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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

AccountingInvoicing

Fit by profile

Sole proprietor / freelancevery suitable
Small business 2–9suitable
SME 10–49conditional
50 employees and upnot recommended
Association / foundationsuitable
Working with an accountantconditional

Fact sheet

Every comparison row from the categories this product appears in.

List priceno published price
Pricing modelLicence
Getting startedself-service
DeploymentDesktop/Server
Free version–
Payroll (Swissdec)–
Swiss VAT filing✓
Multiple currencies–
Data locationSwitzerland
QR-bill✓
Bank reconciliation (camt)✓
Orders & inventorybasic
Open API–
Mobile app–
Works offline✓
Adoption among accountantslow
LanguagesDE
VendorShakeHands Software Ltd
HeadquartersSwitzerland

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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