Cash flow planning with DATEV
From DATEV to a cash flow plan in three steps
Open items from DATEV in the plan
- Amount, due date, counterparty, document and invoice number per item
- Expected payment date instead of due date — late payers appear realistically in the plan
- A new upload updates instead of duplicating
And an automatic DATEV interface?
For larger companies we're happy to discuss a direct connection case by case. But such connections run through your accounting firm: an external service provider gets its own access there, the firm needs DATEV licences and often help from its IT partner, and some firms refuse third-party access for security reasons. The upload, by contrast, is available right away, with no further setup: it usually takes three to five minutes with weekly updates, costs nothing extra and needs no access to the firm. That's why it is our standard. Even more convenient: via the MCP server your own AI imports the open items for you.
Payments reconcile themselves
- Bank transactions are matched against the open items, including partial and collective payments
- What is unambiguous, COMMITLY assigns; where it is not, it suggests and you approve
- Overdue items are flagged, so you know where to follow up
And back to DATEV: approved supplier invoices
- Capture supplier invoices in COMMITLY Bills, approve and pay them
- Export to DATEV with document image and a COMMITLY review page as proof of approval
- Booking and retention continue in DATEV
DATEV Liquiditätsmonitor or COMMITLY?
DATEV offers a cash flow outlook of its own. Which solution fits depends on what you want to do with the plan.
DATEV Liquiditätsmonitor online
According to DATEV, an add-on module to DATEV Unternehmen online for EUR 5.25 a month: development of your bank accounts, an AI forecast from the bank transactions of past years, open items from your accounting firm's DATEV Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen and simple simulations, for example of withdrawals. An inexpensive way in if your accounting firm uses DATEV Unternehmen online and an outlook over the next few weeks is enough for you.
COMMITLY
A planning system of its own: a plan by your priorities, a rolling forecast from 13 weeks to 360 days, scenarios without overwriting, plan-actual comparison by amount and timing, several entities as a group — plus invoice approval and payment. The right choice if you want to steer with the plan, show it to the bank or trigger payments from it. Prices on the pricing page.
For companies using DATEV — and their accounting firm
Management
You see whether the money will last in eight weeks, not just what happened last month. The BWA stays, the view ahead comes on top.
Finance team
No more typing bank balances and open items into Excel. The plan updates itself from bank and DATEV data.
Tax advisors
Support clients in COMMITLY, with their own logins and roles. For accounting firms there is the Consultant edition.
Proven by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs.
If you want to save time and get away from spreadsheets, this software is exactly right. I haven't found anything better.
Managing Director BMU Veranstaltungstechnik
COMMITLY is one of the reasons we have been able to grow so strongly over the past few years. A very simple and efficient way to keep cash flow in view and under control.
CFO Basenbox
This is why a spreadsheet-based liquidity analysis is unnecessary! No more manual spreadsheets, so the effort has dropped considerably. On top of that the quality of the numbers has improved noticeably, which gives real confidence on such a sensitive topic.
Managing Director Bimanu
Absolutely recommended. Thanks to Commitly we can track our revenue and our costs down to the day, and plan the current year on that basis. Much better and much simpler to handle, thanks to Commitly.
Finance Manager Yogaeasy
A great tool for cash flow planning. Commitly helps us plan our cash flow and see where we may stand at the end of the month or the year. A range of analyses gives us a good overview and makes spreadsheets obsolete here too.
Managing Director Klebekerlchen
How do you connect COMMITLY with lexoffice? Honestly, I can only vaguely remember. All you have to do is go to Integrations in the COMMITLY settings, click a button for "connect lexoffice" and log in to lexoffice as usual. That was it.
Managing Director Pro.Tec Solutions
Before we started using COMMITLY we tested and reviewed a number of cash flow planning tools. With COMMITLY the numbers are now in our own hands, and we can categorise them ourselves, more finely and independently of the DATEV chart of accounts. That makes shortfalls and opportunities easier to spot.
CEO, Managing Director Mate IT GmbH
A great cash flow planning tool. COMMITLY helps us make decisions and plan ahead. Can we afford new staff, new equipment or new projects? COMMITLY answers those questions quite reliably for us.
Head of Finance GDW Global Digital Women GmbH
The best cash flow planning tool and a lifesaver for the business. Commitly helps us plan our financial headroom at any time. The intelligent forecasts and the direct connection to our accounting are particularly good.
Managing Director huhuco UG
For us the best choice for cash flow planning. At Modoplus we value clear tools that noticeably improve day-to-day efficiency — for cash flow planning we found what we were looking for in COMMITLY. You can clearly tell the tool was built by people who know and understand the financial planning challenges young companies face.
Founder & CEO Modoplus GmbH
The simplicity of the daily account information. The way Commitly learns with every transaction. Wherever you are, you are always able to keep an eye on your liquidity.
Managing Director Quadrex Unternehmensgruppe
Commitly makes it easy to record and adjust future cash flows. Using it is self-explanatory. That keeps the focus on the substance of the advisory conversation.
FinancePartners Beratungsges mbH
Commitly makes it possible for us to plan our company's liquidity transparently. Without Commitly we would be lost. And the competition trails badly in quality, or is far too expensive. Commitly does exactly what it is supposed to do!
Founder OpenForests
Seven quarters as OMR Leader. 140+ reviews. 4.8 out of 5 stars. 97 percent positive.
Owner-managers, finance leads and accounting firms across the German-speaking market use COMMITLY for cash flow forecasting, plan vs. actual comparison and bank connectivity. That gives COMMITLY the highest customer rating among the leading cash flow planning tools in the DACH region.
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Frequently asked questions
Partly. With Liquiditätsmonitor online, DATEV offers an outlook over the next few weeks as an add-on to DATEV Unternehmen online: bank balance development, a forecast from the bank transactions of past years and simple simulations. If you want to steer with the plan — by your own priorities, with scenarios, plan-actual comparison and across several entities — you add a planning system of your own. For this, COMMITLY takes over the open items from DATEV and connects them with your bank accounts. Your bookkeeping stays where it is.