We connect to SORBA, Messerli, BBase and all common Swiss construction solutions. Hours, piece-rate wages and bad-weather days land automatically in the pay slip — LMV-compliant, including FAR filing to portal-bau, travel time and flat-rate expenses.
Hours from SORBA, piece-rate wages from Messerli, postings for Bexio — we pick them up. LMV-compliant pay slips, FAR filings, bad-weather applications — we deliver back. All via one central API, in real time.
What grinds in day-to-day operations — and why it's no longer your problem with payrollnow.
Minimum wages by wage class (C/Q/A/CE), mandatory 13th-month salary, travel-time rules, flat-rate expenses, SUVA rates. The national framework agreement changes every year — one mistake costs back-payments plus a PBK audit.
When work is lost to bad weather, the unemployment insurance refunds 80% of pay — but the employer must front the amount, report correctly and break it down by hour. An unverified weather station, and applications get rejected.
Since 2024: the wage-sum filing to the FAR foundation (flexible early retirement) is only possible via portal-bau. Deadline: 31 January — missed means reminders plus late-payment interest.
Piece-rate pay per employee, several sites in parallel, separating the hour report from piece-rate hours, comparing correctly with the minimum wage. Manually a quick path to an Excel graveyard.
Travel time from the meeting point to the site is working time (LMV). Plus meal expenses, travel hours — all separate from base pay. Forget that and you risk back-payments at audit.
Winter shutdown, apprentices, lots of cross-border workers and residence-permit holders in construction. Assigning the right cantonal withholding-tax rate, filing monthly, registering/deregistering seasonal workers cleanly — a full-time job for the payroll function.
A new site kicks off, three workers are assigned — what you do, what payrollnow does. Three steps, no phone call needed.
Standard dispatching as always: employee, wage class, site, planned hours, piece-rate flat fee. You enter nothing new — nothing twice.
The national framework agreement of the main construction industry binds every Swiss construction firm. Minimum wages by wage class, travel time, flat-rate expenses, FAR contributions — we track every change and apply it automatically to every pay slip.
You pay per employee billed — whether permanent, seasonal piece-rate worker or apprentice. No setup fee, no minimum term, no hidden costs for FAR filings or bad-weather applications.
Calculate your savingsBinding values LMV 2026 — wage classes V/Q/A/B/C, minimum wages by zone red/blue/green, working time, site allowance, PBK inspection. Based on the Federal Council decision of 5 March 2026 (BBl 2026 564) incl. original PDF.
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When work is lost to bad weather, the unemployment insurance refunds 80% of pay. payrollnow generates the SWE application automatically from the hour report plus the site weather log, submits it to the employment office and integrates the refund into the next pay slip. You only release the bad-weather days.
Since 2024 the FAR wage filing only runs through portal-bau, deadline 31 January. payrollnow calculates the contributions per employee, generates the wage-sum filing and submits it directly to portal-bau — on time, no reminders, with full audit trail. Late-payment interest is a thing of the past.
Piece-rate pay is imported directly from SORBA / Messerli / BBase and settled per site. payrollnow checks automatically whether the piece-rate wage falls below the LMV minimum wage per hour — if so, the minimum wage is paid out. Full transparency: every piece-rate item traceable back to the site.
SORBA has integrated payroll software, that's true. The question is: do you want to staff the payroll function yourself or outsource it? payrollnow takes over the entire payroll — even if you keep using SORBA, Messerli or BBase. We import the data, run payroll and feed the postings back into your system.
We deliver every record audit-ready: wage statements with wage-class justification, hour reports with travel time, FAR filings, SUVA settlements, flat-rate-expense reports. For a PBK inspection we accompany you on site — every data point traceable back to the site and to the hour report.
Per LMV, travel time from the meeting point to the site is paid working time. payrollnow extracts travel time, travel hours and flat-rate expenses directly from the hour report and shows them as separate pay items — audit-ready and LMV-compliantly separated from base pay.
We build the integration in — usually within 2 weeks, at no extra cost. For API-capable systems directly; for older Bauadmin solutions via CSV import or file watcher. Also works with in-house developments or proprietary Excel hour reports.
In a 30-minute call we walk you through the entire workflow for your construction business. With your tools (SORBA, Messerli, BBase etc.), your LMV setup, FAR requirements and bad-weather practice. No sales pitch.
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