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Custom SaaS in Switzerland

What a decision maker settles before having a platform built. The real budget in CHF, choosing the partner, the scope of the first version, and the cases where an off the shelf tool is plenty.

Custom software, from the decision side

A custom SaaS is decided on three questions, not on an appetite for technology. Is your business logic what customers actually pay for, or an internal need that Bexio or Notion already covers? Do your Swiss constraints, nFADP, local hosting, 8.1% VAT and QR invoices, fit inside a standard American product? Is your no-code setup starting to cost more than it returns? If the answer is yes, budget is what remains. In Switzerland a first shipped product starts around CHF 8,000, a complete product runs into the tens of thousands, and maintenance costs roughly 10% of development per year. The articles below break those numbers down, case by case.

Got a platform project in mind?

Thirty minutes is enough to tell whether a custom build is justified for you, which range you fall into and where to start. I'll say it straight, even when the answer is no.