ShakeHands Software Ltd · Switzerland
shakehands Kontor
Buy instead of rent, purely local
A deliberate counter-model to subscriptions: purchase licence, local database, no cloud account – accounting that keeps running after support ends.
Typical user
Sole proprietors and small businesses that pay once, keep their data on their own machine and refuse vendor dependency.
Price
no published price
The vendor publishes purchase prices only, no monthly rates · As of Jul 2026
Strengths
- One-off payment, no recurring subscription cost
- Data stays local (SQLite) or on your own server
- Founder package free for 12 months
- QR-bill and electronic payment orders included
Points to consider
- No payroll, no mobile app, no API
- No real cloud – collaboration only via your own server
- No monthly comparability, since only purchase prices are published
Compared in
Fit by profile
| Sole proprietor / freelance | very suitable |
| Small business 2–9 | suitable |
| SME 10–49 | conditional |
| 50 employees and up | not recommended |
| Association / foundation | suitable |
| Working with an accountant | conditional |
Fact sheet
Every comparison row from the categories this product appears in.
| List price | no published price |
| Pricing model | Licence |
| Getting started | self-service |
| Deployment | Desktop/Server |
| Free version | – |
| Payroll (Swissdec) | – |
| Swiss VAT filing | ✓ |
| Multiple currencies | – |
| Data location | Switzerland |
| QR-bill | ✓ |
| Bank reconciliation (camt) | ✓ |
| Orders & inventory | basic |
| Open API | – |
| Mobile app | – |
| Works offline | ✓ |
| Adoption among accountants | low |
| Languages | DE |
| Vendor | ShakeHands Software Ltd |
| Headquarters | Switzerland |
Where the information comes from
The values in the fact sheet are vendor statements; for this entry it is not documented which web pages they were recorded from. All other statements — positioning, typical user, strengths, limits and fit by profile — are editorial assessments. Last checked Jul 2026.
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