hmd-software is a package for accounting, tax, payroll and document management from hmd-software AG of Andechs, aimed at tax advisers, bookkeeping firms and companies. Its modules include financial accounting, fixed-asset accounting, annual accounts, controlling, tax returns, payroll, invoicing, e-invoicing and a client portal with receipt upload. The vendor presents itself as an alternative to DATEV and offers installation, support and a cloud solution, hmd.skyasp, in which hmd handles operation, updates and backups. The company has existed for more than forty years.
hmd-software AG is headquartered in Andechs, Germany, and belongs to the eurodata group, whose parent company is based in Saarbrücken. No owner outside Germany is named. According to the vendor, data in the cloud solution is kept exclusively in Germany, in the eurodata data centre. Those who install the software themselves keep their data fully under their own control. No explicit GDPR statement was found on the pages reviewed; ask about the data processing agreement, since tax and payroll data are involved.