Last year's clients, booked again — in your name.
We email each client when their annual backflow test is due, with a link that books you. C$15 per booked retest, nothing otherwise.
In Burnaby? Email or photograph your reports; we file them with the City.
Manage buildings, or file on paper?
Manage buildings?
Which of your buildings' backflow tests are due — a free one-page audit, in minutes.
Send the building list. Each building's authority, rule, deadline and days left, in writing. No card, no call.
Get the free auditOwners
Got a test notice?
Tell us your address and due date. We'll track the deadline, send you reminders, and connect you with a certified tester in your area.
Get help with my noticeFiling reports?
The report is done before you leave the room.
The authority's own form, filled as you test. The first report is free, no card.
See how it worksConfirmed in writing
- City of Nanaimo confirmed on September 21, 2026 that it accepts emailed backflow test reports.
- City of Burnaby confirmed on September 22, 2026 that it accepts emailed backflow test reports.
Test report rules by city
See a sample audit (PDF) · Check one building's deadline · Built and run by Filed in Victoria, BC · help@backflowfiled.com
Where does it actually go?
We read the bylaw for 71 authorities and published one page each: the address reports go to, the deadline, the section number it comes from, and the date we last checked. Free, no account, and it says so plainly where an authority publishes nothing at all.
Never lose a day to a lapsed gauge
Tell us when your test kit was last calibrated and we will email you thirty days before it lapses. Free, no account, works wherever you test — and a lapsed gauge does not slow you down, it stops you working.
Anyone can check a report is real
Every report carries a code. Type it in and the page shows what is on the document — the site, the date, the result, and whether a newer version has superseded it. No login, no account. A property manager can confirm the test happened. So can an insurer. So can the authority.
Who you would be buying from
BackflowFiled is built and run by Filed, in Victoria, British Columbia. There is no sales department, and your records are stored in Canada and used only to provide the service.
We built it because the testing is the part you are trained for and the paperwork is where the time goes. The device takes twenty minutes; the form, the copy to the owner, the copy to the authority, the chasing and the filing take the rest of the afternoon, and none of it is the skilled work you are paid for.
The jurisdiction directory is free, and it will stay free. No email wall, no account, no “download the full list”. It is free because a tester in a town whose council publishes no intake address should still be able to find out what the bylaw requires, whether or not they ever buy anything from us. If you use it and never speak to us again, that is a fine outcome and the pages are built for it.
I'm Ethan Kerr. I built this in Victoria because testers lose repeat clients who simply forget. Email me directly: ethan@filedgroup.com, and I answer the same day.
And what happens to the authority's copy. It fills in the authority's own form, keeps the record, and sends the copies. In Burnaby and Nanaimo, we send it to the authority on your approval and record the receipt. Other cities: not yet; reply and we'll tell you when. The page for each authority says which route it takes, rather than leaving you to discover it on a deadline.
The one piece of outside proof we do have is not a testimonial. It is water authorities confirming, in writing, that what we publish about their rules is correct — those are marked on the directory with the date they answered.
If something here is wrong, or you need something it does not do, write to us at help@backflowfiled.com. A person reads everything and answers, usually the same day.
— Filed
Victoria, British Columbia
Questions
- Do I have to move my customer list?
- No. Add sites as you test them. Or send us a Syncta export or a spreadsheet and we load it for you.
- What does the first report cost?
- Nothing, and no card. First report free, then C$7 a report you approve. Rebooking your clients: C$15 per booked retest, nothing otherwise.
- Do you file it to the authority, or do I?
- In Burnaby and Nanaimo, we send it to the authority on your approval and record the receipt. Other cities: not yet; reply and we'll tell you when. Nothing goes to an authority without your yes. A failed device in the CRD is the portal case: Bylaw 3516 s.7.3 requires it to go through the CRD's CCC Portal within 14 days.
- Which authorities do you support?
- The CRD's own form field for field; the generic BC layout for every email-intake authority; the rules for all 71. If yours is missing something, tell us which one — that is genuinely how the order gets decided.
- Tell us which authority you file to →
- Is my logo on the report, or yours?
- Every report carries a small "Prepared with BackflowFiled" line in the footer, beside your name and certificate. We would rather you knew that now than found it on a report you had already sent.
- What happens to my records if I stop paying?
- You keep them. Cancelling does not lock you out of your own tests or the PDFs you have produced — every one of them stays downloadable. Keeping those records is a legal obligation you carry personally, so holding them would be indefensible.