Sage 50 Canada (Simply Accounting) to QuickBooks Online
Sage 50 Canada — the software many still call Simply Accounting — converted to QuickBooks Online: chart of accounts, customers and vendors, GST/HST and PST/QST coding, departments and your multi-year history, reconciled to the cent against your Sage trial balance. Email-based, fixed price, anywhere in Canada.
What moves from Sage 50 Canada, honestly
Cleanly: accounts remapped to a proper QuickBooks chart · customers and vendors with balances · open invoices and bills with ageing · bank and credit-card transactions · inventory items with quantities where practical · and your transaction history — sales, purchases, receipts, payments and journals — for the years you choose to carry.
With decisions, stated up front: sales-tax codes map to QuickBooks Online tax codes for your province — GST/HST, PST, and Quebec QST all handled · departments become classes or locations · projects become QuickBooks projects — similar, not identical · foreign-currency balances keep their original rates (see the four rules).
Not at all, by anyone: historical pay runs into QuickBooks Online Payroll — employees arrive with year-to-date figures for clean T4 and ROE continuity, and pay history carries as journals plus archived reports · Sage forms and templates — rebuilt natively · the Sage audit trail (archived, never lost).
Worth knowing
Sage 50 Canada is not the same product as Sage 50 US or Sage 50 UK — different database, different taxes, different payroll. Conversions built on the US route quietly mangle Canadian tax history; ours is built for the Canadian product. Bilingual files and Quebec QST setups are routine, and your Sage data stays untouched on your machine as the permanent archive.
How it runs
- Email your Sage 50 backup (.CAB or company folder) — we send exact export steps for your version.
- Fixed written quote by email, usually within one business day.
- We build and verify QuickBooks Online while you keep working in Sage.
- Cutover with trial balance, ageing and sales-tax summaries reconciled against Sage, plus a delta pass for anything entered while we worked.
Questions Sage 50 Canada users ask us
Is this the same as your US Sage 50 conversion?
No — Sage 50 Canada (the old Simply Accounting) is a different product from Sage 50 US, with different data, taxes and payroll. This page is the Canadian route; we handle both.
How do GST/HST, PST and QST carry over?
Sales-tax codes map to QuickBooks Online tax codes for your province, including combined GST+PST and Quebec QST. Historical tax summaries are reconciled against Sage before cutover.
Can payroll history come across?
QuickBooks Online Payroll cannot accept historical pay runs, so employees arrive set up with year-to-date figures for clean T4/ROE continuation, and pay history carries as journals plus an archived report set.
We run departments and projects in Sage.
Departments map to QuickBooks classes or locations, projects to QuickBooks projects — similar, not identical, and we state the differences before we build.
Send the file, get a number
Email care@ezconvertbooks.com with your Sage 50 version and years of history — or use the quote form. Fixed quote by reply, usually within one business day. Considering the automated route first? Where Dataswitcher stops and manual conversion begins.