A free NorthOS partner account.
Manage your clients’ books from one account. 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 to manage your clients' books, and 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
You have probably already run into this. QuickBooks Self-Employed is being wound down in Canada. Intuit dropped it from the main Canadian pricing lineup and stopped investing in it, and the current Canadian product for solo operators is QuickBooks Lite at $20 CAD a month. The rename is not much of a disguise: the SKU behind QuickBooks Lite is still literally QB_SELF_EMPLOYED.
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 current solo product. Invoicing, sales tax, basic reports. Its SKU is still QB_SELF_EMPLOYED. |
| 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 a sole proprietor has two directions to go, and neither is a good fit. They can sit on QuickBooks Lite, which is an invoicing-and-tracking product rather than a filing product. Or they can move up into EasyStart at $30 and above, which are small-business tiers built for companies with staff, inventory, and a full chart of accounts. Your client with a truck, a phone, and a home office does not need any of that, and they are the one paying for it.
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.
A Quick Method calculator for all 13 provinces and territories. If the client elects the Quick Method, the remittance is computed with the right provincial rate and the 1% credit on the first $30,000 of eligible supplies. It is a built-in Quick Method calculator, not a spreadsheet you maintain on the side.
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, mapping the categories to the correct CRA T2125 lines during import. There is no one-click migration between the two products (Intuit does not offer an automatic path from QBSE to QuickBooks Online in Canada either), 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, the Quick Method, 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