boring XXL update Sep 26: self-service plans, granular permissions, payment management & bring your own agent
EN | DE
Efficiency through intelligence

Best-in-class software, AI and tax advisor at your side

We take care of your accounting - supported by AI and checked by a tax advisor.

Try for free
AI bookkeeping

Bookkeeping that runs in the background

Transactions flow in automatically and receipts arrive by WhatsApp, email or upload. From there the AI takes over: reading, matching, posting.

  • Connected to more than 2,500 German business banks and payment providers such as Stripe and PayPal
  • Send receipts by WhatsApp, email or upload; the AI reads them and matches them to your transactions
  • Posted automatically against the DATEV charts of accounts SKR 03 and SKR 04
  • E-invoicing: creating, reading and converting to ZUGFeRD and XRechnung
  • Incorrect incoming invoices are flagged before they surface in a tax audit
  • Import from CSV, PDF and image files, export to DATEV and CSV
Try for free
Reporting

Management reports, trial balance and P&L at a click

Your ongoing bookings turn into management reports on their own. You see how the year is going without waiting for the month-end close.

  • Dashboard showing revenue and costs across the financial year
  • Cash view with money in, money out and the closing balance per period
  • Management report (BWA) per financial year, broken down by period
  • Trial balance per DATEV account with opening value, debits, credits and closing balance
  • Export to Excel for your bank, your investors or your tax advisor
  • Warnings when the transactions for a period are still incomplete
VAT

VAT returns filed straight to the tax office

Your bookings populate the official form automatically. You review it, approve it and submit it with one click through the built-in ELSTER connection.

  • The form fills itself from your bookings
  • Submitted through our own ELSTER connection, no certificate of your own needed
  • Automatic checks before a reporting period can be closed
  • Closed periods are frozen, so every return stays reproducible
  • Filed by you, or left with your tax advisor
Tax advisory

First-class tax advice, delivered through the platform

Our partner network gives you a real tax firm, without office visits or folders of receipts. Your advisors work in the same data you do.

  • Partner firms work directly in your boring.tax account, with no handover of data
  • Questions and tasks run through the platform instead of email
  • The engagement letter is prepared digitally and signed inside boring
  • Work beyond your package is quoted up front, at a fixed price or an hourly rate
  • You see at any time what is in progress and what has been approved
Try for free
Invoicing

Send invoices and get paid on time

Outgoing invoices, payment reminders and recurring billing in one place, with dunning that runs on its own so nothing slips.

Accounts receivable

Receivables in view, reminders on autopilot

The invoice dashboard shows every outgoing invoice with its due date, payment status and reminder status. Anything that falls overdue is chased automatically.

  • Every outgoing invoice with due date and payment status
  • Sent straight from boring, with templates in German and English
  • Automated dunning with your own payment terms and intervals
  • Recurring invoices for retainers and subscriptions
  • A send log per invoice, and a dry run before anything goes out
Accounts payable

Pay incoming invoices straight from the platform

An incoming invoice becomes a SEPA transfer from your business account in a few clicks, with no switch to online banking, and with checks and approval before any money moves.

  • Pick the invoice; recipient, amount and reference are taken from the document
  • IBAN check against the bank details stored for the contact before a payment is created
  • Approval workflow: create, review, approve or reject
  • Authorised directly with your bank, executed from the connected business account
  • One-off or recurring, weekly to annual, for rent or subscriptions
  • Every step in the audit log: who created, approved and executed what, and when
Try for free
People

Employees, payroll data and onboarding in one place

No more PDF forms by email. Personal data, job data and payroll documents run through boring.tax in a structured way, in step with your tax advisor.

HR & payroll

Onboarding and approvals without the email ping-pong

Employees enter their own data, you review and approve. Every change is documented with a diff view and an audit log.

  • One employee overview with status and approval state
  • Personal and job data structured instead of trapped in PDFs
  • An AI assistant that fills forms from plain language
  • Employee portal with a secure data room for payslips
  • Approval workflow with diff view and a complete audit log
Try for free
Legal

Contract creation and document management

Use boring for your contract life cycle management. Contract drafting and creation, eSigning and document management in the boring legal cloud

Templates and eSigning

Contracts and eSigning

  • Access to the template library with relevant documents for day-to-day business
  • 30+ interactive contract templates from labor, commercial and corporate law, created by lawyers
  • Easy export as Word or PDF
  • Integrated eSigning tool (SES)
Security and compliance

Your data stays in Germany

Bookkeeping means trusting a system with a company's most sensitive figures. Here is what we do about that.

Hosted in Germany

The boring Cloud runs on German servers, mirrored into DATEV and retained in compliance with GoBD.

GDPR and AI Act

We use AI providers from the EU only, mostly from Germany and France — under European regulation.

No training on your data

Ruled out contractually. With zero data retention, input and output are deleted right after processing.

Professional confidentiality

Licensed tax advisors are bound by particularly strict duties of confidentiality under professional law.

How we protect your data