Abacus Research AG · Wittenbach SG
Abacus
ERP heavyweight, strongest payroll
The heavyweight: a Swiss ERP with the country’s most complete payroll and HR coverage – but always with a partner and a project budget.
Typical user
Growing SMEs from around 20 employees, businesses with complex payroll (hourly wages, collective agreements, construction) and accounting firms.
Price
no published price
The vendor publishes no prices – quoted only through a sales partner · As of Jul 2026
Strengths
- Payroll and HR are effectively the Swiss benchmark (CLA, Swissdec, time management)
- Scales from SME to upper mid-market
- Industry editions (construction, fiduciary, healthcare, public sector)
- Very high conformity with Swiss law and audit requirements
Points to consider
- No self-service: implementation, training and support run through partners
- Opaque pricing, total cost only clear after a quote
- Clearly oversized for sole traders and associations
Compared in
Fit by profile
| Sole proprietor / freelance | not recommended |
| Small business 2–9 | conditional |
| SME 10–49 | very suitable |
| 50 employees and up | very suitable |
| Association / foundation | not recommended |
| Working with an accountant | very suitable |
Fact sheet
Every comparison row from the categories this product appears in.
| Capacity planning | ✓ |
| Bill of materials | ✓ |
| Data from other systems | ✓ |
| Customer portal | ✓ |
| List price | no published price |
| Pricing model | via partner |
| Getting started | partner/project needed |
| Deployment | Cloud + Desktop/Server |
| Free version | – |
| CRM / sales pipeline | ✓ |
| Projects & services | ✓ |
| Working time | ✓ |
| Online shop | – |
| Document filing | ✓ |
| HR (excluding payroll) | ✓ |
| Modules selectable | selectable |
| Payroll (Swissdec) | ✓ |
| Swiss VAT filing | ✓ |
| Multiple currencies | ✓ |
| Data location | Switzerland |
| QR-bill | ✓ |
| Bank reconciliation (camt) | ✓ |
| Orders & inventory | ✓ |
| Open API | ✓ |
| Mobile app | ✓ |
| Works offline | ✓ |
| Adoption among accountants | high |
| Languages | DE · FR · IT · EN |
| Vendor | Abacus Research AG |
| Headquarters | Wittenbach SG |
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Where the information comes from
The values in the fact sheet are vendor statements, recorded from the vendor’s own web pages. All other statements — positioning, typical user, strengths, limits and fit by profile — are editorial assessments. Last checked Jul 2026.
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