RECOMMENDATIONS
Our recommendations for Canadian small business
We researched 39 software products that Canadian small businesses are sold every day. This is what we recommend, and why.
Most business software sold in Canada is priced in US dollars, stores your data outside the country, and treats GST/HST and French as afterthoughts. We compared the big names in each category on price, data residency, Canadian billing, French support, setup and support. Where nothing fit, we built our own, and we say so where someone else is the better buy.
Pick a category
Business email
6 products compared · our solution: MapleMail
Invoicing
6 products compared · our solution: MapleInvoice
Expense tracking
7 products compared · our solution: MapleExpense
AI receptionist and business phone
6 products compared · our solution: MapleReceptionist
Property management
7 products compared · our solution: MapleConcierge
E-signature
7 products compared · our solution: MapleSecure
How we researched
- Vendor pages only. Every price and feature on these pages was read from the vendor's own website on the date shown, with the link. If a vendor does not publish it, we do not guess.
- Canadian questions first. Is it priced in Canadian dollars? Is the data stored in Canada? Does it handle GST/HST the way a Canadian business files? Can your team use it in French? How long does setup take, and who answers when it breaks?
- Honest about our own. Joel & Nanz Inc. makes a product in each of these categories. We show it as our solution, with its prices before HST, and we tell you when one of the alternatives is the better fit.
Want the full scoring, with a number for every criterion and a place to vote? See Maple AI Consultants' software ratings.