What are /r/canadasmallbusiness' favorite Products & Services?

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No problem.

Here are some YNAB blogs on the topic this one was super helpful when I was looking everything up.

https://www.youneedabudget.com/goodbye-quickbooks-you-need-a-separate-business-budget/

This one is about how YNAB the company uses YNAB to run - https://www.youneedabudget.com/ynabs-business-category-setup-in-ynabrevealed/

The number one take away is - don't struggle all year to save your accountant a couple hours at tax time. Focus on using tools that make managing your business easy, then pay a little extra to have you accountant do their work. You just need to ensure your recording everything properly.

So I just did a review for our company.

I settled with an unlikely group of services.

1) Freshbooks for Invoicing - It does this better than anything I've seen. We also record Billable Receipts in their expense section in addition to any paper receipts. WE do the paper one just so there is a reference if we need to look for the receipt.

2) YNAB (You Need a Budget) https://www.youneedabudget.com/ for bookkeeping - I use it personally and it gives me the ability to see where my money is being spent as well as keeping great records. But you have to send Income to a category instead of the default "to be budgeted" category for it to work well for your accountant.

3) YNAB Export + Excel Pivot Table for the Accountant - This gives them everything they need for corporate tax. Access to Freshbooks gives them most of what they need for HST.

4) Wave Payroll - There might be better solutions for this, but we're already setup and it's affordable

5) Everlance for milage

Working for us so far.

I used to use Quickbooks for my small business, but I've switched to Wave now. It's free for accounting features, you'll need to pay for payroll. I've found it easier to use that Quickbooks. Can't beat the price either: https://www.waveapps.com/