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Industry solution · Hospitality

Hospitality payroll — the complete solution.

POS revenue, receipts, banking and accounting run together on one platform — and payroll runs right along with it: L-GAV-compliant, including tips, supplements and withholding tax.

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The complete hospitality solution

Not just payroll. The entire back office.

Payroll is not an island here: it is one module of the complete hospitality solution — from the POS through receipts and banking to reporting. Everything in one place, everything connected automatically. payrollnow provides the payroll inside it.

Revenue management
Daily revenue straight from the POS (e.g. Lightspeed) — booked automatically, VAT split correctly.
Receipt management
Photograph or forward supplier receipts — recognised and filed.
Cash book
Cash under control — audit-proof instead of paper slips.
Document management
Contracts, statements and records archived in a clear structure.
Banking
Accounts connected — payments reconciled automatically.
Journal
Every booking traceable — ready for your fiduciary.
Payroll payrollnow
L-GAV wages, supplements, tips, withholding tax — software or outsourcing.
Reporting
Revenue, costs and staff cost ratio at a glance.

The hospitality advantage: Because revenue and payroll live on the same platform, you see your staff cost ratio continuously — not just at year-end. And your fiduciary works on the same numbers.

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Platform + engine · Hospitality

The platform runs your business. Our engine runs payroll.

Revenue, receipts, banking and accounting already live in the complete hospitality solution — payrollnow docks on as the payroll engine. Hours and staff data flow straight into payroll; payslips, authority filings and payment files come back.

PINIT · The complete hospitality solution
POS & revenue Receipts Cash book Banking Journal Reporting
Shift planning & time
Gastromatic Staffomatic + more
payrollnow payroll engine · L-GAV · tips · withholding
Pay slip
PDF + ESS Employee app L-GAV-compliant 4 languages
Authorities & insurers
Swissdec ELM 5.1 OASI / DI / IC SUVA · BVG Withholding · 26 cantons
Bank / payout
ISO 20022 All Swiss banks QR-bill SEPA
Tool not listed? We build the integration in — usually within 2 weeks, at no extra cost. Also works with older systems via CSV or file watcher.
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What holds hospitality businesses back today

Six problems. One solution.

What grinds in day-to-day operations — and why it's no longer your problem with payrollnow.

Star feature

Transferring hours by hand

Your service team logs hours in Gastromatic, at month end someone types them into Excel and then into the payroll tool. Source of errors, lost time, stress.

Hours are imported automatically — including premiums, breaks and absences.

L-GAV compliance

Minimum wages, pro-rata 13th-month salary, holiday supplement, max 50h week, benefits in kind — the tables change every year. One mistake costs back-payments plus reputation.

We keep the L-GAV tables current. In every pay slip. Automatically.

Casual-staff onboarding chaos

Seasonal work, students, casuals for 2 days. Every time: OASI registration, contract, withholding-tax classification. Forget one small detail — and the payroll audit gets expensive.

You enter them in your shift system. payrollnow creates the contract, OASI registration and withholding-tax classification automatically.

Declaring tips correctly

Are tips paid out as wages? Cash tips separately? OASI-liable or not? Get it wrong and at audit it means back-payments with interest.

Tips imported per employee from the till system and declared correctly under Swiss OASI rules.
Star feature

Benefits in kind (meals & lodging)

Staff meals and staff rooms are pay — and must be taxed. CHF 19.50 per day for meals, CHF 11.50 for lodging. In many businesses simply forgotten.

On request, factored into pay automatically per working day — derived from the shift schedule.

Withholding tax for cross-border & weekly residents

Hospitality has an above-average share of withholding-tax payers. Assigning the right rate, settling cantonally, filing monthly — no fun for any business.

Automatic withholding-tax classification on entry, cantonal settlement, monthly filing to the tax authority.
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See the hospitality solution live — in 30 minutes.

We show you the complete hospitality solution with payrollnow payroll and discuss the right setup for your business.

  • Live demo: platform & payroll working together
  • Concrete pricing for your headcount
  • Migration plan from your current system
  • Answers on L-GAV, tips and withholding tax

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Deep dive on the blog

Tips in hospitality: what L-GAV regulates — and what happens in practice

Card vs. cash tips, OASI liability, pooling models — the four most common mistakes in tip accounting and how to avoid them.

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Frequently asked

From hospitality. Answered concretely.

The questions we hear most often from restaurant owners, hotels and catering businesses. Something missing? Drop us a line.

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Handled the same way as permanent employees. Contract, OASI registration, withholding tax, pay slip — all automatic. Only the actual payroll-run month is billed.

Tips that pass through the till (card, app, recorded) are imported per employee and correctly declared as OASI-liable pay. Cash tips handed directly by the guest stay with the employee for tax purposes — not reportable by the business. We separate the two cases automatically.

No. Gastromatic is shift planning and time tracking — not payroll software. payrollnow runs the full payroll on the basis of your Gastromatic data. You need no additional software, no additional tool, no duplicate upkeep.

We deliver every record audit-ready: wage statements, hour reports with source, social-security filings, withholding-tax statements. On request we accompany you in person. In the audit trail you can trace every data point back to the shift system.

Per working day CHF 19.50 (full meals) or pro rata (CHF 3.50 breakfast, CHF 8 lunch, CHF 8 dinner). When enabled, payrollnow derives the value directly from the shift schedule and adds it as a benefit in kind on the pay slip — fully L-GAV-compliant and tax-authority-ready.

Yes. You only pay for actual payroll months per employee. In months without a payroll run for an employee, no fee is charged for them. Seasonal operations such as mountain restaurants or beach bars therefore only pay in the high season.

We build the integration in — usually within 2 weeks, at no extra cost. For API-capable tools directly; for older systems via CSV import or file watcher. Worst case, our onboarding team enters the hours manually and automates it later.

Demo · 30 minutes

Payroll in, demo booked.

In a 30-minute call we walk you through the entire workflow for your hospitality business. With your tools, your employees, your L-GAV setup. No sales pitch.

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