Montreal · Documented Record-Keeping Practice
Documented past practice describes Montreal pawnbrokers keeping a daily register and delivering the prior day's entries to the nearest police station before 10:00 a.m.
Report To LEADS gives you a place to keep those records and produce a report, built around what this practice generally involves. Knowing which requirements apply to your shop is your responsibility — this page is general information, not legal advice. $49/month CAD, price locked for 5 years.
What's On The Public Record
Documented practice describes: a daily register with item description and the pawner's name, address, occupation, and physical description; the previous day's register delivered to the nearest police station before 10:00 a.m.; and, per newer coverage, a move toward a computerized registry and photographing serial-number-less items. Separately, the provincial OPC money-lender permit applies to pawnbrokers across Quebec, Montreal included.
The Same Counter Routine
One scan fills the customer's name, address, and identification. Webcam grabs the ID photo. Repeat customers: already on file.
Item, brand, model, serial, photos — useful for items without a serial number, since photographing them is part of documented practice. Receipt prints, and the register keeps a permanent record.
The register is ready before 10 a.m. — and where SPVM uses LEADS Online, it's already there.
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Use Report To LEADS on your PC, Mac, cell, or tablet. Internet down? Keep working without it. Report To LEADS syncs up when reconnected — any webcam for photos, any 2D barcode scanner for IDs. Where SPVM uses LEADS Online, the report submits there automatically.
Asked & Answered
General information sourced from documented past practice — not legal advice. Confirm current requirements with the City of Montreal and SPVM.
Documented past practice (reported in Quebec press coverage) describes pawnbrokers keeping a daily register — item description, and the name, address, occupation, and physical description of the person pawning it — with the previous day's register delivered to the nearest police station before 10:00 a.m.
Not confirmed. Despite extensive searching, the current municipal by-law text and number could not be independently verified on montreal.ca. Confirm directly with the City of Montreal's permits office what currently applies to your shop.
Not confirmed either way. No SPVM source found mentions any of these systems by name. Confirm directly with SPVM which system, if any, currently applies.
Where SPVM uses LEADS Online, yes — automatically. Where they don't, or where you're unsure, Report To LEADS gives you a complete, exportable report ready to deliver however they currently accept it.
No. The price is guaranteed not to increase for 5 years.
Who's Behind It
Report To LEADS runs on the same platform as PawnSmarts, full pawn-management software already in shops across North America, including Manitoba, since 2005.
If the shop ever needs full loan management — renewals, redemptions, layaway — the upgrade to PawnSmarts is a plan change on the same account.
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Data entered during the trial period is retained even if Report To LEADS is removed from your computer. Where SPVM uses LEADS Online, reports submit there automatically.