Outsourcing payroll without losing control
Swiss payroll is demanding. Keeping track of AHV (old-age and survivors’ insurance) contributions, Quellensteuer (withholding tax) rates and BVG (occupational pension) deductions costs time and nerves. For a long time, Swiss SMEs had to choose. Either they ran payroll in-house, with full control but also the full load and a higher risk of mistakes. Or they outsourced it: most of the work was gone, but so, often, was their insight into their own data and processes.
At Paymira, we do away with this either-or. We are convinced that modern payroll means handing off the work while keeping the control firmly in your hands.
A new way of working together
Paymira isn’t classic payroll outsourcing that leaves you flying blind. Nor do we leave you alone with complicated software. We combine a modern platform with our payroll team. You report your changes easily on the Paymira platform, and we take care of the rest.
How does that work in practice? Through four principles that set Paymira apart:
1. Transparency through task management
The biggest weakness of classic outsourcing is often communication. That is why we have built clear task management straight into the platform. It brings all the back-and-forth together: questions about changes or missing receipts are all in one place. You can see the status in the system at any time. Has the leaver been processed yet? Is the payroll run ready for approval? You keep track without having to keep Excel lists to check up on things.
2. Flexibility instead of a cut-off
Classic payroll outsourcing often needs all the data by the middle of the month so it can be processed by hand. Our system calculates pay in real time. You record a bonus payment and, thanks to real-time calculation, see its effect on the payslip at once. For you, that means less stress around deadlines: you can record changes when they happen, until shortly before payday.
3. Simplicity through our payroll team here in Switzerland
You don’t need to be a payroll professional to provide correct data. Our platform guides you through the process step by step and checks entries for plausibility. Our payroll team in Switzerland takes on the complex part. Our team in Rapperswil-Jona makes sure social insurance, daily allowances and family allowances are handled correctly. You decide what only you know. We check what takes expertise before the run comes to you.
4. Experience instead of bureaucracy
Payroll software often feels outdated. We are changing that. Paymira wasn’t developed behind closed doors, but together with Swiss SMEs and to modern standards of product development. The result is a platform that is as easy to use as your everyday apps. It is built on modern technology that thinks ahead: agents read documents and record what they find, for example, so you only need to check it. And employee access takes work off your HR team, because employees can open their payslips themselves. We build Paymira not only for specialists, but for the people who work with it every day.
Transparency also applies to our costs, by the way.
Instead of opaque hourly billing, we charge a fair price per payslip, with changes, special cases and queries included. So your payroll stays predictable, whatever comes up in a month.
Welcome to “Paymira in Practice”
We don’t just claim this, we show it. Over the coming weeks, our series “Paymira in Practice” takes a close look at each of these four areas and introduces the features in detail.
Join us next week for part 1: transparency and task management.