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Type your site notes. Markup’s AI-assisted quote builder suggests labour and material line items based on your rates and scope. Every line is yours to review, adjust, and approve before it leaves your phone.
Ontario’s Construction Act requires specific fields before your invoice qualifies as a “proper invoice” and starts the 28-day payment clock. Markup fills all of them, including your ECRA/ESA licence number, period of work, and statutory holdback line.
Canadian electricians have more CRA obligations than most tradespeople realise. T5018 applies to every sub apprentice or journeyperson you pay over $500. Lien rights expire at 60 days in Ontario. Markup tracks all of it so nothing falls through.
Every payment to a sub apprentice or journeyperson is logged. Markup alerts you when any subcontractor crosses the $500 annual threshold so you know a T5018 is required. You still file with CRA, but you won't miss who needs one.
Working in Ontario? 13% HST. Heading to a site in Alberta? 5% GST. BC? GST + PST. Markup applies the correct rate for every invoice based on the province you select. No manual lookups, no wrong rates on cross-provincial work.
Ontario: 60 days from last supply. BC: 45 days. Alberta: 60 days. Markup tracks the deadline from the last invoice date on each project and flags it before the window closes. A missed lien deadline is permanent, no extension available.
The Ontario Construction Act requires owners to withhold 10% of progress payments as statutory holdback. Markup shows this as a separate line item on every Construction Act invoice and tracks what is outstanding versus what has been released.
Your free CRA deadline calendar shows every HST/GST filing date for your province and reporting frequency. Quarterly or annual filer, Markup keeps the dates visible so you never pay a late-filing penalty.
Every invoice, expense, and HST amount exports to CSV. Your bookkeeper or accountant gets clean numbers for your HST return, ITC claim, and year-end. No re-keying from a stack of paper invoices.
Electricians pull quotes on service calls and invoice before they leave the driveway. Markup is built for a phone held one-handed, in a panel room, wearing gloves.
Markup is a financial and compliance tool. It handles the money side of your business. It does not replace your trade software.
Use your electrical engineering tools
Requires trade-specific software
File through your ESA contractor portal
Markup tracks; you or your accountant files
Managed directly with ESA
Use payroll software for employees
Yes. Ontario Regulation 570/05 under the Electricity Act requires that electrical contractors display their ECRA/ESA contractor licence number on invoices, contracts, and advertising. A proper invoice under the Ontario Construction Act also requires contractor identification. Markup stores your ECRA/ESA number on your profile and prints it on every Ontario invoice automatically.
Service-call invoices (replacing a receptacle, troubleshooting a breaker, adding a circuit to an existing panel) are standard invoices with no special statutory requirements beyond your ECRA/ESA number. Construction Act proper invoices apply to improvement contracts on real property: panel upgrades, rough-in for a renovation, commercial fit-ups. A proper invoice under section 6.1 of the Ontario Construction Act starts the 28-day payment clock and must include the invoice date, period of work, description of services and materials, amount payable, payment terms, and your name and address. Markup formats both types and lets you choose which applies.
Yes, if they are not your employees. The T5018 (Statement of Contract Payments) is required for any subcontractor in the construction industry who receives more than $500 in a calendar year. This includes apprentices, journeypersons, or other licensed electricians you hire as subcontractors rather than employees. Markup tracks every subcontractor payment and flags when the $500 threshold is reached. Filing with CRA is still your responsibility or your accountant's.
In Ontario, an electrician has 60 days from the date of last supply of services or materials to a project to preserve a construction lien. Miss that deadline and lien rights are extinguished permanently. No extension is available. Markup tracks the 60-day window from the last invoice date on a project and surfaces a warning before the deadline passes.
Generally yes, if you are registered for HST/GST and the tools are used commercially. Input Tax Credits (ITCs) under section 169 of the Excise Tax Act allow you to recover the HST/GST you pay on business inputs including tools, wire, breakers, conduit, and equipment. Markup records HST/GST paid on expenses so you have the figures for your bookkeeper's ITC claim. Markup does not file your HST return.
No. Markup is a financial and compliance platform covering invoicing, quoting, tax tracking, and CRA deadlines. Permit applications, ESA inspection scheduling, and permit fee tracking remain with your ESA contractor portal. These are separate from the financial workflow Markup handles.
Enter your last supply date and province. Get the exact preservation deadline for ON, BC, or AB.
Try it free →HST/GST filing dates for your province and reporting frequency. Never pay a late-filing penalty.
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Try it free →Correct HST, GST, and PST for every province. Useful on cross-provincial work.
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