OSS SOFTWARE
OSS software for e-commerce
Selling through Amazon, Shopify, eBay and other marketplaces quickly creates VAT obligations in several EU countries. KudTax automates how your e-commerce data is prepared for the One-Stop-Shop: sales are imported from your connected channels, assigned to the relevant countries and tax rates, and prepared centrally for bookkeeping, OSS evaluation and your tax adviser.
Less Excel. Less manual sorting. More control over your EU sales.
Free up to 25 orders a month
OSS bookkeeping does not have to be complicated
Anyone selling across several marketplaces and shops inside the EU is working with data from different sources: Amazon orders, Shopify sales, refunds, different delivery countries, different VAT rates and several settlement systems.
So the real difficulty is often not the OSS return itself. It starts one step earlier, with a question that has to be answered per transaction:
Which transaction belongs to which country, at which tax rate, and in which tax evaluation?
KudTax brings that information together in one system.
What is OSS?
The One-Stop-Shop (OSS) is a special VAT scheme for certain cross-border B2C sales inside the European Union. It lets a business declare and pay certain VAT amounts for several EU member states centrally through one member state, instead of running a separate procedure in every country of consumption.
For online sellers, OSS is relevant above all for intra-Community distance sales to private customers. What decides the treatment is which country the goods are delivered to and which VAT rules apply to that particular transaction.
From the order to the OSS evaluation
KudTax connects the data from your shops, marketplaces and payment providers and prepares it automatically for your e-commerce bookkeeping.
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Connect your channels
Connect the sales channels that matter to you — Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etsy, Kaufland and further marketplaces and shop systems. Your transaction data is then brought together centrally in KudTax.
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Prepare sales automatically
KudTax processes the imported order and transaction information and takes account of delivery country, country of sale, transaction type, tax rate, gross and net amount, VAT amount, refunds and marketplace data — turning different sources into one consistent basis.
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Evaluate OSS-relevant sales
Relevant EU sales can be evaluated by country, period and tax characteristics. Instead of merging files from several marketplaces by hand, you get one central view of your e-commerce sales.
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Hand the data to bookkeeping
The prepared data can then be used in your further bookkeeping processes and made available to your tax adviser. OSS evaluation and e-commerce bookkeeping run through one shared data process.
Prepare Amazon OSS data automatically
Amazon sales can become particularly complex for VAT. Orders can arrive through different European marketplaces while the delivery country, the warehouse location, the customer and the marketplace all differ from one another.
KudTax imports your Amazon data through the integration and processes the relevant transaction information centrally.
Connect Amazon with KudTax- Evaluate Amazon sales by EU country
- Take different tax rates into account
- Process refunds
- Identify OSS-relevant sales
- Prepare data for further bookkeeping
Manage Shopify OSS and EU sales
With your own Shopify store the complexity rises as soon as you deliver to customers in several EU countries. KudTax connects your Shopify store to your bookkeeping and brings orders and other relevant transaction data together centrally.
Cross-border sales can be evaluated in a structured way and combined with your other sales channels — Amazon on one side and Shopify on the other no longer have to be evaluated in separate spreadsheets.
Connect Shopify with KudTaxEvery sales channel in one OSS evaluation
Most online sellers stopped selling through a single channel a long time ago. One business can be selling through all of these at once:
- Amazon Germany
- Amazon France
- Shopify
- eBay
- Kaufland
- TikTok Shop
For VAT it does not matter how many dashboards you use. What counts are the underlying transactions — which is why KudTax brings the data from your sales channels into one shared basis.
Automate OSS and e-commerce bookkeeping together
An OSS list on its own only solves part of the problem, because the same transactions are needed for your financial accounting too. So KudTax connects the VAT preparation with the rest of your e-commerce bookkeeping.
From your connected data, information can be prepared for:
- OSS evaluations
- Journal entries
- VAT
- Revenue accounts
- Refunds
- Fees
- Payment reconciliation
- DATEV and other exports
One data import. Several bookkeeping processes.
OSS for tax advisers
E-commerce clients bring far more data sources with them than a classic bookkeeping mandate. Instead of merging Amazon, Shopify and marketplace files by hand every month, KudTax can prepare the client's data centrally.
That gives a firm a more structured basis for:
- OSS review
- VAT
- Financial accounting
- Reconciliation
- Posting exports
- Client oversight
Individual bookkeeping logic can be agreed with each client's process.
The 10,000 euro threshold
For certain intra-Community distance sales and certain electronic services, an EU-wide turnover threshold of 10,000 euro net applies under certain conditions.
Where the threshold is exceeded under the statutory conditions, the place of taxation for intra-Community distance sales is in principle the member state in which the dispatch or transport to the customer ends.
The 10,000 euro rule does not, however, apply as a blanket rule to every cross-border sale or every business. Place of establishment, type of supply, warehouse structure and further factors can be decisive.
KudTax therefore does not replace tax advice. It makes the e-commerce data your processes need available in a structured form.
OSS, IOSS and local VAT registration are not the same thing
OSS
OSS can be used for certain cross-border sales to consumers inside the European Union.
IOSS
The Import-One-Stop-Shop (IOSS) concerns certain distance sales of goods imported into the EU from third territories or third countries. It has its own conditions.
Local VAT registration
Not every VAT obligation of an e-commerce business can be handled through OSS. Complex warehouse and goods movements in particular can create additional VAT situations.
OSS should therefore always be seen as part of an online seller's overall VAT and bookkeeping structure.
Why KudTax for OSS?
Automated data import
No monthly manual merging of your marketplace files.
One central data basis
Amazon, Shopify, eBay and further sales channels in one system.
Country and tax information
Transactions prepared and structured by the information the next step needs.
Refunds included
Refunds and further transaction types can be taken into the processing.
Bookkeeping integrated
OSS evaluation as part of your e-commerce bookkeeping, not as an island.
Export for your adviser
Structured data for onward processing in the firm and in financial accounting.
Who is the OSS software for?
- Amazon sellers
- Amazon FBA merchants
- Shopify stores
- TikTok Shop sellers
- Multichannel merchants
- Online sellers with EU-wide B2C sales
- Merchants on several marketplaces
- Tax advisers with e-commerce clients
- Businesses with complex e-commerce data structures
Frequently asked questions about OSS
Sell across Europe. Let the OSS data prepare itself.
Connect your shops and marketplaces to KudTax and cut the manual work in OSS and e-commerce bookkeeping.
Amazon, Shopify, eBay and further integrations. One central bookkeeping platform.
Free up to 25 orders a month