21. AbaNinja – the accounting software for small Swiss businesses

The smart choice for your bookkeeping

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Dashboard: Invoicing and Accounting Software 21.AbaNinja

95 %

Customer satisfaction rate

80'000+

Customers already rely on our software solution

1.6 million+

Invoices are generated annually using 21.AbaNinja

Your accounting with 21.AbaNinja

What started out as a simple invoicing solution can now do so much more: 21. AbaNinja combines accounting, order processing, payments, time recording and expense management in a cloud-based solution. With 21.AbaNinja, you can digitise your business cost-effectively and efficiently – even in dark mode. 

Order processing

From quotation to QR invoice, fully automated

With 21.AbaNinja, you can digitise your entire order processing workflow. Offers are checked online and confirmed with a digital signature. With just one click, you can convert the offer into an order and generate an order confirmation, QR invoice and delivery note. You make the documents you have created available to your customers via the customer portal, including a direct online payment option. It is also possible to send emails using your own infrastructure. 

Screenshot: Order processing and invoicing in AbaNinja

Address management

Addresses can be imported or exported via Excel and customised with language, currency, notes and criteria (tags)

Product Management

Manage products and services centrally: from names and units of measure right through to prices 

Stock management

Keep track of incoming and outgoing stock thanks to automatic stock adjustments via delivery notes 

Document Designer

Easily customise our document templates to match your CI/CD 

Invoice types

Create partial, instalment, on-account and variant invoices

Recurring invoices

Invoice subscriptions or service contracts

Automated debt collection

Send payment reminders and demands for payment automatically

Digital signature

Sign quotations digitally using our integrated DeepSign tool

Supplier invoices

Process supplier invoices with ease

Are your supplier invoices piling up and you have to painstakingly enter them manually? With 21.AbaNinja, that’s a thing of the past. Upload the invoice and the AI-powered document recognition system will capture all the key details. You can then post and pay the invoice straight away. All receipts are clearly displayed with statuses such as ‘open’ or ‘paid’, so you can keep track of them at all times. Accounts Payable can be that straightforward!  

Automatic e-banking reconciliation with over 80 banks

21. Connecting AbaNinja to your bank is a real game-changer for automating your bookkeeping. Thanks to automatic bank reconciliation, account transactions are imported daily from your online banking and automatically matched by the system against outstanding invoices and receipts – reducing manual effort and errors to a minimum. Payment orders for supplier invoices can also be sent to your bank at the touch of a button.

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AbaNinja Automatic Bank Reconciliation

Accounting

Simple, efficient bookkeeping

With 21.AbaNinja, you can automate your accounting from receipt of payment right through to analysis: Bank transactions, supporting documents and journal entries are automatically recorded, clearly displayed in the journal and analysed in real time on the dashboard. This way, you can keep track of your finances at all times.

Dashboard: Accounting and Invoicing Programme 21.AbaNinja

Open Items & Reports

Keep track of outstanding customer and supplier invoices and payment statuses at all times

Flexible account allocations

Manage and correct journal entries easily and transparently 

Balance sheet, profit and loss account and annual accounts

Generated automatically based on your entries, even for flexible financial years

Calculation of VAT

VAT can be accounted for using the gross, net or balance methods

Standardised chart of accounts

Based on the Swiss SME chart of accounts, customisable

Double-entry bookkeeping

Fully integrated and implemented in an audit-proof manner

Time recording

Easily record working hours, absences and services

With the integrated time recording feature, you and your employees can easily record working hours (clocking in and out), holidays and absences. Services can be invoiced directly to your customers. Working time models, flexitime arrangements and holiday and public holiday calendars can be tai-lored to suit your organisation. The report clearly shows absences, holiday entitlement and overtime. Other time recording tools include the AbaClik AI smartphone app and the AbaClock iPad terminal. 

Time and attendance screen from AbaNinja

Expense management

Capture receipts on the go and post them straight away

With our AbaClik AI mobile app, you can easily scan expense receipts. Our powerful AI automatically recognises key information such as VAT, amount and supplier. The document is then sent directly to 21.AbaNinja and an automatic entry is created.

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Screen Expense Management App AbaClik AI AbaNinja

SamurAI

Your intelligent AI assistant

SamurAI is the unique AI assistant in 21.AbaNinja. Not only does it answer questions about the tool, but it also carries out tasks such as creating an invoice independently. This allows you to work faster, more intuitively and more efficiently than with any comparable accounting software.

Conversation: SamurAI AI Assistant – AbaNinja accounting software

API & Webhooks

Flexible interfaces for custom integrations

With the 21.AbaNinja API, you can flexibly integrate the accounting programme into your existing system landscape. With any paid subscription, you can automatically exchange data, connect external applications or develop your own extensions relating to invoices, addresses, products or accounting processes. This means 21.AbaNinja adapts perfectly to your workflows and grows alongside your business from a technical perspective.

Further integrations from 21.AbaNinja

21. AbaNinja offers numerous other integrations from the Abacus and DeepCloud ecosystems.

Rocket

Get started for free, scale easily: accounting software that grows with your business

Abacus Research AG is the largest independent Swiss provider of business software. Abacus continuously invests in the research, development and support of 21.AbaNinja. This allows you, as a start-up or SME, to benefit from the latest technologies and current standards. At the same time, we offer you a scalable solution that grows with your company.

Why Swiss companies
choose Swiss21

In our success stories, Swiss start-ups, organisations and freelancers show how they successfully integrate Swiss21 into their day-to-day work and benefit from it.

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Tobias Etter
Managing Director of TE Web GmbH

“I particularly recommend Swiss21 to small businesses and start-ups: it’s free to start with, and offers excellent value for money afterwards.”

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Alex Matzer
Managing Director, StWE & Valuation

“After nearly thirty years of using Excel and other tools, everything suddenly became simple, practical and seamless. Swiss21 has made my work much easier.”

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Simone Zeugin
Owner of Roth Bookbinding

"For me, as a sole trader, Swiss21 is the ideal solution – simple, efficient and tailored precisely to my needs."

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André Sommer
Member of the Executive Board, Grötzinger+Rychard AG

“49 francs a month for the Pro subscription is hard to beat. What’s more, Swiss21 is backed by Abacus, a renowned company.”

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Véronique Rochat
Freelance photographer

“Before Swiss21, I used Word and Excel, which was tedious and time-consuming. Now I can easily send invoices and quotations even when I’m on the move.”

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Jonathan Grimaud
Founder of Azur Spa Détente SA

“Swiss21 is intuitive, user-friendly and offers efficient customer service.”

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Julien Hungerbühler
Managing Director of smartfidu.ch

“My clients are very satisfied with Swiss21. It is very important to be able to communicate digitally with your accountancy firm, and Swiss21 provides that link.”

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Maéva Chatelain
Founder of sept-et-huit.ch

“Thanks to Swiss21 and recurring invoices, I’m much more efficient. I can quickly see when a customer has viewed and paid an invoice.”

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Stefan Küenzi
Managing Director of itsmytime.ch

“With Swiss21, we were able to set up our online shop from scratch within a few days, including integration with the SIX Saferpay payment system.”

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Sabrina Grunder
Administrative Assistant, Grötzinger+Rychard AG

“Now I can enter the wages, process the payroll and know that everything has been calculated correctly. We used to have to check everything several times.”

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Ruedi Gautschi
Managing Director, Nudelwerkstatt

“Simple, intuitive and scalable – Swiss21 offers truly outstanding value for money!”

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Laurent Chervet
Bel-Air Hotel and Restaurant

"21. Using AbaNinja in conjunction with Lightspeed saves us an enormous amount of time."

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Julian Deb
Recruiter, smiti AG

“Swiss21 makes it easier for newly established SMEs to get started with the right software, as it brings together all the key functions. Even now, as we’ve grown, we’re still impressed by its fair and reasonable pricing model.”

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Alex Matzer
Managing Director, StWE & Valuation

“After nearly thirty years of using Excel and other tools, everything suddenly became simple, practical and seamless. Swiss21 has made my work much easier.”

Manuela Imboden, Naturluft Swiss21 customer
Manuela Imboden
Management, Natur-Luft

"We’re a small company. Swiss21 gives me a clear, straightforward overview. It’s made my bookkeeping a lot easier."

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Daniele Cofano
Managing Director, Instadebug Sàrl

“With AbaSalary, I can easily calculate my staff’s wages. I find the direct link to AbaNinja particularly handy.”

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Tarek Almagbaly
Founder of WorkStop

“21. Both AbaNinja and Lightspeed are available in the cloud. This means we don’t need any servers and don’t have to worry about maintenance.”

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Jonathan Grimaud
Founder of Azur Spa Détente SA

"Swiss21 is intuitive, user-friendly and offers efficient customer service."

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Chez Deriaz Bakery
female employee

‘A user-friendly tool at an attractive price.’

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Chez Deriaz Bakery
female employee

"Thanks to 21.AbaSalary, we can easily process both hourly and monthly wages."

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Laurent Charbonnier
Head of Innovation, Loyco SA

“As the applications are simple and intuitive, we don’t need to invest much time in training our customers.”

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Joanie Waelti
President of Pictures of India

"We can create invoices for our charity and send them by email in just a few clicks."

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Joanie Waelti
President of Pictures of India

“We used to use Microsoft Word, but now we can create invoices for our club with just a few clicks and send them by email.”

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Antonio De Donatis
Managing Director of De Donatis & Partners AG

“Thanks to Swiss21, our business never comes to a standstill. We can sort out the admin in the office, at home or even from the beach.”

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Gianluca Simone
Owner of Digital Flow

"I am very pleased with my choice and would recommend 21.AbaNinja to any business looking to manage its time efficiently."

Discover all Swiss21 apps

Forget high software costs and long waiting times for implementation. Our scalable Swiss21 ERP software offers numerous programs that are all interconnected. In just five minutes, you'll be ready to go!

Rechnungen und Buchhaltung

Invoices and Accounting

21.AbaNinja

Lohnbuchhaltung

Payroll

21.AbaSalary

Onlineshop

Online Shop

21.Shop

Kassensystem

POS system

21.POS

Kundenverwaltung

Customer Management

21.CRM

Spesen und Zeiterfassung

Expense and Time Recording

AbaClik

Stempeluhr

Time Clock

AbaClock

Dokumente und Freigaben

Documents and Releases

DeepBox, DeepSign, DeepMail

FAQ about the 21.AbaNinja accounting software

21. AbaNinja is ideal for Swiss SMEs, start-ups, freelancers, associations and organisations that want to manage their bookkeeping, order processing and administration easily and digitally.

A basic understanding is helpful, but not essential. 21.AbaNinja supports you with automations, clear reports and intuitive guidance through all your accounting processes. If you’d like to outsource more complex tasks such as VAT returns, our Digital Coaches are on hand to help.

Yes. With 21.AbaNinja, you can create QR invoices in accordance with the Swiss standard. Your customers can pay their invoices directly online via Stripe, TWINT, PayPal or bank transfer. E-Bill is also an option.

Yes. 21.AbaNinja offers over 80 bank connections. Incoming payments are automatically reconciled and payment orders are sent directly to your bank.

Yes. 21.AbaNinja is based on Abacus technology and can be integrated into the Abacus ERP ecosystem or expanded as your needs grow. You can find out more here.