What BorderBird actually does.
Four pillars built around the four problems cross-border landlords have every month: collecting rent, tracking utilities, knowing your real cashflow, and producing tax-ready data for both the CRA and the IRS.
Auto-import rent payments from forwarded emails — Interac e-transfers, Zelle, Venmo, and Cash App. Splits first-and-last, tracks deposits held vs applied, handles vacating tenants and lease renewals.
Forward your utility-bill emails from 60+ providers (Hydro One, Enbridge, ConEd, PG&E, Toronto Water, Veolia and more). Categorize, route to property, import to your expense ledger. Max Snowbird plan only.
Every property reports profit and loss in both CAD and USD using the Bank of Canada annual rate CRA accepts. One ledger that satisfies both your US Schedule E and your Canadian T776.
Calculate CRA Part XIII non-resident withholding monthly using the 15th-of-month rule. Export Schedule E line-mapped CSVs. Expenses use T776-ready category names. Accountant-ready data, not filed forms.
What it feels like to run BorderBird
Five capabilities that change the day-to-day work — most landlords feel the difference after their first forwarded payment.
Forward it once — AI does the rest
Set up one forwarding filter and BorderBird automatically detects the rent payments, utility bills, and receipts you forward — and imports them with the correct date, amount, and tenant. We never connect to your inbox; you forward only what matters. No manual entry ever.
Switch from any inbox — your history comes with you
Have years of rent payments sitting in Yahoo, Outlook, Gmail, or Apple Mail? Forward them to your private BorderBird address and BorderBird imports them automatically — with the correct original dates. Rebuild 5 years of history in minutes.
Every lease, every tenant, every renewal — organized
Upload your signed lease PDF and AI extracts the start date, end date, rent amount, and tenant names automatically. Get notified before leases expire. Keep a complete history of every tenancy.
CRA and IRS reports — ready at tax time
BorderBird tracks your Canadian rental income in CAD and your US rental income in USD — with automatic exchange rate conversion. Export T776, NR4, and Schedule E data when you need it.
Set up in 5 minutes. Seriously.
1. Create account (30 sec) · 2. Add your property (1 min) · 3. Add your tenant (1 min) · 4. Set up forwarding — one filter (2 min) · 5. Forward a payment email — it appears automatically. That's it. BorderBird runs itself after that.
Want the whole picture?
The cross-border landlord software page explains how the four pillars connect — and why no general-purpose accounting tool covers the workflow.
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