A free NorthOS partner account.
Your own referral link, plus a dashboard showing the clients you have referred and the commission you have earned. You do not pay for it, and there is no per-seat charge on your side.
Partner program
A partner program for Canadian bookkeepers and accountants who serve sole proprietors.
A free NorthOS partner account with your own referral link and a dashboard of the clients you have referred, plus a 20% recurring revenue share on every client you refer, for as long as that client stays. No cost to join.
Why your sole-proprietor clients need something else
First, a correction you may have seen elsewhere, including from us: QuickBooks Self-Employed is not discontinued.It is actively sold, at a regular price of about $19.99 CAD a month in Intuit's mobile app, and Intuit still runs a support channel for it. On the web the same product is sold as QuickBooks Lite at $20 CAD a month. The SKU behind QuickBooks Lite is QB_SELF_EMPLOYED, which is Intuit's own catalog confirming the two are one product under two names.
Here is Intuit's Canadian lineup as it stands, at list price, in CAD per month (as of 2026, per the QuickBooks Canada pricing page):
| Tier | CAD / mo | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| QuickBooks Lite | $20 | The solo product, and the web build of QuickBooks Self-Employed. Its SKU is QB_SELF_EMPLOYED. Receipts, expenses, sales tax, mileage, invoicing, tax summary. |
| EasyStart | $30 | The entry small-business tier, built for companies with staff. |
| Essentials | $70 | Adds multi-user and bill management. |
| Plus | $110 | Adds inventory and project profitability. |
| Advanced | $220 | Adds workflow automation and dedicated support. |
So the pitch to your clients is not that their tool is dying. It is price and CRA depth. QuickBooks Self-Employed covers receipts, expense sorting, GST/PST/HST, mileage, invoicing, and a tax summary, which is a real feature set. NorthOS is $12 CAD a month, about 40% less, covers the same ground, and additionally maps every expense to its specific CRA T2125 line and tracks the GST/HST $30,000 registration threshold on a rolling four-quarter basis. Intuit does not advertise either, and they are what lands on your desk in April.
We wrote up the situation in more detail on our QuickBooks Self-Employed alternatives page, and compared the realistic Canadian options in our roundup of bookkeeping software for Canada.
NorthOS is $12 CAD a month, and it is built around the things those clients actually file. That is the pitch, and it is the whole pitch.
What you get
The terms are short, because there is not much to them.
20% recurring revenue share.
On every client you refer, for as long as that client stays subscribed. NorthOS is $12 a month or $119 a year, so that is about $29 a year per monthly-plan client, and about $24 per annual-plan client. It is not a year-one bounty. It recurs.
The books arrive T2125-shaped.
Expenses are categorized to their CRA line as the client enters them, not reconciled to one in April. Year end is an export rather than a reconciliation.
Canadian-built and Canadian-hosted.
Built by Apex North Enterprises in Ontario, hosted in Canada. Your clients’ records do not leave the country.
A direct line to the founder.
NorthOS is small. When you email about a client edge case, you are emailing Nik, who wrote the thing. If you tell us the T2125 mapping is wrong somewhere, that is a bug and it gets fixed.
No cost, no lock-in.
Nothing to buy, no minimum client count, no certification, and no annual commitment. If it is not useful, walk away.
What NorthOS actually does
You know this work better than we do, so here is the feature list without the adjectives.
T2125 line-by-line expense mapping.Every expense category maps to a specific line on the CRA's Statement of Business or Professional Activities. Advertising to line 8521, meals and entertainment to 8523, motor vehicle to 9281, and so on. The client picks a plain-English category, and the line is already attached. Our T2125 guide walks the full form if you want to see the mapping we hold ourselves to.
The GST/HST $30,000 threshold, tracked on a rolling four-quarter window. This is the one that bites sole proprietors, because they find out they crossed after they crossed, and then they are back-paying GST they never charged. NorthOS shows the running total against the threshold and flags it on approach. We cover the rules in when to register for GST/HST.
Receipts attached to transactions, and a clean handoff. Clients snap or forward receipts and they attach to the matching transaction, so the source document is there when you need it instead of in a shoebox. At year end the books export already mapped to T2125 lines, so what reaches your desk is review-ready rather than a rebuild.
Provincial sales tax for BC, SK, and MB. PST is recognized by province, separately from GST, rather than being something you configure by hand and hope stays configured.
Bank feeds with an approval queue. Transactions import automatically, but nothing lands in the books until it is approved. Categorization is suggested, not silently applied, so there is always a human decision behind a number on the return.
Receipt capture. Photograph a receipt from the mobile app, or forward it, and it is read, matched to the bank transaction, and attached to the record. The receipt is the audit trail, and it stays with the transaction.
The practical effect for you: the client's books arrive already in the shape you would have put them in. Year end stops being a cleanup job.
Apply to the partner program
Five fields. It goes to the founder, and a real person replies.
Frequently asked questions
How does the revenue share work?
You earn 20% of what each client you refer pays NorthOS, for as long as that client stays subscribed. It is recurring, not a year-one bounty. NorthOS is $12 CAD a month or $119 CAD a year, so a monthly-plan client is about $2.40 a month to you (roughly $29 a year), and an annual-plan client is about $24 a year. If the client stays five years, you are paid for five years. If they cancel, the share stops.
Is there a cost to join?
No. There is no fee, no minimum client count, no annual commitment, and no certification to buy. Your partner account is free, and it stays free whether you refer one client or forty.
Do I need to move all my clients?
No. Most partners start with the sole proprietors whose books are the most painful, usually the ones on spreadsheets or on a QuickBooks tier they do not need. Clients on other software can stay where they are. NorthOS is built for the sole-proprietor slice of your book, not as a replacement for whatever you use on incorporated clients.
What happens to my clients' QuickBooks Self-Employed data?
QuickBooks Self-Employed exports transactions to CSV, and NorthOS imports that CSV directly, auto-detecting the QBSE format and mapping its categories to the correct CRA T2125 lines during import. There is no one-click migration, but a CSV export and import is a short job rather than a rebuild from paper.
Is NorthOS Canadian?
Yes. NorthOS is built by Apex North Enterprises, an Ontario company, and it is hosted in Canada. It is designed around Canadian filing: the T2125, the GST/HST $30,000 registration threshold, and provincial sales tax for BC, SK, and MB.
Your sole proprietors are being priced into software they do not need.
A free partner account, a 20% recurring revenue share on every client you refer, and books that arrive mapped to T2125 lines. No cost to join.
Apply to the partner programQuestions first? hello@northos.ca