SME Portal: The Swiss gateway for small and medium-sized enterprises 🇨🇭💡📈

The SME Portal (kmu.admin.ch) is the central online platform of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the Swiss government's official point of contact for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 🚀 It is your comprehensive guide, supporting entrepreneurs at every stage of the business cycle—from start-up to operation to succession—with practical knowledge, relevant information, and useful tools. The portal aims to simplify interaction between companies and the Swiss administration, increase efficiency, and serve as a central information hub for all business-related matters.

Our purpose and vision

The primary purpose of the SME Portal is to provide Swiss SMEs with reliable, up-to-date, and practical information to promote their growth and strengthen their competitiveness. We are convinced that well-informed and efficient companies form the backbone of the Swiss economy.

Our vision is to be the leading digital platform for Swiss SMEs, not only answering questions but also proactively driving innovation, efficiency and sustainable success.

Our values ​​and our approach

The SME portal is based on the Swiss government’s principles for supporting the economy:

• Practical orientation: We deliver knowledge that is directly applicable in everyday business. 📚

• Efficiency & Simplification: We help reduce administrative hurdles and optimize processes, including through e-government offerings like EasyGov.swiss. ⏱️

• Reliability & Timeliness: As an official source, we ensure that all information is accurate and up-to-date. ✅

• Support & Promotion: We see ourselves as a partner who helps Swiss companies overcome challenges and seize growth opportunities. 🤝

• Promoting innovation: We highlight relevant trends and technologies and show ways SMEs can leverage them. 💡

Our services and information

The SME portal offers a wide range of services and information, clearly structured into different areas:

• Currently: 📰

  • Business news and developments in the SME environment.

  • Monthly focus topics and expert interviews.

• Practical knowledge: 📖

  • Starting a business: From choosing the legal form to market analysis and creating a business plan.

  • Operations: innovation methods, marketing strategies, product certifications.

  • Succession planning: Support in handing over the company.

  • Finance: Information on loans, leasing, financing concepts, taxes and tax relief.

  • Personnel: recruitment, social security, labor law, work permits.

  • Foreign trade: import/export administration, customs formalities, export risk insurance.

  • Useful addresses and links to important support organizations.

• Trends: 📈

  • Insights into relevant future topics such as cybersecurity, digitalization, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain and IoT.

  • Instructions for adapting to technological developments.

• SME policy: 🏛️

  • Information on the Federal Council’s policy to strengthen SMEs.

  • Initiatives to reduce administrative burdens and expand e-government.

  • Promotion of innovation (e.g. Innosuisse), access to capital, export promotion (Switzerland Global Enterprise).

  • Support for vocational training and initiatives to reconcile work and family life.