Lexware Office MCP Server
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Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
Lexware Office MCP Server
An MCP server for Lexware Office (formerly Lexoffice). It lets MCP-capable assistants query and manage contacts, sales documents, vouchers, files, payments, webhooks, and reference data through the Lexware Office public API.
This is a customized fork of JannikWempe/mcp-lexware-office (MIT-licensed), with two added tools —
match_bank_csv_to_vouchersandmatch_receipts_to_bank_csv— for reconciling a bank statement CSV against Lexware vouchers or scanned receipt PDFs. See Bank reconciliation tools below. Allsearch/executeCode Mode functionality is unchanged from upstream.
The server uses Code Mode: instead of one MCP tool per API endpoint, it exposes two tools — search to explore a curated Lexware API catalog and execute to run constrained, sandboxed API workflows. This keeps the tool surface small while covering the whole API, including pagination, aggregation, and multi-step reporting in a single call.
Upgrading from 1.x? The legacy tool-per-endpoint server was removed in 2.0.0. See docs/guide.md#migrating-from-1x.
Features
Broad Lexware Office API coverage for read and write workflows
Sales documents: invoices, quotations, order confirmations, credit notes, delivery notes, dunning notices, and down-payment invoices
Contact management: create, read, and update customers and vendors
Bookkeeping: vouchers, posting categories, payments, and file uploads
Reference data: profile, countries, print layouts, payment conditions, recurring templates
Webhooks: create, list, inspect, and delete event subscriptions
Read-only by default: writes require explicit opt-in via environment variable
Related MCP server: lexware-mcp-server
How it works
The server exposes two MCP tools:
search— runs a sandboxed JavaScript async arrow function against a curated OpenAPI-lite Lexware catalog.execute— runs a sandboxed JavaScript async arrow function with one host capability,lexware.request, for relative/v1/...Lexware API calls.
Example execute call:
async () => {
const response = await lexware.request({
method: 'GET',
path: '/v1/contacts',
query: { name: 'Muster', page: 0, size: 10 }
});
return response.data;
}The sandbox does not receive the Lexware API key, Node globals, filesystem access, imports, fetch, or arbitrary network access. lexware.request only accepts relative /v1/... paths and sends the API key from the host process.
Binary-safe file uploads
Uploads are binary-safe via multipart parts with contentPath (host reads a local file from disk), contentBase64 (binary FormData parts), or bodyBase64 (raw binary body). The host reads/decodes and builds Buffer / Blob bodies outside the QuickJS sandbox.
Preferred: contentPath — pass the file's absolute path instead of inlining bytes. Requires LEXWARE_OFFICE_ALLOW_WRITES=true (uploads are writes) and works only when the MCP server runs on the machine that has the file:
async () => {
const response = await lexware.request({
method: 'POST',
path: '/v1/files',
multipart: [
{ name: 'file', contentType: 'application/pdf', contentPath: '/absolute/path/to/receipt.pdf' },
{ name: 'type', value: 'voucher' },
],
});
// response.sent echoes { bytes, parts: [{ name, filename, bytes, sha256 }] } for integrity checks
return { id: response.data?.id, sent: response.sent };
}See docs/guide.md for details and all supported modes.
Bank reconciliation tools
Two additional MCP tools (outside Code Mode, no sandbox involved) for matching a bank statement CSV against Lexware data:
Tool | Description |
| Parses a bank CSV and matches transactions against Lexware vouchers (invoices, receipts, credit notes, ...) fetched live from |
| Extracts amount/date from receipt PDFs (passed as base64) and matches them against a bank CSV the same way — for reconciling scanned receipts that aren't in Lexware yet. |
Matching logic: amount-first — a transaction only matches a candidate (voucher or receipt) with the exact same EUR amount (sign-insensitive: bank exports show debits as negative, voucher/receipt totals as positive). Among amount matches, only one falling inside dateToleranceDays (default 3) counts as a match; zero or more than one date-window match is reported as unmatched with the amount-only candidates listed for manual review. Ambiguous data is never silently guessed — a wrong match in bookkeeping reconciliation is worse than an unmatched transaction.
Bank CSV format: auto-detects the delimiter from the header line (; for German exports, , otherwise — needed because German amounts use , as the decimal separator) and common column names: Datum/Date/Buchungstag for the date, Betrag/Amount/Umsatz for the EUR amount.
Receipt PDF extraction is a best-effort regex over the PDF's text layer (looks for "Gesamtbetrag/Gesamt/Total/Brutto: X,XX €" and dd.mm.yyyy/yyyy-mm-dd dates). It does not OCR scanned images without a text layer — check extractionIssues in the result and review those manually.
Voucher search: voucherType/voucherStatus default to Lexware's any wildcard and accept comma-separated values (e.g. purchaseinvoice + open,paid) to narrow the search. The date range sent to /v1/voucherlist is padded by dateToleranceDays (+1 day) so vouchers just outside the transactions' own date span aren't missed. The endpoint caps out at 10,000 matching entries — narrow the filters or split the CSV by date range if you hit that.
Configuration
Get a Lexware Office API key
Create an API key at https://app.lexoffice.de/addons/public-api.
Prerequisites
Node.js 22 or higher
LEXWARE_OFFICE_API_KEYenvironment variable
Claude Desktop / MCP config with NPX
Recommended: consume the packaged server
Run the packaged binary straight from this fork's main branch. The package builds itself during GitHub installs via prepare, so users do not need to clone the repository or commit build/ artifacts.
{
"mcpServers": {
"lexware-office": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "--package=github:bdiaby1/claude_lexware_mcp_2#main", "lexware-office"],
"env": {
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY": "true"
}
}
}
}Troubleshooting: If the npx command above fails during git-dependency preparation with an error mentioning --before, your npm user config may contain minimum-release-age, which conflicts with npm's internal --before flag. Two fixes:
# Option 1: bypass your user config for this invocation
NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG=/dev/null \
npx -y --package=github:bdiaby1/claude_lexware_mcp_2#main lexware-office
# Option 2: remove the conflicting setting permanently
npm config delete minimum-release-age --location=userIf you tag releases later, #semver:^2 (instead of #main) will pick the newest matching tag automatically. When this package is published to npm, replace the GitHub package spec with the npm package name:
"args": ["-y", "--package=mcp-lexware-office", "lexware-office"]Local development from TypeScript source
For local development, you can run the TypeScript source directly with tsx after cloning the repo and installing dependencies:
{
"mcpServers": {
"lexware-office-local": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "tsx", "/absolute/path/to/mcp-lexware-office/src/index.ts"],
"env": {
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY_HERE",
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY": "true"
}
}
}
}Use this source-based setup only for development. End users should prefer the packaged binary above.
Write safety
The server is read-only by default. POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE requests are blocked unless you explicitly opt in:
{
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_ALLOW_WRITES": "true"
}LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY=true is a hard block that wins over ALLOW_WRITES=true:
{
"LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY": "true"
}See docs/guide.md#permissions for the detailed permission model.
Docker
Build the image:
docker build -t mcp-lexware-office:latest -f src/Dockerfile .Run it:
docker run -i --rm \
-e LEXWARE_OFFICE_API_KEY \
-e LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY=true \
mcp-lexware-office:latestBuild and test
npm run build
npm testDocumentation
License
MIT. See LICENSE.
Available Tools
4 toolsexecuteA
Execute a constrained Lexware Office API workflow by running a JavaScript async arrow function.
Use search first when you need endpoint/domain guidance; do not guess Lexware paths from memory. The sandbox exposes no API key, filesystem, process, imports, fetch, or arbitrary network access.
Available globals:
declare const spec: LexwareApiCatalog; declare const lexware: { request<T = unknown>(input: LexwareRequest): Promise<LexwareResponse>; json(input: LexwareRequest): Promise; paginate<T = unknown>(input: LexwareRequest, options?: { maxPages?: number }): Promise<T[]>; requireNumber(row: unknown, fieldPath: string): number; requireMoney(row: unknown, fieldPath: string): number; sumMoney(rows: unknown[], fieldPath: string): number; formatMoney(cents: number, currency?: string): string; };
type LexwareRequest = { method?: 'GET' | 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'PATCH' | 'DELETE'; path: string; // relative /v1/... only; no absolute URLs or // hosts query?: Record<string, string | number | boolean | Array<string | number | boolean> | null | undefined>; body?: unknown; // JSON by default; string when rawBody=true (UTF-8 encoded, NOT binary-safe) bodyBase64?: string; // raw binary body as base64; the host decodes it outside the sandbox multipart?: MultipartPart[]; // multipart/form-data uploads (e.g. POST /v1/files); host builds FormData contentType?: string; rawBody?: boolean; accept?: string; }; // At most one of body, bodyBase64, or multipart per request.
type MultipartPart = { name: string; value?: string; // plain text form field contentBase64?: string; // binary part content as base64; host decodes it contentPath?: string; // absolute file path on the MCP server machine; host reads the file directly — preferred for local files (no base64, no size blowup) filename?: string; // defaults to the contentPath basename contentType?: string; }; // Exactly one of value, contentBase64, or contentPath per part.
type LexwareResponse<T = unknown> = { ok: boolean; status: number; statusText: string; data?: T; text?: string; truncated?: boolean; contentType: string; headers: Record<string, string>; errorCategory?: string; retryAfterSeconds?: number; operation?: { operationId: string; method: string; pathTemplate: string; summary: string }; request: { method: string; path: string; query: Record<string, string[]> }; sent?: { bytes: number; sha256?: string; parts?: Array<{ name: string; filename?: string; bytes: number; sha256: string }> }; // echo of uploaded binary payloads for integrity checks };
lexware.request returns all HTTP responses, including non-OK, as LexwareResponse. Check response.ok/status for recovery logic, or use lexware.json(...) / lexware.paginate(...) when you want non-OK or non-JSON responses to throw.
This server is read-only by default. POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE are blocked unless the server is started with LEXWARE_OFFICE_ALLOW_WRITES=true. Setting LEXWARE_OFFICE_READ_ONLY=true is a hard block that overrides ALLOW_WRITES. Check spec.info.writesEnabled to branch before attempting a write.
Example:
async () => { const response = await lexware.request({ path: '/v1/contacts', query: { page: 0, size: 5 } }); return { status: response.status, request: response.request, data: response.data }; }
File upload example (bookkeeping Beleg). Never inline file bytes in code — pass the file's absolute path via contentPath and the host reads it from disk:
async () => { const response = await lexware.request({ method: 'POST', path: '/v1/files', multipart: [ { name: 'file', contentType: 'application/pdf', contentPath: '/absolute/path/to/receipt.pdf' }, { name: 'type', value: 'voucher' }, ], }); return { status: response.status, id: response.data?.id, sent: response.sent }; }
Inputs: code (required), maxRequests.
match_bank_csv_to_vouchersA
Parses a bank statement CSV (date + EUR amount columns) and matches each transaction against Lexware vouchers by exact amount and a date-tolerance window. Fetches the voucher list itself (paginated, date-range padded by the tolerance). Narrow voucherType/voucherStatus (comma-separated, e.g. "purchaseinvoice" + "open,paid") when reconciling a specific category — the underlying /voucherlist endpoint refuses to traverse beyond 10,000 matching entries, so split by date range or narrow the filters if that happens.
Inputs: csvContent (required), voucherType, voucherStatus, dateToleranceDays.
match_receipts_to_bank_csvA
Matches receipt PDFs against a bank statement CSV (date + EUR amount) by extracting amount/date from each PDF's text and comparing with exact-amount + date-tolerance matching. Extraction is a best-effort regex heuristic — always review the 'unmatched' and 'extractionIssues' lists, don't assume completeness (no OCR: receipts that are pure scanned images without a text layer will not extract).
Inputs: receipts (required), csvContent (required), dateToleranceDays.
searchA
Search the curated Lexware Office API catalog by running a JavaScript async arrow function.
Use this before execute to discover endpoints, request shapes, response notes, workflows, and domain-specific caveats.
Available global:
declare const spec: LexwareApiCatalog;
Useful starting points:
spec.info.domainIndex: compact map from business domains to endpoint lists
spec.info.writesEnabled: whether this server currently allows POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE — check before planning writes
spec.paths: path -> method -> operation catalog with params, requestBody, responses, examples, capabilities, docsUrl
spec.workflows: curated recipes for reporting, sales documents, files/uploads, webhooks, and API quirks
spec.info.voucherStatusSemantics and financeReportingSemantics: finance/status guidance for revenue/Umsatz/profit questions
Sandbox: no network, filesystem, process, fetch, imports, or API key. Return JSON-serializable data; console logs are captured.
Examples:
async () => Object.entries(spec.info.domainIndex) .filter(([name, domain]) => [name, ...domain.tags].some(value => value.toLowerCase().includes('contact'))) .map(([name, domain]) => ({ name, ...domain }))
async () => { const op = spec.paths['/v1/voucherlist']?.get; return { summary: op?.summary, parameters: op?.parameters, notes: op?.notes, examples: op?.examples }; }
Inputs: code (required).
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TDQS
Scored across 4 tools
The two match tools are distinct (bank CSV to vouchers vs. receipts to bank CSV) but share a similar 'match_*' prefix that could cause confusion. Search and execute are clearly separated for discovery vs. action, so overall boundaries are clear.
All tool names use lowercase snake_case with a clear verb prefix: match_bank_csv_to_vouchers, match_receipts_to_bank_csv, search, execute. The pattern is consistent and predictable.
With 4 tools, the server is well-scoped: two specialized matching helpers plus the essential search/execute pair for generic API access. No bloat and no obvious missing generic capability.
The generic execute tool wraps the entire Lexware API, covering any conceivable operation, while search provides full discovery. The two match tools cover specific reconciliation needs. Together they form a complete surface for the stated purpose.
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