Hand your accountant a finished year.

LedgerLodge is bookkeeping and CRA audit evidence for a single-owner Canadian corporation: invoicing and receivables, expenses and receipts, bank import and reconciliation, the GST/HST workpaper and return lines, capital cost allowance, and a year-end package your CPA works from. Every deduction, credit and tax figure is computed on the server from dated CRA rules. It prepares the filing; it does not file a return — you or your accountant do.

An incorporated owner-operator — the original case is a British Columbia IT consultancy with a calendar fiscal year — who drives a personal vehicle for business and is reimbursed by the kilometre. One sign-in owns one set of books; there is deliberately no team or collaboration layer.

Business kilometres are reimbursed at the CRA-prescribed rate, which steps down after the first 5,000 km in a calendar year — 73¢ then 67¢ for 2026. A trip that straddles the boundary is split across both rates, and because the rate depends on distance already driven, the whole year is recalculated in date order whenever a trip is added, edited or deleted.

A reasonable per-kilometre allowance is treated as GST/HST-included under ETA s.174, so a fraction of it is claimable as an input tax credit: 5/105 in BC and other GST-only provinces, 13/113 in Ontario, 15/115 in the HST-15 provinces.

No. AI capture only turns a photo or a sentence into a structured draft and asks clarifying questions. When you save, the server recomputes every deduction and credit from the rules and stores a snapshot of the calculation. The model is explicitly instructed to ignore any allowance, percentage or rate it sees in your input.

No. British Columbia PST is recorded separately and excluded from the GST/HST credit base everywhere in the app, while still counting toward what you actually paid.

Each row carries the date, category, subcategory, attendees or recipient, client company, business purpose, location or route, distance, rate breakdown, subtotal, GST/HST, PST, tip, gross, deductible percentage and amount, ITC eligibility percentage and claimable ITC, receipt count and flags. The XLSX adds per-category and grand totals, annual kilometres and the staff-event count; self-contained ZIP packages carry the source evidence.

Receipts are stored in private S3-compatible object storage and served only through short-lived signed links. The CRA expects books and records to be kept for six years from the end of the tax year they relate to; deleting an expense deletes its receipts with it, so export before you tidy.

The books export at any time, in open formats: expenses as XLSX and CSV, the vehicle logbook as CSV, monthly statements as PDF, and two ZIP packages — the audit package with the receipt files, and the CPA package with the ledgers, schedules and receipts — each with a manifest.json listing the SHA-256 of every file inside it.

When the trial ends without a plan, or a plan lapses, the account turns read-only: every record stays open and every export still runs, except one — finalizing a CPA package, which is a write rather than a read and needs a plan. A draft CPA package still exports.

Posted journal entries are never edited or deleted; a correction is posted as a reversal and a replacement entry. And the whole stack is self-hostable from a docker compose file, with billing switched off, no telemetry and no licence check.

Two plans, in Canadian dollars plus GST/HST. Manual is C$6.99 a month or C$69.99 a year: you enter expenses by hand and the full CRA engine, receipts, statements and exports are included. Complete is C$11.99 a month or C$119.99 a year and adds AI capture from receipt photos and sentences. Every account starts with 30 days of Complete free, no card required. Nothing is metered, and there is no team tier because one sign-in owns one corporation's books by design.

No. LedgerLodge organises records and prepares configurable bookkeeping workpapers checked against CRA publications. It supports capital-asset schedules and a Quick Method election only from facts and rates you confirm; it does not replace a Canadian CPA, decide whether an expense was genuinely for the business, or make judgement-heavy choices such as home-office and shareholder-benefit treatment.