ViDA changes who charges VAT on platform sales, where a seller registers, and how intra-EU invoices reach the tax authority. This is what each change means in practice and what Nordlet already calculates for you.
DAC7 asks a platform for one report a year, but the report needs data about every seller collected throughout the year. Nordlet keeps that data, applies the exclusion rules, and produces the file in the format your tax authority accepts.
Published estimates run from three weeks to twelve months per accounting system, and the work does not carry over from one vendor to the next. Here are the figures, their sources, and the alternative.
A plain explanation of the three mechanisms a platform meets in EU VAT, the one case where the platform itself becomes the taxable seller, and how each one is recorded in the books.
A plain-English definition of the accounting API, what separates it from a tax API or a payments API, and what to check before you build against one.
Why platform teams outgrow QuickBooks, what "API, not an app" actually requires, and which alternatives fit which job.
A comparison for platform teams, based on Xero's published API limits and pricing pages and on what Nordlet actually ships.
A comparison for developers deciding between an embedded accounting API and an open-source ERP suite, based on each product's own documentation.
A scope list, a cost model with stated assumptions, and the conditions under which each answer is correct.
Seven options a platform team actually considers, sorted by what each one is for, with the limits and pricing models that decide the choice.
A grounded comparison for developers and product teams deciding between an embedded accounting API and a mid-market finance system.