Personalized Small Business Support

Opportunities, filing reminders and insights matched to your business.

Small Business Navigator uses the information in your business profile to identify relevant opportunities and remind you about important filing, registration and compliance dates before they are overlooked.

✓ Receive opportunity notices selected for your business, location and goals.
✓ Get reminders for GST/HST filings, annual returns and other important dates.
✓ Access document reviews, calculators, help videos and professional guidance.
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Your Personalized Notices

Information that could matter to your business

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Grant and funding notices Programs selected according to location, industry, size and business plans.
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Tax credits and incentives Potential tax-saving programs and incentives relevant to your profile.
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Business opportunities Selected opportunities, programs and developments worth investigating.
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Timely filing and registration reminders Reminders generated from the dates, filing frequencies and business details stored in your profile.
01 Personalized
opportunity notices
02 Filing and
deadline reminders
03 Document reviews
and calculators
04 Compass videos and
professional assistance
Welcome to SBN

See how Compass helps you act before deadlines are missed

Watch this brief introduction to see how Compass, the SBN Navigator, uses your business profile to support personalized opportunity notices, filing reminders and practical next steps.

Your profile can include incorporation details, annual-return dates, GST/HST registration status, filing frequency, payroll information and other recurring obligations. Those details provide the source data for timely reminders.

Two Core Business Intelligence Services

Find valuable opportunities and avoid costly missed filings

Your profile allows SBN to do two important jobs: filter opportunities that may fit your business and generate reminders for filing, registration and compliance matters that should not be forgotten.

Your profile provides the context

The same profile that helps SBN match opportunities also supplies the dates and business facts used for reminders. Important profile information can include:

  • Province, municipality and service area
  • Industry and type of business
  • Business structure and years in operation
  • Revenue range and number of employees
  • Hiring, equipment and expansion plans
  • Financing needs and current business challenges
  • GST/HST filing frequency and reporting periods
  • Annual return, payroll and other recurring due dates
Example Member Profile

Notices and reminders become more relevant

Members can update their profile as their business changes.

Location New Brunswick
Business stage Growing
Employees Planning to hire
Equipment Purchase planned
Primary goal Expansion
GST/HST status Registration monitored
GST/HST filing Quarterly
Corporate annual return Reminder enabled
A Major Reason to Stay Connected

One missed filing can cost far more than the service

Small business owners are busy. A government reminder may be overlooked, sent to an old address or misunderstood. Compass uses the information maintained in your business profile to bring important dates and possible registration requirements back to your attention.

Your profile becomes a business reminder system

During onboarding, you provide the dates, filing frequencies and business facts that apply to your company. As those details change, you update the profile so future reminders remain useful.

Compass can then send advance reminders and follow-up notices rather than relying on the owner to remember every corporate, GST/HST, payroll or other recurring obligation.

Reminders are an additional safeguard, not a replacement for government notices or professional advice. The business owner remains responsible for confirming and meeting every applicable deadline.
Examples of Valuable Reminders

Important matters that are often missed

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Corporate annual return A reminder to file the corporation's annual return and maintain its active status. This is separate from the corporate income tax return.
GST
GST/HST registration review A prompt to review registration obligations when taxable revenue approaches or exceeds the applicable $30,000 small-supplier threshold.
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Registration at business startup A reminder to consider whether voluntary or mandatory GST/HST registration is appropriate when the business begins operations.
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GST/HST return due dates Advance reminders based on the filing frequency and reporting periods recorded in the profile.
Membership Services

Ongoing assistance for your small business

Personalized opportunity notices and timely compliance reminders are the two core recurring services, supported by document reviews, calculators, help videos and professional consultations.

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Primary Service

Personalized opportunity notices

Receive notices about grants, tax credits, government programs and business opportunities that appear relevant to the information in your business profile.

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Core Annual Service

Timely filing, registration and compliance reminders

Compass uses profile data to remind you about corporate annual returns, GST/HST registration reviews, GST/HST filing dates, payroll obligations and other recurring business requirements. Timely reminders can help prevent avoidable penalties, administrative problems and costly corrective work.

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Document reviews

Submit eligible documents for a structured review, including tax returns, contracts, GST/HST allocations and general business health information.

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Business calculators

Use practical calculators to examine tax, GST/HST, payroll, financing, cash flow and other business decisions.

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Compass help videos

Learn through short, focused videos presented by Compass, the SBN Navigator. Videos explain business concepts, tools and recommended next steps.

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One-on-one consultations

When an issue requires individual professional attention, members can request a separate paid consultation.

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How It Works

From business profile to notices and reminders

The system is designed to reduce information overload while keeping the member in control.

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Complete your profile

Tell SBN about your business, incorporation, GST/HST status, filing frequencies, important dates, employees, goals and planned activities.

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Compass monitors matches and dates

Opportunities are compared with your profile while filing dates and registration triggers are monitored for reminders.

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Receive advance notice

Review each opportunity or reminder early enough to verify the requirement, file, register, apply or request help.

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A Second Set of Eyes

Review important documents before small issues become expensive

SBN document reviews help members identify questions, inconsistencies, missing information and areas that may require professional attention.

The purpose is to help you better understand the document and prepare appropriate questions. The scope, price and required information will be explained before each review.

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Tax Return Review Review selected tax information, schedules and areas requiring clarification.
Contract Review Support Identify important clauses, questions and matters requiring legal advice.
GST/HST Allocation Review the tax treatment and allocation of selected transactions.
Business Health Review Examine selected financial indicators and possible areas of concern.
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Meet Compass

Your guide for explanations, opportunities and reminders

Compass, the SBN Navigator, presents brief help videos, explains business concepts and uses the details in your profile to deliver relevant opportunity notices and timely reminders about important business obligations.

Professional Assistance

Some matters require individual advice

When a notice, review or business issue requires personal attention, members may request a separate paid one-on-one consultation.

Consultation Details
Small Business Navigator

Find opportunities, remember deadlines and act sooner

Complete your business profile and let SBN help bring relevant opportunities, filing reminders, registration prompts, resources and business insights to your attention.

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Small Business Navigator provides general business information, educational resources, opportunity notices, reminder assistance and preliminary review support. Notices and reminders are based on available information and the profile supplied by the member. Members remain responsible for confirming registration requirements, filing dates, eligibility, program deadlines and all other obligations with the responsible authority or professional adviser. SBN services do not replace legal, accounting, tax, financing or other professional advice specific to your circumstances.