SBB supports the SWICO standard.

You can transmit your QR in-payment slip and use the SWICO standard to ensure that your invoice can be read easily, quickly and without errors.

The following information at the very least must be completed in the invoice information field of the QR invoice, so that our software can better recognise the information:

Prefix

Refers to

Example

Comment

//

Beginning of the text

None

Required at the beginning of the code

S1

SWICO syntax version

S1

Current version 1, required at the beginning of the code

/10/

Invoice number

/10/123456789

Free text with the invoice number

/11/

Document date

/11/201201

Date in the format yymmdd

/20/

Customer reference

/20/4712345678 or /20/jan.example@sbb.ch

Order number or purchaser’s SBB e-mail address

/30/

UID number of the supplier

/30/102909703

UID CHE-106.017.086 without CHE prefix, hyphen or MWST/TVA/IVA/VAT suffix

/40/

Conditions or list of conditions

/40/0:30

0% discount for 30 days (payable up to 30 days after document date)

If you are transmitting a QR code, please avoid sending the in-payment slip as well. 

More detailed information about SWICO’s syntax definition can be found here (in German) Link opens in new window.

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