hawepro.de

What It Is

Hawepro is a cloud-based management software product for German trades businesses, positioned for self-employed craftspeople and small teams. It brings quotations, invoices, e-invoices, time tracking, scheduling, projects, customer records, materials, payment reminders, and reporting together in the browser, with no installation required, and supports use on phones, tablets, and computers.

Core Features and Collaboration

Based on the extracted text, Hawepro’s core value is its coverage of day-to-day workflows for trades businesses: create customers and materials first, prepare quotes, schedule jobs, record working hours, then generate invoices and send payment reminders. E-invoices support ZUGFeRD/XRechnung; materials can be imported via CSV/Excel or IDS-Connect; and it also provides German trade and finance integrations such as GAEB X83/X84, Lexware Office, and DATEV XML. The Plantafel scheduling board supports drag and drop, day/week/month and team views, and can display vacations, sick leave, and capacity. Changes are synced to employee calendars. For permissions, it offers employee and role management, allowing control over who can schedule work and who can only view their own calendar, with scheduling changes trackable.

Pricing and Trial

Hawepro offers three pricing models: Prepaid, Business, and Professional. Business starts at €35/month, while Professional starts at €49/month. Monthly payment and Prepaid options are supported, with an emphasis on no contract lock-in and no hidden costs. Registration does not require payment information. It provides a 7-day full-featured Professional trial, including a €17 starting balance, and automatically switches to Prepaid after the trial.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are that the product is focused on small trades businesses. The feature set goes beyond finance and invoicing to cover field scheduling, mobile time tracking, materials, projects, and objects/maintenance contracts. Its Germany-focused compliance capabilities are relatively comprehensive, with support for DSGVO, TLS, AES-256, and German data centers. On the support side, the text repeatedly mentions chat, email, video calls, free introductions, and tutorials, making it suitable for small businesses with limited digitalization experience. Limitations include the lack of a disclosed open API and no mention of self-hosting. The feature boundaries between plans are not fully detailed, and the language, tax, e-invoicing, and payment setup are clearly oriented toward the German market.

Who It’s For and Access from China

It is suitable for small trades teams of around 1–10 people in Germany or German-speaking regions, including renovation, carpentry, painting, roofing, landscaping, building services, SHK, and similar businesses. Chinese users who only need project scheduling and time tracking may use it as a reference, but information on local invoicing, finance and tax, payments, and Chinese-language support is insufficient. Its website accessibility from China is unknown. If the target is domestic operations in China, it is advisable to first evaluate local SaaS alternatives for inventory and sales management, work-order scheduling, or project management.