sevDesk - Chift

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Introduction

sevDesk is a German cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, part of the Cegid group since 2025. The Chift connector supports sevDesk accounts based in Germany.

Activate sevDesk

Partner keys

No partner keys and no approval: the connector is ready to use.

Activate sevDesk in your Chift account

One click in Connectors, then create connections straight away.

Connector settings

No connector-specific settings.

Test sevDesk


Environment	Trial account
How to get it	Sign up for a free 14-day trial and choose Kostenlos starten.
Demo data	No. The trial account is created without demo data.

Vendor fees

Software editor (you)

No fees.

End user

The “Buchhaltung Pro” plan, which includes API access.

For plans and pricing, see sevDesk’s pricing page.

Connect sevDesk

sevDesk setup guide for end users

The full step-by-step, with screenshots.

Before they start, your end users need:

a sevDesk account for a company based in Germany (other countries are rejected at connection)
an active sevDesk account on the “Buchhaltung Pro” plan, which includes API access
administrator access to the sevDesk account
an API key, generated from Extensions (Erweiterungen) → API in sevDesk

To connect, they:

paste their sevDesk API key into the API Key field of the connection form

Rate limits

No rate limit documented by sevDesk. Since 30 May 2025, sevDesk caps pagination at 1,000 items per request.

Limitations & specificities

Journal entries

sevDesk has no general journal concept. Only banking and cash journals are available.

Contacts (clients & suppliers)

Customer and supplier references are generated by sevDesk and cannot be set or overridden. In the API, this is the customer_code field.Addresses cannot be updated if more than one address of the same type exists on the contact. The same applies to phone numbers, email addresses and websites.

Invoices

Invoices created in the sevDesk interface do not expose their ledger account numbers.

Payments & matching

Chift can create bank transactions in sevDesk, but cannot book them against invoices or return an invoice’s payments through the API. Match them to invoices directly in sevDesk.

Chart of accounts & VAT

All lines of an invoice must use the same sevDesk tax rule (Steuerregel). Lines can have different VAT rates within that rule.

Coverage

Troubleshooting

Specific errors for sevDesk:

Error Code	Error description	Resolution
ERROR_CONNECTOR_CONFIGURATION	The provided country is not supported in sevDesk. Only Germany is supported.	Only connect German companies to sevDesk.
ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_BODY	The invoice needs at least one line. It is also not possible to update an address type if multiple addresses of the same type exist.	Ensure the invoice has at least one line and that address types are unique for the contact.
ERROR_WRONG_TAX_CODE_COMBINATION	Only one tax code per invoice is allowed in sevDesk.	Use only one tax code per invoice.

​Introduction

​Activate sevDesk

​Partner keys

Activate sevDesk in your Chift account

​Connector settings

​Test sevDesk

​Vendor fees