Gap analysis to reach german market requirements
Naming Series: It would be nice if all or the most common naming series like customer, quotation, sales order, sales invoice could be set via wizard/first run of ERPNext. Or have a once pre-defined set for german semi-standards (provided by community).
Numbers/Digits: In Germany we seperate the thousends with a dot and the decimal place as comma (instead of dot/point) eg 4.599,99 € https://discuss.erpnext.com/t/v12-1-6-decimals-in-currencies-not-working/53486/21
Currency is either EUR 4.599,99 or 4.599,99 €
Adresses are Street No, "second Adress line", Postalcode (5 digits or less), City. County is not commonly used.
A standard print view following DIN 5008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_5008) work already in progress. https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/issues/19714
Landline telephone numbers are still commonly used over mobile numbers.
Adressing customers is more old fassion. We would start an E-Mail with "Dear Sir or Madam," or "Dear Mrs. Schmidt,"it would be nice if titles like Dr. Prof. etc. where optional.
On quotations and invoices it is common to have subtotals at the end of the page. This subtotal is then carried forward on the next page (tax requirement)
To meet tax requirements an invoice needs to be non-changable after submit. We have worked on a solution with Raffael https://github.com/tueit/pdf_on_submit
There is a tax-related company which provides software for tax consultants called DATEV https://www.datev.com/. For ERPNext to have a realistic chance in the field of invoicing it is more or less mandetory to have some kind of implementation/interface/import-export function to this platform. This could be xml or something similar there is a thread on this also: https://discuss.erpnext.com/t/erpnext-datev-kompatibel-machen/44127/80 https://discuss.erpnext.com/t/german-chapter-datev-connector/42933 https://github.com/frappe/erpnext/pull/18755
There is coming feature which will be addressed in Europe called ZugFeRD. Implemting this could acctualy be paramount in the european market beeing a great chance for ERPNext to become a success. https://www.ferd-net.de/front_content.php?idcat=227&lang=4
Integration to german banks would be very usefull https://discuss.erpnext.com/t/erpnext-fints-connector-german-banks/49155/11
Some translations would be necesary for ease of use for non-it-affin personal https://discuss.erpnext.com/t/missing-translation-when-using-relink/43493/5
Some minor translation issues here and there
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