This article explains how the Lohnauswertungsdatenservice for DATEV LODAS or Lohn & Gehalt works, which documents you can transfer from DATEV, and which conditions you have to meet to use it.

DATEV Lohnauswertungsdatenservice – What Is It?

The Lohnauswertungsdatenservice allows external systems such as Personio to directly access and import the documents that your payroll accountant has released in DATEV LODAS or Lohn und Gehalt. The confidential documents are retrieved from the DATEV data center via a secure interface and stored on the Personio server. You can retrieve them from there, and so can your employees, if you so choose.

Setting up document transfer via the DATEV Lohnauswertungsdatenservice

To transfer documents via the Lohnauswertungsdatenservice from DATEV to Personio, you will need to complete the following steps:

1. Activating and setting up your account

Your account needs to be configured so that you can use the DATEV export function. Please contact your Implementation Manager directly or go to the Find Answers section in Personio via Help > Support and Updates > Find Answers and contact our Support Team.

Note: If the DATEV integration has already been activated for your account, you can go straight to step 2. Subscribing to the DATEV Lohnauswertungsdatenservice. To check whether the DATEV integration has been activated for your account, go to Settings > Payroll > DATEV LODAS/Lohn & Gehalt. As soon as you can see the DATEV LODAS/Lohn & Gehalt integration under Settings > Payroll, the integration has been activated.

2. Subscribing to the DATEV Lohnauswertungsdatenservice

Request (or ask your payroll accountant to request) the service subscription and setup from DATEV. See this DATEV document for detailed instructions.

3. Authorizing Personio's access to your payroll accountant's DATEV payroll program

To receive documents from DATEV in Personio, prior authorization is required in the Settings. For more information about this process, refer to Authorizing the DATEV Data Services.

Note The authorization for a particular combination of Advisor ID and Tenant ID in DATEV is valid independently of subcompanies in Personio. This means that all documents contained in a DATEV tenant are retrieved, even if only some of the employees are part of the subcompany in Personio. This is particularly important if the same combination of Advisor ID and Tenant ID has been used for several subcompanies in Personio and different access rights have been set up for the different sub-companies. As a rule, each subcompany in Personio should correspond to only one tenant in DATEV.

4. Selecting the documents to be imported

Select the documents that are relevant to your company. This involves the following steps:

1. Go to Settings > Payroll. Then click on the DATEV LODAS/Lohn & Gehalt integration tab.
2. Select the relevant sub-company.
3. Go to Lohnauswertungsdatenservice > Settings and enable the transfer of all the documents you require from the Employer documents and Employee documents categories. Use the Preview button to view sample documents.
4. Click Save.

After their retrieval from DATEV, the documents selected in this step will be accessible under Payroll > Documents in the spreadsheet for the relevant month. To find out more about further document processing, read our article Importing Documents via the Lohnauswertungsdatenservice.

Note Only documents your payroll accountant has released to you will be shown as available for selection. Info-Doc. 1022662 explains how your payroll accountant can give you access to documents in DATEV LODAS or Lohn und Gehalt.

5. Access rights in Personio

The specific employees who have access to the functions are defined via Personio's employee roles and access rights system.

• Viewing and downloading issued payslips from an employee profile requires viewing rights for the Payroll document category, at a minimum.
• Previewing and downloading payslips within preliminary payroll requires viewing rights for Payroll, at a minimum.
• Retrieving new documents from DATEV and issuing them to employee profiles requires editing rights for Payroll . 

Documents available for import

A list of documents that are available for transfer from DATEV is shown below. They are subdivided into employer and employee documents. Information on the reason for their creation, explanatory information, and abbreviations are also shown. You can find examples of each document type in the table as well as download links using the abbreviations on the right.

Helpful hint: You can also access these example documents in Personio by going to Settings > Payroll, clicking on the DATEV LODAS/Lohn & Gehalt integration tab, going into the Lohnauswertungsdatenservice – Settings for employer and employee documents section and clicking on the Preview button.