Beanflow is free to use today — no monthly fee and no credit card. Calculations are validated against the CRA Payroll Deductions Online Calculator. A Free plan and a CAD $15/month Basic plan begin on March 1, 2027; free use continues until then.
No credit card to start·CRA Payroll Calculator validated·All provinces & territories except Quebec
Why BeanFlow Payroll
No credit card and no trial countdown. Start Canadian payroll without a subscription today. From March 1, 2027, a Free plan and a CAD $15/month Basic plan take effect — free use continues until then.
Built on the CRA's official T4127 formulas, validated against the CRA Payroll Calculator. Tax tables update twice a year — January and July — you do nothing. See the 2026 CRA deduction changes we track, or browse all payroll resources.
Questions go to the people building BeanFlow — not a call center. We aim to reply within 24 hours. Get support
Switching to Beanflow
Mid-year switch with pay stubs (not hand-entered YTD totals). Set up the company and a catch-up pay group, bring people over, then run payroll — past periods first, then this one.
Company name, province, and remittance details — the CRA basics for this tax year.
Features
Beanflow is built for Canadian small businesses that need the details done right. It is free to use today and through February 28, 2027 — from March 1, 2027, a Free plan and a CAD $15/month Basic plan take effect. Click a card to see how it shows up in real life.
Victoria Day falls mid-week. One hire started Thursday. Another took the day off.
Eligibility is provincial. We apply it that way.
Stat holiday pay follows the rules for that province — not a flat “everyone gets 8 hours” shortcut.
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Who's using it
Hourly staff, tips, bi-weekly pay — handled.
Seasonal crews and overtime rules, by province.
Small teams, part-timers, zero accounting background needed.
Moving our payroll to BeanFlow was the easiest ops decision I made this year.
As a founder juggling everything at WEVSOCIAL, having it be free, compliant, and actually intuitive means I can stay focused on building and scaling. It's free for Canadian SMBs, the numbers are clean, and when I had a question, support actually helped. I'd tell any founder to just start.
BeanFlow has been such a gem to discover.
Being super cash tight when I first incorporated, I was looking for a cheap payroll software. BeanFlow is more than cheap... It's free! It's saving me more than $600 per year. It's also super intuitive to use for a newbie, and offers great customer service. Can't recommend it enough.
Pricing
There is nothing to pay right now, and nothing to pay until March 1, 2027. Every account will be notified before any billing begins.
From March 1, 2027
$0CAD / month
Up to 2 active employees a month, across all companies in your account.
From March 1, 2027
$15CAD / month
Includes the first 2 active employees. Each additional active employee adds $3 CAD per month.
Current accounts
Your account keeps full free access through February 28, 2027. On March 1, 2027, the Free and Basic plans take effect: accounts that have chosen Basic keep using it, and accounts that have not simply move to the Free plan — nothing bills automatically, and your employees, payroll history, and documents stay.
The Free and Basic plans above take effect on March 1, 2027 — Basic is not purchasable yet.
Beanflow is free to use today, and a Free plan plus a CAD $15/month Basic plan take effect on March 1, 2027. Wagepoint and Wave are paid subscriptions bundling more automated payments and filings. The trade-off is simple: pay for more automation, or keep those steps in your hands.
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Wagepoint & Wave Payroll
Q&A
Beanflow is free to use today — no monthly fee, no per-employee charge, no trial deadline, and no credit card. The Free and Basic plans take effect on March 1, 2027. Every account will be notified before any billing begins.
The Free plan covers up to 2 active employees per month, counted across all companies in your account. It includes payroll setup, accurate CRA-checked calculations, saved payroll results, and paystub previews. Your payroll history and files already generated stay accessible and downloadable. Generating and delivering new paystubs and creating new T4 or ROE files are part of Basic.
Basic will be CAD $15 per month and includes your first 2 active employees. Each additional active employee adds CAD $3 per month. Pricing is per account: all of your companies count together, so companies are never charged separately, and the number of payroll runs is unlimited. An account with 1 company and 4 active employee records costs the same as an account with 3 companies and 4 active employee records in total.
Employees are counted per billing month. An employee is active for a month when they take part in a payroll run you approve during that month — running payroll for the same employee several times in the month still counts them once. Employees you have created or imported but who are not in an approved payroll run that month do not count. The count covers all companies in your account, and each month's count will be shown in plain language in the product.
Current accounts keep their existing free access through February 28, 2027. On March 1, 2027, the Free and Basic plans take effect for everyone. If you have not chosen a paid Basic subscription by then, your account simply moves to the Free plan — nothing bills automatically, and subscribing is always your choice.
Nothing bills automatically. Your account moves to the Free plan: up to 2 active employees a month, accurate calculations, saved payroll results, paystub previews, and access to your existing history and documents. New paystub generation and delivery and new T4 or ROE files are part of Basic. Your employees, payroll history, and generated documents stay accessible either way.
Yes. Moving to Free never deletes employees, payroll history, or documents — everything already generated stays viewable and downloadable. If you have more than 2 active employees in a month, you will need Basic to keep running payroll for all of them. And even with 2 or fewer active employees, generating new paystubs, T4s, or ROE files requires Basic.
Beanflow's payroll calculation engine is built from the CRA's T4127 payroll deduction formulas, and calculation cases are validated against the CRA Payroll Deductions Online Calculator. Tax tables are versioned by tax year and updated when payroll rules change.
CPP, EI and tax withholding guide 2026 CRA payroll deduction changes
Yes. Import your employees by CSV and use the guided catch-up payroll workflow to rebuild the current tax year from prior pay stubs, period by period, so your year-to-date records stay complete.
No. Beanflow generates T4 slips and summaries as CRA-ready XML, plus source-deduction remittance summaries and due dates. You upload the T4 return and make the CRA payment yourself, so you remain in control of what is submitted.
Direct deposit is not available yet. Employers currently pay employees by e-transfer or cheque after the payroll run is approved.
For supported cases, Beanflow can prepare a draft ROE Web extract from your payroll records. You review the information and file the ROE through Service Canada; Beanflow does not submit it for you.
Beanflow supports payroll in every Canadian province and territory except Quebec. Quebec payroll uses a separate provincial tax system and is not currently supported.
Payroll data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Authentication uses Google Sign-In with OAuth 2.0, so Beanflow does not store your Google password. We do not sell your payroll data.
