SwissSalary
This help guides payroll professionals and Business Central partners through Swiss payroll processing with SwissSalary: from setup through the monthly payroll run to declarations, special cases, and analyses.
Start here: Core payroll processes — Sequence, statuses, and checkpoints from preparation through declaration.
Getting started
If you're setting up SwissSalary for the first time or expanding your employee master data:
- Set up SwissSalary for payroll processing
- Set up employees for payroll
- Manage salary types and allocated salaries
- Prepare and review a payroll run
Monthly cycle
The regular monthly cycle follows this sequence:
- Prepare variable payroll data, times, and absences — optionally enter times in the TapBoard matrix
- Prepare and review a payroll run
- Process a payroll run
- Release, correct, or cancel a payroll run
- In parallel: Send payslips as PDF or email
- Post a payroll run and pay salaries with ISO 20022
Compliance during ongoing operations and at period end:
- Process withholding tax
- Submit and complete Swissdec salary declarations
- Create annual declarations and salary certificates
As needed
Choose where to start based on your current need — the navigation on the left lists all individual articles.
| Need | Start here |
|---|---|
| Accident and sickness cases (KLE) | KLE overview |
| Partner and industry interfaces | Partner interfaces overview |
| Provisional payments, 13th/14th monthly salary, vacation pay, foreign currency | Special payroll processing |
| Salary classes and mass increases | Pay raises |
| Budget and forecast | Set up a budget |
| Benefits | Set up benefit types |
| Employee departures, allowances, places of work | Personnel events |
| TimeMachine, absence claims, balances | Absences and time |
| Comparisons, balances, G/L reconciliation | Compare payroll runs |
| Excel, open interface, external G/L | Import and export |
| Swissdec mutations and dialogs | Special Swissdec processes |
| Occupational pension scheme and social funds | Insurance |
| Employee dossier, Word, salary certificate corrections | Documents |
| Store master data and date compression | Store and maintenance |
More topics, such as payments, cost allocation, withholding tax corrections, personnel data quality, SmartPort, and Role Center, are available in the navigation.