easyMonitoring is now Lixt: Prospex as an alternative

The company behind easyMonitoring, Easymonitoring AG in Baar (canton of Zug), registered its new name, Lixt AG, in April 2022, and easymonitoring.ch now forwards to lixt.ch, where existing customers log in. The SHAB monitoring product carries on as Lixt's Monitoring subscription, next to debt collection and factoring. Prospex is built for B2B sales teams: it finds the Swiss companies that fit what you sell, then follows them in the commercial register, trademark filings, the press, job boards and company websites.

Lixt Monitoring vs Prospex at a glance

Sources: Lixt's Monitoring, SHAB monitoring, new-registration addresses, FAQ and About pages and its public API reference, checked on 20 October 2026; Prospex Watch, the list monitoring reference and Prospex Market Builder.

What does Lixt Monitoring cover?

Lixt searches the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (SHAB/FOSC), Swissreg and simap.ch every day. In the SHAB it covers all 16 rubrics, from commercial register entries and bankruptcies to debt collection notices, calls to creditors in liquidation and inheritance notices. You set up a search subscription for each thing you want to follow, and Lixt's support team sets the first ones up with you. The trademark module covers every Swissreg trademark publication, which Lixt puts at up to 500 a day, and the tender module sends new public contracts that match your keywords.

Lixt names the typical users of its SHAB monitoring: municipalities, tax offices, bankruptcy offices, fiduciaries, marketing agencies and vehicle dealers. The company was founded in 2003 and says it serves more than 3,000 SMEs and municipalities. Its debt collection and factoring products are sold separately and sit outside this comparison.

What does Prospex monitor?

Prospex reads the commercial register, the press, job boards and company websites every day, and follows trademark filings in Swissreg. A monitored list sorts what it finds into five topics: company structure, leadership, products and positioning, growth and finance, and company news. You keep the topics that matter to what you sell. A team selling recruitment services might keep leadership and growth, and turn off products and positioning.

Each change links to its public source, so you can check what happened before contacting the company. A list built in Prospex can be monitored as it grows: a company the list adds later is monitored from the day it joins. A recorded change gives you a reason to look at an account; it does not establish that the company intends to buy.

How do you find new Swiss companies to sell to?

Lixt's new-registration addresses suit a seller whose customers are young companies. A fiduciary offering bookkeeping to new GmbHs in one canton, or a dealer selling vans to new trades businesses, can filter each day's new entries by legal form, industry and canton and import the Excel file into a CRM or a mail merge. Lixt notes that sole proprietorships with turnover under CHF 100,000 do not have to register, so some new businesses never appear in these lists.

Prospex's Market Builder starts from a description of your customers and covers companies of any age. An illustrative brief: "Swiss engineering firms that design heating and ventilation installations for commercial buildings". Prospex returns companies that match, with a reason for each one and the missing information it could not confirm. You keep a company, move it to Explore or exclude it. Our target-account list guide walks through the method with a real manufacturing example.

What do the subscriptions cost?

Lixt does not publish its Monitoring prices; you request a quote. Its FAQ describes three packages by the number of search subscriptions they include:

A subscription runs for one year from signing and is invoiced annually in advance. Notice is one month before the end of the term, and an upgrade during the term is credited for the time left on the old package. Above 500 search subscriptions, Lixt makes an individual offer.

A free Prospex account lets you build one market and see its first ten companies after confirming your email address. No card is required. You can also watch one company for free without an account and receive each new commercial register publication in the SHAB by email the day it is published. Full market access, exports and list monitoring require a paid plan. Prospex's plans are billed monthly, excluding VAT, can be cancelled at any time and cost the same figure in Swiss francs or euros:

Every paid plan includes exports, list monitoring, feeds, the API, MCP and CRM pushes. Lixt counts search subscriptions. Prospex counts the companies you access in a calendar month: a full profile opened, a row exported, or a company delivered through a feed, the API, MCP or a CRM push. Each company counts once a month however often you read it, and browsing lists and the directory is free.

Which one should you choose?

To watch a single company, such as a debtor or a competitor, Prospex's free company watch is enough. It needs no account and emails each new register publication in the SHAB on the day it appears, including a dissolution after bankruptcy or an entry into liquidation.

Lixt fits when your work runs on official publications beyond the commercial register: a municipality following debt collection notices and inheritance notices, a bankruptcy office following the calls to creditors in its canton, a construction firm that bids on cantonal tenders, a law firm watching trademark filings for its clients. It also fits when you want new-registration addresses every morning, or credit reports and collections from the same supplier.

Prospex fits when the list of target accounts is still being built, or when the changes you care about appear outside the gazette: a new head of operations named on a company website, a job advert for the role your product supports, a trademark filing before a launch. Some organisations use both, with finance or administration watching publications in one and sales following prospects in the other.

For more on monitoring one company from public sources, read our Swiss company monitoring guide. Our firmenwatch.ch comparison and Business Monitor comparison cover two other Swiss monitoring services, and reading the SHAB explains what each publication means. Our comparison of Swiss company data sources sets the free registers, bought address files and subscription platforms side by side, with prices.

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