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Why Applic8?
True retroactive engine
Client Experience & Trust
Payroll Accuracy & Efficiency
Integration & Flexibility
True retroactive engine
Automate Payroll Corrections
Payroll mistakes are more than just a nuisance, time and money is constantly spent correcting errors. Traditional retroactive calculations are tedious, error-prone, and drain valuable HR capacity.
Eliminate manual work and ensure every adjustment is handled automatically, accurately, and instantly with our True retroactive engine.
Of HR teams spend over 5hr per month resolving pay issues.
Client Experience & Trust
100% Client Satisfaction
Applic8 constantly keeps clients satisfied with a platform they trust and love.
Unlimited Support
Get unlimited support in French and English, ensuring help is always available.
Fast Implementation
Get a solution up and running in record times with a smooth, fast and reliable implementation.
See it for yourself.
Applic8 is transparent: What you see is what you pay. No hidden fees.
Payroll Accuracy & Efficiency
Multiple Periods Processing
Process multiple payroll periods at once, saving time and reducing manual work.
True Retroactive Calculations
Handle retroactive pay seamlessly, ensuring every adjustment is accurate.
Proactive Error Detection
Applic8 proactively spots potential errors before they happen, keeping your payroll error-free.
Applic8 automates payroll with a smart, rules-based engine for accurate calculations every time.
Integration & Flexibility
HRIS System Compatibility
Connect your favourite HRIS for smooth data flow and unified operations.
ERP / Finance Platform Integration
Integrate with your ERP and finance systems to streamline payroll and accounting.
Customizable Interfaces
Tailor interfaces to your team’s needs for a user-friendly experience.
Go fully digital with a paperless payroll workflow, saving time and resources.
Features of our Swiss Payroll Processing Solution
Multi-Entity Management & Organizational Isolation
Manage multiple entities effortlessly with our Multi-Companies architecture. Centralize your operations while keeping each entity’s data secure, compliant, and fully independent—streamlining payroll, reporting, and audits across your organization.
Global Multi-Currency Management
Scale globally with powerful Multi-Currency support. Manage payroll, payments, and reporting across currencies with precision—automating conversions, reducing errors, and ensuring compliance worldwide.
Dynamic Lookup Tables & Code Management
Simplify payroll data management with flexible Lookup Tables. Easily customize and update codes to meet local regulations and business needs—ensuring consistency, accuracy, and less manual work.
Field-Level Data Mappings & Transformation
Streamline integrations with powerful Mappings. Connect external data to your payroll system with precision—automating workflows, reducing manual effort, and ensuring seamless data synchronization across HR, Finance, and Payroll.
Intelligent Standard Import Templates
Streamline your payroll data management with our versatile Standard Import Templates. These prebuilt templates are designed to accommodate diverse data formats, featuring an intelligent processing engine that automatically differentiates between new record inserts and updates to existing data upon import. By recognizing unique identifiers, the system ensures that employee information is seamlessly integrated and synchronized without creating duplicates. This automated logic minimizes manual reconciliation effort, maximizes data integrity, and accelerates your payroll preparation cycle.
Robust & Extensive REST API Suite
Power your ecosystem with robust REST APIs. Seamlessly integrate, automate payroll processes, and eliminate data silos—enabling fast, secure, and scalable connectivity across your systems.
Native HCM Integration Connectors
Seamlessly connect HR and payroll with native integrations for SAP, Workday, and SAP SuccessFactors. Automate data sync, eliminate manual entry, and keep your workforce data accurate and aligned across all systems.
Flexible Custom Imports & Template Management
Simplify payroll data uploads with Custom Imports. Map Excel data with ease, save reusable templates, and ensure fast, accurate, and error-free imports—no IT support needed.
Seamless Data Mapping via Alternate Codes
Facilitate consistent data exchange with our Alternate Codes functionality. This flexible mapping engine allows you to link external pay item codes from third-party systems (such as time-tracking or benefits platforms) to their corresponding equivalents within the payroll engine at the individual value level. By acting as a universal translator, this feature ensures seamless processing and accurate data synchronization across your entire software stack, eliminating the need for manual file manipulation or complex ETL transformations.
Multi-Identifier Support & Cross-System Alignment
The Multiple Employee IDs feature enables seamless integration across your enterprise ecosystem by supporting a variety of alternate employee identifiers. Rather than being restricted to a single primary key, our system can store and map multiple IDs—such as legacy HRIS numbers, global corporate IDs, or specific finance system keys. This flexibility allows you to align and share employee data effortlessly among diverse HR, payroll, and finance applications, ensuring consistent records and improved data accuracy without the need for complex middleware or manual cross-referencing.
Seamless Inter-Company Employee Transfers
Facilitate fluid internal mobility with our Employee Transfers functionality, designed to manage transitions across your organization's various legal entities. This feature ensures that as staff move between companies, their original hire dates and continuous service history remain intact. By preserving these critical data points, you ensure uninterrupted seniority-based benefits, accurate leave accruals, and consistent payroll administration, eliminating the need for manual "termination and re-hire" workarounds that can disrupt employee records.
Multi-Language Interface & Documentation
Offer a tailored user experience by providing your payroll application in multiple languages, enabling a global workforce to interact with the platform in their native tongue. This functionality goes beyond simple translation; it allows employees and administrators to access both the system interface and supporting documentation in their preferred language. By removing linguistic barriers, you improve user adoption, reduce support queries, and ensure that localized payroll policies are clearly understood by everyone in the organization.
Fully User-Configurable Interface
Experience intuitive payroll management with our powerful, user-configurable interface. This functionality empowers you to personalize the platform to match your specific operational needs by tailoring screens, fields, layouts, and shortcuts. By mirroring your unique workflow within the UI, you reduce navigation time and place the most critical data points front and center. This high level of customization enhances both efficiency and usability, ensuring your team can process payroll with a tool that feels purpose-built for their tasks.
Intelligent Retroactive Calculations & Automated Adjustmentst
Ensure payroll accuracy with intelligent retroactive calculations. When backdated changes occur—like salary updates or tax adjustments—the system automatically recalculates prior periods and applies the correct differences to the current pay run, eliminating manual fixes and ensuring data integrity.
Multi-Calculation Sets & Role-Based Segregation
Gain flexibility with multiple calculation sets per period. Manage separate payroll and finance calculations within the same cycle, secured by role-based access to prevent overlaps or unauthorized changes—ensuring accuracy, collaboration, and efficient payroll operations.
Logic & Calculation Engine
At its core, a high-performance rule-based Calculation Engine automates complex payroll scenarios using an IFTTT framework. With 60+ payroll functions and Excel-like syntax, it delivers a powerful low-code experience with enterprise-grade security and scalability.
Continuous Calculation & Real-Time Validation
The platform uses a Continuous Calculation Engine that replaces batch processing. Users can run and reverse calculations anytime during the pay cycle, with results finalized only when the period is officially closed—ensuring maximum flexibility.
Flexible Element Configuration & Lookup Logic
Easily configure payroll elements with Elements, Table Elements, and Lookup Functions. Define complex earnings and deductions using dynamic tables and intelligent logic that pull values based on attributes like grade or location—ensuring precise calculations with minimal manual effort.
Automated Gross-Up Calculations
Streamline complex payment scenarios with our intuitive Gross-Up feature. Whether you are processing a specific net bonus or a guaranteed take-home salary for an expat, simply input the desired net amount for one or more employees. Our sophisticated algorithm then performs a reverse calculation to determine the exact gross pay required, accounting for tiered tax brackets, social contributions, and other statutory deductions. This powerful tool ensures 100% precision in your net-to-gross commitments, eliminating the manual "trial and error" approach and significantly increasing payroll efficiency.
Advanced Task Scheduling & Workflow Automation
Optimize your payroll workflow with our advanced task scheduling capability. This powerful tool allows you to automate repetitive, time-consuming tasks—such as data imports, intricate calculations, validation checks, report generation, and data exports—to run at predetermined times or in response to specific system triggers. By ensuring the consistent, timely execution of critical payroll processes, you eliminate the risk of human error in manual scheduling and free up your team to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.
Secure SFTP Report Delivery & Scheduling
Automate your data workflows with secure, scheduled report delivery to any SFTP destination. This feature provides full control over file management, offering configurable naming conventions, robust encryption options, and comprehensive delivery logs for audit tracking. Ensure sensitive payroll data reaches its destination securely and on time, eliminating manual transfers and strengthening your data governance framework.
Comprehensive Library of Standard & Statutory Reports
Access a wide range of preconfigured reports for compliance, reconciliation, and insights. Filter by date, entity, or department, and export in Excel, PDF, or CSV—ensuring seamless reporting with no manual formatting.
Intuitive Drag-and-Drop Ad-Hoc Reporting
Build custom reports in seconds with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface. Add fields, apply filters, and organize data with real-time previews and multi-format exports—no technical expertise required.
Automated Document Merging & Form Generation
Auto-populate PDF and Word templates with accurate payroll and employee data using dynamic merge fields. Instantly generate ready-to-send documents—like tax forms and contracts—eliminating manual entry and ensuring consistency and accuracy.
Comprehensive Salary Account History
Get full visibility into compensation with detailed Salary Account reporting. View a complete Gross-to-Net breakdown—including deductions, contributions, and employer costs—alongside unlimited historical records in a clear yearly (YTD) format with Excel export for easy auditing and reconciliation.
Audit-Ready Calculation & Explanation Reports
Ensure full transparency with audit-ready reports that show exactly how each payroll result is calculated. They detail inputs, applied rules, rates, and retroactive adjustments, making compliance easier and every payment fully traceable, verifiable, and defensible.
Precision-Engineered & Branded Payslip Reporting
Generate branded, customizable payslips for companies or employee groups. Produce multi-language documents with detailed earnings, deductions, taxes, and YTD breakdowns—powered by 60+ payroll functions for accurate gross-to-net calculations, full compliance, and transparency.
Precision Account Mapping for Employee Pay Elements
Ensure accurate financial tracking by assigning accounting references or sub-ledger accounts to pay elements at the employee level. This enables precise posting of items like loans or garnishments, while maintaining a clear audit trail and simplifying reconciliation.
Automated Payroll Accruals & Provisions
Automate payroll provisions with a dedicated engine that calculates liabilities in real time using earned-to-date logic. Accurately track items like bonuses and leave, ensuring your financials stay aligned with the General Ledger—without manual adjustments.
Automated Allocation Reversals & Cost Center Synchronization
Ensure accurate cost allocation during organizational changes with automated reversals. When a cost center is updated, the system reverses prior entries and reposts them correctly—eliminating manual adjustments and keeping your General Ledger aligned in real time.
Automated Accounting Journals & Cost Allocations
Streamline financial integration with automated, configurable payroll journals. Handle complex cost allocations and GL splits across dimensions like company or cost center—ensuring accurate reporting and eliminating manual reconciliation.
Flexible Multi-Recipient & Multi-Currency Split Payments
Optimize disbursement with a robust engine that splits net pay across multiple bank accounts and third-party recipients. This functionality allows for the simultaneous distribution of funds to employees, garnishment authorities, and benefit providers in a single cycle. With native support for multi-currency settlements, you can manage international transfers and local obligations with precision, ensuring every stakeholder is paid accurately according to their specific banking and currency requirements.
Global ISO 20022 Payment File Generation
Generate industry-standard ISO 20022 (pain.001) payment files designed for seamless integration with global banking networks. This functionality provides native support for complex cross-border routing, including mandatory intermediary and correspondent bank details. By automating the inclusion of specific SWIFT/BIC codes and clearing instructions, the engine ensures high straight-through processing rates, minimizing delays and transaction fees in international payroll distributions.
Automated Variation & Variance Analysis Reporting
Streamline your pre-payroll audit with dynamic variation reports that highlight period-over-period changes at both the employee and pay-element levels. By automatically flagging fluctuations in gross pay, taxes, or specific deductions, the system allows teams to instantly spot anomalies and explain variances before finalization. This targeted visibility provides a clear narrative for stakeholders, facilitating faster approvals and ensuring absolute accuracy in every pay cycle.
Swissdec Certified Electronic Declarations
Achieve seamless statutory compliance with fully Swissdec certified payroll reporting. This functionality includes a proprietary transmitter, allowing you to submit encrypted payroll data directly to Swiss authorities and social insurers without external middleware. From ELM (Electronic Salary Declaration) to specialized insurance reporting, the system manages the entire transmission lifecycle, ensuring your declarations meet the most rigorous Swiss quality and security standards.
Enforced Four-Eyes Principle & Dual Control
Ensure maximum security with a Four-Eyes Principle workflow. High-risk payroll actions require a second authorized approval, reducing errors, preventing unauthorized changes, and safeguarding against fraud.
Comprehensive & Exportable Audit Trails
Maintain full transparency with a time-stamped audit trail of all user actions and data changes, including before-and-after values. Easily export logs to Excel or CSV for precise tracking, analysis, and compliance audits.
GDPR Compliance & Automated Data Lifecycle Management
Ensure data privacy with built-in GDPR tools. Set retention rules for personal data, and automate deletion or anonymization once periods expire—protecting PII while preserving compliant historical records.
Granular Access Management by Role and Category
Enforce strong data privacy with multi-layered access controls. Combine role-based permissions with employee-type filters to ensure users only access authorized data—keeping payroll secure and tightly scoped to each role.
SSO and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Enhance security and ease of access with SSO and MFA. Use corporate credentials via SAML 2.0 for seamless login, while MFA adds a second layer of protection to safeguard sensitive payroll data.
Configurable Password Security Policies
Strengthen security with configurable password policies. Enforce complexity rules, prevent reuse, set expiration intervals, and enable account lockouts—ensuring only authorized access to sensitive payroll data.
End-to-End Equity Compensation Management
Streamline the complexities of equity-based pay with a dedicated module that manages the taxable impact of RSUs, stock options, and ESPPs. The system tracks every stage—from initial grants and vesting schedules to exercise events and share sales—automatically processing the resulting taxable benefits. By integrating directly with payroll, it ensures that all related taxes and social insurance deductions are accurately withheld and posted to the General Ledger, while simultaneously generating the necessary statutory reporting for both employees and tax authorities.
Why global brands partner with Applic8
“The implementation of Applic8’s solution has completely transformed our salary management process”
Vanina Stenz
Payroll Specialist
Metalworking
Industry
400+
Employees
SAP Success Factor
HCM
“Applic8’s solution has truly transformed our payroll management by providing us with genuine cutting-edge technology with excellent data security.”
Michel Pollak
Human Resources & Operations Director
Academic Institution
Industry
500+
Employees
"Applic8’s responsiveness, competence, and dedication make them a partner of choice that we know we can count on.”
Mouloud Haine
Head Global HR Operations
Sustainability
Industry
2000+
Employees
160
Countries
“The implementation project for the Applic8 solution went very positively. They were able to respond to all our specific requests with rigor and flexibility.”
Roger Matthey
HR Group Director, PX Group
Watch and Metalworking
Industry
2000+
Employees
SAP Success Factor
HCM
What our clients achieve with Applic8:
Swiss Payroll Processing
30%
Reduction in Payroll
Processing Time
50%
Reduction in Payroll
Accounting time
70%
Less Time Spent on
Reporting
Simplicity
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Seamless Multilingual Experience
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Full Autonomy in Application Setup
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Powerful Drag and Drop Reporting Tool
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Paperless Payroll Processing
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Easy Interfacing with Main HRIS and ERP/Finance Systems
Compliance
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Swissdec Certified
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Audit Trail Report
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4 Eyes Principle
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Customizable Accounting Interfaces
Functionality
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Rules-Based Engine with Native Payroll Functions
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Multi-Calculations in the Same Period (Unlimited)
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True Retroactive Calculations
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Proactive Error Detection
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Equity Management Module
Frequently asked questions
What makes Applic8 different?
Applic8 simplifies payroll so you can focus on your people, not paperwork.
- Accurate & Compliant: Native payroll functions, multilingual support, and automatic retroactive calculations keep payroll correct.
- Easy Reporting & Integration: Drag-and-drop reports and seamless connections to HRIS, ERP, and finance systems save time and reduce errors.
- Control & Transparency: Paperless processing, proactive error detection, and full audit trails give you confidence.
- Secure & Precise: Four-eyes checks and equity management ensure accuracy and accountability.
Can I customize Applic8's solution to fit my specific payroll needs and company structure?
Yes. Applic8’s Swiss Payroll Processing Solution adapts to your organization. You can:
- Set up custom deductions and personalized reporting
- Configure the system to match your organizational structure
- Use a rules-based engine for flexible payroll calculations
- Run multiple calculations within the same period
- Connect to your accounting systems and integrate with major HRIS and ERP/Finance platforms
With Applic8, you get a payroll system that works the way your company works — not the other way around.
How does Applic8's solution handle retroactive pay?
With APPLIC8’s True Retroactive Engine, payroll corrections are fast, automatic, and error-free.
- Stop manual calculations: Traditional retro adjustments are tedious, error-prone, and costly – each correction can cost around 260 CHF+ in time and resources.
- Automate every adjustment: Changes are applied instantly, accurately, and across all affected periods.
- Save HR capacity: Free your team from manual rework and let them focus on strategic tasks, not fixes.
APPLIC8 ensures retroactive payroll is handled seamlessly, so mistakes don’t become headaches.
Can Applic8's solution integrate with our existing HR or accounting systems?
Yes. APPLIC8 connects seamlessly with major HRIS and ERP/Finance systems, ensuring smooth integration with your current setup.
- Zero disruption: Our implementation is designed to keep your payroll running without interruptions.
- Customizable interfaces: Tailor accounting connections to match your infrastructure.
- Seamless data flow: Reduce manual work, eliminate errors, and ensure consistent reporting across systems.
With APPLIC8, integration is effortless — your existing systems stay intact while your payroll becomes more efficient and reliable.
For more questions, please visit our FAQ page.
