Hegyon computes AHV, BVG, UVG and source tax correctly, generates the Pain.001 salary run and issues the ESTV Lohnausweis (Form 11), you approve. Swiss payroll, without spreadsheets.
A Swiss payroll run combines twelve contribution rates, cantonal exceptions, two insurers and a fiduciary, every month. AHV, IV, EO, ALV, BVG, UVG-BU, UVG-NBU, KTG, FAK, source tax, family allowances, expenses. What starts as «the payroll run is in progress» usually ends with five corrections, one spreadsheet kept on the side, and a nervous look at the Lohnausweis in January. A preparing assistant closes the gap between master data and the finished ESTV document.
Behind the payroll run sits full Swiss compliance, these five points are why spreadsheets stop here.
An average Swiss SME with 20 employees traditionally spends around 14 hours a month on time capture, payroll preparation, social-contribution calculation, bank upload and reconciliation with the fiduciary, split between the payroll officer and management. With the assistant that drops to around 3 hours, because calculation, accrual and the Pain.001 run already stand when a human first checks. That's 132 hours a year, at a Swiss hourly rate of CHF 50 that's recovered capacity of CHF 6'600 per year, in payroll alone. The most valuable effect shows in January: the ESTV Lohnausweis comes with one click, not with two weeks of spreadsheet preparation.
This is built for Swiss companies with roughly five to fifty employees that prepare payroll themselves and have no payroll department of their own: trades and construction, hospitality, technical services, consulting, practices and law firms. Typically one person who does the payroll run alongside their actual job, a fiduciary in the background, monthly-paid and hourly-paid staff side by side, and more than one canton.
It pays off most where the payroll run is prepared in-house today, switching back and forth between time tracking, expenses and a spreadsheet. The more sources feed into one run, the more it carries that they come together in one place and that every change stays traceable with person and timestamp.
For each employee you bring what you already have: name, start date, AHV number, employment level, salary, child allowances, BVG affiliation and, where needed, source tax tariff code and canton. Plus the contribution rates of your compensation fund, pension fund and accident insurer, which are printed on their statements. If you switch mid-year, the year-to-date totals come along, so that threshold amounts and deductions carry on instead of starting again. You compute the first payroll run in parallel with your current solution and compare it line by line.
What follows is deliberately little: no training week, no rollout project. If the parallel run matches, the next month goes through the new system, and your fiduciary keeps checking what they have been checking all along. You do not have to bring anything you do not need: the old Excel workbook with the interim calculations stays where it is, and wage types that have sat empty for years are not set up again.
Talk, report, inform — without anyone keeping three programs open.
Inbox, appointments, documents, notes: the working day, not the toolbox.
From the first contact to the signed contract, in one unbroken chain.
What carries the business: orders, stock, assets, projects, tickets.
What the company knows stays findable — even when someone leaves.
Eighteen modules, one surface, one login. Not a patchwork of tools that know nothing about each other.
We'll show you a prepared payroll run for 20 fictitious employees, all social contributions computed correctly, a Pain.001 file ready for bank upload, and an ESTV Lohnausweis in the official format. No contract, no preparation.