Better Made Software
Software worth owning.
We build business software with simple economics: core software doesn't become rent, new versions are purchased when they earn it, and cloud or support recur only while we're actively providing them.
Pay once for what you buy. Pay recurring for what recurs.
Software, new versions, infrastructure and human service are different things. Better Made prices them that way.
SOFTWARE
- Free or one-time.
- No mandatory monthly access fee.
- Keep what you've been given or purchased.
NEW VERSIONS
- Buy when the product genuinely changes.
- Major versions, rule packs, annual tax years.
- Skip what you don't need.
CLOUD
- Sync
- Hosting
- Backups
- Managed availability
Recurring because the infrastructure keeps running.
CARE
- Support
- Maintenance
- Expert review
- Customization
Recurring only when ongoing service is wanted.
No mandatory subscription simply to retain ordinary access to software you've already received or purchased.
Why Better Made
Ownership
The tools your business depends on shouldn't disappear because you stopped renting them.
Fairness
Pay once for things you buy. Pay recurring fees for things that genuinely recur.
Practicality
Software should solve real operational problems without becoming another platform you have to manage.
Partnership
Ownership doesn't mean abandonment. Support is there when you need it.
Built to be useful for years, not rented forever.
Better Made develops focused software for real business workflows. Products are designed to be understandable, portable and maintainable rather than deliberately dependent on a proprietary cloud stack.
A new charge should correspond to new value.
- Durable software access
- Clear version boundaries
- Portable data
- Customer chooses when to upgrade
- Recurring charges tied to recurring service
Products
The contractor operating system for incorporated Canadian consultants.
Solo Core is free. Run the workday from mobile, clean up and administer from web, and keep invoices, payments, expenses, ledger actuals, reserves, owner draws and safe-to-use money connected.
- Mobile workday
- Web admin
- Invoices
- Ledger actuals
- Safe-to-use money
What works today
- Business ledger with review queue
- Available and safe-to-use money
- Tax set-aside transfers and owner draws
- Invoice and expense ledger actuals
- CSV payment import
- Web project administration
- Mobile client/project creation
- Mobile invoice issue, void and payment capture
- Mobile reports snapshot and app lock
Ledger review queue, recorded live.
A staged bank-import transaction is resolved with explicit account, payee and category choices before it becomes a reconciled cash actual.
Safe-to-use money, recorded live.
A paid invoice lands in an explicit ledger account, then Solo separates actual cash from GST/HST and corporate tax reserves before showing what can safely be used.
Why it matters
Better Made Solo follows the contractor loop from work to invoice to payment to obligations. The home page now shows that trust signal as motion: cash is useful only after obligations are visible.
- CORE
- Free
- TAX YEAR
- $99 CAD once*
- CLOUD
- $49 CAD / year*
* Solo Tax 2026 and Solo Cloud: planned launch pricing.
Run the day. Trust the money.
A price should tell you what you're paying for.
Traditional bundled SaaS
- Software access
- + hosting
- + support
= one recurring payment
Better Made
- Core software
- free or buy once
- New versions
- optional one-time purchase
- Tax-year packs
- one-time per year
- Cloud
- optional recurring
- Support / expert
- optional recurring or project
See what that looks like in a real product.
Better Made Solo is free for the work you do all year. Tax-year software is purchased when you need that year's rules. Cloud is optional.
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