Payroll for Switzerland, Swissdec and integrated in the ERP.
The ewws payroll run produces the Swissdec ELM report for ESTV, AHV, SUVA and FAK, creates the salary certificate and posts the result into the financial accounting without a detour. Time, absences and expenses come from the same platform.
Why ewws
What a Swiss payroll in the ERP does better
Payroll in Switzerland is a compliance area of its own. With ewws it runs native, calculated to the Swissdec ELM standard and directly connected to time, absences and accounting.
Swissdec ELM
A unified salary reporting procedure following Swissdec ELM 6.0, the current generation. One report covers ESTV, the AHV compensation fund, SUVA, accident and daily-sickness-benefit insurers as well as withholding tax offices. Withholding tax computes all 109 Swissdec test examples correctly; we will carry the certificate once we hold it.
Time, payroll, accounting connected
Hours, absences and expenses flow into the payroll run, the result posts directly into the financial accounting. No Excel bridge, no double entry.
Complete for Switzerland
AHV, ALV, UVG, UVGZ, KTG, BVG with age scaling, FAK and withholding tax calculated correctly, including entry and exit settlement during the year.
Native and fast
Real Mac and Windows apps instead of a browser payroll. The payroll run calculates instantly and stays smooth even with many employees.
Data sovereignty
Payroll data is especially worthy of protection. It lives on your server in Switzerland or with the fiduciary, not in a foreign cloud.
Fiduciary-ready
Several clients in one system, each with its own payroll run and its own Swissdec connection, cleanly separated.
Feature set
From the time sheet to the report
Everything a Swiss payroll run needs, in one continuous process instead of distributed tools.
Wage types
Monthly salary, hourly wage, 13th monthly salary, bonuses and other non-periodic payments correctly in the rate-determining salary, plus benefits in kind across all contribution and withholding tax bases, freely configurable per client.
Time and absences
Hours, vacation, illness and accident flow directly into the settlement. Continued pay and daily benefits are taken into account.
Salary certificate
A salary certificate on the official form 11, as a PDF and in the Swissdec report, with correct figures and expense regulation.
ELM report
The report for the connected recipients is produced by the payroll run to Swissdec ELM 6.0, XSD valid and without forms filled by hand. You submit it through the designated route.
Withholding tax
Withholding tax under the monthly and the annual model (annual model for FR, GE, TI, VD and VS), fully verified against the official Swissdec calculation examples: all cantonal tariffs, extrapolation of the rate-determining salary for part-time and multiple employment, pro-rated entry and exit months, allocation of foreign workdays as well as corrections and back-payments. A tariff code per person, monthly settlement and a monthly ELM report to the responsible tax office.
Posting into the ledger
The payroll run creates the journal entries for wage expense, social deductions and payout directly in the financial accounting of ewws.
Swissdec ELM 6.0 and KLE 2.0
Reporting belongs inside the product, not in an attachment.
The unified salary reporting procedure bundles the legal reports in one process. ewws is implemented to the Swissdec standard ELM 6.0, the withholding-tax calculation is fully verified against the official Swissdec calculation examples, monthly and annual model alike, and since 1 August 2026 you configure the entire reporting setup yourself inside the product.
ELM standard
Payroll data is prepared in the Swissdec format and produced as an XSD valid report per recipient. Submission to the distributor runs through the designated route.
Setup inside the product
You maintain the recipient distribution and the tenant-bound reporting master data in the Swissdec reporting workspace, natively on Mac and Windows. No configuration file, no ticket with us.
Five attestations, capturable
You capture the five attestations inside the product. The participation forms A, B and C are checked twice, on capture and on export, so no form is missing at year-end.
ESTV, AHV, SUVA, FAK
One report covers the tax administration, the compensation fund, the accident insurer and the family compensation fund, without separate forms.
Year-end
Salary certificates, the annual report and the withholding tax statement run through the same proven process as the monthly payroll run. The annual totals come from posted payroll runs, not from a side calculation.
Swissdec KLE 2.0
Accident and illness reports live in the same house: four transmitter operations to the Swissdec standard KLE 2.0, each held against its official example. Incident capture is available in the native clients.
Swiss compliance
Salary certificate, withholding tax and retention
Swiss payroll follows clear legal requirements. ewws maps them as standard.
Salary certificate form 11
An official salary certificate with correct figures. Approved lump-sum expenses appear as expense reimbursement under figure 13.2 instead of in the gross salary, with a note of the expense regulation.
Withholding tax cantonal
Current cantonal tariffs under the monthly and the annual model, tariff codes and settlement, prepared for electronic reporting per canton.
GeBüV retention
Payroll journals, documents and reports are kept audit-proof, prepared for the ten-year retention obligation.
For whom
SMEs and fiduciaries
From your own payroll office to the fiduciary firm that runs payroll for many clients, the same proven process.
SME
In-house payroll
Run payroll in-house, without an external payroll office. Time, payroll and accounting in one system, with clear evaluations.
Fiduciary
Payroll for many clients
One payroll run per client with its own Swissdec connection. Clients cleanly separated, evaluations across all of them.
In use for SMEs and fiduciaries across Switzerland, from Lucerne via Zurich and Bern to Geneva, Lausanne and Ticino, with cantonal withholding tax tariffs.
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Fiduciary software
Several clients in one system, with data sovereignty and clean separation. Payroll included.
View the fiduciary solution →Swiss standards
Swissdec, QR-bill, ISO 20022 and GeBüV as standard, not as an add-on module.
View standards →Editions and pricing
Which edition contains payroll, transparent from CHF 39 per month.
View editions →Payroll, time and accounting from one source.
See which edition covers payroll, or discuss your payroll process directly with us.