Time tracking Switzerland — comparison

Name: Time tracking Switzerland — comparison
Creator: Stefan Bernhard
Published: 2026-08

Working-hours evidence under Swiss labour law, not just project time.

As of August 2026

Recording working time: what the Labour Act requires

Swiss specifics

What is different in Switzerland

Time tracking

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:

Working-hours recording (ArG)Article 46 of the Labour Act requires records of working and rest hours; article 73 of Ordinance 1 lists what they must contain and sets retention at five years. Time tracking that only keeps monthly totals does not satisfy this.
Collective agreement rulesCollective agreements set weekly hours, supplements, holidays and minimum wages per industry, and they differ from one another. Time tracking must be able to compute the rules of its own agreement, not just the limits of the Labour Act.
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.
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 6 solutions in Time tracking, data from vendor sources with check date. As of August 2026. Surveyed and verified by Stefan Bernhard.
Criterion	Rent or buy, LiechtensteinDetails	Cloud, annual price per employeeDetails	Cloud, servers in SwitzerlandDetails	Cloud, labour act citedDetails	Swiss manufacturer, with terminalsDetails	ArG- and GAV-compliant, prices in eurosDetails
Swiss labour law
Working-hours recording (ArG)	✓	✓	not researched	✓	not researched	✓
Collective agreement rules	not researched	not researched	not researched	not researched	not researched	✓
Cost & onboarding
List priceas stated by the vendorbars: 0 to CHF 28	CHF 11–28	from CHF 3	from CHF 4	from CHF 6	on request	no prices in francs
Pricing model	Subscription or licence	Subscription	Subscription	Subscription	not researched	Subscription
Deployment	Cloud + Desktop/Server	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud	Cloud + Desktop/Server	Cloud
Payroll, VAT & law
Data location	not researched	not researched	Switzerland	Switzerland	Switzerland	not researched
Scope & extensions
Open API	✓	✓	✓	✓	not researched	✓
Mobile app	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Works offline	not researched	not researched	not researched	–	not researched	not researched
Collaboration & vendor
Languages	not researched	DE · FR · IT · EN	DE · FR · IT · EN	not researched	DE · FR	DE · FR · IT · EN
Vendor	Infotech AG	ClickTime Vertriebs AG	TimeStatement AG	inova:solutions AG	Mobatime AG	TimeTac GmbH
Headquarters	Schaan FL	Baden AG	Baar ZG	Ostermundigen BE	Dübendorf ZH	Graz
Vendor website	open ↗	open ↗	open ↗	open ↗	open ↗	open ↗

Surveyed and verified by: Stefan Bernhard · Method

Time tracking Switzerland — comparison

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