Shopify Data Exporter App Help: GoBD, Article 88 and ESST Records
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Where a tax records export needs outside help
The app has one screen. These are the jobs around it that justify paying someone.
Reading the auditor's request. A German field audit or a French inspection asks for named records and periods. Someone who has handled one maps the letter to the right export type and years, and flags what the app won't cover before anything is sent.
Keeping the GoBD set intact. The GoBD export adds an index.xml and a gobd.dtd file to the order, product and user CSVs. Hand the folder over as delivered rather than cherry-picking spreadsheets.
The French attestation. Article 88 merchants also fill in the Loi Anti-Fraude TVA attestation and keep it on file. It covers Shopify POS only, so a store that also sells online should have a French accountant confirm what else is needed.
Tying exports to the ledger. Matching orders.csv and order_tax_lines.csv against filed VAT returns is bookkeeping and accounting work, and it is where most questions from an auditor start.
Years before 2019. The app stops at January 1, 2019. Older records come from the admin's order and product exports or another tool, and someone has to assemble them into a set an auditor can use.
A single year for your own accountant. Install, export, forward the link. That needs no hire at all.
Picking the right person for a GoBD or Article 88 export
This is tax admin first and Shopify work second. Look for someone who has sat on the merchant side of an audit, not just someone who installs apps.
Ask which regime they have exported for. GoBD, Article 88 and ESST each produce a different file set. A credible candidate names the files they expect for your country without looking them up.
Ask how they check the files are complete. A good answer: order counts and totals in the export matched to the Shopify admin and the VAT return for the same year, with any gap explained in writing.
Ask who will download the ZIP. The link goes to the account owner and expires after seven days. They should plan that handover before running anything.
Watch for US sales tax promises. The listing covers Australia, France and Germany. Anyone offering the app for state filings hasn't read it, and a sales tax and VAT setup specialist is the better call.
A paid test run. Export last year, open every file, and write one page on what each contains and what your auditor will still ask for. That costs an hour or two and shows how they work.
Shopify Data Exporter app limits and file sets
Years, not date ranges. You pick an export type and a year. Data starts on January 1, 2019.
Three regimes only. Australia's ESST rules, France's Article 88 and Germany's GoBD. The app runs in English, French and German.
Delivery by email. Exports arrive as a ZIP, with the download link sent to the account owner. It expires after 7 days.
Who can run it. The account owner or any staff member with access to Apps.
Different files per country. ESST: order lines, orders, products and users. Article 88 adds order tax lines and tender transactions. GoBD adds index.xml and gobd.dtd to the core four.
POS is in scope. The listing includes Shopify Point of Sale transactions, and for Article 88 the app adds an audit signature to each order showing order data and receipts weren't modified. Counter setups are Shopify POS territory.
No filing. Shopify doesn't file or remit taxes unless you use Shopify Tax with automated filing. The export is yours to submit.
Certified for Germany. Shopify says Audicon has certified the app against GoBD standards.
Tax record projects to scope with the exporter
Most requests for help with this app fall into one of these.
German audit pack
GoBD exports for each requested year, checked with the tax advisor
French VAT records
Article 88 export filed with the signed anti-fraud attestation
Australian POS records
ESST export of point of sale transactions for the year in question
Pre-2019 history
Admin order and product exports merged for older years
Export-to-ledger check
Order and tax line totals tied back to returns and the books
Download access plan
Apps permission and owner inbox sorted before an audit deadline
Shopify Data Exporter app FAQs: cost, countries and history
Yes. As of October 2026 the App Store lists it as free, built and supported by Shopify. The cost in an audit is professional time: a tax advisor or bookkeeper checking the files and answering follow-up questions, plus anyone you bring in to rebuild records from before 2019.
Not as listed. The app names Australia, France and Germany, and its files follow those countries' rules. For US state reporting, nexus or registrations, bring in a sales tax specialist and read the Shopify taxes setup guide before choosing a tool.
To January 1, 2019. For earlier years, Shopify points to the admin's export orders and export products actions or third-party apps. Plan extra time if an auditor asks for a period that straddles 2019, since two sources then need joining.
No. The app has no code or theme step: pick a type, pick a year, press Export. The help you are more likely to need is an accountant who knows your country's audit format. A developer only earns a place when older data has to be pulled and reshaped.
The authority's letter, the country and regime, the years requested and the deadline. Add whether you sell in person on POS, who the account owner is, and copies of the VAT returns for the same periods so the export can be checked against them.