Prince Edward Island
Smartbills reads the rate on every receipt, 15% on the Island or 14% in Nova Scotia, instead of assuming one.
PEI HST read from the receipt, line by line
Some lines on a P.E.I. receipt carry 15%, some carry only the 5% federal part, and some carry nothing at all. Smartbills keeps the tax each line was actually charged, with the supplier's HST number. The input tax credit matches the receipt instead of a rate applied to the total.
- Tax kept per line, as the merchant charged it
- Books and other rebated items counted at 5%
- Supplier HST number kept with the receipt
Off-Island trips at the neighbours' rates
Cross the bridge or take the ferry and the rate changes: New Brunswick's HST is 15% like PEI's, Nova Scotia's is 14% since April 1, 2025. Smartbills reads the rate each receipt charged, and a trip report adds up with both on it.
- Each province's rate read from the receipt
- Nova Scotia at 14%, New Brunswick at 15%
- One report for the whole trip
Why teams switch
The tax is on the receipt, not the card statement.
We claim HST as 15% of every total, and we know that's not what the receipts say.
The tax comes from each line of the receipt. Rebated, zero-rated and exempt items are counted as they were charged.
Once a purchase is over $100, the CRA wants the supplier's HST number, and it's never on the card statement.
The registration number comes with the receipt when the merchant prints it. The documentation is on file before anyone asks.
Our team is off-Island every week, and nobody checks which rate each receipt used.
Each receipt keeps its own province's rate, and the trip report adds up with all of them.
Before and after
What changes on a P.E.I. receipt.
On a P.E.I. receipt, some lines carry 15% HST and some carry none. The total can't tell you which.
| Capability | Card statement and photos | With Smartbills |
|---|---|---|
| HST on the purchase | 15% of the total | The tax each line was charged |
| Rebated and zero-rated items | Taxed at 15% anyway | Counted as charged |
| Supplier HST number | Only if someone kept the paper | Kept with the receipt |
| Getting receipts in | Photos at month end | From the merchant or the mailbox |
Integrations
Works with the tools you already use.
Your accounting software, bank feeds and card program, with data syncing in both directions.
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Sage
- FreshBooks
- Wave
- MYOB
- Zoho Books
- NetSuite
- SAP
- Oracle
- Dynamics 365
- Square
- Shopify
- Clover
- Toast
- Lightspeed
- WooCommerce
- Stripe
- PayPal
- Adyen
- Wise
- Plaid
- Chase
- Bank of America
- Wells Fargo
- RBC
- TD
- BMO
- Scotiabank
- Desjardins
- Brex
- Ramp
- Float
- Mercury
- Gusto
- ADP
- Deel
- Rippling
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- OneDrive
- Box
- Gmail
- Outlook
- Google Analytics
- Snowflake
- Looker
- Databricks
- Google Cloud
- Metabase
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Notion
- Zapier
- Airtable
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
The products that do the work.
Each product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Expense management
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Expense reports
Expense report software that attaches the receipts for you, works out mileage, routes the approval and shows each employee when they'll be paid back.
Email receipt capture
Connect Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail or IMAP. Automatically collect receipts and invoices from the folders you choose, including Archive and Spam.
Accounting automation
Accounting automation software that codes each transaction and posts the journal entry to your accounting software the day it happens.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What people ask us before they sign up.
Get started
See a month of P.E.I. receipts line by line.
Connect a mailbox and a card. HST comes in from the lines that were taxed, and exempt items stay out of the claim.