Friday cinema week
Booking grids, play weeks and holdovers run Friday to Thursday.
Canada
Film distribution in Canada, province by province
DISTmio runs Canadian bookings on a Friday cinema week, applies GST, HST or QST to each rent invoice by the cinema's province and connects to FreshBooks, Wave or QuickBooks.
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Local rules
What a Canadian distributor needs
Rent tax by province
Rent invoices carry 5% GST, 13% to 15% HST, or GST plus 9.975% QST in Quebec, set per cinema.
Admission taxes
Provincial admission taxes, such as Saskatchewan's 6% PST, come off the box office before your share.
Canadian dollar statements
Cinema statements and rent invoices run in Canadian dollars, with conversion for foreign-currency deals.
Canadian settlement
From box office to rent invoice
DISTmio removes any admission tax, applies your share, guarantee or flat fee for each cinema week and turns approved settlements into rent invoices with the right provincial tax.
- Weekly shares, guarantees and flat fees
- GST, HST or QST set per cinema
- Rent invoices in Canadian dollars
- Gross box office
- Less admission tax
- Net box office
- Rental share
- Guarantee or flat fee
- Rent invoice with GST, HST or QST
Invoicing and accounting
FreshBooks, Wave or QuickBooks
Issue rent invoices in the accounting program you already use and keep statements, invoices and payments in one place.
- FreshBooks and Wave
- QuickBooks and Sage Business Cloud Accounting
- Payment link on every invoice
GST/HST
Invoice DM/2025/042
- Payer
- Cinema example
- Film
- The Northern Lights
- Rent
- C$8,940
- GST
- C$447
- Due date
- 16 Apr
- Status
- Sent
Online payment link
FreshBooks
Wave
QuickBooks
Sage Business Cloud Accounting
Cinema week
Play weeks from Friday to Thursday
The booking grid, play weeks and the Monday holdover board follow the Friday week, and a holdover decision extends the booking and orders new KDMs together.
- Booking grid by Friday weeks
- Monday holdover board with the national average
- One-click extension with new KDMs
- Mon
- Tue
- Wed
- Thu
- Fri
- Sat
- Sun
Questions
Canada: common questions
How are GST, HST and QST applied?
You set the tax on each cinema's card by its province, and its rent invoices carry it.
Which accounting programs work in Canada?
FreshBooks, Wave, QuickBooks and Sage Business Cloud Accounting connect directly.
Canada
See DISTmio with your Canadian releases
We set up a demo with your films, your cinemas and a Friday cinema week.
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