User guide
Step-by-step help from account setup to invoicing, collective agreements and monthly payroll runs.
Application
Step-by-step guides to the app: account, invoices, employees and payroll.
Create your account and set up your company
First login: sign-up, company information and the essential settings to configure before your first invoice.
Create an invoice
From picking a client to sending the PDF with a Swiss QR code, in minutes.
Use the product catalog
Save products once, group them into lists and add ready-to-edit lines to invoices and quotes.
Fill invoice lines with AI
Paste a summary table, guide the AI with a precise prompt, get ready-to-bill lines.
Create a recurring invoice
Subscriptions, monthly retainers, annual mandates — schedule once, Bill Alps bills at the right cadence.
Create an employee
Personal details, contract, withholding tax bracket: everything needed to issue a compliant payslip.
Generate a payslip or a monthly batch
Single payslip or group run: Bill Alps computes contributions, withholding tax and produces the PDFs.
Record an absence
Sickness, accident, maternity or paternity leave: record the absence and Bill Alps proposes the matching lines on the payslip.
Configure a collective agreement
Assign the applicable agreement, apply its reference values and spot items to review before issuing payslips.
The employee portal, seen by your employees
Payslips, absences, personal data: what an employee can view and request once you have sent them their access link.
Managing the employee portal and change requests
Send access links, track their status, then apply or reject what your employees ask you to correct.
Developers
The public REST API: keys, HTTP requests, JSON, conventions and errors.
Getting started with the Bill Alps API
What the REST v1 API covers, how to get a key safely on the sandbox, and the first call that tells you which companies you can act on.
Invoicing with the API: from client to sent invoice
The whole invoicing path in REST calls: client, template, invoice, finalisation, sending, PDF, then quotes and recurring invoices.
Payroll, expenses and accounting with the API
Two ways to address a company, then employees, payslips, absences, expenses, bank statements and the annual financial statement, in REST calls.
Bill Alps API: conventions and errors
What holds on every route: envelope, pagination, dates, strict bodies, errors, usage, and what a sandbox reset does to your keys.