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DirectoryRetail & CommerceRetail - Books & MediaLausannePAYOT SA
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Summary

About the company

PAYOT SA is a bookseller that operates a network of bookstores and sells printed and digital books. The company runs an online store, organises in‑store events and provides services for institutions and school ordering.

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Products & services

Industry:Retail - Books & Media
✓ Offered6
Book retail
Books in French and English, specialist titles, children’s and young adult books, comics and manga, school and non-fiction books, plus bestsellers and paperbacks.
Digital books and e-readers
E-books, e-readers and protective cases, with purchases via payot.ch or ebooks.payot.ch, direct access to downloads, plus guidance and a digital reading guide.
Gift and voucher service
Gift vouchers and gift cards for book gifts, with wrapping, a personal message and delivery to third parties; valid in Payot bookshops and at Nature & Découvertes Suisse.
Special order service for unlisted books
Free worldwide book ordering, including searches for unlisted titles and order tracking by phone, SMS, e-mail or post.
Institutional and corporate service
Advice for institutions, libraries and companies, with quantity discounts, central delivery or pickup, gift service, plus building and managing book collections.
School and higher education service
Support for teachers and schools with personal contact, bibliographic research, free ordering, quantity discounts, and school and university rebates.
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PAYOT SA

Trust & reputation

ranQ Trust Score of PAYOT SA: 4.6 out of 5.0

Trust Score4.6/ 5.0

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Data basis 100% · As of October 2026

PAYOT SA scores 88.5 out of 100 points in the Reputation area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 42% of the weighting.
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CriterionValueWeight
  • Review quality: The average rating across all connected sources, smoothed against the industry mean. So 5.0 stars from three reviews do not outrank 4.7 from three hundred.79.924%
  • Review volume: The number of reviews across all sources. The scale is logarithmic: the first reviews count the most, and the maximum is reached at 50 reviews.100.010%
  • Review recency: The age of the most recent review. Two-year-old reviews deliberately sit in the middle, because that is normal for Swiss SMEs. Only after three years without a new voice does the value drop markedly.100.08%
PAYOT SA scores 89.3 out of 100 points in the Substance area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 28% of the weighting.
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  • Establishment: Years since founding or brand launch, logarithmic. The maximum is reached at 15 years.100.012%
  • Company size: The headcount band, researched by ranQ or stated by the company. It is scored in steps rather than by head count, because the data only provides bands.70.07%
PAYOT SA scores 86.7 out of 100 points in the Identity area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 22% of the weighting.
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CriterionValueWeight
  • Verification: Official register entry (commercial register with UID or professional-body record, 55 points), confirmed domain (20 points) and confirmed ranQ profile (up to 25 points, depending on completeness).86.722%
PAYOT SA scores 88.4 out of 100 points in the Visibility area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 8% of the weighting.
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  • Website authority: Ahrefs' Domain Rating measures, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strongly a website is linked from other websites. For Swiss SMEs the range up to 40 is typical; the maximum is reached at 35.100.04%
  • Media authority: Quality and number of editorial mentions, weighted by the importance of the source, plus the recency of the latest high-quality mention.76.74%
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PAYOT SA reaches a ranQ Trust Score of 4.6 out of 5.0 — rated «Excellent». The rating draws, among other things, on 4.6 out of 5 stars from 2140 customer reviews. As of October 2026.

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Reviews

Aggregated rating

Aggregated rating
4.6
of 5

Aggregated from 2140 reviews across all connected sources

Sources
GGoogle4.62140
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Press

Media

December 7, 2025Media
«Nous avons grandi avec Payot»: les deux codirectrices du principal libraire romand se confient
lenouvelliste.ch
November 18, 2024Media
Payot continue de fermer des sites de Nature & Découvertes en Suisse
watson.ch
February 2, 2024Media
Le PDG de Payot Pascal Vandenberghe annonce son départ
swissinfo.ch
February 1, 2024Media
Le directeur général de Payot Pascal Vandenberghe part à la retraite
rts.ch
February 1, 2024Media
Pascal Vandenberghe lâche la direction de Payot
24heures.ch
October 10, 2022Media
Payot a reçu «deux bonnes nouvelles de la Comco»
agefi.com
June 17, 2014Media
Pascal Vandenberghe devient propriétaire de Payot Libraire
letemps.ch

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Location

Hier entsteht die Karte
Rue Côtes-de-Montbenon 30
1000 Lausanne
Opening hours
Mon
09:00 - 19:00
Tue
09:00 - 19:00
Wed
09:00 - 19:00
Thu
09:00 - 19:00
Fri
09:00 - 19:00
Sat
09:00 - 18:00
Sun
Closed

At a glance

Legal form
Corporation
UID
CHE-105.897.137
Founded
1923 · 103 years
Last commercial register change
January 30, 2026
Employees
11 to 20
Legal form: Graded by liability and disclosure. The weight is kept small: a sole proprietorship is not a dubious company, it is just liable differently.
100.0
6%
  • Branch offices: Branch offices linked in the commercial register. Having none is normal and costs no points.70.03%
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