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.
Client Master Data
Firm-wide client, addressee, and organizational data maintained in DATEV.
Available with: DATEV Zentrale Stammdaten
Included data and capabilities
Clients
Read & writeRetrieve 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 & writeRetrieve, 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 & writeRead firm employees, responsibility areas, and their specific client assignments, and maintain them where supported by the respective function.
Corporate structures
ReadOrganizations, establishments, and branches with their assignments in the firm and corporate structure.
Reference data
ReadBanks, tax authorities, legal forms, and countries for consistent master data.
Relationships, categories, and groups
Read & writeRelationships between addressees, including relationship types, and client categories and groups with their definitions and assignments.
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
ReadClient 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
ReadAccounts 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 & writeRetrieve, 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 & writeSubmit 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
ReadRetrieve saved assignment rules for incoming invoices, outgoing invoices, and cash-register entries.
Accounts, tax keys, and payment terms
Read & writeRead 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 & writeRetrieve asset lists and individual assets with their inventory data and update inventory data in bulk.
Cost accounting
Read & writeRetrieve 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
ReadRetrieve sums-and-balances lists, monthly accounting statistics, and primary-entry sequences with their captured postings.
Account postings
ReadRetrieve 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.
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
ReadRetrieve 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
ReadSearch 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 & writeCreate 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 & writeUpdate 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 & writeStore employee information from DATEV payroll on new or existing documents and assign documents to DATEV Eigenorganisation comfort orders.
Record transfers and revisions
Read & writeUsers 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 & writeSupported 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 & writeDelete or permanently remove documents depending on product version and permissions.
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 & writeRead 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
ReadRetrieve 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 & writeRead 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
ReadInvoices, advance invoices, and credit notes, plus fees, fee plans, and work and billing states for orders and suborders.
Employee and costing data
ReadEmployee capacities, groups, qualifications, cost rates, and charge rates.
Self clients and cost centers
ReadThe firm's own clients and the cost centers used in order management.
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 & writeRetrieve 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 & writeRetrieve gross payments, salaries, hourly wages, and working time and create or update the pay and time details supported by DATEV.
Tax and insurance
Read & writeRetrieve tax cards and tax details, social insurance, and private and voluntary insurance and update the supported details.
Month and calendar records
Read & writeRetrieve, create, update, and delete monthly and calendar-based transaction records.
Vacation and vocational training
Read & writeRetrieve vacation entitlements and vocational training details; supported training records can be created, updated, and deleted.
Cost centers and cost units
Read & writeRetrieve, create, update, and delete payroll cost centers and units.
Additional payroll foundations
ReadRetrieve wage types, absence and loss-of-work keys, departments, activity histories, and client data relevant to financial accounting as the basis for payroll entries.
Identity and Access Management
Manage DATEV users and groups programmatically.
Available with: DATEV Benutzerverwaltung
Included data and capabilities
DATEV users
Read & writeRetrieve, create, update, and delete users.
DATEV groups
Read & writeRetrieve, create, update, and delete groups.
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
ReadRetrieve matters and their parties, party roles, and associated business master data for reporting and third-party solutions.
Billing, budgets, and expenses
ReadRetrieve accounting areas, billing categories, budgets, causes, fee versions, contingency fees, and expenses with their types and categories.
Organization and reference data
ReadRetrieve departments, employees, custom fields, levels of jurisdiction, reference sheets, and security zones as organizational and business reference data.
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
ReadIdentify citizens through a web ID and addressee key and retrieve their notices with metadata and the complete PDF document.
Levies and payment method
ReadRetrieve 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
ReadRetrieve 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 & writeAdd changes to addresses, bank details, and communication channels.
Submit meter readings
Read & writeRecord a new meter reading or consumption value for a meter.