That just sounds like a normal day of interacting with basic German IT infrastructure. It's all the same.
How they describe it: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/service/reporting-systems/exter...
Any single transaction exceeding 12500€ entering (or leaving) Germany has to be manually reported here. So for example if you're living in Germany and working remotely as a contractor for a US based company you'll probably have to report your income every month.
There are many exceptions that don't need manual reporting though, like if you're buying physical goods from overseas. I guess those are already automatically tracked through other ways.
For fun, I just tried to login at ~9:30 PM local time on a Sunday, and it said:
"Access Denied"
"You cannot access the resource you have requested at this time."
"The resource you have requested is protected by a policy restricting access to specific time periods. Your request has occured outside of those permitted time periods."
My favourite thing on that website is the script block inside a noscript tag that they actually expect to run. Things like that tend to suggest the developers have absolutely no idea how to code for a web browser.
Reality is much mundane and boring: the person writing the web app has no vested interest in the app actually providing a good service for customers. His or her boss doesn’t care either.
It’s simple disinterest: the self-interests of the coders are too far removed from the interests of the customers.
If you’re a solo dev working on a startup and every lost customer is money gone from your pocket, you will pay attention to every little detail.
If you’re a cog in a giant soulless machine, you do the bare minimum and go home.
I mean what else should they use?
works okay but the credit card integration is a complete sh*t show