Setting Up Postal Codes

Global Payroll for Switzerland is delivered with Swiss postal codes. The system uses the postal codes to validate and prompt for municipality codes. You can view the contents of the Postal Code table and load updates from the Swiss Post website.

For GP Switzerland users, the menu (Set Up HCM, Product Related, Global Payroll & Absence Mgmt, Framework, Organizational, Postal/Municipality Codes CHE) for updating Postal and Municipality Codes has changed.

With 2025, the Eidgenössische Steuerbehörde ESTV shares the mapping between new postal and municipalities code. GP Switzerland customers are provided features to load the Postal Codes & Municipality Codes csv-file, which is available from Schweizerische Quellensteuer QST:

Load Postal and Municipality Codes CHE

After uploading the file and selecting Run, the following page is displayed.

This example illustrates the fields and controls on the Postal Data page.

The user have to fill in just the current year.

Once data got loaded user can review orphan Postal Code and Municipality Code by using the button ‘Validate Postal Codes’. This returns a list of active assignments for expired Codes. See HCM 92 PI 25 GP Swiss Report samples.

The Municipality Codes CHE page now maintains data from POSTAL_CD_CHE (formerly GPCH_TX_VILLAGE) and is displayed as:

Municipality Codes CHE page