Guide
Taxdoo Alternative for Shopify: What You Actually Need
Updated 2026-07-03
If you are searching for a Taxdoo alternative, it is usually for one of two reasons: the price no longer fits the size of your store, or the feature set is far bigger than what you actually need. This guide is not a takedown. Taxdoo solves a real problem, and for a segment of merchants that class of service remains the right choice. We build Faktwise, and you should know that while you read. Which is why the most important statement comes first: Faktwise is not a Taxdoo replacement. The honest answer to your search does not depend on the tool. It depends on how your store sells.
One note on scope: this guide is written for English-speaking founders and teams behind a German-registered Shopify store. Your admin may run in English, but your VAT registration is German, and your OSS return, if you file one, goes through the German authorities. That is the case this comparison covers.
The short version
- Taxdoo is a platform for VAT compliance and e-commerce accounting. It starts at 49 EUR per month, and according to its pricing page the data for the OSS return is included in the largest package from 399 EUR per month. For merchants with foreign warehouses, Amazon FBA, or many sales channels, this class of service continues to make sense.
- As of July 2026, Taxdoo’s listing on the Shopify App Store is not available. Shopify connects through an API integration from within the Taxdoo platform, not through an app from the store.
- If you sell only through Shopify, ship only from Germany, and your one cross-border topic is VAT on parcels to consumers in other EU countries, you may not need a compliance service at all. You file the OSS return yourself with the BZSt (Bundeszentralamt für Steuern, Germany’s federal central tax office), and the numbers come from an invoicing app like Faktwise (19 EUR per month, OSS report plus an import file for BOP, the BZSt’s online filing portal, included).
What Taxdoo is and what it costs in 2026
Taxdoo pulls transaction data from marketplaces, shops, and payment providers, applies the right VAT rates, and turns the result into filings and financial accounting, including a DATEV connection (DATEV is the accounting standard German tax firms work with). The core of the offer is everything that goes beyond your own shop: registrations and ongoing filings in other EU countries, stock movements between countries, and the consolidation of multiple channels.
As of July 2026, the pricing page lists three packages: Basic Go from 49 EUR, Comfort Pro from 149 EUR, and Premium Max from 399 EUR per month on monthly billing. Those are starting prices that rise with sales channels, integrations, and transaction volume. The line item “data for the OSS return” is, per the package overview, included in the price only with Premium Max; in Basic Go and Comfort Pro it can be booked as a paid add-on. The pricing page shows no free plan.
Two more things Shopify merchants should know. First: the listing at apps.shopify.com/taxdoo currently shows a notice that the app is not available in the Shopify App Store, and the Taxdoo GmbH partner page in the App Store lists no apps. A star rating and reviews are accordingly no longer visible there. Second: you can still use Taxdoo with Shopify. Its own integration page describes an API connection through which Taxdoo pulls the Shopify data directly and also provides files for OSS returns. So you do not install an app in your store; you connect the store from inside the Taxdoo dashboard.
The deciding question: where does your stock sit, and where do you sell?
Whether you need a service of this class is decided by your business model, not by a price comparison. There are two clearly different cases.
Case 1: Shopify only, shipping from Germany
Your store runs on Shopify, your goods sit in Germany, and your cross-border sales go to consumers in other EU countries. Then your entire “international tax world” consists of two tasks: the right VAT on the invoice, and once a quarter the OSS return. The OSS scheme (One-Stop-Shop) is the central filing of those sales through the BZSt, instead of registering in every country individually. Up to an EU-wide threshold of 10,000 EUR in sales per year you can generally even keep charging German VAT. We cover the basics in our guide to EU OSS VAT for Shopify merchants.
For exactly this case, a compliance service from 49 EUR per month is often more tool than the task calls for. Faktwise is an e-invoicing app for 19 EUR per month (free up to 5 invoices per month, 14-day trial) whose main job is automatic invoices, ZUGFeRD, XRechnung, credit notes, and the GoBD archive. The OSS part is included: once you activate it in the settings, the app applies the destination country’s standard VAT rate to B2C sales into other EU countries, sums up each quarter’s sales by country and rate, and produces two files. A summary CSV for your records, and a BOP CSV that matches the published rules of the BOP import format (#v2.0), which you import into your OSS return in the BZSt-Online-Portal instead of typing the amounts in by hand; always review the figures in the portal before you submit. The walkthrough is in our guide to the OSS report and BOP CSV export, and if you want a sanity check before uploading, our free OSS check inspects the file for format errors.
So that no false expectations arise, here are the limits in plain terms: Faktwise does not register you for OSS, does not file any return for you, does not monitor the 10,000 EUR threshold, calculates with standard rates only (no reduced rates, for example for books), and sees exclusively your Shopify orders. It is not a stripped-down Taxdoo. It is a different category: the lighter path for the simple case.
Case 2: Foreign warehouses, Amazon FBA, multiple channels
As soon as your goods are stored in another EU country, for example with Amazon FBA’s CEE or Pan-EU program, local registration and filing obligations arise there that the OSS scheme does not cover. The same applies if you sell through marketplaces alongside Shopify and need to merge the data streams. Let us say it plainly: an invoicing app is the wrong tool for that. You need a Taxdoo-class service or a tax firm specialized in exactly this.
Besides Taxdoo there are other providers in this class, listed neutrally for orientation:
- hellotax offers, per its own pricing page, an OSS package for 89 EUR per month including submission of the return, plus a one-time 149 EUR for the OSS registration. Registrations abroad cost a one-time 300 EUR per country, with ongoing handling from 49 EUR per month per country.
- countX is aimed strongly at Amazon and multichannel merchants and takes over registrations and filings in other EU countries as well as OSS and IOSS returns. Packages start, per its pricing page, at 39 EUR (Core) and 139 EUR (Professional) per month, tiered by transactions; OSS submission costs 99 EUR per month as an add-on, ongoing foreign filings 89 EUR per month per country.
Which provider fits depends on your countries, channels, and volumes. Compare the offers with your (German) tax advisor, also with a view to whether your product range is taxed at reduced rates in destination countries.
The comparison: four ways to the OSS return
| Taxdoo | Faktwise | Do it yourself (BOP) | Tax advisor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Platform for VAT compliance and accounting across many channels | Shopify app for e-invoices, OSS report included | Your own numbers, entered by hand in the BZSt portal | Personal service and filing |
| Foreign registrations and local filings | Yes, core service | No | No | Depends on the firm, often via partners |
| OSS support | Data or files for the return, included in the Premium Max package | Quarterly report by country and rate plus BOP import file, the filing itself stays with you | Everything manual, error-prone with many countries | The firm handles the submission |
| Price | From 49 EUR/month, OSS scope included in the package from 399 EUR/month or as an add-on | Free up to 5 invoices/month, then a flat 19 EUR/month (Shopify bills about 22 USD) | 0 EUR, but time every quarter | By effort, individual |
| Fits | FBA, foreign warehouses, multichannel | Shopify-only stores with B2C EU sales, goods in Germany | Very few OSS sales and spreadsheet discipline | Special cases, little time, a wish for reassurance |
Frequently asked questions
Is Faktwise a Taxdoo replacement?
No. Taxdoo is a compliance service with foreign registrations, filings, and an accounting connection across many channels. Faktwise is an e-invoicing app for Shopify that, as one part of its job, produces the quarterly OSS report and the BOP import file. If your case is the simple one (Shopify only, goods in Germany), that can be enough. If not, Faktwise does not replace Taxdoo.
Taxdoo is no longer in the Shopify App Store. Can I still use it?
Yes. Installing through the App Store is not possible as of July 2026, but Taxdoo connects Shopify through its own API integration from within the platform. Whether and when the store listing comes back is not something we can judge.
Do I need the OSS scheme at all?
Check first, then decide: up to 10,000 EUR of cross-border B2C sales per year (EU-wide, all countries combined) you can generally keep working with German VAT. Above that, the destination country’s tax applies, and OSS is the most convenient way to file. Whether and when you register is something to settle with your (German) tax advisor.
What does the OSS return cost me in the cheapest case?
Submitting in the BZSt-Online-Portal itself costs nothing. The real work is the clean compilation of your sales per country and VAT rate. With Faktwise that is baked into the 19 EUR app (report plus import file); with services like hellotax or countX the return is a service of its own from about 89 to 99 EUR per month, but they also handle the submission for you.
Faktwise is built for the simple case: automatic invoices and e-invoices from your Shopify orders, credit notes, GoBD archiving, and every quarter the OSS report with the BOP import file, all for a flat 19 EUR per month. Try the demo or install Faktwise from the Shopify App Store, free up to 5 invoices per month. Faktwise is software, not tax advice. Whether OSS is the right route for you and what applies in special cases is decided by the law and your (German) tax advisor.