AccountEdge fully supports Canadian businesses — Canadian tax codes, Canadian payroll, T4s, and year-end procedures built for the CRA, not adapted from US forms. This page covers what's different about setting up in Canada.

AccountEdge ships in separate US and Canadian versions, and the difference matters: tax handling, payroll tables, and government forms are country-specific. Make sure you download and install the Canadian edition — Install and Register AccountEdge covers both. It's worth confirming before you create your company file — the two versions use different tax and payroll systems.

When you create your company file, it helps to have your fiscal year and your CRA Business Number handy.

During setup you'll configure tax codes for your province — GST, HST, or GST+PST combinations depending on where you operate. Set these up before your first invoice and attach them to customers and vendors so they apply automatically: Setting Up Tax Codes and Adding Them to Customers or Vendors covers the steps. When it's time to file, How to Run GST & PST Reports covers the reporting side.

If you pay employees, the payroll add-on includes Canadian tax tables (federal and provincial). The Canadian path:

Credit card and electronic payments for Canadian businesses use a different merchant application than US businesses. See Accepting Payments for the Canadian application process.

One billing note while you're enrolling: AccountEdge subscriptions are billed in USD.

When you close your books, follow the Canada Year End Procedure — it's written for Canadian fiscal-year and CRA requirements specifically.

Beyond tax, payroll, and payments, AccountEdge works identically in both countries — the setup sequence in Setting Up AccountEdge in the Right Order applies exactly as written, and the rest of this help center serves both versions. Where an article is country-specific, the title says so.