect Account Postings licence.

03

Document Management

Documents and filing structures in DATEV DMS or Dokumentenablage.

Available with: DATEV DMS or Dokumentenablage and the additional DATEVconnect Document Management licence

Included data and capabilities

  • Filing structure and rules

    Read

    Retrieve domains, folders, registers, available document states, secure areas, and the master-data source for each domain. DATEV DMS can also provide filing rules, individual fields, and references.

  • Find and retrieve documents

    Read

    Search document lists by properties and filters, page through large result sets, and retrieve individual documents with metadata, individual fields, structure items, and files.

  • Create documents

    Read & write

    Create documents with properties, individual fields, and a unique ID. In DATEV DMS, a suitable rule from the filing guide can be used.

  • Change documents and structures

    Read & write

    Update document properties, individual fields, and structure items. Files and folders can be added and positioned precisely within an existing document structure.

  • Add business assignments

    Read & write

    Store employee information from DATEV payroll on new or existing documents and assign documents to DATEV Eigenorganisation comfort orders.

  • Record transfers and revisions

    Read & write

    Users can transfer documents from DATEV to a third-party solution. The transfer, dispatch details, and general or individual notes can be recorded in the revision history.

  • Manage states and individual references

    Read & write

    Supported third-party solutions can create document states during initial setup. Values for individual fields and references can be supplied when creating or changing a document.

  • Delete documents

    Read & write

    Delete or permanently remove documents depending on product version and permissions.

04

Order Management

Orders, services, time, and billing information from DATEV Eigenorganisation comfort.

Available with: DATEV Eigenorganisation comfort

Included data and capabilities

  • Orders and suborders

    Read & write

    Read order types and client and internal orders with organizational and client assignments, responsible employees, states, and plan values. Suborders with time, cost, revenue, and invoice states are also available, and supported order data can be updated.

  • Monthly values and cost items

    Read

    Retrieve an order's aggregated time, cost, and revenue values by month and view all planned expense and cost items for an order.

  • Expense postings

    Read & write

    Read recorded time and expenses by order, work date, or employee. Entries from external time-recording systems can be submitted for review or integrated directly into orders.

  • Invoices, fees, and billing states

    Read

    Invoices, advance invoices, and credit notes, plus fees, fee plans, and work and billing states for orders and suborders.

  • Employee and costing data

    Read

    Employee capacities, groups, qualifications, cost rates, and charge rates.

  • Self clients and cost centers

    Read

    The firm's own clients and the cost centers used in order management.

05

Payroll

Payroll master data and entry records for clients and employees.

Available with: DATEV Lohn und Gehalt classic or comfort

Included data and capabilities

  • Employee master data

    Read & write

    Retrieve employees ready for payroll and other employees with personal details, addresses, bank accounts, activities, disability information, and employment periods, and maintain the supported data.

  • Pay and working time

    Read & write

    Retrieve gross payments, salaries, hourly wages, and working time and create or update the pay and time details supported by DATEV.

  • Tax and insurance

    Read & write

    Retrieve tax cards and tax details, social insurance, and private and voluntary insurance and update the supported details.

  • Month and calendar records

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, update, and delete monthly and calendar-based transaction records.

  • Vacation and vocational training

    Read & write

    Retrieve vacation entitlements and vocational training details; supported training records can be created, updated, and deleted.

  • Cost centers and cost units

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, update, and delete payroll cost centers and units.

  • Additional payroll foundations

    Read

    Retrieve wage types, absence and loss-of-work keys, departments, activity histories, and client data relevant to financial accounting as the basis for payroll entries.

06

Identity and Access Management

Manage DATEV users and groups programmatically.

Available with: DATEV Benutzerverwaltung

Included data and capabilities

  • DATEV users

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, update, and delete users.

  • DATEV groups

    Read & write

    Retrieve, create, update, and delete groups.

07

Law

Master data and transactions from DATEV Anwalt classic for reporting and third-party solutions.

Available with: DATEV Anwalt classic

Included data and capabilities

  • Files, parties, and roles

    Read

    Retrieve matters and their parties, party roles, and associated business master data for reporting and third-party solutions.

  • Billing, budgets, and expenses

    Read

    Retrieve accounting areas, billing categories, budgets, causes, fee versions, contingency fees, and expenses with their types and categories.

  • Organization and reference data

    Read

    Retrieve departments, employees, custom fields, levels of jurisdiction, reference sheets, and security zones as organizational and business reference data.

08

Public Sector

Data for digital citizen services run by municipalities and municipal organizations.

Available with: DATEV Kommunale Abgabe

Included data and capabilities

  • Citizens and notices

    Read

    Identify citizens through a web ID and addressee key and retrieve their notices with metadata and the complete PDF document.

  • Levies and payment method

    Read

    Retrieve a citizen's active and completed levies with location-related details and information on the current payment method, direct debit, and dunning.

  • Consumption, meters, and readings

    Read

    Retrieve consumption values across multiple years and their calculation basis, plus meter master data, locations, opening and closing readings, measurements, estimates, and projections.

  • Update citizen details

    Read & write

    Add changes to addresses, bank details, and communication channels.

  • Submit meter readings

    Read & write

    Record a new meter reading or consumption value for a meter.

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