Collabria No Fee Cash Back Business Mastercard

CollabriaMastercard or Visa, depending on the distributing credit union

Collabria · Mastercard or Visa, depending on the distributing credit union

2.8out of 5, our rating

Business card

Free, and available through dozens of Canadian credit unions. It pays 0.5%, which is half what the better free business cards manage.

Annual feeNone
Purchase APR19.99%
Minimum incomeNot published

Rates and features verified 2026-08-18Full terms and conditionsHow we research cards

What we like, and what we don’t

Worth having

  • No annual fee, distributed through credit unions across most of Canada
  • Points redeem for merchandise, gift cards, travel or a statement credit
  • A 19.99% rate, in line with the segment
  • Often the only business card a credit union member can get without changing banks
  • Available in provinces where the strong regional cards are not

Watch out for

  • 0.5% is half what ATB and Scotiabank pay on their free business cards
  • A personal guarantee is required, confirmed on the application forms
  • The issuer is Collabria, not the credit union whose name is on the card, which confuses support and disputes
  • Collabria does not publish a foreign transaction fee
  • Terms differ slightly between distributing credit unions

What this card earns

Everything else
0.5x
Bonus categories at once
0 you choose which
What we value a point at
Not published by the issuer

The earning fine print

0.5 points for every $1 spent (Coast Capital, Access Credit Union and Prospera all publish this figure). Cambrian publishes the same rate expressed as '1 point per $2 spent on business purchases'. Points redeem for merchandise (60,000+ items), gift cards (60+ retailers), statement credits, travel experiences and charity donations. No fixed cents-per-point value is published by Collabria or its credit unions, so point_value_cents is null.

What the offer actually requires

Alterna Savings advertises '0% Balance Transfer for 12 months' on the Collabria business line, terms and conditions apply. Offers vary by distributing credit union.

Fees and interest rates

Annual fee
None
Foreign transaction fee
Not published by the issuer
Purchase APR
19.99%
Cash advance APR
22.99%
Balance transfer promo
0% for 12 months

Who can get this card

Existing account required
Yes
Personal guarantee required
Yes you are personally liable for the balance

Insurance and benefits

Purchase protection
Included
Extended warranty
Included

What the benefits really mean

SHARED-PLATFORM CARD. This is the single most widely distributed business credit card in Canada that almost no comparison site names correctly. Collabria Financial Services Inc. Is the actual issuer; the credit union is only a referral agent and brands the card with its own name. CONFIRMED DISTRIBUTORS: Coast Capital Savings (BC), Access Credit Union (MB), Steinbach Credit Union (MB), Cambrian Credit Union (MB), Prospera Credit Union (BC), Alterna Savings (ON), Libro Credit Union (ON), Innovation Federal Credit Union (SK/federal), Caisse Alliance (ON), Provincial Credit Union (PE), Valley Credit Union (NS), Cornerstone Credit Union (SK), Ukrainian Credit Union (ON), Beem Credit Union (BC, formerly First West / Envision Financial / Valley First). PERSONAL GUARANTEE: Alterna Savings' own page states 'Apply online today with a personal guarantee', confirming a PG is standard on the Collabria business line. PROVINCE: Coast Capital and Access both publish availability in 'all Canadian provinces and territories'. The restriction is MEMBERSHIP-BASED (you must be a member of a distributing credit union), not geographic, so excluded_provinces is empty. Insurance is limited to zero-liability fraud protection, purchase protection (90 days) and extended warranty (up to 1 additional year), underwritten by Assurant / American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida. RATE VARIES BY CREDIT UNION: 19.99% purchase at Coast Capital, Access and Cambrian; verify with your own credit union. Issued by Collabria Financial Services Inc.. 0.5% effective return is half the ATB MyBusiness Rewards card's 1%, and a quarter of what fintechs advertise. The weakest earn rate of any no-fee business card found in this segment. A personal guarantee IS required, confirmed by Alterna's own application language. You must join a credit union first; the card is not available directly from Collabria. Collabria, not your credit union, is the issuer and the counterparty. Your credit union is a referral agent and cannot alter terms. Fees, rates and network (Visa vs Mastercard) DIFFER between credit unions carrying the identical card name. Always check your own credit union's rate page. Collabria's rates/fees/terms PDFs are blocked to automated retrieval by robots.txt, so foreign currency conversion and supplementary card fees cannot be verified without contacting the credit union. No travel insurance and no rental car CDW.

Our verdict

This is the most widely distributed business credit card in Canada that almost no comparison site names correctly. Coast Capital, Access, Prospera, Cambrian, Alterna and dozens of others all put their own branding on the same Collabria product, which is why you can be shown three different cards that are the same card.

On the numbers it is unremarkable. 0.5% back is half what ATB's free card pays and a third of the Rogers business card, and a personal guarantee is required despite the credit union framing. It exists on this list because for a lot of credit union members it is the business card available without moving banks, and knowing what it actually is beats not finding it at all.

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Where this came from. coastcapitalsavings.com/business/day-to-day-banking/credit-cards ; coastcapitalsavings.com/rates/credit-card ; accesscu.ca/en/business/credit-cards ; cambrian.mb.ca/business/credit-cards ; prospera.ca/Business/Accounts/Credit+Cards/Business+Mastercard ; alterna.ca/en/business/business-services/borrowing/credit-cards (all fetched 18 Aug 2026). We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.