Q3 Software ERP is a business software suite from Q3 Software AG in Bern for small and medium-sized companies, associations, trustees and schools. It combines up to eight modules in one interface: addresses, orders and invoicing with stock, financial accounting, creditors, payments, payroll, time recording and absence planning. It comes in four feature tiers and runs on Windows as a single-user or multi-user installation; data can be exchanged in formats such as CSV and XML.
Q3 Software AG is based in Bern and describes itself as owner-managed; no parent group is named. The programs normally run on your own computers or network drive, so you keep control of the data. Optionally, the vendor operates a Q3 Cloud in a Microsoft data centre located in Switzerland, with daily automatic backups. Because Microsoft is a US company, European organisations may want to assess the exposure to US jurisdiction that this option brings. Switzerland is not in the EU but is an EFTA country with an EU adequacy decision.