No percentage on top — the platform fee is the entire bill.
VAT4U is a software-led VAT recovery provider headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, founded 2014. VAT4U is a German VAT recovery platform that automates extraction and classification, marketed as a self-service alternative to advisor firms — but charges a percentage of recovered amounts on top of a platform fee. Software-led, but with pricing that scales with recovery — including a success-fee component on top of subscriptions.
VAT4U vs Eitoo, line by line
Same scope of work — extract invoices, classify against directive articles, run compliance gates, assemble the submission package. What differs is the structure of the engagement.
Dimension
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EitooRecommended
Pricing
Software-driven classification, but with a success-fee component that scales with recovered VAT.
Flat platform fee. No success fee, no percentage of refunds, no per-claim charges.
Workflow
Travel + expense-led: deepest in T&E ingestion (Concur, Pleo), shallower elsewhere in the AP stack.
Travel + AP-stack agnostic: drop PDFs or connect AP — Pleo, Spendesk, SAP Concur, NetSuite, Stripe Issuing.
Speed
Annual tier-based subscriptions; pricing scales with recovery volume.
Co-designed with the first 10 design partners against real recovery data — disclosed in advance, not stamped on a price page.
Data control
EU-based platform. Data residency depends on customer tier.
EU-resident only on every plan: compute and database in Frankfurt. No tier gates on data residency.
Audit trail
Mature product with a multi-year market presence.
Pre-revenue, building with the first 10 design partners. We know what we are and aren't.
See your number first. Then evaluate.
Drop your annual cross-border spend below — the calculator runs against the same EU mid-market deductibility model Eitoo uses on every invoice. No signup, no email required.
Macro Asset Exposure Estimatorrange, not a single number
€1M
You're likely owed back€ 30,000 – € 90,000~20% avg EU VAT × ~30–60% recoverable categories × ~50–75% per-state deductibility. Your actual yield depends on category mix and member states. Verify your real data with 3 sample invoices in 30 seconds.
Who Eitoo is the right call for
Teams who liked VAT4U's software-led approach but balked at the success-fee tail and want the platform fee to be the entire price.
Worth 30 seconds to verify the number on three of your real invoices.