Debit equals credit, enforced
A real double-entry ledger with a journal: unbalanced entries do not pass. The document number is issued under a lock and is therefore gapless, not checked afterwards.
Accounting that already knows the year-end.
Double-entry general ledger, Swiss chart of accounts, VAT per ESTV, foreign currency with a reconciliation bridge, an own bank channel and a liquidity view: all in the same ERP as sales, purchasing, stock and payroll. What has been posted already stands correct at year-end.
What accounting inside the ERP does better
Accounting is not re-entry. It is the other side of the business.
When sales, purchasing, stock and payroll run on the same data basis, the posting arises where the business happens. These six decisions carry that.
Swiss SME chart of accounts as standard
The Swiss SME chart of accounts is ready to use, in four legal forms and with industry profiles. Extending it is additive, without touching existing entries.
Periods that are really closed
Period locks apply on every posting path, not only in the dialog. Anyone who has to correct later reverses with a mirror entry and an audit trail, instead of overwriting a line.
No interface to your own accounting
Invoices, supplier invoices, the daily close and the payroll run post directly. No nightly reconciliation, no CSV between two systems, no difference nobody can explain.
Audit trail per GeBüV
Closings carry SHA-256 evidence and the audit chain runs from the first entry onwards. The auditor reads the same source as management.
On your server
Books, bank data and margins sit on your machine, not at a vendor. Export to open formats is available at any time.
From the document to the report
The whole cycle, in one system.
Every step leaves an entry in the same journal. What you see below is part of the scope, not of an add-on list.
Posting and journal
Manual entries, collective entries and automatic entries from sales, purchasing, point of sale and payroll all land in the same journal, with source and status per line.
Receivables and payables
Open items with clearing, partial payment and cash discount including the VAT correction. The bank statement reconciles automatically, remaining items land in a clarification list.
Dunning in stages
Three-stage dunning with default interest and fee, due dates taken from the open item. The run proposes, release stays manual.
Cost centres and cost sheet
Cost centres and cost objects hang structurally on the posting line. The operating cost sheet allocates by the step-ladder method, not by an estimated key.
Fixed assets
Straight-line, declining balance or immediate depreciation, with separate valuation areas for the commercial and tax view. Depreciation posts indirectly to the ledger, disposal including VAT.
Budget and scenarios
Budget at account level with several scenarios and a running plan-actual comparison. Deviations sit where the entry sits, not in a side table.
Value added tax
The return arises from the books, not from a side calculation.
ewws computes VAT from the general ledger and reconciles it against accounting before generating. Whatever does not add up surfaces beforehand.
Effective and net tax rate
Form 220 for the effective method, form 221 for the net tax rate. Date-dependent rates including old-rate lines, so a rate change does not trigger manual work.
Input tax by account, not by estimate
The input tax of a supplier invoice is split across material and investment by the account class of the cost splits, to the cent from the chart of accounts. Corrections and reductions are recorded with a reason, not derived.
Filing in the ESTV portal
ewws produces the return as XML per eCH 0217 and files it in the GeBüV archive. You upload the file in the ESTV portal; there is deliberately no direct transmission via an interface, because no vendor in the Swiss market offers one.
Year-end
The closing is a button, not a project week.
Balance sheet and income statement arise from the running ledger, structured per the Code of Obligations and with the mandatory prior year.
Annual accounts per art. 959a to 959c CO
Structured balance sheet and income statement with a prior-year column, output as PDF/A. The balance sheet has to balance, otherwise the page says so itself.
Notes per art. 959c CO
The complete catalogue of items as a template, with derived proposals from the tenant profile. Only what is recorded appears in the document; without texts the PDF honestly stays without notes.
Automatic carry-forward
The year change carries the balances forward and opens the new year, without anyone typing opening entries.
Foreign currency
Foreign currency that adds up in the ledger.
ewws runs a real multi-currency ledger with a fixed reporting currency of CHF. Accounts carry their currency, and every entry on them requires the foreign-currency detail.
Accounts with their own currency
A foreign-currency account is designated as such and receives payments in account currency at the payment rate. Partial payments relieve the control account to the cent.
Period-end valuation kept apart
Realised and unrealised exchange differences run on separate accounts. The period-end valuation of open items and ledger counts nothing twice and is reversed the next day.
A reconciliation bridge instead of a gut feeling
Book balance minus foreign-currency base minus open valuation leaves a residual. If one remains, the operations cockpit turns yellow instead of somebody finding it later.
Deliberately not: a second or selectable reporting currency. The reporting currency stays CHF per tenant, because the VAT return, Swissdec payroll, five-centime rounding and the QR-bill are legally tied to it.
Payments
The road to the bank belongs to the product.
ISO 20022 is the format, EBICS is the channel. ewws brings both, with no extra module and no surcharge from us. Seven SIX validations passed with zero errors each, all nine PostFinance EZAG reference cases held.
EBICS 3.0 to H005, our own stack
We built the channel ourselves, without a third-party SDK, and proved it at the PostFinance test platform: the payment order was accepted, and the collective booking that keeps salaries discreet is evidenced on both sides. Once you are enrolled with your bank you fetch statements and send payments directly. The file route always remains available as a fallback.
Payment run under dual control
The run is sealed by content on submission: whoever prepares does not release, and amount, IBAN and debit account sit inside the seal. Only what has been released can be exported.
camt reconciliation that learns
The daily statement reconciles open items by amount, reference and QR-bill. What the operator corrects feeds into the matching of the following runs.
Liquidity
The question is not what was. The question is whether it is enough.
From open items, payment runs and bank movements comes a forecast that states its own uncertainty.
Forecast with confidence
Expected inflows and outflows per period, weighted and with a confidence band. Where the data is thin, confidence visibly drops instead of a smooth number appearing.
Solvency at seven, fourteen and thirty days
Three horizons with net cash flow, coverage ratio and risk level. A warning names the horizon from which it gets tight, not just a traffic-light colour.
Only francs are summed
The headline figure sums CHF only; foreign currency is shown but never mixed into a pseudo-total.
Where this makes the difference
Two ways of working with it.
SMEs keeping their own books
You post as you go and give the fiduciary access instead of a file. Year-end, VAT and payroll sit in the same installation.
Fiduciaries with many clients
Every client has its own schema and the cockpit shows them side by side. Posting inside a mandate runs on a granted permission and is audited on both sides.
More from the same platform
Goes with this
Swiss standards
ISO 20022, QR-bill, GeBüV, VAT per ESTV and eBill in the core, not as a purchase.
Payroll
Swissdec payroll with ELM and withholding tax, posted straight into the same accounting.
Editions and prices
Accounting, open items and the chart of accounts are part of the scope from the Start edition on.
See your books in your own house.
Download ewws and re-post one month with your own figures. The server runs at your place, and the books stay there.