A Calgary firm with three GST/HST cadences
Mixed GST/HST cadences across 60 Calgary bookkeeping clients
Four staff
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The situation
Sixty bookkeeping clients on a mix of monthly, quarterly and annual GST cadences is sixty separate recurring calendars, and the differences between them are invisible in a client list.
When a client crosses a threshold and changes cadence, a hand-maintained calendar only changes if someone remembers to change it.
How the workflow fits
Cadence lives on the service assignment
Each client's GST service carries its own frequency. Changing a client from quarterly to monthly is one field, and every future date follows from it.
One feed, triaged by proximity
Sixty calendars render as one feed sorted by urgency, so the question is never "whose GST is due?" but "what is red this week?"
Remittances roll past holidays
Dates landing on a weekend or an Alberta statutory holiday move forward automatically rather than being adjusted by hand each year.
What changes day-to-day
- A cadence change is a data edit, not a calendar rebuild.
- The week's remittances are one filtered list across the whole book.
- New clients inherit the correct cadence at onboarding rather than at the first missed period.