GoCardless DATEV exportPayouts, chargebacks, fees & invoice numbers – booked automatically

GoCardless is a payment provider for direct debits: merchants and software vendors use it to collect SEPA Direct Debits (and Bacs, ACH etc. in other countries) from their customers. GoCardless collects the amounts into a balance and transfers them in bundles as a payout to the merchant's bank account. GoCardless does not issue invoices – it is the collection and payout layer, not the invoicing software.

Yes. finHero is an official GoCardless partner. You connect your account through the finHero partner app directly at GoCardless – with your GoCardless login, read-only access and no API key to copy.

GoCardless offers payout reports, but no ready-made DATEV booking batch. finHero reads the payouts via the GoCardless API, breaks them down into items, assigns accounts and generates the import-ready booking batch for DATEV, BMD, bexio or Abacus.

In the settings, click "Connect with GoCardless" and sign in at GoCardless. finHero only receives read access (scope read_only); the access token is stored encrypted. No API key has to be copied, and the connection can be removed at any time.

The date a payout arrives on your bank account is decisive. All payouts with an arrival date in the chosen period are booked with all their items – so every payout entry matches the line on your bank statement.

As a separate entry debtor to GoCardless account, with the same invoice number in Belegfeld 1 as the original payment. Under cash-basis taxation, or if the invoices are not in DATEV, finHero also books the revenue reversal. The open item is reopened as a result.

From the payment reference or description in GoCardless. Automatically, finHero takes the last part of the reference that contains digits. If that does not fit, you store your own pattern (regular expression) with a live preview on your real references. If no number is found, the GoCardless payment ID is used.

No. GoCardless provides no invoice PDFs, so there is no receipt export. Under accrual taxation no revenue is booked either – the invoices come from your invoicing software into DATEV, and the GoCardless payment clears them via the invoice number.

Each fee is booked individually to your fee account, assigned to its payment, with your fee booking key. If GoCardless reports VAT on the fee, the amount is noted on the entry as additional information "USt auf Gebühr". Partner app fees can optionally be booked to a separate account.

GoCardless only provides the items of payouts from the last 6 months – older payouts can no longer be broken down. Export promptly or enable the monthly auto-export. There are also no invoice PDFs and no VAT data for payments.

GoCardless SAS is GoCardless's European entity based in Paris, through which merchants in the EU are paid out. A credit "GoCardless SAS" on your bank statement is therefore a payout of your GoCardless balance. It is booked bank to cash-in-transit account – the items behind it (payments, fees, chargebacks) are booked by finHero from the GoCardless API against the same cash-in-transit account, so it nets to zero per payout.

Because GoCardless collects the direct debit on the merchant's behalf: on the payer's statement GoCardless (or GoCardless SAS) appears as the submitter, together with the mandate reference and the payment reference, which ideally contains the invoice number. For you as the merchant the same debit is a collected payment inside the GoCardless payout – finHero books it GoCardless account to debtor with the invoice number in Belegfeld 1.

GoCardless is a regulated payment provider that has been collecting direct debits for businesses since 2011; in the EU it operates through the French entity GoCardless SAS. finHero does not rate GoCardless and collects no reviews – we provide the accounting for it. What matters for you: the data GoCardless delivers via its API is sufficient for a complete, reconcilable booking batch.