New: Send Invoices in Your Customer's Language

Switzerland speaks four languages, and your customers expect to be addressed in theirs. From today, SwissQRBills produces invoices — and the Swiss QR payment slip that comes with them — in German, French, Italian, or English, chosen per customer.

Why we built this

Most of our users are perfectly happy invoicing in English, and that stays the default. But every so often it matters: a French-speaking client in Lausanne, an Italian-speaking one in Lugano, or a Treuhänder and a cantonal office that would simply rather receive documents in a national language. Sending an invoice in the recipient's own language is more professional, easier for them to process, and frankly more Swiss.

What gets translated

The whole document — not just a heading or two:

• The invoice itself — billing details, issue and due dates, invoice number, the line-item table (description, rate, quantity, line total), subtotal, VAT, amount due, and the payment terms.
• The Swiss QR payment slip — both the receipt and the payment part: "Account / Payable to", "Reference", "Payable by", "Currency", "Amount", "Acceptance point", and the rest. These use the official wording prescribed by the Swiss Payment Standards, so the slip stays fully compliant — they are not loose translations.

How to use it

1. Open a customer — or create a new one — and set Correspondence language to German, French, Italian, or English.
2. That's it. Every invoice you produce for that customer comes out in that language, including invoices generated from recurring templates and ones you send by email.

Customers with no language set stay on English, so nothing changes until you decide it should. And you can see each customer's language at a glance: a small flag now appears next to the name in your customer list and on your invoices.

Your dashboard language is now saved too

While we were here, your own dashboard language became a saved account setting under Settings → Language. Pick German, French, Italian, or English and it follows you across devices — completely separate from the language your customers receive. The two are independent: you can run the app in German and still send a customer a French invoice.

As always, your data stays in Switzerland.