Set up your CBSA record custodian

About ten minutes. Pay by card in US dollars. Rob will email you within one business day with any additional questions, or with your completed Form BSF900 and engagement letter ready for your officers to sign and upload in the CARM Client Portal. New here? Read about the service first.

  1. Your details
  2. Secure payment
  3. Rob emails your documents

Your details

Everything below goes onto your Form BSF900 and engagement letter, so enter names and addresses exactly as they appear on your corporate registry.

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Your business
What kind of business is it?

Choose one.

Enter the legal company name exactly as it appears on your corporate registry, the registered address, and a phone number with the country code. The address fields adjust to the country you pick.

Enter the legal company name.

Select the country.

Enter the street address.

Enter the city.

Select the state or province.

Enter the postal code.

Start with the plus sign and your country code, for example +353 for Ireland or +61 for Australia.

Enter a phone number starting with + and the country code.

Is this address where the company actually operates?

Place of business

The address where the company actually operates. This is the address that goes on the BSF900 as your place of business.

Select the country.

Enter the street address.

Enter the city.

Select the state or province.

Your business
Your company website plus any marketplace storefronts you sell through: Amazon, Walmart.ca, Shopify, Etsy, eBay. One per line.

Enter your website or storefront links, or tick the box below.

What you sell, who buys it in Canada, and how the goods get there. This goes on the BSF900 as your corporate activity.

Describe the business in a sentence or two.

The public registry page for your company, or its registration number. CBSA asks for the registry extract with your BSF900. Examples: Companies House (UK), CRO (Ireland), ASIC (Australia), Handelsregister (Germany), KVK (Netherlands).

Enter the registry link or registration number.

Your CARM account

CARM is CBSA's online portal for importers. Your custodian documents are uploaded there.

Where are you with CARM?

Choose one.

Leave this unticked to register yourself. Our CARM registration guide, included with your documents, walks through every screen.
Nine-digit business number, RM, then four digits.

Enter the 15-character import account, for example 123456789RM0001.

Records kept in one of those three countries may not need a Canadian custodian at all. If that is you, send us a note before paying.

Confirm this, or email us first if your records are kept in Canada, the United States or Mexico.

Signing officers

CBSA requires the BSF900 to be signed by two officers of the company, or by one officer who is the sole signing officer. These names also go on the engagement letter.

Officer 1

Enter the first signing officer.

Enter their title.

Enter a valid email.

Officer 2

Enter the second signing officer, or tick sole signing officer.

Enter their title.

Enter a valid email.

Day-to-day contact

Who receives the documents, the invitation to your private records folder, and our questions about shipments.

Type it again. The documents, the portal invitation and the receipt all go to this address.

This does not match the email above.

Agreement

Please agree to the service terms.

Please confirm your authority.

Jones & Cosman CPA is a Chartered Professional Accountant firm registered with CPA Ontario. Your details travel encrypted and are used only to prepare your documents (privacy policy). Questions before you pay? Email [email protected].

Card payment is handled by Stripe. We never see your card details.

Payments are processed by JCCPA LLC on behalf of Ecommerce Accounting Services Ltd., operating as Jones & Cosman CPA, the custodian named on your BSF900. Your card statement will show JCCPA LLC.