Describe your project once and get quotes from several licence-verified professionals. Your money is held safely and released only when you approve the work.
What happens, who does what, and where your money sits the whole time.
You don’t need to know what you need. We work out who to send it to.
Every licence checked with the regulator before anyone can contact you.
Held by a regulated Canadian provider. Moves only when you approve.
Quotes, messages, drawings and permit status in one dashboard.
Plain English. What, where, roughly when. Photos help.
We push it to matching pros. They come to you, in writing.
Scope, price, timeline, reviews. Fund one milestone only.
Drawings, messages and permit status in your dashboard.
Find your project below — or post something that isn’t listed. If it needs a permit in Canada, we cover it.
Post it and a verified professional will tell you what your city requires — before you spend anything.
Skip the back and forth. If you know the drawing or report you need, request it directly and get quotes for exactly that.
Your Permit Assistance Tool. Ask anything about permits, zoning or what a project involves and get a straight answer in seconds — no project to post, no account, no phone call.
PAT is in development — this is a preview of the interface.
Ready to go further? PAT can hand your question straight over to a verified professional.
Three voicemails, two emails, and one engineer who said he’d come by last Tuesday. Three weeks gone, nothing moved.
The city said drawings. Someone said an engineer. Someone else said a BCIN designer — whatever that is.
No contract you understand, no proof the licence is real. Just an e-transfer request and a promise.
Verified professionals come to you in writing, and you don’t release a dollar until you’ve approved the work.
Every professional a permit project can need — in plain English.
Removing a load-bearing wall, adding a storey, or underpinning.
Larger or complex builds, and when you want design as well as drawings.
The usual choice for houses. Permit drawings, cheaper than an architect.
Establishes your exact property lines. Needed for most additions and suites.
Deals with the city for you — submission, follow-up, approvals.
Furnace, ducting, ventilation or plumbing changes.
Service upgrades, new panels, suite and commercial wiring.
Grading and drainage plans, municipal water and sewer connections.
Tests what you’re building on. Underpinning, ravines, slopes.
Sprinklers, alarms and fire separations.
Your permit was refused. They find a compliant way forward.
When your plan doesn’t fit zoning. Variances, site plan, severances.
Possible soil contamination. Often required by the city or your lender.
Listed or designated properties, and conservation districts.
Protected tree near the build. Most GTA cities require a report.
Proves the build meets the code’s energy efficiency rules.
Layout, materials, lighting and finishes alongside the permit work.
See it before you commit, or present it to a committee or lender.
We can also match you with licensed general contractors and trades to carry out the work, verified the same way. Available in selected categories and cities.
You never hand thousands to a stranger and hope. Here is exactly where your money sits at every stage.
Not the whole job — just the next milestone you both agreed.
At a regulated, Canada-registered payment provider. Not with us. Not with them.
They can see it’s funded, so they start with confidence — but can’t touch a cent.
Not happy? Don’t approve. The money stays put and our team steps in.
Your money is held safely by a regulated, Canada-registered payment provider — the same kind of federally supervised provider banks and major platforms rely on. It is kept separate from our business, and is never held in Permit.ca’s own accounts.
In plain terms: even in the worst case for our business, your money is not ours to lose.
We earn from the professional side, never from your budget.
Quotes, drawings, messages and permit status — one place.
Client dashboard screenshot
Quote comparison, message thread and permit timeline in one frame.
Timestamped, permanent, no he-said-she-said.
Drawings, revisions and permits — not buried in email.
Submitted, under review, revisions, approved.
Only from clients who actually hired and paid.
Spot what one includes and another leaves out.
We step in with the full record before funds move.
Still there when you sell or the city asks.
Never upfront in full, never chasing a refund.
Different problem solved.
“I need drawings and an engineer, and I don’t know what either of those means.”
“My crew is booked for Monday and the drawings still aren’t done.”
“Every week spent assembling a consultant team is another week of carrying costs.”
“I’m paying rent on a space I can’t open yet.”
“My usual structural guy is booked six weeks out.”
“Forty locations, four provinces, and no single view of any of it.”
Property managers, REITs, franchise rollouts, institutional and municipal. You don’t post and wait — we match you directly, with a named team and portfolio-level reporting.
Permit requirements change at every municipal boundary.
Don’t see your city? Post anyway — we’re adding pros continually.
Homeowners, contractors and developers across Canada are posting permit projects and looking for your licence.
Clients fund each milestone with a regulated Canadian payment provider. You see the money is there before you open the file.
Milestone approved, funds released. No net-60, no follow-up call.
Scope, messages, files and payment in one thread.
Describe what you want to build. Get quotes from licence-verified professionals. Keep your money protected until you approve the work.
No platform fees for clients. Ever.
