MapleExpense News & Releases

June 15, 2026

See every figure on your tax report — and trace it back to the receipt

The MapleExpense tax report now drills all the way down. A new Business / Personal toggle splits your spending instantly, with live GIFI totals that update as you switch. Vendor tables are click-to-sort, GIFI account names appear on hover, and locked prior years are greyed out so you cannot accidentally restate filed numbers. Every line opens the underlying receipt in one click. The result is a report you can actually defend: instead of a flat number on a page, each total traces straight back to the original receipt and the CRA account code behind it. For a small business owner that means filing season is a review, not a reconstruction — and if the CRA ever asks a question, the answer is one click away rather than an afternoon in a filing cabinet.

June 15, 2026

GST/HST and input tax credits, prepared the way the CRA expects

MapleExpense now has a dedicated GST/HST hub that walks you through filing step by step, with a fill-in worksheet laid out by CRA GST34 line number. As you capture receipts, MapleExpense writes a plain-language business-purpose note for each claimable input tax credit, and requires one before an ITC is claimed — exactly the documentation the CRA looks for. It also flags input tax credits from prior periods that you are still entitled to recover on Line 107, so money you were owed does not quietly expire. For a Canadian small business, this turns a confusing remittance into a guided checklist, and makes sure every dollar of recoverable HST is actually claimed.

June 15, 2026

Match receipts to your bank — and handle foreign-currency spending correctly

Receipts can now be linked directly to the matching bank transaction, so you can see at a glance which spending is backed by a receipt and which still needs one. For purchases made in another currency, MapleExpense records the CAD equivalent and calculates the foreign-exchange gain or loss automatically, with a clear breakdown you can review and adjust. This closes two gaps that quietly cost Canadian businesses money: spending that never gets a receipt attached and slips through reconciliation, and US-dollar purchases booked at the wrong rate. Now the reconciliation is done as you go, and your foreign-currency math is right before it ever reaches your accountant.

April 24, 2026

A faster, cleaner experience on your phone

MapleExpense received a full mobile redesign, with a single-tap menu and a themed, full-screen navigation overlay that makes the whole product comfortable to use on a phone. Receipts most often happen away from a desk — at the till, in the truck, over lunch — so the place you capture them should work in your hand. The new layout keeps the screen uncluttered, puts the actions you need where your thumb can reach, and gets out of the way so capturing a receipt on the spot takes seconds. Less friction at the moment of purchase means more receipts captured and fewer lost to the bottom of a bag.

April 22, 2026

Mileage logbook and financial statements

MapleExpense added a built-in mileage logbook and a first set of financial statements. Log your business trips and MapleExpense applies the current CRA per-kilometre rates and keeps business and personal driving cleanly apart — a CRA-ready record instead of a guess at year end. Alongside it, you can now generate financial statements directly from your captured spending, so you get a real picture of the business without exporting to a spreadsheet. For owner-operators who drive for work, the motor-vehicle claim is one of the most commonly questioned deductions; a proper logbook makes it documented and defensible.

April 19, 2026

Corporate tax built in: GIFI coding, GST/HST and reconciliation

A major release brought corporate tax handling into MapleExpense with a guided five-step flow. Every expense is coded to the CRA's GIFI account standard, GST and HST are tracked through to your return, and the flow surfaces suggested deductions and reconciles your numbers as you go. GIFI coding is what turns a pile of expenses into a return an accountant can file — and doing it by hand at year end is where small businesses lose both time and deductions. By coding each receipt to the right account when it is captured, MapleExpense makes the corporate T2 a clean hand-off instead of a year-end scramble, and helps make sure legitimate deductions are not left on the table.

February 19, 2026

Rock-solid receipt-by-email and more reliable capture

This release hardened the parts of MapleExpense that run quietly in the background. Receipts forwarded by email — including those sent in awkward or encoded formats by online stores — are now read reliably, and non-receipt mail is rejected instead of cluttering your records. The capture pipeline was made more dependable end to end, so a receipt you send in actually lands where it should. Capture only saves a business time if it works every time; this work made forwarding a receipt something you can simply trust, without checking afterward that it came through.

February 15, 2026

Meet Penny, your receipt review assistant

MapleExpense introduced Penny, the built-in assistant that takes the busywork out of receipts. Penny reviews your unconfirmed receipts, suggests the vendor, amount, and tax breakdown, and groups them for a quick pass. Crucially, Penny only suggests — nothing is recorded until you tap to confirm — so you keep full control while the data entry disappears. For a busy owner, the hardest part of bookkeeping is not the math, it is finding the time to sit down and key everything in. Penny turns that into a few minutes of tapping "confirm," and keeps your books current instead of letting receipts pile up.

February 15, 2026

Rapid Scan: capture a receipt in seconds

MapleExpense added Rapid Scan, a fast capture mode that automatically straightens and crops a receipt photo before reading it, so the text comes through cleanly even from a crumpled paper slip on a café table. Optical character recognition then pulls the vendor, date, total, and tax off the image automatically — no hand-typing. The single biggest tax left on a small business is the time spent re-keying receipts one line at a time. Rapid Scan removes it: snap, confirm, done. The receipt is captured, coded, and filed into a searchable archive, and the paper can go in the recycling.

February 14, 2026

Forward a receipt by email and let MapleExpense file it

From its earliest days MapleExpense let you forward a receipt straight from your inbox. Many receipts arrive as email already — order confirmations, online subscriptions, supplier invoices — so MapleExpense added an email-in pipeline that accepts a forwarded message, downloads the original receipt, and reads the details automatically. There is nothing to download and no app to open: you forward the email and the expense is captured. For a small business this closes the gap where digital receipts used to disappear into an inbox and never make it into the books. If it lands in your email, it can land in MapleExpense.

February 13, 2026

MapleExpense launches: Canadian receipt and expense tracking

MapleExpense launched as receipt and expense software built in Canada, for Canadian small and medium businesses. From day one the goal was simple: turn the shoebox of receipts into clean, audit-ready books, with the tax math, account coding, and reports handled for you. Unlike generic tools adapted from elsewhere, MapleExpense was designed around Canadian rules — GST, HST, PST, input tax credits, and the CRA's GIFI account standard — from the ground up, with data hosted in Canada. It is part of the broader MapleWorkSuite family of Canadian business tools from Joel & Nanz Inc., a New Brunswick company.