Accounting · head to head
DATEV vs RazorpayX
DATEV
Accounting
German accounting, payroll and tax software built around the tax adviser rather than the business
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- On request
- Rated
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RazorpayX
Accounting
Indian business banking layer for current accounts, automated payouts, vendor payments and payroll
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- On request
- Rated
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The short version
- Each has a real cost: DATEV dATEV does not publish transparent per-customer pricing the way a SaaS vendor does; your real cost is buried in your tax adviser's fee note, so comparing it against Lexware or sevdesk on price is genuinely hard.; RazorpayX everything is India specific, the rails, the currency, the statutory deductions and the filings, so a company that redomiciles or expands abroad gets no reuse and has to run a second banking and payroll stack in the new jurisdiction.
- They diverge on capability: DATEV covers Unternehmen online, RazorpayX covers Current account.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which DATEV and RazorpayX actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Accounting).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in DATEV
- Unternehmen online
- Lohn und Gehalt
- Rechnungswesen
- Jahresabschluss
- DATEV DMS
- Meine Steuern
- DATEV-Schnittstelle
Only in RazorpayX
- Current account
- Payout API
- Bulk payouts
- Payout links
- Vendor payments
- Payroll
- Statutory filing support
- Corporate cards
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
DATEV
- A German GmbH that wants its Steuerberater to keep doing the books but wants receipts to stop travelling in a shoeboxnot RazorpayX
- A payroll department that must file social insurance and wage tax returns to German statutory deadlines without an external bureaunot RazorpayX
- An SME preparing an e-Bilanz and audit-ready GoBD document archivenot RazorpayX
- A tax firm standardising dozens of client engagements on one chart of accounts and one document workflownot RazorpayX
RazorpayX
- An Indian marketplace settling thousands of seller payouts on a schedule that no bank portal can supportnot DATEV
- A startup running payroll for a growing team that needs provident fund, employee state insurance and tax deduction handled without an in house specialistnot DATEV
- A company paying many vendors monthly that needs tax deducted at source calculated and recorded against each paymentnot DATEV
- A product team that needs disbursements to happen from application code with webhook confirmation rather than from a treasury spreadsheetnot DATEV
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
DATEV
- DATEV does not publish transparent per-customer pricing the way a SaaS vendor does; your real cost is buried in your tax adviser's fee note, so comparing it against Lexware or sevdesk on price is genuinely hard.
- The board has decided to wind down the Austria-specific portfolio: existing products remain usable to 31 December 2028, are free of charge during 2029, and cannot be used after 31 December 2029, so any Austrian entity on DATEV has a forced migration dated in advance.
- It is built for German statutory practice, so a group with subsidiaries outside the DACH region will run DATEV for Germany and something else everywhere else, with a consolidation step in between.
- Large parts of the suite are still Windows desktop software installed on a workstation or terminal server, which means IT overhead most companies no longer budget for when they think they are buying cloud accounting.
- The lock-in is social as well as technical: because your adviser holds the installation and the history, changing accounting software usually forces you to change or retrain your adviser, which is a far bigger decision than a software migration.
RazorpayX
- Everything is India specific, the rails, the currency, the statutory deductions and the filings, so a company that redomiciles or expands abroad gets no reuse and has to run a second banking and payroll stack in the new jurisdiction.
- The current account is held with a partner bank while the interface and the relationship belong to Razorpay, so an escalation about the account itself can fall between two organisations and the deposit protection you have depends on the bank, not on the fintech.
- Indian payment fintechs are subject to active central bank intervention, and Razorpay itself spent a period unable to onboard new merchants following a regulatory direction, so single provider concentration for both collections and payouts is a live continuity risk rather than a theoretical one.
- Payouts carry per transaction charges beyond an included allowance and payroll is charged per employee, so a high volume settlement business or a company hiring quickly finds the running cost scales directly with the activity that made the product attractive.
- Support is largely ticket based and account management is reserved for larger accounts, so a failed high value payout or a payroll run that does not credit becomes a queue rather than a call, which is a poor position to be in on a salary date.
Pricing, plan by plan
DATEV
On request- DATEV Unternehmen online$undefined/month
- Receipt and bank data exchange with your tax adviser
- Cash book and master data modules
- Ordered and usually rebilled through the adviser
- DATEV Mittelstand$undefined/month
- In-house financial accounting and invoicing
- Payroll modules licensed separately
- Per-workplace licensing
- Lohn und Gehalt$undefined/month
- German payroll runs and statutory electronic filings
- Priced by number of payslips
- Typically operated by the adviser on the client's behalf
RazorpayX
On requestNo published plan breakdown. See the RazorpayX review.
Which should you pick?
Choose DATEV if
- You need unternehmen online.
- You work on Windows, Web.
- You also want lohn und gehalt.
Questions people ask
- Is DATEV or RazorpayX better?
- Neither clearly leads. DATEV starts at On request and RazorpayX at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, DATEV or RazorpayX?
- DATEV starts at On request and RazorpayX at On request.
- Does DATEV or RazorpayX run on more platforms?
- DATEV runs on Windows, Web. RazorpayX runs on Web.
- What is DATEV best used for?
- DATEV is most often used for a german gmbh that wants its steuerberater to keep doing the books but wants receipts to stop travelling in a shoebox, a payroll department that must file social insurance and wage tax returns to german statutory deadlines without an external bureau, an sme preparing an e-bilanz and audit-ready gobd document archive, a tax firm standardising dozens of client engagements on one chart of accounts and one document workflow. Of those, a german gmbh that wants its steuerberater to keep doing the books but wants receipts to stop travelling in a shoebox and a payroll department that must file social insurance and wage tax returns to german statutory deadlines without an external bureau are not what RazorpayX is typically brought in for.
- What can DATEV do that RazorpayX cannot?
- DATEV covers Unternehmen online, Lohn und Gehalt, Rechnungswesen, Jahresabschluss. RazorpayX covers Current account, Payout API, Bulk payouts, Payout links.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
DATEV: Can I buy DATEV directly without a tax adviser?
In practice, no for most of the range. Membership of the cooperative is restricted to the tax and legal professions, and companies get access through their adviser or as a client of one.
RazorpayX: Is RazorpayX a bank?
No. The current account is provided by partner banks. RazorpayX supplies the interface, the payout automation and the payroll and compliance layer on top of it.
DATEV: Is DATEV usable outside Germany?
It operates in Austria, Italy, Spain, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Hungary, but the depth is German. The Austrian product line is being discontinued with a hard end date of 31 December 2029.
RazorpayX: Can a company registered outside India use it?
No. It serves Indian registered entities, rupee accounts and Indian statutory requirements.
DATEV: What is the DATEV-Schnittstelle everyone mentions?
It is the standard export format German invoicing and ERP tools produce so bookkeeping data can be handed to a DATEV-based adviser. Supporting it is effectively a requirement to sell accounting-adjacent software in Germany.
RazorpayX: Does the payroll module handle statutory compliance?
It calculates and supports the main statutory items, provident fund, employee state insurance, professional tax and income tax deduction, and assists with the periodic filings. Confirm the scope against your state specific obligations, since professional tax in particular varies.
DATEV: Does DATEV handle e-invoicing under the German B2B mandate?
Yes, the accounting and invoicing modules were extended for the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats that the German B2B e-invoicing rules require.
RazorpayX: What happens to my payouts if there is a regulatory action against Razorpay?
That has happened before in the form of a restriction on onboarding new merchants. Existing customers continued, but the episode is the reason many businesses keep a bank relationship and a second payout route alive alongside it.
RazorpayX: Does it connect to accounting software?
It integrates with the Indian accounting tools most of its customers use, so payouts and payroll postings do not have to be rekeyed. Check your specific product rather than assuming, because coverage is narrower than for global ledgers.
RazorpayX: How is it priced?
A plan fee with included payout volumes, per transaction charges beyond that, and a per employee charge for payroll. Model your actual payout count rather than the plan headline, because that is where the cost lands.
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