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Sevvies

sevDesk invoicing for Craft Commerce. Paid orders become correct German bookkeeping documents — with the right VAT rule, the right total, and a record of why. $99 per installation.

Requires Craft CMS 5.3+, Craft Commerce 5.0+ and PHP 8.2+.

Why this exists

Posting an order to sevDesk is a POST request. Posting the right order to sevDesk is not.

A German shop selling across the EU issues at least four different kinds of invoice from the same checkout: a domestic sale at 19%, an intra-community supply to an Austrian business with a VAT ID (zero-rated, reverse charge, with a sentence the invoice is legally required to carry), an export outside the EU, and — if you are registered for it — a One Stop Shop sale at the destination country's rate. sevDesk will file whichever one you tell it to. It has no way of knowing you told it the wrong one, and neither will you, until the Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung.

Sevvies decides that per order, records the reasoning on the invoice, and refuses to file anything whose numbers do not match what Commerce actually charged.

What it does

• Works out the VAT rule per order — domestic, export, intra-community supply with reverse charge, §19 Kleinunternehmer, or One Stop Shop — from the billing country and the customer's VAT ID, and writes the reason onto the invoice so an accountant can see it later.
• Refuses to file a document that disagrees with Commerce. Every invoice is totalled before it is sent and checked against what sevDesk booked afterwards. A mismatch blocks the row and names the likely cause instead of leaving a wrong invoice standing in your books.
• Refuses a rate the rule cannot carry. An export that somehow charged 19% is stopped with an explanation, not filed and forgotten.
• Never invoices an order twice. A unique index on the order id is the guarantee — not a convention, not a check-then-write.
• Never blocks checkout. Everything runs on the queue by default, and a sevDesk outage cannot stop a customer paying.
• Shows you exactly what would be sent, before you send it: the positions, the totals, the VAT reasoning and the literal JSON payload, from the CP or the command line.
• Speaks German. The interface, the tax texts and the document wording are all translated, because this is a German product.

All of it is in the one edition. There is no feature you have to upgrade to reach.

Getting started

1. Install the plugin and open Sevvies → Settings.
2. Paste your sevDesk API token — 32 hexadecimal characters, from Settings → User → your user in sevDesk. Use an environment variable ($SEVDESK_TOKEN) rather than the database.
3. Press Test connection. It reports which bookkeeping system your account is on and lists your check accounts and users, whose ids the other settings ask for.
4. Set Tax scheme and Home country, and check Position prices against your sevDesk account.
5. Turn on Dry run, and sync a few real orders. Each one is built and written to the log without anything being sent — this is how you check your VAT settings against real data before it counts.
6. Turn Dry run off.

Position prices

sevDesk decides whether the prices you send are net or gross, and the API cannot tell you which your account expects. Sevvies sends showNet to say what it meant, and then checks the total that comes back. If your account read the prices the other way, the invoice total will be the same number with VAT added or removed — Sevvies recognises that specific shape and tells you which setting to change, rather than leaving you to find it on a quarterly return.

Templating

craft.sevvies is read-only. A front-end template can show an invoice; it cannot issue one.

Console

sync/preview builds the payload through exactly the same code path as a real send, so what it prints is what sevDesk would receive.

Price

$99 per Craft installation. One edition, everything included — the VAT rule engine, payment booking, credit notes, PDF archiving and bulk backfill. Development and testing installs are free.

What Sevvies will not do

• Delete or alter a bookkeeping document in sevDesk. "Forget this link" removes Sevvies' record of an order and leaves sevDesk untouched. Bookkeeping documents are not ours to destroy.
• Validate a VAT ID against VIES. It checks the format, which is all that can be done without making checkout depend on someone else's uptime. Confirming registration is a decision with legal weight and belongs to you.
• Guess. Where sevDesk needs an id — a country, a unit, a contact person, a check account — Sevvies looks it up and caches it, or tells you it could not.

Support

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