MOCO

MOCO is a cloud-based agency and project ERP developed by hundertzehn GmbH in Switzerland. The company was founded in 2014 and concentrates entirely on the development of this single platform. In the market, MOCO has established itself as a German-language, lean ERP for agencies, IT service providers, consultancies and engineering practices that want a single product for project acquisition, order processing, time recording, invoicing and liquidity planning without binding themselves to the complexity of corporate-scale ERPs. More than 7,000 organisations across the DACH region use the platform in production, making MOCO one of the better-known agency-software brands in the German-speaking Mid-Market (mid-market). The aim is to offer project-oriented service organisations a product that is intuitive to use, quickly operational and consistently aligned with the DACH market and its legal and commercial specifics.

Functional sweet spot

MOCO covers the full quote-to-cash workflow for project-oriented service organisations: lead and opportunity management, project setup with budget and rate cards, time recording (web and mobile), expense recording, invoicing (one-off, retainer and partial), accounts-receivable handling and liquidity planning. The integrated DATEV connector exports bookkeeping data to the German tax-adviser standard. CRM-style customer management is built in, as is project profitability analysis with the budget-versus-actual view that agency operations need daily. The functional sweet spot is small to mid-sized DACH service organisations between approximately five and fifty users where the project-and-time-driven workflow is the operational backbone, rather than goods movement or production. Multi-currency handling, multi-entity capability and team-based access permissions support agencies with several locations or international clients.

DACH positioning

MOCO is a Tier-2 specialist in the DACH agency-and-services niche, regularly featured as leader or top product in independent listings such as Trusted, OMR Reviews and the Agentursoftware-Guide. Compared with horizontal ERPs that try to cover both goods and services, MOCO is deliberately scoped around the project-and-time workflow, which avoids the typical complexity tax of running a goods-oriented ERP for a pure services organisation. GoBD-compliant bookkeeping (the German principles for proper digital record-keeping), DATEV connector for the German tax-adviser exchange standard, and ZUGFeRD and XRechnung e-invoicing are part of the standard scope. Cloud-only delivery in European data centres is the standard model, with no on-premises option. The Swiss origin and the Swiss-tax handling are useful for agencies with Austrian and Swiss locations alongside the German operation.

Pricing and implementation

MOCO uses transparent per-user monthly subscription pricing with module-based tiers. Indicative pricing falls between approximately 20 and 40 euro per user per month depending on the activated modules, with no separate platform base fee. For an indicative 20-user DACH agency deployment, all-in three-year TCO typically lands between approximately 20,000 and 60,000 euro, materially lower than horizontal ERPs of similar functional breadth because the implementation effort is light by design. Implementation timelines are unusually short — typically two to six weeks — because the standard product fits the DACH agency workflow out of the box and minimal customisation is required. Onboarding is mainly self-service with vendor support; large-scale custom implementations are not the strategic model.

Selection considerations

MOCO is a defensible choice for DACH project-oriented service organisations between approximately five and fifty users — agencies, consultancies, IT service providers, engineering practices — that want a focused project-and-time ERP without the complexity of a horizontal Mid-Market product. It is less compelling for organisations with substantial goods movement or warehouse activity (where horizontal ERPs fit better), for larger PSA-style service organisations above approximately fifty users where Deltek Maconomy, Kimble (now Kantata) or Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations fit better, or for buyers needing very complex multi-entity international consolidation. Smaller competitors such as Awork, MOCO itself in the lower end, Easy Project and Mite cover overlapping ground; the choice usually comes down to depth of invoicing-and-finance versus depth of task management.

Comparable vendors

Direct comparables in the DACH agency-and-services segment include Awork, ZEP, Clockodo (focused on time recording) and TimeButler on the lighter side; Easy Project and Projektron BCS on the heavier project-management side; and Deltek Maconomy and Kantata for upper-Mid-Market and enterprise PSA. Horizontal alternatives such as weclapp and Xentral cover the workflow but with goods-oriented baggage that agencies do not need. International PSA leaders such as Kimble (Kantata), FinancialForce PSA and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations compete at the larger end. MOCO's differentiator is the depth of DACH-specific finance handling combined with the lean implementation model, which suits buyers that want a working system in weeks rather than months.

Related Topics

• Deltek Maconomy
• ERP for services and agencies

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