Legal practice software Switzerland — comparison

Name: Legal practice software Switzerland — comparison
Creator: Stefan Bernhard
Published: 2026-08

Run matters, keep deadlines, bill the hours.

As of August 2026

Swiss specifics

What is different in Switzerland

Legal practice software

The Swiss market imposes requirements that an international solution usually lacks — it is built for other legal systems. Buy from abroad and you notice at the year-end close, in the VAT filing or with the first payroll declaration. These are the points that decide in this category:

Deadline controlMonitoring of court and contractual deadlines with advance warning. For a law firm this is not a convenience but liability protection: a missed appeal deadline is as a rule not curable.
Conflict-of-interest checkBefore accepting a mandate the firm must establish whether it has acted or is acting for the opposing party. Professional rules require the check, and it is only possible if the software makes every party to every mandate searchable — including closed ones.
Data hosted in SwitzerlandData residency in Switzerland is not a legal requirement but frequently a procurement one — especially for personal data and public contracts. Ask where the data centre is, not where the vendor is registered.
Data locationSwiss data centres are not a legal requirement, but often a procurement criterion – especially for personal data and public-sector contracts.
Ten-year retentionThe Swiss Code of Obligations requires ten years of audit-proof retention – including readability. Clarify what happens to your data after you cancel.
Export and exitBefore signing up, check what an export looks like (entries, documents, master data). A solution without a usable export is a one-way street.

Comparison of 3 solutions in Legal practice software, data from vendor sources with check date. As of August 2026. Surveyed and verified by Stefan Bernhard.
Criterion	Buy or subscribe, from ZurichDetails	Price published, and a high oneDetails	Cloud, choice of data centreDetails
Matters and deadlines
Matter management	not researched	✓	✓
Deadline control	not researched	✓	✓
Cost & onboarding
List priceas stated by the vendorbars: 0 to CHF 299	from CHF 56	from CHF 299	on request
Pricing model	Subscription or licence	Subscription	Subscription
Deployment	Cloud + Desktop/Server	not researched	Cloud
Payroll, VAT & law
Data location	not researched	not researched	Switzerland/EU
Scope & extensions
Open API	not researched	not researched	✓
Mobile app	not researched	✓	not researched
Collaboration & vendor
Languages	DE · EN	DE · EN	DE · FR
Vendor	Vertec AG	STP Informationstechnologie GmbH	timeSensor AG
Headquarters	Zürich	Switzerland	Switzerland
Vendor website	open ↗	open ↗	open ↗

Surveyed and verified by: Stefan Bernhard · Method