POS system for New Brunswick businesses

New Brunswick sales tax at a glance

New Brunswick uses HST at 15%, made up of the 5% federal part and a 10% provincial part. It is a single tax, registered and filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, so there is no separate provincial return to track. One rate covers most taxable sales in Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John and across the province.

Basic groceries, prescription drugs and some medical devices are zero-rated, and some services are exempt. Restaurant meals, snack foods and most retail goods are taxable at the full rate. Confirm the current rate and the rules for your products with the CRA as of 2026 before you build your product list.

Setting up HST in SeroPOS

In the back office go to Settings, then Tax Rates, and add HST at 15%. Add a 0% rate for zero-rated and exempt items, and give it a clear name such as "Zero-rated". In the SeroPOS app the same list is under Admin, then Taxes, where you can set HST as the default so new products pick it up.

Because HST is a single tax, you don't need a tax group. Assign HST or 0% to each product, or fill the tax column in a spreadsheet and import the catalogue in one go. Products priced tax-in can be marked "price includes tax", and SeroPOS works the HST back out on the receipt and in reports.

• HST 15%: most taxable sales
• 0%: zero-rated groceries and exempt items
• Optional: a separate rate for any item with a special rule

Mixed baskets in grocery and convenience

A corner store or grocer often rings up taxable and zero-rated items together: bread and milk at 0%, pop and chips at 15%. In SeroPOS the tax is part of each product, so the cashier scans and the till taxes each line. The receipt shows the taxable subtotal, and the Daily Sales Report's Product Taxes section shows which products the HST came from.

Before you open, filter the back office product list by tax to check what sits on 0%. Bulk edit changes the tax on a selection of products at once, which is quicker than opening them one by one. If you sell by weight, each weighed item, read from a connected scale or typed on the keypad, keeps its own tax.

Interac and credit on Moneris or Global Payments

SeroPOS sends the amount straight to a Moneris or Global Payments terminal, so nobody keys the total twice. With Moneris Go you enter the merchant ID, store ID, API token and terminal ID in Moneris Pay Settings, and the till reads the terminal's own setup from Moneris, including tip prompts, Interac debit options and whether refunds are allowed.

On Global Payments you can use Global Pay Cloud, bound to each till by the terminal's device reference, or install SeroPOS on the T650P handheld and take orders and payment on one device. A tip entered on either terminal comes back to the till and prints on the receipt as Tip / Gratuity, and batch close runs from the till's terminal menu.

Already have a merchant account? Keep it if your processor is supported. If you want to compare costs, send us a recent statement and we'll quote a rate. Card processing is arranged separately from your SeroPOS plan. Tell us your monthly card volume and the terminals you use today, and we can say which setup fits your counter before you commit.

Tax reports and QuickBooks Canada

The Tax Report in the back office shows output tax on sales, input tax on purchases and tax on expenses, with an overall figure and the invoices behind each number, filtered by location and date range. The Daily Sales Report adds a tax summary for remittance, and it can be downloaded as a PDF or emailed at day end.

On the Pro plan SeroPOS sends sales, payments, customers and items to QuickBooks. QuickBooks Desktop, Canadian edition 2021 or later (Pro, Premier or Enterprise on Windows), connects through the Web Connector, and SeroPOS can build the HST tax items, groups and codes there for you, matched by rate rather than by name. QuickBooks Online for Canadian companies is supported too, with each SeroPOS rate mapped to a QuickBooks tax code.