T4ASlip gives accounting and bookkeeping firms a dedicated platform to automate T4A slips for clients who pay contractors, officials, and independent workers.
By centralizing contractor payment data, the platform reduces manual work, eliminates error-prone spreadsheets, and creates CRA-ready electronic files in minutes.
Firms can turn T4A compliance into a repeatable, billable service line for clients in sports leagues, trucking, professional services, and other contractor-heavy industries.
Using T4ASlip helps firms reduce compliance risk for their clients while protecting staff from year-end crunch, re-keying errors, and last-minute filing panic.
T4ASlip supports an advisory relationship: firms can focus on classification and planning, while the platform handles the mechanics of preparing and delivering T4A slips.
How Accounting Firms Can Use T4ASlip to Streamline T4A Compliance
If you run an accounting or bookkeeping firm in Canada, you’ve probably seen the same pattern every year:
Clients who pay contractors, referees, or independent workers show up in February with messy spreadsheets, e-transfer histories, and a vague expectation that you will “handle the slips.”
T4A compliance is essential, but it’s rarely anyone’s favourite work.
That’s exactly why we built T4ASlip—so firms like yours can handle T4A filings faster, more accurately, and with far less staff time, while turning this recurring pain point into a structured, billable service.
- Why T4A compliance is getting harder for your clients
Several trends are making T4A work more visible and more urgent:
- E-transfers and digital payments mean contractor payments are fully traceable.
- The CRA increasingly cross-checks outgoing payments against information returns.
- Budget 2025 funding gives CRA more resources to target non-compliance for fees-for-service, worker misclassification, and personal services businesses.
- Industries like trucking and youth sports are now specific enforcement priorities.
Your clients may still see T4A slips as “optional” or a nice-to-have. CRA doesn’t.
Accounting firms are caught in the middle—trying to keep clients compliant with limited time, incomplete data, and tight filing deadlines.
- Where T4ASlip fits in for accounting firms
T4ASlip is a web-based platform built specifically to handle T4A slips. Instead of wrestling with PDFs or manual templates, your team can:
- Import payment data from client spreadsheets or accounting systems.
- Map contractor names, addresses, and amounts in a guided workflow.
- Automatically identify which recipients cross reporting thresholds.
- Generate all T4A slips in bulk with consistent formatting.
- Produce CRA-ready electronic files for quick online submission.
- Email slips to recipients directly from the platform (or export PDFs).
In other words: the platform takes the mechanical, repetitive work off your team’s shoulders, while you stay in control of the engagement and the advice.
- Ideal client types for a T4ASlip-powered service
T4ASlip is particularly valuable for firms whose clients include:
- Sports leagues and associations paying referees, umpires, coaches, and officials.
- Trucking and logistics companies using owner-operators, incorporated drivers, and subcontract carriers.
- Professional practices and agencies that rely heavily on contractors (IT, marketing, consulting, creative services).
- Small businesses that use freelancers, trainers, instructors, or project-based specialists.
- Any organization that pays many individuals via e-transfer or cheque outside payroll.
These clients often lack the internal systems to track and file T4As correctly—but they trust you to keep them compliant.
- Turning T4A work into a structured, billable service line
Instead of T4A filings being a one-off favour, you can position them as a clear, recurring service, for example:
- “T4A Compliance Package” billed annually, including:
– Review of contractor lists and payments;
– T4A slip preparation via T4ASlip;
– Electronic filing with CRA;
– Copies for client records and their contractors.
- “League and Association Referee Reporting” for sports clients, bundled with bookkeeping and year-end services.
- “Contractor Compliance Review and Filing” for trucking or contractor-heavy businesses, combined with classification advice.
T4ASlip gives you the operational backbone to price, schedule, and deliver these services consistently without overloading your staff.
- Reducing risk—for your clients and your firm
When you manage T4A filings manually, risk creeps in through:
- Missing contractors who cross the $500+ threshold.
- Mis-keyed names, addresses, or SINs from handwritten lists.
- Forgotten slips when clients provide late data.
- Version confusion across multiple spreadsheets and file formats.
Using T4ASlip reduces these risks by:
- Centralizing all T4A-related data in one place per client.
- Providing a clear audit trail of what was filed and when.
- Enforcing consistent formats and workflow steps.
- Making it easier to re-run or correct slips if needed.
If CRA ever asks why a client’s contractor payments don’t match their information returns, you have documentation and a repeatable process to point to.
- A better year-end for your team
February and March are already intense for accounting and bookkeeping teams. T4A prep by hand only makes it worse.
With T4ASlip, your staff can:
- Process more slips in less time.
- Spend fewer hours hunting through bank exports and CSVs.
- Standardize T4A work across junior and senior team members.
- Reserve their attention for higher-value advisory work.
That means less overtime pressure, fewer mistakes, and a smoother busy season.
- How a typical firm workflow looks with T4ASlip
Here’s what a T4A engagement might look like in practice:
1) Data collection
You ask the client for a standard export of all contractor, referee, or driver payments (or pull it from their accounting system).
2) Import into T4ASlip
Your team uploads the file into T4ASlip, mapping columns (name, address, amount, email, etc.).
3) Review and threshold check
The platform totals payments per recipient and flags those who meet or exceed your reporting thresholds.
4) Slip generation
You generate T4A slips in bulk for all selected recipients.
5) Filing and delivery
Export CRA-ready XML or other required formats for electronic submission, and email or export PDF slips for recipients and client records.
6) Archive for next year
Each client’s T4A history stays organized in T4ASlip, making next year’s work faster and easier.
- Positioning T4ASlip to your clients
You can position your use of T4ASlip as a benefit, not an extra “system” they have to learn:
- “We use dedicated T4A software so your contractor slips are accurate, consistent, and filed on time.”
- “Your ref and driver payments won’t live in someone’s spreadsheet anymore; they’ll be part of a proper compliance workflow.”
- “If CRA ever comes calling, we’ll have clean records of everything that was filed.”
For clients, the value is simple: less risk, less hassle, more confidence that they’re doing things right.
- T4ASlip as part of your advisory toolkit
T4ASlip doesn’t replace your professional judgment—it amplifies it.
- You still advise on whether someone is a contractor or an employee.
- You still help clients understand PSB and misclassification risk.
- You still design processes that fit each client’s reality.
We simply give you a specialized engine for the T4A part—so you can deliver that advice more efficiently, with less friction and less risk.
T4ASlip – Compliance Made Simple for Firms
If your accounting or bookkeeping firm wants to turn T4A filings from a year-end headache into a reliable, scalable service, T4ASlip is here to help.
T4ASlip – Compliance Made Simple for the clients who depend on you and the team members who make it all work.