Lemonway vs Candis
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Lemonway's feed is mostly bank-holiday ops with one real onboarding tweak buried in it.
Lemonway's recent changelog is dominated by recurring operational notices: SEPA and international-transfer cutoffs around French bank holidays, a sandbox server migration tied to PCI/DSS infrastructure work, and support-availability windows. The substantive product change in the window is the removal of an OTP step from the Online Onboarding identity-verification flow (QES by Onfido).
As a regulated French PSP, Lemonway's customer-visible work mostly orbits around banking calendar rhythms and compliance plumbing. Product evolution shows up sparingly — the OTP removal in February and Faster Pay by Bank in January are the only two real feature notes in the past four months — pointing at a roadmap focused on conversion friction in onboarding and SEPA-Instant settlement speed.
Expect the operational-notice cadence to continue around upcoming French bank holidays. Real product motion is likely to stay on the onboarding and pay-by-bank surfaces, since those are where the team has invested visibly in the past quarter; anything else would be a departure from the established pattern.
Candis extends from AP into procurement — purchase requisitions, auto-tax, and a mobile expense app land together.
Candis is shipping aggressively at the procure-to-pay seam for DACH finance teams. The May releases bring purchase requisitions inside Candis with auto-matching against incoming invoices, automatic tax calculation derived from account tax keys, DATEV-style Automatikkonten support, and a Mobile App 2.0 that lets approvers handle expenses from a phone. The credit-card transaction surface is also being tightened — faster table, better automatching against invoices.
Candis is broadening from 'AP automation for DACH SMBs' into a fuller P2P stack: requisition through invoice through expense, with DATEV at the core of the accounting integration. The DATEV-flavored features (Automatikkonten, account-derived tax rates) signal a deliberate optimization for the German accounting workflow rather than a generic European AP tool. Mobile expense approvals plus central user management across multiple Gesellschaften suggest mid-market multi-entity customers are now the target.
Expect a tighter Bestellanforderungen + budget approval workflow next, with vendor-level controls on top of the new requisitions surface. The DATEV-specific tax automation will likely roll out to all eligible customers within weeks, and at least one more accounting connector (likely an ERP, after Microsoft Business Central and Sage earlier this quarter) should land.
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