Accounting and MWST, invoices with QR-bill, purchasing, bank, stock, projects, CRM and fixed assets in one app. Your books stay in one file on your own computer, and an AI agent can do the legwork while you decide what gets booked.
Features
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20 of 20 features
| Feature | TILL | bexio | Banana Accounting Plus | CashCtrl | AbaNinja | Klara | Infinity | OdooCommunity | OdooEnterprise | ERPNextwith erpnextswiss |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sales and invoicing | ||||||||||
| Invoices with the QR-bill | YesWith structured addresses | Yes | Yes | YesAlso on FREE | YesAlso on Starter | Yes | YesWith structured addresses | Yes | Yes | YesIn erpnextswiss |
| Quotes and sales orders | Yes | Yes | PartlyEstimates and invoices | Yes | Yes | Yes | PartlyQuotes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Payment reminders (dunning) | YesAs PDFs | YesDunning runs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | NoNo dunning system | NoNot in Community 20.0 | YesFollow-ups | Yes |
| MWST | ||||||||||
| MWST return as an eCH-0217 file | YesEffective and Saldo | Not confirmed | YesEffective and Saldo | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | YesEffective and Saldo |
| Saldosteuersatz method | Yes | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | YesIn erpnextswiss |
| Bank and payments | ||||||||||
| Bank statement import (camt) | Partlycamt.053 | Yescamt.053 upload, and through bank interfaces | Yescamt.052, .053, .054 | Yescamt.052, .053, .054 | Not confirmed | Yescamt.053 upload | Yescamt.053 upload | NoNot in Community 20.0 | Yescamt.053 | Yescamt.053 and camt.054, in erpnextswiss |
| Payment files (pain.001) | Yes | YesAs a file or through a bank interface | PartlyBeta extension | PartlyFor salaries | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | NoNot in Community 20.0 | YesSwiss ISO 20022 | YesIn erpnextswiss |
| Matching bank lines to invoices | YesA proposal per line | Yes | PartlyRules for imported lines | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes | YesIn erpnextswiss |
| Purchasing, stock and projects | ||||||||||
| Purchase orders and goods receipts | YesWith a three-way match | PartlyPurchase orders | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Stock with lots and serial numbers | Yes | PartlyStock, from Optima | PartlyInventory app | PartlyStock items | PartlyStock levels | PartlyInventory | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Projects and time tracking | Yes | YesFrom Optima | PartlyTime sheet | Not confirmed | PartlyTime tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CRM sales pipeline | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | PartlyCRM | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fixed assets and depreciation | Yes | PartlyThrough a partner app | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | NoNot in Community 20.0 | Yes | Yes |
| Foreign currencies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PartlyDocuments in foreign currency | Not confirmed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Payroll and Treuhänder | ||||||||||
| Swissdec payroll | NoA hand-off | YesELM 5.3 | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Yes21.AbaSalary, ELM 5.0 | YesELM 5.3 | PartlyThrough a certified partner | NoNot in Community 20.0 | YesELM 5.3 | Not confirmed |
| Moving your data over from bexio | Yes | Does not apply | PartlyImports bexio transactions from Excel (beta extension) | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | PartlyOpening balance taken over as a paid service | PartlyContacts, chart of accounts, opening balances | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Access for your Treuhänder | PartlyOn a server you host, or by handing over the book file | YesFree accountant access | PartlyBy sending the accounting file | Yes | YesInvited as a user | Yes | YesFree invitation | PartlyAs a user with access rights | YesFree on Odoo Online | PartlyAs a user with accounting roles |
| Data, agents and licence | ||||||||||
| An AI agent through MCP | YesRead and write | None found | None found | None found | None found | YesRead and write | YesIn every plan | NoNot in Community 20.0 | YesRead, and write if enabled | YesRead and write |
| Your books stay on your own computer | YesOne SQLite file | NoVendor cloud | YesFiles on your device | NoVendor cloud | NoVendor cloud | NoVendor cloud | NoVendor cloud | PartlyA server you run | PartlyOwn server on Custom | PartlyA server you run |
| Open-source licence | YesMIT | NoProprietary | NoProprietary | NoProprietary | NoProprietary | NoProprietary | NoProprietary | YesLGPL-3.0 | NoProprietary | YesGPL-3.0 |
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As of 28 October 2026. Sources and dates for every cell are on the full comparison. See the full comparison
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In the Studio
The Studio is TILL's screen in your browser. These are screenshots of a sample company, not mock-ups.
Quote, order, invoice and credit note on one path, in francs or a foreign currency.
Every invoice carries the QR-bill payment part and comes out as a PDF. Payments find their invoice by the QR reference.
For now you send the PDF from your own mail program.
Sales and invoicing
Import the camt.053 statement from your eBanking.
TILL proposes a booking for each line it can place. You confirm it, and a wrong one is undone with a reversing entry.
There is no direct bank connection in the beta.
Bank
Tax codes on every line, with input and output tax worked out and a trace of how.
TILL prepares the return per ESTV Ziffer and writes the eCH-0217 file. You upload it in the ESTV ePortal yourself.
The beta computes on agreed consideration (vereinbarte Entgelte).
MWST
Connect Claude or another AI agent. It prepares bookings, invoices and matches in the same books you work in.
By default, your agent waits for your OK before it books anything, moves your money, grants access or deletes your data for good.
Every call it makes is recorded, with its proposals and the trust you gave it.
Agent oversight
TILL reads bexio exports, Excel files and zip bundles, and you confirm how columns, accounts and tax codes map.
Load it all into a trial company, check the control totals, then go live or throw it away.
Unpaid customer and supplier invoices come along, so you settle them in TILL.
Migration
Start from the Swiss KMU chart of accounts and post balanced entries.
A correction is a reversing entry, and both stay visible. Closed months and years are locked.
Trial balance, balance sheet and income statement come straight from the journal.
Ledger and closing
How it is built
TILL keeps your books in one SQLite file on your computer. Back it up, hand it to your Treuhänder, take it with you. You need no subscription to open it.
TILL is an agent-first ERP: your agent connects over MCP and uses the same operations as the Studio. There is no second, poorer path for machines, and the same call sent twice does not post twice.
A posted entry stays as it was booked. A correction is a reversing entry beside the original, and both stay visible, whether you or your agent made it.
For agent users
Paste it into an agent that can run commands on your computer: Claude Code (terminal or desktop app), Cursor or Windsurf. It installs TILL, starts the Studio and asks you to open the demo company.
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You are helping me set up TILL, a local-first Swiss accounting app that runs on my own computer. Do it end to end and explain each step in plain language.
1. TILL runs on macOS and Linux. Check that Node.js is version 22 or newer with `node --version`. If it is missing or older, install or upgrade it for my operating system, then confirm the version.
2. Install TILL with `npm install -g tillbooks@beta`.
3. Start it with `till up` and leave it running. The Studio opens at http://127.0.0.1:8788.
4. Ask me to choose "Try the demo" on the Studio's first screen ("Demo ausprobieren" if it is in German), so we work on a demo company with sample data, not on real books.
5. Connect yourself to the running TILL over MCP at http://127.0.0.1:8788/mcp. If your client only supports stdio, use: {"mcpServers":{"tillbooks":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","tillbooks@beta","mcp"]}}} If you need a restart to load it, tell me.
6. Read https://github.com/tillbooks/tillbooks/blob/HEAD/AGENTS.md for the rules you work under, then show me three things you can do in the demo company.
These rules hold from the first step, even before you read AGENTS.md:
- Work only in the demo company until I say otherwise. Never create, restore or open real books on your own.
- Never read, type or store any password, bank login or EBICS key. I enter those myself.
- By default, wait for my OK before you book anything, move money, grant access or delete data for good. Never try to get around that.Prefer the terminal?
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Node.js 22 or newer, on macOS or Linux.
All the ways to installTILL is free and MIT licensed. Start with the sample company, and move your own books in when you are ready.
Nomadik GmbH sets TILL up for you and moves your books over from bexio, for a fee.
Pricing and help