Add Payroll to Your Platform.
Embedded Payroll Engine.
Payroll becomes a native feature in your product.
- Swissdec certified
- DSG and GDPR compliant
- Swiss hosting
Stronger Retention. Payroll That Keeps Pace.
Add payroll to your product and unlock a recurring revenue stream. Payroll-relevant changes are validated and reflected in calculations as they happen. Your customers can run payroll and pay their employees whenever they’re ready.
Keep customers in your platform
Let customers run payroll where they already work.
Fewer Exports and System Switches
Payroll uses existing data and fits into established workflows.
Create recurring revenue
Move beyond data exports and turn payroll into a new recurring revenue stream.
Your Product in Front. Ason Underneath.
Ason connects to your platform through an API and runs the complete payroll process for you. You stay in control of your product and customer experience, while Ason handles payroll logic, compliance and processing.
Companies on your platform
Real-time payroll runs inside your platform. Swissdec certified.
Filings go out directly from Ason. You don’t need to worry about any of it.
Your platform - You stay in control.
- Customer relationship
- Brand & user experience
- Pricing & commercial model
- User authentication & permissions
- Data & integrations
- Product workflows
Ason - We take care of payroll - In real time.
- Payroll logic & calculations
- Regulations & compliance
- Payroll workflows
- Retroactive processing
- Validations & dependencies
- Payroll processing & results
Payroll Expertise. Built Into the Engine.
Your users make a change in your platform. Ason knows what payroll requires.
Traditional payroll software provides functions. Payroll specialists still need to know which rules apply, what needs to be checked and which steps must follow.
Ason has turned that expertise into software.
Hundreds of deterministic payroll rules, dependencies, validations and decisions that traditionally live in expert knowledge and manual checklists are built directly into the Ason engine. Your users simply update what changed and when it became effective. Ason handles everything that follows, transparently and traceably.
One Change in Your Platform
A salary change, marriage, new tax status or change in working hours happens where your users already work: inside your product.
Your platform passes the event and its effective date to Ason in the background.
No separate payroll system. No specialist workflow.
Deterministic Payroll Logic
Ason automatically applies the rules, checks dependencies, validates required information and determines which calculations and periods are affected.
No black-box AI at the core. Payroll follows defined rules, and Ason executes them consistently, deterministically and transparently.
No expert checklists. No manual orchestration.
Payroll Is Always Ready
Every change is validated as it happens. If information is missing, Ason tells your platform exactly what is needed. Retroactive changes are recalculated automatically, while regulatory rules and rates are continuously kept up to date.
The result: payroll remains current and can be processed whenever it is needed.
Always validated. Always traceable. Ready to run.
This Is What Makes Embedded Payroll Possible.
Because the payroll expertise lives inside Ason, your company doesn’t need to build it and your users don’t need to learn it.
Your users record changes. Ason handles the checks and calculations that follow.
That turns payroll from specialist software into a feature your customers can simply use.
Payroll Changes.
Your Integration Doesn’t.
Ason continuously maintains payroll rules and regulatory logic as requirements change, without forcing your team to rebuild the integration.
One integration. Payroll logic that stays current.
See documentation- OASI/DI/LEC contributions
- Occupational pension (BVG)
- Withholding tax
- Accident insurance (UVG)
- Daily sickness benefits (KTG)
- Unemployment insurance (ALV)
- Salary certificate
- ELM / Swissdec
- Gross/net salary
- Family/child allowances
- 13th-month salary
- Salary advance
- Collective agreement (CLA)
- Bonus payments
- Short-time work compensation
- Wage garnishment
- Overtime
- Cross-border commuters
- Continued pay during illness/injury
- OASI/DI/LEC contributions
- Occupational pension (BVG)
- Withholding tax
- Accident insurance (UVG)
- Daily sickness benefits (KTG)
- Unemployment insurance (ALV)
- Salary certificate
- ELM / Swissdec
- Gross/net salary
- Family/child allowances
- 13th-month salary
- Salary advance
- Collective agreement (CLA)
- Bonus payments
- Short-time work compensation
- Wage garnishment
- Overtime
- Cross-border commuters
- Continued pay during illness/injury
Payroll Where Your Customers Already Work.
Extend your platform with payroll and turn existing processes into additional value for your customers.
Whether HR, time tracking, finance or workforce management, Ason makes payroll a native part of your product.
HR & Workforce
From personnel data to payroll: Embedded Payroll extends HR, time and workforce processes directly inside your existing platform.
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Finance & ERP
Payroll becomes part of the financial flow. Postings, payments and reports run end to end, without exports or switching systems.
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Payroll Services
More mandates, less overhead: an integrated Payroll Engine automates processing and scales with your service business.
→Partners already running Ason.
API-First. Built to Embed.
Ason was built from the ground up to run inside other products. A well-documented REST API, event-driven architecture and ready-to-use developer resources make it easy to connect Ason to your existing workflows and get started fast.
Simple, Event-Driven API
Send what changed and when. Ason determines the payroll actions that follow. This makes payroll easy to integrate into your existing product workflows.
Webhooks Keep You in Sync
Ason processes payroll asynchronously and notifies your platform as soon as a task is complete. No complex orchestration or constant polling required.
Your Users. Your IAM.
Authentication, users and permissions stay within your platform. You remain in control of access and the customer experience.
Frontend Ready to Go
Start with a ready-to-use GitHub frontend, get up and running quickly, and adapt it directly to your own UX and product.
Explore the API and get started instantly with the quickstart and sandbox.
From First Integration to Live Payroll. We’re With You.
Technology, payroll expertise and hands-on support whenever your team needs it.
Embedding payroll is new territory for most platforms. That’s why Ason provides more than APIs and documentation. Our developers and payroll experts support your team through integration, customer migration and launch whenever deeper technical or payroll expertise is useful.
Integrate With Confidence
We help your developers map your data model, fields and workflows to Ason and support them directly whenever technical questions arise.
Your developers build. Our experts help where it matters.
Migrate Customers Smoothly
Ason provides tools to import master data, historical information and previous payroll periods. For complex migrations, our team can support you directly.
A simple path from existing payroll to your platform.
Operate With Ease
Training, short tutorials, FAQs and ready-to-use payroll knowledge help your team support customers efficiently, without becoming payroll specialists.
Everything you need to run payroll successfully.
Questions we get asked
What exactly is embedded payroll?
Your platform offers payroll as a native function of your own product. Your customers never leave your interface. Calculation, compliance and filings run in the Ason engine behind the API.
Do we need payroll expertise on our side?
No. The payroll logic lives in the engine, not in the head of a specialist. The system guides users through payroll relevant events and produces the required documents automatically.
How long does integration take?
A first working setup can be created quickly. A full integration typically takes weeks rather than quarters, depending on your frontend, data model and workflows. Our quickstart, GitHub frontend and developer support help accelerate the process.
What happens when regulation changes?
Regulatory rules are maintained centrally in Ason. Your integration stays unchanged, and your team doesn’t need to maintain payroll regulation itself.
Can we test before committing?
Yes. The quickstart lets you load demo data and run against the API without an agreement in place.
Ready to Bring Payroll Into Your Platform?
Explore the sandbox on your own or talk to us about your integration.