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 "id": "taxcycle",
 "name": "TaxCycle",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "taxcycle.com",
 "category": "Financial Operations",
 "task": "Tax & compliance",
 "summary": "Professional tax preparation and CRA e-filing for Canadian accountants and bookkeepers, sold per module and per user, with bundles for the full suite. Canada-only, and not a consumer filing app.",
 "best_for": "Canadian accountants and bookkeepers who prepare and e-file client returns and want fast, checked, CRA-integrated professional tax software",
 "skip_if": "you're an individual filing your own personal return (consumer software is far cheaper), or you're outside Canada",
 "honest_knock": "This is professional preparer software priced for firms, not a consumer filing app: the cost only makes sense if you're preparing returns for clients at volume. The suites start at about CAD $1,655 a year for one user and each extra seat adds several hundred dollars, so a two- or three-person practice should budget the suite price plus seats, plus GST or HST, before comparing it with per-return alternatives.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "C$618",
  "entry_price_terms": "a year",
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "Prices are published on www.taxcycle.com/pricing (Canadian dollars before tax, per year, single user). Read 27 September 2026, after the September sale ended on the 24th: Tax Basics 2026 $1,655 (reg. $1,680) with additional users at $540; the Complete Tax Suite $2,700 (reg. $2,800) with extra users at $756; the Complete Tax Suite plus TaxFolder $2,852 (reg. $3,102) with extra users at $944. Those are still discounts, of $25, $100 and $250, under a banner that read 'Sale Ends Dec 18' on 27 September and reads 'Only Until Dec 17' on 13 October, with a 12-month payment plan offered only during the sale. On 9 September, in the deeper September sale, the same three were $1,600, $2,625 and $2,752. The page also states that all software is licensed per calendar year, not as an ongoing subscription; on 13 October it adds that software purchased that day is licensed through 31 December 2027. Every module is also priced separately: TaxCycle T1 $618 (+$238/user), T2 $1,102 (+$248), T3 $532 (+$211), T5013 $516 (+$211), T2202 $558 (+$211), T3010 $268 (+$86), Forms $270 (+$27), and the slip modules T4/T4A, T5, T5018, NR4 and RL $268 each (+$27). TaxFolder is $375 (+$215) and licensed to the end of 2027; DoxCycle $280 (+$167); Data Mining a $242 site licence; Québec TP1 a $198 site licence. Three-user and ten-user tiers are listed on their own tabs. The module prices were unchanged on 27 September 2026, and every package and module price was unchanged again on 13 October 2026.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
  "source_url": "https://www.taxcycle.com/pricing/",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 618.0,
   "currency": "CAD",
   "description": "TaxCycle T1 2026, per year, single user, CAD before tax; additional users $238 each. Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-13.",
   "page": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/taxcycle-review/"
  },
  "source_quotes": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "per_seat",
   "label": "Per-seat pricing",
   "evidence": "$1,680) with additional users at $540; the Complete Tax Suite $2,700 (reg.",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": "https://www.taxcycle.com/pricing/"
  },
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Every module is also priced separately: TaxCycle T1 $618 (+$238/user), T2 $1,102 (+$248), T3 $532 (+$211), T5013 $516 (+$211), T2202 $558 (+$211), T3010 $268 (+$86), Forms $270 (+$27), and the slip modules T4/T4A, T5, T5018, NR4 and RL $268 each (+$27).",
   "verified_at": "2026-10-13",
   "source_url": "https://www.taxcycle.com/pricing/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "ProFile or TaxPrep (Wolters Kluwer)",
  "why": "the established Canadian preparer suites — TaxCycle competes on speed and UX; compare on the specific modules your practice files"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/taxcycle.json",
  "review": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/b2b/taxcycle-review/",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/taxcycle/",
  "vendor_site": "https://taxcycle.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://invitation.taxcycle.com/ngza3ochezk9",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "taxcycle:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "taxcycle:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "taxcycle:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "taxcycle:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}