Reports, taxes and e-invoices in GrandTotal and MacBusinessSuite

Name: GrandTotal
Author: Media Atelier

Reports, taxes and e-invoices, GrandTotal and MacBusinessSuite

GrandTotal covers more national e-invoice formats and hands tax data to more filing tools, including the Swiss VAT return, Belgian Intervat and UK Making Tax Digital. MacBusinessSuite writes ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung and EN 16931, prepares German UStVA and ZM data, OSS and DATEV, and adds US sales tax per state with rates you maintain. Neither app replaces a tax adviser.

Side by side

As of October 2026. GrandTotal from its vendor's official pages (see sources), MacBusinessSuite from its documentation. Not documented means the vendor's pages do not say, not that the feature is missing.
	MacBusinessSuite	GrandTotal
E-invoice formats	ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung and EN 16931 as UBL or CII, Peppol BIS as a file	XRechnung, ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, Peppol BIS, EHF, PINT A-NZ, FatturaPA, Facturae, national variants, Swiss Tariff 590
Peppol network	Not included	Sending through e-invoice.be and recommand.eu, receiving from a Peppol inbox
Incoming e-invoices	Read from PDF and XML files and mail attachments	From Peppol, a watched folder or a mailbox
German taxes	Data for UStVA and ZM, DATEV batches, GoBD export	UStVA and ZM handed to Steuererklärung.app, DATEV, GoBD
Other countries	OSS, reverse charge, US sales tax per state (rate you maintain, where you confirmed nexus), deadline calendar for DE, AT, CH, GB, US and EU OSS	Swiss VAT return, Belgian Intervat, BAS and GST worksheets, UK Making Tax Digital via MTD Sheets
Bookkeeping	Tax adviser package and CSV journal	Send to bookkeeping, integrations such as Xero and MonKey Office
Reports	Revenue, open items, project and customer comparison, margin, exchange differences, cash flow forecast	Dashboard, reports, charts, revenue forecast, online dashboard

What GrandTotal offers here

E-invoices for many countries and sending through Peppol access points.
Tax data for Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
Integrations with bookkeeping apps such as Xero and MonKey Office.

What MacBusinessSuite offers here

US sales tax per state next to EU OSS and reverse charge.
A tax deadline calendar for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, the US and EU OSS, with reminders.
Realized exchange differences recorded at payment and reported per currency.
A cash flow forecast for 4, 13 or 26 weeks.

Tax deadline calendar with VAT return and EC sales list switched on — Screenshots show the app with sample data in German.

Questions and answers

Which app supports more e-invoice formats?

GrandTotal. Media Atelier lists formats for many countries and Peppol sending. MacBusinessSuite writes ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung, EN 16931 and Peppol BIS as a file.

Can either app file the German VAT return?

GrandTotal hands UStVA and ZM to Steuererklärung.app, which files through ELSTER. MacBusinessSuite prepares the UStVA and ZM data as reports; it does not file them.