A Canada-first replacement,
sized for one.
Per Intuit's community pages, the QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app was no longer available for download starting March 24, 2024. Existing users were directed to app-store support paths, but new Canadian solopreneurs needed somewhere else to go. MapleBooks is a Canadian-built finance tracker for solo freelancers — built around CRA workflows from the start, not retrofitted from a US Schedule C tool.
What's familiar, what's better-fit.
Familiar from QBSE
Income and expense tracking by category. Mileage logging with a vehicle logbook. Mobile receipt capture. A year-end summary you can hand to your accountant. The core workflow you already know.
Built for Canada from day one
GST/HST $30,000 threshold monitoring with 70/90/100% alerts. T2125-aligned expense categories mapped to CRA line numbers. All 13 provinces — BC/MB/SK PST, QC QST with input tax refunds, and HST for ON/NB/NL/NS/PE handled inline. PIPEDA + Quebec Law 25 privacy compliance throughout.
The compliance moments QBSE didn't quite hit.
Canadian tax rules don't map neatly onto US-designed software. These three areas matter most for Canadian solopreneurs — and all three are handled natively.
GST/HST registration timing
Rolling four-quarter threshold tracking plus single-quarter breach detection. Linked to CRA's actual $30,000 small supplier threshold — not an abstraction borrowed from a US sales-tax model.
Provincial sales tax
BC, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan PST are tracked separately from GST. Quebec QST includes input tax refund handling. Ontario, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and PEI HST flows inline with the federal return.
T2125 instead of Schedule C
Expense categories map to T2125 line numbers — 8000, 8523, 9281, and the rest — not to a US Schedule C. The year-end package your accountant receives speaks CRA, not IRS.
Bring your data with you.
CSV import handles RBC personal, Scotia modern format, and BMO — as well as a generic Date/Description/Amount layout and Debit/Credit column splits. Most users export a transaction history from their bank and bring it straight in. Manual entry is always available for anything that doesn't fit a CSV.
What MapleBooks is not.
We'd rather be clear up front than surprise you after signup.
- No bank sync yet. Canadian open-banking is still firming up. Manual entry and CSV import are the current path; we'll add sync when the infrastructure is reliable.
- No accountant portal yet. It's in design. For now, you export a year-end package and share it directly with your accountant.
- No invoicing. Wave and FreshBooks already do this well. MapleBooks focuses on the income and expense tracking side.
- No tax filing or NETFILE. We produce a clean, print-friendly T2125 package with all the numbers organised. You or your accountant does the actual filing.
One tier. Everything included.
- GST/HST threshold monitor + remittance tracking
- Provincial tax: PST (BC/MB/SK) and QST (QC) with input tax refunds
- Receipt capture with OCR — merchant, date, total, tax
- Vehicle logbook with business-use percentage
- Tax reserve estimator with low/high range
- T2125 year-end package, browser print to PDF
- Filing period history with mark-filed snapshots
- Full data export ZIP + account delete
- PIPEDA + Quebec Law 25 privacy compliance
- Mobile-friendly — works on any screen