Built for Canadian rules.
Made in Canada by a Toronto team, built for the CRA. Payroll is checked against the CRA's own calculator, and HST, T4s, T4As, and ROEs are built in. Your accountant recognizes every number.
For Canadian owners who'd rather be doing the work
Run your business.
Work Simply.
Countet looks after the money side of an incorporated Canadian business — invoicing, payroll, HST, and the books underneath — and keeps it current without you standing over it. Ask Tess what you're owed, what you owe, and what's actually yours to keep. She reads your books and answers in plain English, at 11 p.m. on a Sunday if that's when you're wondering.
Built in Canada · made for the CRA, not adapted from a US tool
One press
of the button.
of the button.
Draft Posted
Record to books · select accounts Journal entry · PAY-20260430-a1b2c3d4
500100 — Salaries & Wages
⌄ Dr $6,230.77
200600 — Payroll Deductions Payable
⌄ Cr $1,723.69
100100 — Cash – Operating Account
⌄ Cr $4,507.08
Balanced
Total · $6,230.77
View in General Ledger ✓ Payroll recorded to books
Your accountant opens this in April
and finds nothing to fix.
and finds nothing to fix.
The Friday afternoon you know
You stopped trying to understand why it keeps happening.
last call just ended. You open your payroll tool, enter hours, run the calculation. Then you open your accounting software because the payroll entry posted to the wrong account. Again. You fix it manually. You've done this eleven times.
Then the HST. Screenshot a number. Drop it in a folder. Your bookkeeper will deal with it before the filing. That's what the $550 a month is for.
Then the spreadsheet. The one you built yourself, because the software showed paid invoices as outstanding and you stopped trusting it.
hours on things that are not your job.
What if all of it happened when you pressed one button?
The math of three tools
One tool instead of three.
The accounting-payroll-bookkeeper stack was supposed to talk to itself. It mostly doesn't. So you stitch it together, or you pay someone to.
What you use now
Your accounting tool
For invoicing and books that drift out of sync
What you use now
Your payroll tool
For payroll that posts to the wrong account every month
What you use now
A bookkeeper
For four to five hours a month fixing what the integrations got wrong
What it becomes
Countet · one login
Send the invoice. Run the payroll. Pay the vendor. Your books update at the same moment, with
no one in between.
~5 hrs
A week back
in your month
(and your entire April!)
What you get back
~5 hrs
back in your week
~10 hrs
saved per client, per year, for your accountant
$17,540
what the old stack really costs a year
Illustrative: a typical 4-person team replacing an accounting tool + a payroll add-on + a bookkeeper.
The product
Your whole back office, on one screen.
This is the actual app, not a screenshot. Click through the sidebar: the dashboard, Tess, invoicing, payroll, and the double-entry ledger underneath. One system, every screen reconciled to the same numbers.
Cash $84,217 ▲ $6,120 this month Unpaid invoices $6,420 1 overdue Profit · YTD $42,180 ▲ 14% vs last year Sales tax owing $4,217.30 Set aside · due Jul 31
Tess
Your AI assistant
How much did I actually make this month?
Who still owes me money?
3 unpaid invoices · $6,420
Cordova Building Group $1,250 Overdue
North Loop Cafe $2,970 Sent
Brampton HVAC $2,200 Sent
What do I owe the CRA right now?
Tess reads straight from your books. For what you should do, she'll point you to your accountant.
For you today
Ranked by what needs your attention
Overdue invoice $1,250.00
INV-0012 · Cordova Building Group is 14 days overdue.
Send a reminder → Payroll due May 18
Next run in 8 days · 4 employees + 1 contractor. Everything's ready.
Review payroll → HST set aside $4,217.30
Moved to your tax reserve this month — you're covered for July 31.
See the entry → Show all 7
Invoicing
Quotes, invoices and what's still outstanding.
Current
$5,170
1–30 days
$1,250
31–60 days
$0
60+ days
$0
Outstanding
$6,420
Invoice Client Issued Due Amount Status
INV-0016 Riverside Landscaping — Draft $2,226.10 Draft
INV-0015 Brampton HVAC Apr 22 May 22 $2,200.00 Sent
INV-0014 North Loop Cafe Apr 18 May 18 $2,970.00 Sent
INV-0012 Cordova Building Group Apr 2 Apr 16 $1,250.00 Overdue
INV-0011 Meadowvale Dental Mar 28 Apr 10 $3,410.00 Paid
INV-0010 Cordova Building Group Mar 15 Mar 20 $1,875.00 Paid
Reports
Every statement, generated from your live ledger.
Revenue vs expenses
Revenue Expenses
$42,180 Net · YTD
Profit & Loss
Income statement · Jan 1 – Apr 30
$42,180
Net income
Balance Sheet
Assets, liabilities & equity
$128,400
Total assets
Aged Receivables
Who owes you, by age
$6,420
1 invoice overdue
Aged Payables
What you owe suppliers
$1,047
Nothing overdue
Sales Tax Summary
HST collected vs paid
$4,217.30
Owing · due Jul 31
Trial Balance
All accounts, debits = credits
Balanced
As of Apr 30
Payroll
Next run in 8 days · everything's ready.
Ready Pay date · May 18, 2026
Net pay
$6,230.77
Contractors
$1,600.00
Source deductions
$1,842.10
Total cost
$7,830.77
Hours & salaries confirmed CRA remittance calculated Direct deposit connected
CRA remittance owing
$1,842.10
Source deductions · due the 15th
Set aside automatically when you run payroll — nothing to reconcile.
This run · 4 employees + 1 contractor
Name Role Type This pay
Marie Chen Lead electrician Salary $1,980.00
Devon Clarke Electrician Hourly $1,640.00
Priya Nadar Apprentice Hourly $1,310.77
Sam Whitfield Office / dispatch Salary $1,300.00
North Pole Contracting Contractor Invoice $1,600.00
General Ledger
The real books under everything — auto-posted, always balanced.
Debits = Credits
JE-0231 Apr 30, 2026 Payroll — pay period ending Apr 30 Posted
Account Debit Credit
5001 Salaries & Wages $6,230.77
5010 Employer CPP / EI $611.33
2100 CRA Payable $1,842.10
1000 Cash — Chequing $5,000.00
Balanced $6,842.10 $6,842.10
JE-0230 Apr 28, 2026 Payment received — Meadowvale Dental (INV-0011) Posted
Account Debit Credit
1000 Cash — Chequing $3,410.00
1100 Accounts Receivable $3,410.00
Balanced $3,410.00 $3,410.00
JE-0229 Apr 26, 2026 Invoice issued — North Loop Cafe (INV-0014) Posted
Account Debit Credit
1100 Accounts Receivable $2,970.00
4000 Sales Revenue $2,628.32
2200 HST Payable $341.68
Balanced $2,970.00 $2,970.00
New invoice
Run payroll · May 18
4 employees + 1 contractor. This pays your team and posts wages, the CRA remittance, and cash to your books.
Net pay (employees)$6,230.77
Contractors$1,600.00
CRA source deductions$1,842.10
Total cost$7,830.77
New journal entry
See it work
The back office, actually doing the work.
Run payroll and it pays your crew by direct deposit: wages, deductions, and the CRA remittance all post to your books the same second. T4s and ROEs come from data that’s already there.
Ask Tess: “is my next payroll covered?”
Run payroll Posted
Direct deposit — 4 employees $6,230.77
CRA source deductions $1,842.10
Booked to your ledger
T4s & ROEs ready at year-end · no reconstruction
Send a quote, let the client accept online, turn it into an invoice, and get paid by card or bank with Pay Now. Overdue? One click sends a polite reminder.
Ask Tess: “who hasn’t paid me?”
Invoice INV-0041 Paid
Amount
$3,200.00
Method
Pay Now · card
Quote accepted online
Converted to invoice · sent
One click sends a polite reminder if it goes overdue
Photograph a receipt or drop in a bill PDF. Countet reads the vendor, the total, and the tax, then files it where it belongs. The shoebox can retire.
Ask Tess: “what did I spend at Home Depot?”
Receipt, read and filed Filed
Vendor Home Depot
Total $248.13
HST detected $28.57
Categorized and posted for you · nothing to re-type
Countet keeps a running total of what you owe the CRA — HST, payroll source deductions, corporate tax — and tells you what to set aside well before each deadline. No April surprises.
Ask Tess: “how much HST do I owe?”
Set aside for the CRA Due Jul 31
HST owing $4,217.30
Payroll source deductions $1,842.10
Set aside so far $6,059.40
All current · nothing to reconcile in April
Who it's for
Two shapes of the same problem.
If you incorporated in the last few years, hire your first person, or pay yourself a mix of salary and dividends, you've felt one of these.
The team owner-operator
You run a small team.
You incorporated two years ago. You have four employees on T4 and two contractors on T4A. You're already paying a bookkeeper $550 a month and you still have to redo half of it yourself.
"My bookkeeper spends half her time fixing stuff that should just work."
Trades · MSPs · clinics · small consultancies
The solo owner-operator
You're the whole company.
One-person CCPC. Two clients on retainer. You "pay yourself" by transferring money from the corp to your personal account. Your accountant unwound $42,000 of it as a backdated dividend last May.
"I have no idea how much of the money in my account is actually mine."
Independent consultants · solo professional corps · PRECs
Built for the businesses Canadian accountants serve every day
Skilled trades Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, gas fitting
IT managed services MSPs, security shops, infrastructure consultancies
Allied health Physio, chiro, RMT, mental health practices
Solo CCPC Consultants, freelancers, professional corps
The honest comparison
What “all-in-one” actually means.
Feature
Wave
QuickBooks
Countet
Native Canadian payroll included
No add-on
No add-on
Yes
Books update the moment you act (no sync)
No
No
Yes
Canadian-owned and built
No H&R Block, US
No Intuit, US
Yes
Built for the owner, not the accountant
No
Partial
Yes
One bill, not base + add-ons
No
No
Yes
It’s not about the sticker price. It’s the bookkeeper and the April cleanup the others quietly need, about $17,540 a year.
In their words
From the people who already switched.
Named owners, real companies. We'd rather let them do the talking than talk about ourselves.
Early access
Customer stories are coming soon. We'd rather show you real names than make them up.
For the accountant in the room
Built for the people your accountant trusts.
Your accountant is the most trusted voice in your financial life, especially the day you incorporate. So we built Countet to earn that trust on the inputs that actually matter to a CPA.
- ✓ A free Accountant seat that never uses a paid seat. Your own login to every client. Service as many as you like at zero seat cost.
- ✓ Sign up without creating a business. Land straight in your My Practice workspace — owned and serviced clients grouped, one-click switching.
- ✓ Accountant Rewards: about 10 clients and a plan is free. Every paying client credits your own Countet bill, up to $10/mo each. Calculated automatically.
- ✓ A real general ledger underneath. Payroll, invoices, and vendor bills post natively, so year-end is a review, not a rebuild.
Accountant Rewards
Every paying client shaves up to $10/mo off your own Countet bill. About ten clients, and a plan is free.
See how rewards work →
Paying clients it takes to make one of your own Countet plans free.
~10
Why it's safe to switch
Three things to tell your accountant, and your gut.
The questions you're not asking out loud, answered before you ask them.
You're never trapped.
Your data and your setup are yours to keep. Export everything, from invoices and payroll to your accounts and tax settings, to a QuickBooks-compatible format in one click. If you ever want to leave, the door opens.
A real accountant, when you want one.
Countet handles the day to day on its own, but you're never stuck. When you want a human, a real Canadian accountant is a click away to check your numbers or answer a tricky CRA question.
Two paths · pick one
Pricing that fits the shape of your business.
Solo if you're the only person on the payroll. Team if there's anyone else. You're one or the other, never both, so you never pay for a shape you're not.
Path A Solo For the one-person CCPC
Everything you need.
One price.
You're incorporated, you pay yourself, and you don't need to hire anyone yet. So we don't sell you a "starter" tier that's missing what you actually need to run a one-person corp correctly.
$79 / month CAD · flat 30-day free trial
Start Solo free → - Tess your AI assistant, ask about your numbers in plain English
- Invoicing, expenses, and vendor bills
- Bank reconciliation and full reports
- Pay Myself: salary, dividends, and draws, properly classified
- The Tax Vault: HST, corporate, and personal tax set aside automatically
- T4As received, sales tax filings handled
- Year-end T4/T5/T2 data package, ready for your accountant
or
Path B Team For the business with people on payroll
Build your stack.
Start with the foundation. Add only what your business actually needs. Up to three companies on one Team plan.
Required · The foundation
Books + Ops
$59/ mo
- Tess your AI assistant
- Invoicing & expenses
- Vendor bills & AP
- Bank reconciliation
- Full GL & reports
- Sales tax tracking
Optional
People
+$11/ mo
- Employees & payroll
- Time off & reviews
- CRA-aligned remittances
- T4s & ROEs at year-end
Optional
Inventory
+$59/ mo
- Items & SKUs
- Movements & valuation
- Perpetual stock tracking
Common configurations
Books + Ops alone $59 / mo
Most chosen Books + Ops + People $70 / mo Replaces ~$125+/mo of an accounting plan + a payroll add-on today. And the Friday afternoon.
All three $129 / mo
Start Team free → 30-day free trial · up to 3 companies · cancel any time
Per-employee seats · included with People
Growing? Save on seats by the bundle.
The People module covers your first three employees. Beyond that, individual seats are $10 each. Buy a pack and the per-seat price drops the more people you bring on.
It's Getting Busy.
$9.00 / seat
~$90 / mo
Are We Opening an Office?
$8.50 / seat
~$212.50 / mo
We've Gone Viral.
$8.33 / seat
~$1,250 / mo
30 days free on either path · no credit card to start · cancel any time
Stay in the loop
We’re building in the open.
Not ready to start? Get the occasional build update and a Canadian small-business tax tip worth keeping.
The books can stop living in your head.
Thirty days free, no card. Bring your accountant along — their seat costs nothing. All you're giving up is the Friday afternoon.
Not ready? Get the occasional update instead.
30 days free · no credit card · Canadian-built · made for the CRA · Built by Artomai · Toronto