Kander Books · Coming soon
Bookkeeping built for Canadian trades. Log money in and receipts as you go. Kander Books splits out the tax, sets aside what you'll owe, and hands your accountant the year. Your books stay on your phone.
Coming soon to KanderA real result from Kander Books: a quiet first year, one $10,500 Manitoba job with GST in it, and a $56 tool.
The question it answers
The bank balance lies. Part of every payment is the CRA's GST, part is income tax and CPP you'll owe in spring, and part already went on materials. Kander Books splits every dollar the moment you log it, so the number you see is the number you can actually spend.
How it works
A customer pays you. Tap Money in, put in the amount, and say whether the tax was in it or on top. Kander Books pulls the tax apart for you.
You buy something for work. Tap Receipt, put in the amount, pick what it was for. The tax you can claim back is claimed. The tax you can't stays in the cost, where it belongs.
At year end, one package for your accountant: the figures for your business return and your GST return, every entry behind them, and the questions only you can answer.
What's inside
GST, HST, PST, QST and Manitoba's RST, each handled the way that province handles it. The provincial tax that can't be claimed back on materials stays in the job cost instead of quietly underpricing your work.
Income tax and CPP are worked out on your whole year, not one payment at a time, and the amount set aside steps up as you move up a bracket.
Turn work orders into invoices, track holdback, and see who still owes you. Money billed in December counts in December, even if it's paid in January.
Pay a helper and the deductions follow the CRA's own method for every province, checked against the CRA's published tables. You get the pay stub and the amount to send in.
Your work share of the truck and the house, meals at the 50 percent the CRA allows, and tools over $500 written off over the years the way the CRA requires.
Your own money, month by month, with receipts against a plan you set once. It tells you when you're over. None of it ever reaches your accountant's package.
Private by design
No server holds them. Kander doesn't hold them. Nobody reads them unless you send them. Back them up to your own file whenever you like, and share the year with your accountant when you're ready.
Kander Books is coming, and it isn't something we're dreaming up. It's built and being used right now by the Winnipeg contractor building Kander, twenty-five years on the tools, on his own books.
Before anyone else touches it, every figure gets checked. A full year of test books matches an independent calculation to the cent, and payroll matches the CRA's own tables. It gives you and your accountant clear estimates. It never files anything for you, and your accountant always has the final say.
One account will open both Kander and Kander Books. Founding contractors on Kander get their first year of Kander Books free.
Get on Kander now. When Books opens, your account is the one that opens it.