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TOP 3 ALTERNATIVES — RANKED
Three you should evaluate first.
Filtered from 12 candidates by feature similarity, audit score, and review velocity. The hero treatment is editorial — these earned more space because the data did.
WebPlanex: GST Invoice India
Taxes#1TOP PICK
5.00461 reviews
89/100Audit score
Pick if you're surveying the marketplace
Widely used on this marketplace — not a like-for-like swap. AppRanks found no app sharing DATEV Export & Steuern's category, so this is not a replacement for it — it is a widely-used taxes option shown for market context. Compare it against your own requirements rather than as a swap.
GST Pro: GST Invoice India
Taxes#2RUNNER-UP
5.00251 reviews
87/100Audit score
Pick if you're cost-sensitive
Adjacent tool, different job. Different use case from DATEV Export & Steuern. Listed because it is among the most-adopted taxes apps on this marketplace, not because it covers the same job.
Oxilayer PDF Invoice Generator
Taxes#3VALUE PICK
5.00165 reviews
86/100Audit score
Pick if you're mapping adjacent tooling
Popular alternative to evaluate on its own merits. Solves a different problem than DATEV Export & Steuern. Useful market context; verify the capability overlap yourself before treating it as an option.
SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON
DATEV Export & Steuern versus the top 3.
Five rows, all loaded above the fold. Wins are highlighted; nothing's hidden behind a tab.
RANKS #4 THROUGH #12
The next 9, denser.
Lower-ranked but legitimate. Click any row for the full profile — or compare side-by-side with DATEV Export & Steuern.
How these alternatives are ranked
Scored daily. Three signals, weighted and blended. No vendor money changes anything.
45%Feature similarity
N-gram match against DATEV Export & Steuern's feature signature, weighted by category overlap.
35%Audit + rating
Listing quality (0–100) blended with rolling 90-day rating average. Penalizes thin listings.
20%Review velocity
Reviews added in trailing 30 days, normalized by category baseline. Surfaces rising challengers.
Every Shopify alternative on this page is scraped, normalized, and re-scored every 24 hours. We don't accept paid placement, vendor-funded "best of" content, or sponsored ranking — and we publish the rules so you can audit them yourself. If a vendor disagrees with their position, that's between them and the data.
WHEN DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO SWITCH FROM DATEV EXPORT & STEUERN?
Four reasons people leave.
Decision triggers, not marketing. If two or more apply, your shortlist starts with the apps named below each card.
Pricing has outgrown your usage
If your usage of DATEV Export & Steuern has crossed a pricing-tier breakpoint, per-unit cost is usually where alternatives diverge most clearly. Some apps in the list above carry a free tier; others are paid from day one. Compare the published plans on each alternative's page against your current bill — the gap is the only number worth acting on, and it is specific to your usage.
GST Pro: GST Invoice India · WebPlanex: GST Invoice IndiaYou need a feature outside the focus
Each Shopify category has a feature spectrum. The "Similar feature set" badge above marks alternatives whose feature signature most overlaps with DATEV Export & Steuern. The "Category leader" badge marks apps that may approach the same category from a different feature angle — useful if you want to widen rather than narrow your toolset.
WebPlanex: GST Invoice IndiaSupport response has slowed you down
Support quality is the hardest thing to read from a listing, and it is the most common reason a switch gets made. Read the most RECENT reviews on each alternative's profile rather than the lifetime average — recency is what tells you how the app is supported today, and trailing review velocity is the freshest signal AppRanks tracks.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Answers built from the data.
Built from the same scores the ranking uses — so they won't contradict the table.
For most accounts under typical category usage, the answer depends on tier. WebPlanex: GST Invoice India is in the freemium band (Free trial), while DATEV Export & Steuern is freemium (Free plan available). At parity scale, the cheaper option can save 30–60% — but feature-for-feature swaps usually narrow the gap above the second tier.
VERDICT · UPDATED TODAY
If you're moving from DATEV Export & Steuern, the most common landing spots are WebPlanex: GST Invoice India (unknown feature match, audit 89/100) and GST Pro: GST Invoice India (pricing leverage + breadth). Skip Sales Tax Automation by TaxRex unless your use case is unusual.
If feature parity matters most
→ WebPlanex: GST Invoice India
Unknown feature parity. Audit 89, 5.00★.
If pricing matters most
→ GST Pro: GST Invoice India
Best for cost-sensitive teams. 5.00★ across 251 reviews.
If you're scaling enterprise
→ Oxilayer PDF Invoice Generator
Strongest scale fit when category usage exceeds typical thresholds. Vendor-evaluate before committing.
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