Settings
The numbers and templates everything else depends on.
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Company
Company details, team, working hours, automation.
- Business details, logo and tax numbersWhat ends up on every document — and the one field that cannot be changed later.
- Roles and access rightsFive roles, and what each one sees — from the subscription to time recording.
- Creating and assigning working time modelsWhat Zirko calculates with when someone is sick, takes leave or works overtime.
- Public holidays and days offPick your federal state or canton — and time tracking knows when nobody has to work.
- Leave entitlement of new employeesWhy Zirko raises a value that is too low — and why “working days” does not mean the same thing everywhere.
- Automation — what Zirko does on its ownAn add-on per company, fixed rules instead of AI — and a log of everything that went out.
Templates & layout
Letterhead, standard texts, reports, email sending.
- Setting up letterhead and layoutHow your documents look — with the automatic layout or with your own sheet.
- Document texts, attachments and file namesOpening and closing texts, attachments like your terms and the naming pattern of the files — set once, it applies to every document.
- Building report templatesHow you turn a scrap of paper in the van into a form that everyone fills in the same way.
- Setting up email sendingThe address your quotes and invoices arrive from at the customer.
Accounting
Numbers, tax rates, payment terms, tax adviser.
- Setting up document numbersEight number ranges, one format each — and why a number already used stays used.
- Setting tax ratesWhy you enter nothing here — and where the rate on an invoice really comes from.
- Payment term and early payment discountWhen an invoice counts as overdue — and how you set it differently per customer and per document.
- DATEV export for the tax officeDocument images plus posting batch in one file — what is inside, what stays out by name, and how it reaches the accountant anyway.
- The payment code on invoicesA QR code your customer's banking app reads — payee, amount and invoice number without retyping.
Calculation
Wage groups, surcharges, units.