Association account

The ideal solution for your association

The association account forms the basis for your association’s payment transactions. The easiest way to manage the account is electronically in e-finance.

Association account: for your association’s finances

  • Association account in CHF or EUR

  • Easily manage association finances in e-finance

  • Collect member subscriptions with minimal effort

  • Association software for your association administration at attractive prices

  • Condition

    This service is designed for associations with no commercial purpose (leisure associations).

    Prices

    Account management for business customers with fewer than 60,000 transactions within Switzerland
    CHF 5/month
    PostFinance Cards  
    CHF 30/year

    Customers domiciled abroad pay an additional fee of CHF 25 per business account and per month.

    Current interest rates

    Standard notification

    You can choose the interval at which you receive your account statement. The costs depend on the notification cycle and on whether you would prefer to receive statements in e-finance or on paper.

    Account statement on paper
    CHF 3/Document
    Electronic account statement (in e-finance)
    Free of charge
  • PostFinance works with selected software partners. As an association customer, you will therefore only receive association software that is tailored to your needs and our service. You will also benefit from attractive special conditions.

    As a minimum, all software packages include modules for invoicing, for automatic monitoring of accounts receivable and for member and customer management.

    • The basic agreement must be signed by one or more people who have the right under the articles of association to represent the association externally. This is often the president, the treasurer or a member of the management board.
    • Identification is by means of the articles of association and the currently valid election records, in which the current management board can be found. The articles of association must be presented in writing and provide information on the association’s purpose, its financial resources and its organizational structure. A copy is sufficient. All individuals who sign the basic agreement are also personally identified (passport, identity card or foreigners’ residence permit).
    • If an association does not have its own articles of association, those of their superordinate organization(s) (cantonal/regional association and/or umbrella organization) must be submitted instead.
    • Yes, the election records must always be submitted with the articles of association. The currently authorized representatives, including their names and functions within the association, must be mentioned in the election records.
    • If there is a change in the people who have the right under the articles of association to represent the association externally, the relevant election records must be submitted to PostFinance.

Open your new association account

To open an association account with PostFinance, you must first become a customer. As an association with an existing banking relationship with PostFinance, you can easily open the association account online now.

You are a new business customer

For all customers who don’t yet have a business relationship with PostFinance

You are already a business customer

For existing business customers who want to open an additional business account

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