SeedDMS
🇩🇪 DE · Free plan · paid from €79/mo
Self-hosted document management with workflows and versioning
Replaces
SeedDMS is sought as a European alternative to:
Features
Document management
- Versioned document storage
- Support for many document formats
- Hierarchical folders and document lists
- Grouping and downloading documents
- Check-in/check-out
- Previews and format conversion via extensions
Workflow and collaboration
- Multi-step review and approval workflows
- Scheduled document revisions
- Acknowledgement requests
- Notifications about document changes
Access and users
- User roles
- Access control
- User and group management
- No limits on users or documents
Search and indexing
- Metadata search
- Full-text indexing
- OCR-based text extraction via extensions
- Invoice metadata handling via extensions
Administration and extensibility
- Web-based interface
- Scheduled background tasks
- REST API
- WebDAV support
- Extensions for additional functions
Authentication and integrations
- LDAP authentication
- Collabora Office integration
- ONLYOFFICE integration
- Paperless-ngx-compatible REST API
- Email import via extension
- TYPO3 integration (work in progress)
Pricing
- No software license fees
- Unlimited users and documents
- GPLv2 license
- Hosted SeedDMS
- Maintenance included
- Provided by official support partner
Hosting prices vary by provider; MMK lists €79/month plus VAT. Other providers may offer different terms.
EU Trust Profile
What we verified against public sources, last checked 2026-11-12. Every point links to its evidence.
- Evidence →European legal entityMMK MultiMedia Kommunikationssysteme GmbH, Hagen (DE)
The legal entity behind SeedDMS support and hosting is registered in Germany.
- Evidence →Self-hosting available
SeedDMS is designed for self-hosting on public or private servers.
- Evidence →Open sourceGPL-2.0
- Evidence →Documented data export
Documents and folders can be exported as ZIP files via extensions or in-product functions.
- Evidence →Local-language support
Support is available in English; the vendor's website is in German.
We list only what we could verify against a public source on the check date. A point that is absent was not established either way — it is not a finding against the vendor. The vendor's own information prevails.
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Reviews
Recurring themes, synthesized from public reviews across portals.
What users value
- Strong document versioning and access permission controls
- Intuitive, folder-based interface for end users
- Open-source with no license fees for self-hosted use
- Reliable performance in long-term production use
- Responsive community support from the maintainer
- Capable workflows for review and approval processes
- Flexible document upload and download functionality
Where users see room to improve
- · Complex installation and migration processes
- · Sparse or unclear documentation for setup
- · Requires upfront planning for folder structures and permissions
Integrations
SeedDMS: frequently asked questions
- How much does SeedDMS cost?
- SeedDMS has a free plan; paid plans start at €79/mo. Hosting prices vary by provider; MMK lists €79/month plus VAT. Other providers may offer different terms.
- Which tools does SeedDMS integrate with?
- SeedDMS connects with Collabora Office, ONLYOFFICE, Tesseract, OCRmyPDF, unoserver, Paperless-ngx, Zettelrobbe and LDAP, plus 1 more integrations we found.
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Feature, pricing and integration details are based on web research (as of 2026-11-12), without guarantee, errors are possible. The vendor's website prevails.