European VeriFactu software: six vendors checked, from owner to data host

Holded is built in Barcelona and belongs to Visma, the Norwegian software group. Of the European-owned options, it does the most: quotes, invoices, bookkeeping, cash flow and a login for your gestoría (the outside firm that keeps your books in Spain). VeriFactu is included on every plan. Holded can also submit your records to the AEAT using its own digital certificate, so you don't have to install yours. In the Basque Country, it says it is registered for TicketBAI with all three provincial tax offices. Data sits in the EU, "in general", per the vendor.

Pricing. Plus costs €15 a month for 250 invoices a year. The €7.50 you'll see first is a 50% discount for the first three months only. Básico is €29 for 1,000 invoices a year, Estándar €59 for 3,000. Add 21% Spanish VAT.

The catch. Holded holds 4.2 out of 5 across roughly 2,450 reviews. Recent complaints: invoice emails landing in clients' spam folders, with sending from your own mail server reserved for a plan that costs almost twice as much, and an AI support bot that wouldn't hand over to a human.

Who it's for. A Spanish subsidiary that wants invoicing and accounting in one place, where European ownership is enough. Not for three invoices a month.

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Odoo is a Belgian vendor based in Ramillies. It's an ERP (one system for invoicing, sales, stock and accounting), sold as separate apps. For Spain, Odoo ships an official VeriFactu module in versions 18 and 19, plus a second one for its point of sale.

The deal most people miss. One app is free on Odoo's cloud, with unlimited users. Take only Invoicing and you issue VeriFactu invoices for €0. Add a second app (stock, sales) and you move to a paid plan: get it quoted.

The catches. In Odoo, one VeriFactu record equals one invoice or one point-of-sale order. A record already sent can't go back to draft, and you can't cancel a record in Odoo that was never logged there. On the self-hosted free edition (Community), the community module is still in beta: no handling of AEAT outages, no status lookup, no self-billing. Implementers keep seeing the same errors: wrong tax ID or country, expired certificate, test mode left on, and multi-company setups mixing VeriFactu, SII and TicketBAI.

Who it's for. A group that wants one system across its entities, from a vendor with no outside parent. Not for someone who needs to send invoices tomorrow morning.

TS Facturas is the new name of Billin, a Spanish vendor now part of Italy's TeamSystem, the same group as Quipu. It's also the only VeriFactu tool in a well-known English-language list of "European invoicing software", a list that openly accepts paid placements. It ticks the most compliance boxes for the least money: VeriFactu, Facturae e-invoices for public bodies and TicketBAI, all unlimited on every plan. The vendor is registered as a TicketBAI guarantor software.

Pricing. Básico is €6.60 a month billed yearly (€8 monthly), Pro €14, Ilimitado €23. 30-day trial, no card.

The catch. The cap, not the price: Básico stops at 5 clients and one user. Reviews also mention an ad you can't remove from invoice emails and no per-user permissions.

Who it's for. A branch or subsidiary invoicing in Bilbao, San Sebastián or Vitoria. Not for buyers who want to avoid a US fund in the chain: TeamSystem is owned by Hellman & Friedman.

Quipu started in Barcelona in 2013. The French CRM vendor Sellsy bought it in late 2022, then TeamSystem bought Sellsy in 2025. Review sites already list it as "TeamSystem Quipu". So if you were hoping for a French option through Sellsy, this is it, and it isn't French anymore.

Quipu is built for the autónomo (Spain's self-employed worker) who doesn't want to become an accountant. It reads your expense receipts automatically and walks you through tax filings. All plans are VeriFactu-ready, and Quipu publishes its declaración responsable, the self-certification every vendor must sign. There is no official list of approved VeriFactu software, so that document is your proof.

Pricing. Starter €17 a month, Solution €30, Premium €59. The 50% discount applies to the first three months only. One user until Premium, then €5 per extra user.

The catch. No TicketBAI. Reviews average 4.3 out of 5 on about 300, with recurring complaints: slow support on complex cases, weak foreign-currency handling, rigid invoice templates, and one user flagging the lack of two-factor login. We found no hosting provider named on the pages we read.

Who it's for. A freelancer outside the Basque Country who wants guided tax tracking. Not for invoicing in dollars or pounds.

Cegid is a software group founded in Lyon in 1983. In Spain it sells a family of acquired products: Contasimple, Billage, Diez, Ekon, Sigrid, Revo and Yet. Cegid says all of them have been VeriFactu-ready since 2025, with three modes: VeriFactu, non-VeriFactu or exempt. Ekon and Sigrid also handle TicketBAI. The majority shareholder is Silver Lake, a US fund, with KKR, AltaOne and Oakley as minority holders.

Contasimple, the way in. It's the only Cegid product with public pricing. Básico is free for life: 12 documents a year, 10 clients, one user. Profesional is €12.95 a month (€10.95 billed yearly) for 500 documents a year, with e-invoices to public bodies. Ultimate, at €19.95, removes volume caps. Reviews are split, 3.5 out of 5 with a third of them one-star: slowdowns and outages, one business activity per account, charges after cancellation, a certificate rejected because it wasn't issued by the FNMT (Spain's main public certificate issuer). Phone support, on the other hand, gets regular praise.

The mode trap. On Billage, once you switch VeriFactu on, you can't switch it off before December 31 of that year.

Hosting. Cegid's VeriFactu page names no host, and we found no Spanish subprocessor list. Ask for it.

Who it's for. A freelancer starting out, or a company that wants a vendor with Basque coverage through Ekon or Sigrid. Not for buyers who need European ownership.

Pennylane was founded in France in 2020 and sells in Spain through a Spanish company, Pennylane SL, with around 50 staff locally out of more than 1,200. It describes itself as "100% adapted" to VeriFactu, included on every plan.

Hosting. For Spain, Pennylane says data is "hosted in Europe"; its trust center names AWS EMEA, in Ireland. EU location, US provider. Its subprocessor list runs to about 30 names, all located in the EU. Pennylane is ISO 27001 certified.

Before you book the demo. No Spanish price is published: the site says "from €0" and offers a demo. Sign-up isn't available for companies in Ceuta, Melilla or Navarre. Pennylane says it isn't an accounting firm; your gestoría gets free access and can export to A3 or Sage. Nothing published on TicketBAI. And we found no Spanish user reviews yet.

Who it's for. A company already on Pennylane in France opening a Spanish entity: it's the only vendor we found covering both sides. Ask in writing whether one subscription covers both. Not for Navarre or the Basque Country.