Biquanda — Cloud ERP for Service-Driven SMBs

Biquanda is a modern, fully web-based cloud ERP product developed by Biquanda GmbH headquartered in Frankenthal in the Palatinate region of southwest Germany. The product is targeted explicitly at service businesses: architectural firms, engineering bureaus, IT services, consultancies and similar project-driven SMBs in the German Mid-Market (mid-market). The functional priorities reflect that focus — project-based time recording, expense management, project profitability and contract management sit at the centre of the product rather than as add-ons to a trade-oriented core. Biquanda is one of a small cluster of DACH cloud ERPs targeting the services segment, alongside Scopevisio and parts of weclapp, with a more specialised vertical focus than the general-purpose cloud SMB ERPs (myfactory, Xentral, JTL-Wawi). The vendor is privately held and the customer base sits in the low hundreds.

Overview

Biquanda is delivered as multi-tenant SaaS from German data centres, with monthly release cycles and a browser-only user interface. There is no on-premises option, which simplifies the operations story but eliminates the deployment-flexibility some Mid-Market buyers expect. Customer base size is in the low hundreds, concentrated in architectural and engineering firms in NRW, the Palatinate, Bavaria and Austria. The product is owned by Biquanda GmbH, a privately held vendor with a long-tenured engineering team. Release cadence is roughly monthly with a configuration-driven customisation model — the product is intentionally not code-customisable, which keeps the SaaS upgrade path clean but pushes complex customer requirements into configuration depth rather than per-customer development.

Functional sweet spot

The functional sweet spot is project-driven service businesses: contract and proposal management, project planning with phase and milestone structures, time recording (web and mobile), expense tracking, project budgeting and post-calculation, retainer and recurring-invoice workflows, project-based AR with HOAI (the German fee schedule for architects and engineers) support for the architecture segment, financial accounting with general ledger, AR/AP and DATEV export. CRM-light is included, as is a document-management surface tied to the project. There is no manufacturing module, no warehouse-management depth and limited support for product-trading workflows — this is by design. For buyers needing trade or manufacturing capability Biquanda is the wrong product.

DACH positioning

Biquanda is a DACH-native product with strong German-language UI and documentation, an Austrian localisation and partial Swiss support. The product is hosted in German data centres with standard GDPR (DSGVO) data-processing agreements. GoBD (the German principles for proper digital bookkeeping) is supported and DATEV export is native. The HOAI fee-schedule support for architects is a notable differentiator versus generic cloud ERPs — this is a German-specific regulatory layer that international service-ERP tools (Workday Professional Services, NetSuite SuiteProjects) do not natively handle. ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoicing are supported. The competitive landscape in DACH includes Scopevisio, weclapp's project-services edition and the project modules of myfactory and Sage 100.

Pricing and implementation

Pricing is per-user monthly subscription with module-based scoping. Indicative price is 50 to 90 euro per user per month depending on activated modules and user tier. There is no separate platform base fee for SMB customers. Implementation is configuration-driven and typically takes six to twelve weeks for an architectural or engineering firm with 10 to 30 users, longer for larger projects-led businesses. Most implementations are vendor-led or handled by a small DACH partner network. Time-to-first-value (first productive project posted) is usually within four to six weeks. Total five-year TCO for a 30-user architectural firm lands between approximately 120,000 and 280,000 euro depending on module activation and implementation scope.

Selection considerations

Choose Biquanda if the buyer is a DACH service-driven SMB between 5 and 100 users (architectural, engineering, IT services, consultancy), if native HOAI support is needed for architects and engineers, and if a configuration-driven SaaS-only deployment is acceptable. Look elsewhere if the buyer has any trade or manufacturing workflow (myfactory, weclapp or Xentral fit better), if on-premises deployment is required, if upper-Mid-Market scale above 100 users with multi-entity consolidation is needed (NetSuite SuiteProjects or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations fit better), or if a large established DACH partner ecosystem is a procurement requirement.

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