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- Test your idearunning
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Required Register with the AHV compensation office as soon as you earn money self-employed.
Start your own business.
And keep your job.Start on the side.
Keep your job.
- Fits your week: planix plans with the time and budget you have next to your jobFits your week
- Test first: a concept test shows whether there is something to your ideaTest first, then invest
- Registered correctly: AHV, commercial register and VAT – with official sourceAHV and taxes sorted
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How to start in Switzerland
What a side business involves Five steps. Quitting is not one of them.
Check first, then register. Your job stays as long as you want.
Check first, then register.
- FirstRead your contract
What your employment contract says about side work – before your first customer.
What your contract says.
- With planixSharpen the idea
What you sell to whom – with the time and budget you have next to your job.
With your time and budget.
- With planixTest
A concept test shows whether there is something to it before you invest money.
Before you invest.
- RequiredRegister with the AHV
As a self-employed person, with the compensation office.
With the compensation office.
- LaterGrow
Your job stays until your business carries you. You choose the moment.
Job stays until it carries.
Side business in Switzerland
Three numbers you should know.
From the planix fact table – with office and date.
With office and date.
If your income from the side business stays below this, you only pay AHV (old-age insurance) contributions on request.
Below it, AHV only on request.
AHV-Ausgleichskasse · Merkblatt 2.02 AHV/IV, bsv.admin.ch, Stand 01.01.2026As a sole proprietorship, you only register from this annual turnover.
Register only from this turnover.
kantonales Handelsregisteramt · Art. 931 OR; Art. 36 HRegV, kmu.admin.ch, Stand 28.09.2026Only from this annual turnover do you register with the ESTV (Federal Tax Administration).
VAT only from this turnover.
ESTV · Art. 66 MWSTG, kmu.admin.ch, Stand 28.09.2026What planix delivers
Idea. Test. Founding.
Three modules of the founder journey – evenings or weekends, at your pace.
Target customer, problem, offer and the maths per sale on one page, with a completed canvas.
- Target customer, problem, offer
- Calculation per sale
- Business Model Canvas
- Business Model Canvas - Word
- Your idea
Your riskiest assumption tested, with a first assessment and the next validation step.
- What convinces, what doesn’t
- Questions for real conversations
- Your next step
- Your concept test
Reasoned legal form, founding roadmap and obligations for taxes and staff, with official sources.
- Legal form that fits your inputs
- Founding steps in the right order
- Taxes and social insurance, with source
- Your founding plan
Clear limits
What planix does not do.
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Your employment contract is up to you. Whether you have to report side work is in your contract. planix does not read it.
You read the contract. planix does not check it.
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You register yourself. planix shows where and by when. Nothing is submitted in your name.
You register. planix shows where and when.
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No invented number. Thresholds and deadlines come from official sources – with date.
Nothing invented. Every number with a source.
All three modules free. No subscription – you start when it fits your week.
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Questions
Usually yes, as long as you don’t compete with your employer. What exactly applies is in your employment contract – read it before you start.
Yes, as a self-employed person with the compensation office. If your income from the side business is below CHF 2'500, you only pay contributions on request.
As much as you have. In «Develop the idea» you state how much time and budget you have – planix plans with it. You can pause and continue at any time.
Only from CHF 100'000 turnover per year. Below that you don’t need to register.
Develop the idea free, Test the idea free, Found your company free – no subscription.
When your business covers your living costs – you decide. «Business & financial planning Pro» calculates the numbers: is the profit enough for your household?
Start on the side?
Begin tonight.
The idea first. Test and registration when you’re ready.
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