Your accountant tells you in April. CostGuard tells you before you go to bed — what the day actually made, what it cost, and whether you cleared break-even.
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A real day from the test books. The figure is there; so is the reason not to trust it yet.
Most tools show you a number and leave you to guess how good it is. This one tells you which inputs it has, which it's missing, and what that does to the answer.
Break-even against the sales you actually took, prime cost as a share of the day, and what was left over once wages and food were out.
Photograph it in the truck. Line items, GST and PST come off the picture and land in the books, split by what you bought — food, packaging, supplies, fuel.
CRA remittances and T4s, stat holidays, overtime thresholds and vacation pay — including the thirty-two hour week a public holiday creates.
Alberta has no PST and the engine doesn't invent one. HST provinces run in HST mode, where the provincial portion is forced to zero rather than double-counted. Quebec isn't supported. QPP, QPIP and TP-1015 are a separate system, so the province is typed as unsupported — the code will not quietly fall back to someone else's rules.
Saskatchewan is the one that runs daily on real books. The rest carry rate tables and holiday rules but haven't had an operator's year-end through them yet. That's worth knowing before you decide to be first in your province.
CostGuard doesn't transmit to CRA. It builds the T4 slips and runs a pre-flight that names every gap — a missing SIN, an employer identity CRA won't accept, a box that doesn't reconcile — before you or your accountant file. No Record of Employment yet.
Every feature runs on my own books before it runs on yours.
CostGuard is built by the operator of The Bannock House in Regina — eight years of service, six Food Truck Wars titles, and the same close-out at the end of every night. The product exists because that close-out used to take until April.