E-government

Support for your digital administration

PostFinance’s e-bill solution allows invoices to be sent and paid electronically. E-payment is the payment collection solution for your online counter. Both solutions make handling payments easier for you and your stakeholders.

Digital payment processing to support your e-government goals

  • Improved service quality

  • Easy access to information

  • Modular and needs-oriented solutions from a single source

  • Standardized interfaces

  • The PostFinance e-bill solution lets you send invoices electronically to companies and citizens. The electronic invoice receipt provides you with previously created invoice data for automated processing of your accounts payable.

    Features

    • Administrations save money and time as invoice issuers by eliminating postage costs and paper and receiving payments faster
    • Cost savings for invoice recipients thanks to automated accounts payable processing and high data quality (no more manual invoice entry)
    • Citizens pay quickly, easily and securely – without entering invoice data manually
    • Electronic invoices are available anytime and anywhere – even after payment

    Electronic invoicing in three steps

    1. You send the structured invoice data to PostFinance.
    2. PostFinance prepares e-bills in compliance with the law
    3. Debtors receive the electronic invoice from PostFinance in the requested format via the selected channel

    Standard solutions & solution partners

    The standard solutions were developed in cooperation with the Federal Finance Administration (FFA) and can be used by all Swiss authorities.

    PostFinance works with solution and software partners. Together, we customize the electronic invoicing solution to your individual needs.

  • Citizens pay fees online via e-payment. They have the choice between the conventional e-payment solution and the full-service solution called adminpay.

    Features

    • The administration saves resources through fewer administrative tasks and reduces payment defaults
    • Payment management becomes easier, and there are fewer counter visits
    • Citizens can pay for fee-based online services securely and easily – without waiting times at the counter and around the clock

    E-payment in three steps

    1. You enable payment by PostFinance Card, credit card or other payment methods on your website
    2. Citizens select the product they want online and pay using their preferred payment method
    3. The credit is made to the account of your choice

    Solution partners

    PostFinance works with software partners. The solutions are tailored to your needs, and the interfaces to PostFinance are already integrated.

    • Federal Administration: PostFinance is the official service provider
    •  Swiss Federal Office of Justice: payment collection for the criminal records extract
    • Post CH Ltd: e-commerce solutions from Swiss Post
    • Federal Finance Administration
    • Tax Administration in the Canton of Schaffhausen
    • Tax Administration in the Canton of Bern
    • Tax Administration for the Canton of Basel-Landschaft
    • Basellandschaftliche Gebäudeversicherung (BGV)

Our customers’ experiences

Electronic invoices meet a genuine customer need. They also help us save costs, fully in keeping with our e-government strategy.
Marcel Mader, Finance & Accounting, Federal Finance Administration
Electronic invoices are not only a good option for taxpayers, but also for us: we are meeting a need among the public, invoicing can be tracked more effectively – and in the medium term, we save on printing and shipping costs.
Jürg Schneider, IT, Tax Administration, Canton of Schaffhausen
We are pleased with the e-bill, because for our needs it has the least potential for errors, it works without media disruptions and it saves a great deal of paper.
Remo Lüthi, Project Manager for the introduction of the e-bill, Tax Administration, Canton of Bern