Clients, invoicing, quotes, purchase orders, projects, rentals, scheduling, and time — the parts of running a business that usually mean six logins, held in one steady place.
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DeskAnchor is business management software for small and mid-sized Canadian companies — the trades, contractors, shops, rental yards and service businesses that run on invoices, jobs and payroll rather than on spreadsheets. Clients, quotes, invoicing, point of sale, purchase orders, expenses, projects, rentals, scheduling, time tracking, payroll and email, in one place, for one price.
Most businesses this size end up with a different tool for each of those, none of which talk to each other: an invoicing app, a spreadsheet for the schedule, a payroll bureau, a till that knows nothing about stock. DeskAnchor is the alternative to that — one login, one set of clients, one set of numbers.
Raise a quote, turn it into an invoice in one click with nothing re-typed, and take a card payment against it. Provincial tax is worked out from where the work happened and broken out as separate line items. Recurring invoices, payment reminders and account statements are built in.
A till for the counter. Ring a sale through and the stock comes down, the tax is already right, and the takings land in the accounts without anybody re-keying them. Works with a receipt printer and a cash drawer.
Federal and provincial deductions calculated the way the Canada Revenue Agency defines them, built from the CRA's own T4127 guide rather than approximated. Quebec runs an entirely separate system — QPP, QPIP and Revenu Québec income tax — and it is handled properly here rather than bolted on. Real pay stubs come straight from approved timesheet hours.
Build the schedule, let the crew clock in against their actual shift from their phone, approve the hours, and send them to payroll. Missed shifts are flagged when they happen rather than discovered when payroll is due.
Rent equipment out by the day, the week or the month. Book ahead without double-booking, check it out, check it back in, and the charge works itself out the cheapest way your own rate card allows. The rental raises its own invoice and keeps it right if the kit comes back late.
What you buy, from whom, against which job. Purchase orders, vendors, receipts and expense categories that roll up into the accounting side instead of sitting in a shoebox.
Connect your own mailbox and send invoices, quotes and replies without leaving the app — threaded, with folders, templates and signatures, and every document you send filed against the client it went to.
Add employees and decide exactly what each one can see, create, edit or delete. The person at the till does not need the payroll screen, and will not have it.
GST, HST, PST and Quebec's separate GST + QST split are calculated and shown as their own line items on every document, at the rate for the province the supply belongs to under the Canada Revenue Agency's place-of-supply rules. Your GST/HST registration number appears on every invoice. Payroll follows the CRA's published formulas and Revenu Québec's own rules for Quebec employees.
This is the part that American software gets wrong, and the reason it is worth having a platform built here.
One price, everything included. No separate payroll add-on and nothing locked behind a higher tier — invoicing, POS, payroll, rentals and scheduling all come with the subscription.
It is all-in-one business management software: clients, quotes, invoicing, point of sale, purchase orders, expenses, projects, equipment rentals, scheduling, time tracking, payroll and email, in one place rather than six separate tools.
Small and mid-sized Canadian businesses — trades and contractors, shops and counters, rental yards, and service businesses. Companies that run on jobs, invoices and payroll.
$49 per month, or $490 a year, in Canadian dollars. One user is included, and extra seats are $1 per user per month. Every feature is included at that price; payroll is not a separate add-on.
Yes — 14 days. Your card is verified when you sign up but nothing is charged during the trial.
Yes. Quebec runs a separate system from the rest of Canada — QPP instead of CPP, QPIP, and Revenu Québec income tax — and that is handled properly rather than bolted on. Deductions are built from the CRA published T4127 formulas.
Yes, at the rate for the province the supply belongs to, broken out as separate line items on the document. Quebec's separate GST + QST split is handled, and your registration number appears on every invoice.
Yes. You connect your own Stripe account, so payments go straight to you and the card details never touch our server.
Yes to both. There is no minimum term, and your clients, products and invoices can be exported to CSV at any time.