Swiss21.org AG (Abacus, Glarotech, SmartWe) · St. Gallen
Swiss21
Free platform with Abacus core
Free entry platform from Abacus, Glarotech and SmartWe: invoicing, accounting, payroll, shop and CRM in one account, with volume limits instead of locked features.
Typical user
Founders, sole proprietors, small businesses and associations that want to start without upfront cost and later grow inside the Abacus world.
Price
CHF 0–49
vendor’s own figures, excl. VAT · As of Jul 2026
Strengths
- Permanently free tier with 1,000 documents per year
- Swissdec payroll via AbaSalary – one payslip even on the free plan
- Over 70 bank connections, QR-bill included
- Abacus as co-owner: the path into the full product stays open
Points to consider
- Limits count documents, addresses and users – growth gets expensive fast
- No multi-currency accounting
- No English, no offline use
Compared in
Fit by profile
| Sole proprietor / freelance | very suitable |
| Small business 2–9 | very suitable |
| SME 10–49 | conditional |
| 50 employees and up | not recommended |
| Association / foundation | very suitable |
| Working with an accountant | suitable |
Fact sheet
Every comparison row from the categories this product appears in.
| TWINT as a payment method | ✓ |
| QR-bill in the shop | ✓ |
| List price | free–CHF 49 |
| Pricing model | Subscription |
| Getting started | self-service |
| Deployment | Cloud |
| 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 | medium |
| Languages | DE · FR · IT |
| Vendor | Swiss21.org AG (Abacus, Glarotech, SmartWe) |
| Headquarters | St. Gallen |
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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