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Website and application hosting, managed by me: domain, certificate, deployments. Applications and their databases run on my server in Quebec.
Marketing sites, transactional sites, custom platforms — modern, fast, and bilingual.
Custom training on the Forge Tech accounting software for your teams.
All the server services your business needs — from setup to ongoing management.
Leaving Sage, QuickBooks, Acomba or another software? I handle the transfer myself, and you keep your old software until you've checked the result.
Responsive technical support and predictable maintenance plans for your peace of mind.
Forge Tech Blog
Accounting, taxation, payroll, business management — jargon-free, designed for Quebec and Canadian SMBs.
A business pre-authorized debit must be disputed within 10 business days: the monthly statement often comes too late. Three reasons to reconcile daily, the method, and the math to run with your own numbers.
How Flinks links your bank to your software, what Forge Tech's connector reads (still in demo mode) and what it can't do, Flinks vs Plaid, and the points grid that decides what reconciles itself.
The yearly question every incorporated owner asks: salary, dividends, or a mix? Here's the 2026 method with real Quebec + federal tax rates and 3 worked examples.
The deductions and contributions on every Quebec paycheque in 2026, what changed since 2025, and a full $60,000/year bi-weekly example worked out line by line.
The AI import button reads your vendor invoice PDF and fills in vendor, dates, amounts and taxes. Included from the Base plan. What it reads, what it can't read yet, and the time-savings math.
TOTP vs SMS, authenticator apps, recovery codes, and which accounts to require it on first.
Who changed what, when, and what it said before: the 5 elements the CRA requires, 3 worked scenarios and the 6-year rule.
The 3-2-1 rule, explained simply, the full export of your company file, and on my side: an AES-256 archive every night, tested before older ones are deleted.
Floor plan by section, checks closed with payment method and tip, sales report by server, by hour and per cover.
Multi-buildings, TAL leases, auto rent, OACIQ trust, T776.
Unlimited nomenclature, automatic MRP, scheduling, quality control.
The day-by-day math, what the curve misses (payroll, source deductions, sales tax) and how to measure its accuracy on your own books.
The module's 6 rules, thresholds included: duplicates, invoices at 3× the average, new vendors over $1,000. Plus Benford, to run yourself.
Canadian Standard 005 format, supported banks, fees per deposit.
2026 rates: 0.430% employee + 0.602% employer, on maximum insurable earnings of $103,000. Maximum premium of $442.90 per employee.
1.25% to 4.26% by payroll mass. Progressive formula.
Rates 0.30% to 14% by NAICS sector.
90s IMAP polling, Win10/11 toast, native sound, multi-account.
Create Teams meetings + .ics invitations by SMTP. No M365 license.
Signed webhook: the invoice turns "Paid" as soon as your client pays. Fees checked, GST/QST, CSV statement reconciliation.
60+ REST endpoints + HMAC webhooks. Shopify, Slack, HubSpot.
Invoices in CAD, USD or EUR, a table of dated rates with their source (Bank of Canada as the reference), and the FX gain or loss worked out step by step on a US$1,000 invoice.
Job postings and a 6-stage candidate pipeline, from New to Hired, every move dated. Plus what Quebec's Law 25 requires when you keep résumés.
10 essential KPIs, 1-click drill-down, alerts, PDF export.
.ics RFC 5545 compatible Outlook/Gmail/Apple. Email task assignment.
Pick your sector out of 9: all 36 months fill in with starting values, +3%/yr on revenue, +2%/yr on expenses, seasonal peaks. Replace any cell with your own numbers, then export to CSV.
Prices checked August 7, 2026, Quebec payroll, CCQ and RL-1: what each one does, and where the others win.
10 apps: Stripe, Shopify, Mailchimp, Zapier, Slack, Teams, Outlook.
Who gets what: employees, contractors, shareholders.
Payroll included in the Pro plan, CCQ in the same software as the ledger, reminders that go out on their own: 50 verifiable reasons, with Acomba GO prices checked August 7, 2026.
GST/QST, source deductions, T4 and RL-1, T5018, T2 and CO-17, CNESST, CCQ: the 2026 deadlines month by month, with the penalty scale published by the CRA, Revenu Québec, CNESST or CCQ, plus a worked example. Printable.
Receipt OCR, bank matching, cash forecasting, conversational assistants: 8 AI features, one question. When the AI gets it wrong, who notices, and when?
Cell plan, home internet, headset, bank fees, professional dues, 50% meals, home office: the rule for each of the 30 expenses, a worked example to calculate your tax saving, and how to claim the ones you missed in past years.
Underpriced hourly rates, ghost inventory, receivables nobody chases, forgotten subscriptions, misclassified CCA… For each leak: how the money gets out, the test to run on your own numbers, and the line to fill in your worksheet.
Mismapped chart of accounts, misaligned opening balances, recoded tax codes, untrained staff, a cutover with no parallel month: the 5 mistakes that derail a software switch, and the day-by-day protocol to avoid them.
Strengths, weaknesses, market signals, slow cloud transition. Honest verdict from a competitor who respects the brand.
2026 example: $52,000 in wages, $6,004.94 in employer contributions, 1,920 hours actually worked. Real cost: $34.90/h. For a 30% margin, you need to bill about $50/h.
Since 2013, QST no longer compounds on GST. Here's the exact rule with examples so you never get it wrong.
Class 50 (55%) or Class 8 (20%)? On a $1,500 iPad, $787.50 more deduction in year one. The tax math, with your own rate.
The two year-end slips. T4 goes to CRA, RL-1 to Revenu Québec. Mandatory boxes, equivalences, common mistakes.
NEQ, RBQ, incorporation, GST/QST, banking, accounting, insurance. The full 30-day checklist to forget nothing.
Wondering if $75/h is too low or too high? Here's the full method: costs, target margin, market comparables.
The balance sheet in 4 sections: current assets, fixed assets, liabilities, equity. The 6 essential ratios to know.
The magic threshold: ~$85,000 net income. Below, stay self-employed. Above, incorporate. Tax calculations included.
If you pay a business lunch with your personal card, you create 3 problems. Here's what and how to fix it.
The threshold is over 4 consecutive quarters, not a calendar year. Sometimes, it's better to register BEFORE to recover input tax credits.
Any construction contractor paying $500+ to a subcontractor must file a T5018. Here's how, when and what to declare.
Box A copied from the T4, miscalculated QPP, Quebec tax based on an outdated TP-1015.3, forgotten taxable benefits, late slips: the 5 errors that lead to an assessment notice.
Choosing an asset's CRA class isn't optional: it's mandated by the Income Tax Act. The 12 most common classes explained.
Three accounting tools for three different profiles. Here's how to choose by size, industry and budget. Comparison table included.
You enter each trade's rate once, per sector. After that, every hour logged calculates its CCQ contribution, and the month is summed up by trade and by employee. Time saved? Work it out with your own hours.
Sage 50 getting more expensive and the interface dating from the 2000s? Here's how to migrate without losing 10 years of history.
Late bank reconciliation, misclassified GST/QST, manual payroll, no cash forecast, mixed expenses: 5 mistakes that end in fees, interest or penalties. Symptom, cost and fix for each, with or without software.
Where your data lives, GST/QST, the real 3-year cost worked out line by line, French support: QuickBooks, Sage 50, Acomba and Forge Tech put through the same test, prices collected on August 7, 2026.
Five levels of automation, from an Excel sheet to a filed return, judged on one question: what's still left for you to do by hand? With a GST/QST remittance worked out line by line, and the math to see whether software pays for itself.
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