Features
Everything a small company runs on
Starthop covers the work between winning a client and handing the year to your accountant: pipeline, hours, invoices, documents, banking and team planning. Here is each part, who it is for, and how teams compare it with other ways of working.
Features
CRM & sales pipeline
Starthop's CRM keeps every lead, contact and conversation in one pipeline, with the next action and its date always visible. It reads each company's website to build a profile, and suggests the next move from the whole history of the lead.
Time tracking
Starthop tracks billable and non-billable hours per client and project, and keeps a running total of what has not been invoiced yet. When it is time to bill, the hours become invoice lines without retyping anything.
Invoicing & QR-bill
Starthop creates invoices and credit notes with the Swiss QR-bill payment part, the right VAT for clients at home and abroad, and your own number sequence. Each PDF also carries an EN 16931 e-invoice (ZUGFeRD / Factur-X) that accounting software can read. Invoices can be built from logged hours in one click, and on the Ultra plan their payment is matched when your bank statement comes in.
Accountant-ready documents
Starthop collects every receipt and supplier invoice, reads the amount, date, supplier and VAT with AI, and files them by year and month. Your accountant or fiduciary gets their own free seat and downloads everything they need in one go.
Bank reconciliation
Starthop imports your bank statements in the standard formats - camt.053, MT940, CSV, Excel and OFX - and matches each transaction to the invoice or receipt it belongs to. Your own rules and your history do most of the work; AI suggests the rest.
Team planning & absences
Starthop handles absence requests with approvals and deputies, and shows each day who is in the office, at a client or remote. The team calendar can be subscribed to from any calendar app.
AI assistant
Starthop uses AI where it saves real time: reading receipts, contracts and official letters, profiling companies from their website, matching job postings to the right people on your team, and writing wiki articles from your documents. Every result is shown for you to check before it counts.
Who it is for
For startups
Starthop gives a startup the admin backbone it needs from the first client: a sales pipeline, billable hours, invoices with QR-bill, a receipt vault for the accountant and team planning. It replaces the spreadsheet-and-five-tools setup before it becomes a mess.
For consultancies
Starthop is built for consultancies that sell their people's time: it tracks client and job leads, matches each job posting with the right consultants' CVs, drafts the proposal and turns the hours worked into invoices. The whole loop sits in one app, on the Ultra plan.
For agencies & studios
Starthop gives agencies and studios one place for their client pipeline, project hours, invoices and receipts. Everybody logs time against the right project, and what is billable becomes an invoice without a spreadsheet in between.
For fiduciaries & accountants
Starthop gives fiduciaries and accountants a free seat in each client's organisation, with the invoices, receipts and bank matches they need for the bookkeeping. You download a finished period and book it in your own software - Starthop does not replace it.
Comparisons
Starthop vs bexio
bexio is Swiss business software built around accounting and administration for small businesses and the self-employed. Starthop is built around the work of teams that sell and bill their time - pipeline, job leads, hours, invoices - and hands the bookkeeping to your accountant fully prepared.
Starthop vs separate tools
Many small teams run on separate tools: a CRM such as HubSpot or Pipedrive, a time tracker such as Harvest or Toggl, an invoicing tool and a shared drive for receipts. Starthop replaces that stack with one app where the lead, the hours, the invoice and the receipt are connected.
Free tools
Swiss VAT calculator
Add Swiss VAT to a net amount, or take it out of a gross amount, at the standard rate of 8.1 %, the reduced rate of 2.6 % or the accommodation rate of 3.8 %. Results are rounded to 5 centimes, as on Swiss invoices.
Hourly rate calculator
Find the hourly and day rate you need to charge to reach your target income and cover your costs, based on how many hours you can realistically bill. Change the numbers to see the effect of holidays and non-billable work.
Runway & cash burn calculator
Calculate how many months of cash runway your startup has left, your monthly net burn rate, and the impact of revenue growth on your runway before needing to raise or reach breakeven.
Try Starthop with your own work
Log a real hour, turn it into an invoice, and hand your accountant a finished folder. Every new organisation starts with 14 days of the Pro plan, free.
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