Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$50,000.00
Jul 1, 2022
For-profit organization
Order at table
991975
eThor's current product offers pay at table software for the restaurant industry. We retrieve and display receipts on a credit card payment terminal and provide a user interface to process credit card transactions. Recently, customers are demanding the ability to also use the same payment device to create and insert orders into the point of sale system.
This provides a variety of different technical challenges, especially across multiple different point of sale systems which have different data models. We are also going to have to take the technology we've built for legacy POS systems which gets deployed on-premise and re-invent the process entirely in the cloud with new technology.
$138,000.00
Sep 15, 2021
For-profit organization
eThor Cord
978801
eThor is developing a product that is a physical cord that will be used to connect the merchants point of sale system and their printer. Embedded in the middle of the cord will be a small computer which will be used to perform the following actions:
1) When a receipt is sent from the merchant POS to the printer, the computer that is embedded in the cord will intercept the receipt data and send it to eThor in the cloud (likely via WiFi). eThor will then parse that data and store it in our database.
2) eThor will then also be able to append a QR code to the bottom of a customer receipt, which will enable the customer to scan the QR code and do things like contactless payments or sign up for loyalty program
$413,883.00
Jul 27, 2020
For-profit organization
000016949
000016949
Support for Ethor Media Ltd. to continue operations during the COVID-19 pandemic
$81,312.00
Apr 1, 2020
For-profit organization
Innovation Assistance Program
949752
The funding provided by the IAP program is intended to assist innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in the start-up phase that cannot access existing commercial support related to COVID-19.
$200,000.00
Jun 1, 2019
For-profit organization
Data Tagging System for Merchant Point of Sale (POS) Data
928859
eThor plans to invest heavily into R&D work around the data the company has access to in merchant point of sale (POS) systems. One of the most difficult aspects of this is that there's no set standard when it comes to syntax or naming of items. Even within a single chain with the exact same menu and exact same POS system, one item could be named a variety of different ways. This makes it extremely difficult to do data analytics of consumer purchases at various merchants. Through the use of machine learning, we are hoping to find a way to better link identical products across different merchant locations in an effort to provide useful data back to the merchant in a meaningful way. This will also serve as a foundation for future products.
$50,000.00
Jan 1, 2019
For-profit organization
Linking consumer spending data to their social media data for advanced analytics
917741
The purpose of the project is to connect consumer spending data from the point of sale with their social media accounts. Specifically, we are looking to combine data from the credit card transaction, including line-item receipt data (product) on what the consumer purchased to their social media profiles.