SWISS ACCOUNTING · DOUBLE-ENTRY · ON YOUR MACHINE
Complete double-entry bookkeeping for Swiss businesses and independents — every receipt one click behind its booking, and a year-end dossier already in legal form. It all runs on your own machine — the cloud only if you ask for it.
FR · DE · EN · IT — RUNS ON MACOS TODAY
THE WHOLE OF IT
helfin is a complete Swiss accounting program for businesses and independents. It follows the Swiss KMU chart of accounts, books strictly in double-entry, numbers every voucher, and keeps every original document one click behind its booking. At year-end it produces the dossier your tax office and fiduciary expect — Bilan and Compte de résultat in the legal structure, with prior-year comparison. No forced subscription, no lock-in.
WHY HELFIN
A real desktop app, not a browser tab — quick to open and quick to work in, even with years of books. macOS today; Windows is next.
Switch between FR, DE, EN and IT in a click — menus, reports and the year-end dossier all follow. One install, no separate version.
A migration wizard imports your existing accounts and history — from common accounting software, plus photo, PDF, CSV and Excel. Proven on a real migration.
SWISS TO THE CORE
Your data stays in Switzerland, on Swiss infrastructure. helfin speaks the formats every fiduciary already uses — import your existing books, export clean at year-end.
THE SEVEN PILLARS
No booking without its counter-booking. Voucher numbers run continuously and freeze at year-end. Posted entries are corrected by storno, never deleted — GeBüV / CO art. 957 ff. A full activity log, a running balance on every journal line, and a bank-statement mode to check the books against the paper relevé.
Drop in a receipt photo or PDF and helfin reads it — Swiss QR-bills included — into a booking you confirm. The original is archived and linked to its entry for good. Bank and card statements import directly, validated on real BCF, PostFinance, Viseca and Revolut files (camt.053, MT940), with a duplicate guard across every year.
Effective and Saldosteuersatz (two rates), vereinbart or vereinnahmt — computed from the books into the official form boxes, with CSV and XML export and date-correct rates.
A closing checklist with the standard closing entries, pre-filled and yours to confirm. Depreciation suggestions per the federal norms (AFC Notice A/1995), always with rate, method and source, always editable. One-click close with carry-forward, and a dossier de bouclement per exercise as PDF and Excel — Bilan and Compte de résultat in CO art. 959a / 959b structure, prior-year column included.
Swiss QR-bill invoicing, offers, an invoice and offer tracker, open items, payroll with payslips, stock, cost centers and multiple currencies — the day-to-day tools a business runs on, in the same place as its books.
A client portfolio with accounting-only access. Changes are proposed, the owner approves, and everything is audit-logged. Working on a client's books remotely arrives with Sync — on the roadmap, Swiss-hosted.
Fully offline by default. Cloud sync opt-in*. One-file backup of your books, settings and entire document archive.
* Optional Swiss-hosted cloud — available at launch.
VAT XML FOLLOWS eCH-0217 v2.0.0, SCHEMA-VALIDATED AGAINST THE OFFICIAL XSD; FORMAL ESTV VALIDATION IS ON THE ROADMAP. · HELFIN RUNS ON MACOS TODAY.
WHO IT'S FOR
Run your books, attach every document, hand over a year-end dossier that's already in legal form. For the accountant: a full, traceable journal, deterministic postings, storno-only corrections, and access to a client's books without taking them over.
Built to be trusted by people who don't trust software.
SWISS QR-BILL · BUILT IN
Every helfin invoice carries a compliant Swiss QR-bill — generated locally, like everything else.
UPCOMING — KEPT HONEST
UPCOMING
Official ESTV VAT validation — the XML already validates against the official schema; formal ESTV sign-off is next.
UPCOMING
Windows — helfin runs on macOS today. Windows is next.
UPCOMING
Companion phone app — manage your account and snap receipts (Quittungen) straight into the desktop program. Available at launch.
UPCOMING
Sync, from anywhere — one button to reach your books on any device and work alongside your fiduciary — Swiss-hosted, in Switzerland.
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