Salary reporting
Swissdec ELM 6.0
Switzerland's unified salary reporting procedure. It bundles the salary certificate, AHV, IV, EO, ALV, BVG, UVG, UVGZ and withholding tax into one standardised XML record per recipient. ewws is implemented to the Swissdec standard ELM 6.0 and produces the annual report XSD valid for all eleven recipients, with annual totals taken from posted payroll runs; the monthly report covers its official full scope. Since 1 August 2026 you configure the whole reporting setup inside the product: recipient distribution, tenant bound reporting master data and the five attestations including the participation forms A, B and C.
Status in ewws: Implemented to the Swissdec standard ELM 6.0, configurable inside the product, with the Swissdec reporting capture surfaces on Mac and Windows. Withholding tax computes all 109 Swissdec test examples correctly. The payroll run produces the report; you submit it through the designated route. We will carry the certificate once we hold it.
Claims reporting
Swissdec KLE 2.0
Illness and accident benefit capture. Insurers receive UVG, UVGZ and KTG claims in a standardised XML structure. ewws implements four transmitter operations to the Swissdec standard KLE 2.0: incident report, case reconciliation, organisation registration and certificate reconciliation, each held against its official Swissdec example and XSD validated. Incident capture with institutions, occurrences and the case narrative is available in the native clients.
Status in ewws: Implemented to the Swissdec standard KLE 2.0, with a dedicated KLE workspace and an audit trail. We will carry the certificate once we hold it.
Banking
ISO 20022 camt and pain
Swiss banks communicate exclusively on ISO 20022. camt.053 delivers the daily bank statement, camt.054 the detailed advice. pain.001 is the payment order to the bank, pain.008 the CH-DD direct debit. ewws imports camt directly, reconciles open items via amount, reference and QR-bill, and exports pain bundles at the push of a button. Remaining items land in a clarification list per tenant. We built the EBICS 3.0 channel to H005 ourselves, without a third-party SDK: once you are enrolled with your bank, you fetch statements and send payments directly. The file route remains as a fallback.
Status in ewws: camt.053, camt.054, pain.001 and pain.008 integrated with a banking cockpit. At the PostFinance test platform the payment order was accepted, and the collective booking that keeps salaries discreet is evidenced on both sides. Seven SIX validations passed with zero errors each, all nine PostFinance EZAG reference cases held. EBICS 3.0 (H005) included as a channel, in every edition at no surcharge.
Invoice
QR-bill
Since 1 October 2022, the orange and red payment slip is abolished. ewws generates QR-bills with the Swiss QR code, IBAN or QR-IBAN, QRR or SCOR reference and a complete recipient dataset. PDF output with perforation notes, receipt and payment part. Sending by mail, eBill or print.
Status in ewws: Fully integrated in sales, both creation and receipt.
Retention
GeBüV audit-proof
The ordinance on business records per CO 957 and CO 958. Books and documents must be kept for ten years and managed traceably. ewws secures documents in an append-only archive with a hash chain. Every new entry references the hash of the previous one, tampering leaves a visible gap. The audit trail documents creation, corrections and cancellations.
Status in ewws: GeBüV document archive and audit cockpit integrated in accounting.
VAT
VAT ESTV reconciliation
The Federal Tax Administration requires a VAT return per form 220 or 221, per quarter or semester, with the rates 8.1, 2.6, 3.8 percent as well as special rates. ewws supports the effective method and the net tax rate, reconciles the VAT accounts against the assessment basis and delivers the return as XML or a print form for the ESTV submission.
Status in ewws: A complete ESTV return in the accounting workspace, eVAT upload configured per tenant.
Invoice sending
eBill
The SIX eBill network routes invoices directly into the recipient e-banking. Swiss SMEs increasingly demand this, especially in B2B traffic. ewws sends invoices as eBill, receives status feedback such as opened, paid or disputed, and links the status to the open item. Recipient master data is updated via the SIX interface.
Status in ewws: Sending and status feedback integrated in accounting and sales.
Data protection
The new data protection act nDSG
Since 1 September 2023, the revised Swiss data protection act applies. Processing on behalf, a data protection impact assessment, the right to data release and breach notification are mandatory. ewws assigns each tenant a data protection officer and a record of processing activities, documents data exports and handles access and deletion requests with an audit trail. Self-hosted operation keeps data in Switzerland.
Status in ewws: Data export, audit trail and tenant data protection fields integrated.
