The shop, the kiosk and the bar all count as tills.
German law requires every electronic cash register to use a certified TSE.
On a campsite that is not one till: it is the shop, the kiosk, the restaurant, the bar and reception. This page explains what the rule asks of you. For the record: Grondia’s point of sale does not sign sales with a TSE today. TSE fiscalisation for Germany is in preparation and available on request.
In sintesi
- TSE fiscalisation for Germany in preparation and available on request (no TSE signing today)
- One till across every counter: shop, kiosk, restaurant, bar, reception
- Offline-tolerant till: keeps selling when the signal drops, syncs on reconnect
- Stock counts down as you sell
- Charge-to-pitch: every item posts to the guest’s reservation and one running folio
- Every change to a booking logged with user, time and action, not editable afterwards
- Records kept as long as the law requires
- DATEV file export of payments, tax lines, deposits and refunds
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What a TSE actually is, and why every counter needs one
A TSE (Technische Sicherheitseinrichtung) is a certified security module that German law requires electronic cash registers and point-of-sale systems to use. Every transaction is signed and logged by the TSE so that later tampering is detectable: sales cannot be quietly deleted or altered after the fact. Receipts must carry TSE data, and the signed records must be exportable for a tax audit in the prescribed format. The TSE can be a hardware element or a cloud service, but its use has been mandatory for electronic tills for several years.
The thing operators underestimate is scope. A campsite is not a single till. It is the camp shop, the kiosk, the restaurant, the bar, the activity desk, and the payments taken at reception. Each of those is an electronic till in the eyes of the rule.
Which is why the common answer (a fiscal box wired next to each register) gets expensive and fragile fast, and why the honest question to ask any vendor is not "do you support TSE" but "is it live in the till today, and at which customer".
Where Grondia stands today
Grondia’s point of sale does not sign sales with a TSE today and does not produce the DSFinV-K audit export. TSE fiscalisation for Germany is in preparation and has not yet run at a customer site, so we give no dates. It is available on request: if your site needs it, talk to us before you plan a migration, and keep a certified till for counter sales until it is live for you.
What the till does today is the same everywhere. It is offline-tolerant: when the wifi drops in a field, it keeps selling and syncs every transaction the moment the connection returns, with stock and folio postings catching up automatically. Stock counts down as you sell, so you see the firewood running low before a guest does.
And it is joined up with the rest of the site. A guest buys firewood, two coffees and a bike hire; each item posts to their reservation and settles on one running folio at check-out, alongside the pitch and any tourist tax, rather than as three separate transactions to reconcile at close.
GoBD: what it asks of you, and what Grondia contributes
Be careful with the phrase "GoBD-compliant software", because it is slightly a category error. GoBD is Germany’s set of principles for the proper keeping, retention and auditability of books and records held in electronic form. It requires that tax-relevant records are complete, accurate, timely, orderly, unalterable and retained for the statutory period, in a form the tax authorities can inspect. Those duties fall on the operator. No vendor can certify them away on your behalf.
What software can do is make the compliant path the default. Grondia contributes two things that matter here: every change to a booking is logged with user, time and action, and the log cannot be edited afterwards; and records are kept as long as the law requires.
Beyond that, payments, tax lines, deposits and refunds export as a DATEV file, so your Steuerberater imports rather than re-keys.
Grondia does not claim a GoBD certification, and you should treat any vendor that claims one for you with some curiosity. What we will do is tell you precisely which mechanics exist so you and your advisor can assess them.
An honest note on the German market
Grondia is built in Switzerland and its deepest compliance work is Swiss: HESTA, cantonal Meldeschein, per-commune Kurtaxe, Swiss QR-Bill. For a German site, what exists today is a DATEV file export; TSE fiscalisation is in preparation.
What is market-neutral (the booking engine and pitch map, the property-management core, the guest portal, the point of sale, analytics, and the bookable website) works the same wherever your site is.
For German guest registration, Meldeschein details are captured digitally at check-in, but nothing is submitted to any authority automatically. The tourist tax is calculated per stay from the booking, but there is no automatic settlement with the municipality. Data is hosted in Switzerland, which is a fact worth raising with your own advisor rather than one we will characterise for you.
If you run a German site, that is the accurate picture. Talk to us about what your operation actually needs before assuming either way.
Domande frequenti
Under the rule, every electronic till needs a TSE, and on a campsite that means the shop, kiosk, restaurant, bar and reception. Grondia does not provide TSE signing today: fiscalisation for Germany is in preparation and available on request. Until it is live for your site, counter sales need a certified till solution.
No, and we would be sceptical of any vendor claiming to be certified on your behalf. GoBD places its duties on you as the operator, not on the software. What Grondia provides is mechanics that support them: a log of every change to a booking with user, time and action that cannot be edited afterwards, records kept as long as the law requires, and a DATEV file export. Your Steuerberater can assess those against your obligations.
Yes. The point of sale is offline-tolerant: it keeps selling when the wifi drops in a field and syncs every transaction the moment the connection returns. Stock and folio postings catch up automatically once it is back online.
Yes. Instead of taking payment at every counter, the till posts each item to the guest’s reservation. Everything accumulates on one running folio alongside the pitch and tourist tax, and the guest settles it once at check-out.
Yes. Payments, tax lines, deposits and refunds export as a DATEV file, so your accountant imports rather than re-keys.
Partly, and we would rather be straight about it. The booking engine, property-management core, guest portal, point of sale, analytics and the bookable website are market-neutral and work anywhere. TSE fiscalisation for Germany is in preparation, not live. The deepest compliance automation is Swiss (HESTA, cantonal Meldeschein and per-commune Kurtaxe); for a German site, guest registration is captured but not submitted automatically. Data is hosted in Switzerland. Talk to us about your specific operation rather than assuming either way.
Tell us how many tills you run
Shop, kiosk, restaurant, bar, reception. We will walk through what the TSE rule means for each one, and what Grondia does and does not cover for a German site today.
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