Country packs

Germany

A business set up in Germany gets the Germany pack automatically: EUR and USt, XRechnung and ZUGFeRD, leave under the BUrlG, and the DSGVO.

Money and tax

A business set up in Germany starts in EUR; quotes and invoices can also use other currencies such as USD
USt is set per line at 19, 7 or 0%, 19% by default; one invoice can carry several rates
Tax numbers must be in the form of a USt-IdNr ("DE" and 9 digits) or a 10–13 digit Steuernummer
The nine federal holidays are worked out for any year, Easter-based ones included; picking one of 16 states adds its own
The European Central Bank can be chosen as the rate source; its reference rates are fetched automatically every day

A sent invoice downloads as XRechnung 3.0 XML: EN 16931 in UBL 2.1
BR-DE rules are checked first: buyer reference (the customer's order number), addresses, contact phone and e-mail, both e-invoice addresses and IBAN; gaps are listed
The same invoice also downloads as a ZUGFeRD PDF: PDF/A-3b with CII XML in the EN 16931 profile inside
VAT is totalled per rate and a document discount is split across the rates; a 0% line goes as exempt (E)
A non-EUR invoice also states its VAT in EUR (BT-6, BT-111); a missing rate is reported as a gap
Invoice e-mails attach the ZUGFeRD PDF instead of the plain PDF by default; XRechnung XML or none can be chosen; with a gap the e-mail is not sent

Annual leave runs by calendar year: the year's days arrive on 1 January, 20 by default (BUrlG §1, §3)
In the hire year full leave comes after the 6-month wait; if the wait runs into the next year, 1/12 per full month (§4, §5)
Leave taken comes off the oldest year first; with the setting on, unused days lapse on 31 March of the next year (§7(3))
Leave left on leaving shows as payable on the employment card; leavers in the first half of the year get 1/12 per full month (§5, §7(4))
Probation is at most 6 months; a longer one is not saved (BGB §622)
The working week is a business setting, Monday to Friday by default; a person can have their own week

The inventory is titled "Verzeichnis von Verarbeitungstätigkeiten (Art. 30 DSGVO)"
Legal grounds are the six of Art. 6(1) a–f; special categories follow Art. 9
Transfers abroad are recorded with one of the Art. 45–49 bases
The Art. 32 measures checklist loads in one step, each measure tracked as its own control

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