Updated July 30, 2026
QuickBooks Self-Employed is about $19.99 CAD per month, and its web version, QuickBooks Lite, is $20. NorthOS is $12, imports your QBSE data, connects to your bank, and maps everything to the CRA Form T2125. Built for Canadian sole proprietors.
First, the thing you may have read elsewhere: QuickBooks Self-Employed is not discontinued. It is still sold, at about $19.99 CAD per month, and its web version is branded QuickBooks Lite at $20. Intuit still runs a QuickBooks Self-Employed support channel. Nobody is forcing you off it.
People move for two reasons. Price: NorthOS is $12 CAD per month, about 40% less than QBSE. The QuickBooks Online small-business tiers above it run higher still: EasyStart at $30, Essentials at $70, Plus at $110, and Advanced at $220 (prices as of 2026, from Intuit's Canadian pricing page).
And CRA depth. Both tools cover receipts, expense sorting, GST/HST/PST, mileage, invoices, and a tax summary. NorthOS also maps every expense to its specific CRA T2125 line, tracks the GST/HST $30,000 threshold on a rolling four-quarter basis, and includes a Quick Method calculator for all 13 provinces and territories. Intuit does not advertise those three. For a full side-by-side, read our QuickBooks Self-Employed alternative for Canada comparison.
Log in to the web version of QBSE and download your transaction history as a CSV, plus your tax summary and profit-and-loss reports. Do this before you cancel, since you lose access once your subscription ends and the CRA expects you to keep records for six years. Our QuickBooks Self-Employed Canada exit manual covers exactly what to pull.
Upload your QBSE export to the NorthOS importer and your categories map straight to the Canadian T2125 lines. Want fresh transactions to flow in on their own? Connect your bank and credit card accounts and new activity lands in a review queue, with nothing posting to your books until you approve it. The QBSE to NorthOS migration guide walks through both paths.
Confirm your province and whether you are registered for GST/HST, and NorthOS organizes everything against the CRA Form T2125. You get a running income-tax estimate and sales-tax tracking, so when it is time to file, your numbers are already in the right place.
NorthOS now has the features you came to QBSE for, plus the Canadian tax handling QBSE never did well.
Automatic bank feeds
Connect your bank and credit cards. New transactions import into a review queue, and nothing posts until you approve it.
Receipt scanning
Capture receipts and attach them to transactions, with North AI reading the details for you.
Mileage tracking
Log business kilometres in the mobile app, ready for your T2125 vehicle-expense claim.
Invoicing and online payments
Create and send invoices and get paid online, the same as QBSE. NorthOS collects payment through Stripe.
T2125 category mapping
Expenses map straight to CRA Form T2125 lines, including your imported QBSE data. No US Schedule C labels.
GST/HST, plus QST and PST
Registration-threshold tracking is built in, with QST for Quebec and PST for BC, SK, and MB handled for you.
Quick Method calculator
If you elect the GST/HST Quick Method, the remittance math is built in, for all 13 provinces and territories. Intuit does not advertise a Quick Method calculator.
Canadian income-tax estimate
See a running estimate of what you owe across the year, not just a surprise at filing time.
Priced for a side hustle
$12 CAD per month, below QuickBooks Lite at $20 and QuickBooks Online EasyStart at $30.
Export your QBSE data, import it or connect your bank, and let NorthOS handle the T2125 and GST/HST from here. Bookkeeping built for Canadian sole proprietors, at $12 CAD per month.
