Nova AI Bookkeeping
AI bookkeeping, built by an accountant

AI accounting. The new way to keep your books.

Nova AI is your bookkeeper and accounting assistant in one. It reads your receipts and invoices, posts the entries, reconciles your bank, runs payroll and keeps your financial statements current, all from a conversation. You stay in control of every number.

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Post the Home Depot receipt from this morning to job 24-017.
Found it in your inbox: Home Depot, Oct 27, $1,184.40 including GST. Here's the entry:
Dr Materials – Job 24-0171,128.00
Dr GST receivable56.40
Cr Visa ••44171,184.40
Balanced · receipt attached
How's the job tracking against budget?
Materials are at 62% of budget with the framing stage done. Labour is running 8% over. Want the breakdown?
Invoice Smith Homes for 20 hours of site supervision at $95 an hour.
Here's invoice INV-1043 for Smith Homes, Net 30:
Site supervision, 20 h × 95.001,900.00
GST 5%95.00
Total due Nov 271,995.00
PDF ready · posted to A/R
Shall I email it to accounts@smithhomes.ca?
Yes, send it.
Sent. I'll match the payment when it lands in the bank.
Run payroll for the October 15 pay date.
Three employees, semi-monthly:
Gross pay8,450.00
CPP, EI and income tax withheld1,951.20
Net pay6,498.80
Pay stubs ready
Post it and email each employee their stub?
Go ahead.
Done. With your share of CPP and EI, $2,591.50 goes to CRA by November 15.
Reconcile the September statement for the chequing account.
42 of 45 lines match the books. Three need you:
Sep 12 · E-transfer received450.00
Sep 19 · Costco, receipt not posted212.37
Sep 30 · Monthly service charge14.95
The service charge looks like bank fees. Post it?
Yes, and the e-transfer is the Patel deposit.
Both posted. One left: the Costco receipt. Snap it and I'll take care of it.
Illustrations of typical conversations

How Nova works

Nova AI handles the reading and the judgment calls. Plain, deterministic code handles the arithmetic, so your books always balance.

STEP 1

Send it your paperwork

Bills and receipts are read straight from your own business inbox, the one you choose to link. Or snap a photo, or drop in a bank statement. Nova finds the vendor, date, amounts and taxes.

STEP 2

Nova proposes the entry

It picks the accounts from your chart, remembers how you code each vendor, and posts automatically or waits for your approval, according to rules you set.

STEP 3

Ask anything, any time

"What did we spend on fuel last quarter?" "Who owes us money?" Get answers, reports and statements in seconds, each figure linked back to its source document.

Everything a full-service bookkeeper does

One assistant across your whole back office, available whenever you are.

General ledger

Double-entry books with an audit trail. Every entry balances and carries its receipt.

Bank reconciliation

Exact matches clear themselves. Nova works through the messy ones with you.

Invoicing & receivables

Create and email invoices, track who owes what, and match payments as they land.

Financial statements

Balance sheet, income statement and trial balance, compared to any prior period.

Approvals & roles

Invite your team, decide who can see and approve what, and set dollar limits.

Talk or type

Dictate an instruction from the truck or the shop floor instead of typing it.

Tax liabilities & deadlines

GST and PST owing tracked as you go, with every filing and remittance due date worked out from your books.

On your phone

Install Nova on your home screen like an app and snap receipts the moment you get them.

Recurring entries & loans

Rent, subscriptions and loan payments post themselves, with interest and principal split correctly.

Connects to where you sell

Link your online store and Nova keeps the books for it: sales, fees, payouts and stock, posted without anyone typing them in.

Shopify

Online store
Live
  • Every sale, refund and payout posted for you
  • Cost of goods recorded as items sell
  • Stock counts kept in line with your store, by SKU
  • Your product pictures on the inventory page

eBay

Marketplace
Live
  • Sales, eBay fees and payouts posted for you
  • What you buy to resell is kept as stock
  • Cost of goods recorded when an item sells

Wix

Online store
Coming soon

Next on our list. Wix stores will get the same treatment, with sales and payouts posted to your books for you.

Stripe

Payments
Coming soon

The payments you take through Stripe, with its fees and payouts, posted to your books for you.

Selling somewhere else? Tell us which platform and we will let you know where it sits on the list.

Banking

We are working on a direct connection to your bank, so transactions arrive in Nova on their own. Until it is ready, drop in a bank or credit card statement and Nova reads it, matches it to your books and reconciles the account with you.

BMO

Business banking
Coming soon

BMO business accounts are the first bank connection we are working toward, with the rest of Canada's big banks to follow soon after.

Simple pricing

One fee for your bookkeeping, monthly or yearly. Add the modules your business needs.

Single Entity

For sole proprietors and corporations

$425CAD / month

Billed monthly · plus applicable taxes

Get started
  • One set of books
  • Up to 3 users
  • Payroll for 1 employee
  • Receipts and bills read from email, photos and uploads
  • Bank and credit card reconciliation
  • Invoicing, receivables and payables
  • Financial statements and trial balance
  • GST/PST liabilities and filing deadlines tracked
  • Approval rules and team access

Add-ons

Add more employees at a set price. Inventory and projects are quoted to fit your business.

Additional employees

Each plan includes payroll for its employees: pay runs, deductions, pay stubs, remittances and employee records. Add more as you grow.

$15 CAD / month per employee

Inventory

Stock on hand, cost of goods sold, purchase orders and consignment, kept in step with the ledger.

Based on type and volume

Projects

Job costing against budget by cost code, progress billing, and live profitability per project.

Based on project size

Prefer it done for you?

Behind Nova is an accounting practice. If you would rather hand the books to a person, we also offer traditional bookkeeping and file your returns, with Nova doing the legwork so you get the work done faster. And you keep real-time access to your financials in Nova the whole time, so you always know where things stand without waiting for us.

Ask about our services

Bookkeeping

Monthly bookkeeping by our team: entries, reconciliations and month-end close, with financial statements you can rely on.

Sales tax returns

GST/HSTBC PST

Prepared from your books and filed on time, monthly, quarterly or annually.

Corporate tax returns

T2

Year-end T2 corporation income tax returns, prepared from books we already know.

Partnership returns

T5013

T5013 partnership information returns and the slips that go to each partner.

Built to be trusted with your books

Built by an accountant, with everything we always wanted from bookkeeping software and never got. Turns out business owners wanted the same things.

Always balanced

Nova AI proposes; code does the math. Debits equal credits on every entry, enforced by the system.

Every entry traceable

Each figure links back to the receipt, invoice or statement line it came from.

Nothing leaves without you

Nova never emails a customer or pays a bill without your say-so.

Private by design

Secure Google sign-in, no passwords to leak, and access only for the people you invite.

Frequently asked questions

What is Nova AI?

Nova is an AI bookkeeper for small and mid-sized businesses. It keeps a complete, double-entry set of books for you: recording expenses and sales, reconciling your accounts and producing your financial statements. You work with it by having a conversation, the way you would with a bookkeeper on your team.

How does it work?

You link the business email inbox you choose, on your own Google account, by granting Nova AI permission in Google. Nova reads the bills and receipts that arrive there, and only there: it never handles anyone else's email, and the permission is yours to withdraw. Nova reads each document, proposes the journal entry against your chart of accounts and learns how you like each vendor coded. Depending on the rules you set, it posts on its own or asks you first.

The judgment (reading a receipt, choosing an account) is done by Nova AI. The accounting rules (balancing entries, running balances, trial balance) are enforced by ordinary code, so the numbers can't drift.

What can Nova do?

Record bills and receipts, issue and email invoices, track receivables and payables, reconcile bank and credit card statements, keep track of the GST and PST you owe and when it's due, handle recurring entries and loans, close periods, and produce a balance sheet, income statement and aging reports. It runs payroll too: Single Entity includes 1 employee and Multi-Entity 5, with more at $15 a month each. With add-ons it also tracks inventory and costs projects against budget. Ask it a question about your numbers and it answers from your books.

Do I still need an accountant?

Nova takes care of the bookkeeping, kept the way an accountant would keep it for your company. It was built by one. Your books should still be reviewed by a person, though, and while Nova prepares your tax filings, from GST and PST returns to year-end figures, they still need a professional to review and file them.

That part we can do for you too: our accounting practice offers the review and the filings as additional services.

Can I use it on my phone?

Yes. Open novaaccounting.ai in your phone's browser and choose "Add to Home Screen". Nova installs like an app, with its own icon, and you can photograph receipts, dictate instructions and check your numbers from anywhere.

Is my financial data secure?

Sign-in is through Google, so there's no separate password to steal. Nova reads only the inbox you link, through permission you grant in Google and can withdraw at any time. Only the people you invite can see your books, and you decide what each of them can do. Read our privacy policy for the details.

What does Multi-Entity add?

If you own more than one company, such as a holding company and an operating company, Multi-Entity keeps each set of books separate while letting you move between them in one conversation and see the amounts they owe each other.

Can more people use it?

Single Entity includes up to 3 users and Multi-Entity up to 5: you, your team, your accountant. If you need more seats, contact us and we'll add them.

Is there a limit on how much I can use Nova?

Each plan includes a monthly allowance of AI use that covers a typical business comfortably, including the busy first month of setting up. If you get close to it, Nova lets you know. Nothing is ever cut off or slowed down: your books keep working, and if your use is consistently higher we'll talk with you about the right plan.

Do you also do bookkeeping and file taxes?

Yes. Alongside Nova we offer traditional bookkeeping and prepare and file GST/HST and BC PST returns, T2 corporate returns and T5013 partnership returns. These are quoted separately; email us and tell us what you need.

How are add-ons priced?

Payroll is part of every plan: Single Entity includes 1 employee and Multi-Entity 5, and each additional employee is $15 CAD a month. Inventory and project costing vary a lot from one business to the next, so we quote them after a short conversation about your stock and projects.

How do I get started?

Book a demo below. We'll walk through your business, set up your chart of accounts and bring your opening balances across, then invite you to sign in.

See Nova on your own numbers

Book a 30-minute demo. Tell us about your business and we'll show you what Nova would do with a month of your paperwork.

Drop file to upload
Let's set up your books
Ready when you are.
Upload a receipt, ask about a balance, or describe a transaction to get started.
Editing your last message - sending replaces it and its answer.
Approval workflow
Who has to approve something before it posts. Most companies need none, and then nothing waits. Leave the project, divisions, vendor and amounts empty to cover everything - "every invoice needs the owner". On a construction job, route by cost code division instead. Where two rules could both apply, the more particular one wins.
Payroll setup
What a pay run needs before it can post: the company's WorkSafeBC rate and ceiling, and the accounts each part of a pay run goes to. Give the rate as a percentage - 0.15 for 0.15%.
Access log
Everything done in these books, and everyone who did it. Support sessions - when Nova AI is in your books to fix something - are marked, and the reason is recorded with them.
People and access
A role is a name and a set of permissions, and a person holds one or more of them. Change a role and it changes for everybody holding it - which is the point of having roles rather than setting each person separately.
Settings
Theme
AI voice
Skip intro video
People and access
Access log
Payroll setup
Approval workflow