Built by someone who
lived the problem.

I'm a web developer. In 2022, I incorporated my consulting practice — something my accountant strongly recommended for liability and tax reasons. Great advice. What nobody warned me about was the paperwork.

Within 90 days of incorporating, I was drowning in obligations I didn't fully understand: quarterly HST remittances, corporate bank account reconciliation, T2 corporate tax returns, payroll remittances for the salary I paid myself, and then — on top of all that — a personal T1 return that was suddenly far more complicated because of dividends.

I hired a bookkeeper. They were great, but at $200/hour and needing 8 hours a year just to reconcile, I was spending $1,600 annually on something that felt like it should be automatable. I tried every bookkeeping tool I could find: QuickBooks, Wave, FreshBooks, Xero. They all had the same problem — they were built for American businesses. Canadian tax rules were bolted on as an afterthought. HST input tax credits, T2 GIFI schedules, T4 slips — none of it was native.

So I built NorthBooks. I started it for myself, showed it to a few incorporated friends who had the same problem, and they immediately asked to use it.

NorthBooks is still a small product. Every feature was built because it was needed — not because a product manager decided it would differentiate us. If you're an incorporated Canadian professional trying to stay on top of CRA obligations without spending your evenings on spreadsheets, NorthBooks is for you.