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A glance at what months you've imported. Green months have data. Grey months are missing or empty. If you check this weekly, it tells you whether your latest screenshot or statement actually landed.
Sets all 12 months at once. You can fine-tune any month right in the table.
Type directly in the Goal column to set a month by hand. That month locks, and the math spreads misses and overages across the remaining automatic months only. Clear the cell to go back to automatic. Prior Yr is typed right in the table too (used for the YoY column). Guaranteed Revenue = captured sales month-to-date + scheduled upcoming autopays for the rest of the month. NEW Revenue Needed = how much more you need to hit this month's goal. Overage = how much you exceeded.
No bills yet.
Add a bill by hand (rare: imports usually catch them)
Used only when no booking report has been imported. Booking report data always takes priority.
100 = average · 80 = slow · 120 = busy
No income yet. Add manually or import a booking report.
Autopays the booking software tried to charge but couldn't. Failed cards, declines, voids. Items older than 30 days are archived (still saved, just out of view).
Week by week: what your booking software says you sold vs what actually landed. Gaps worth asking about get flagged.
Gross Revenue is captured sales (from the sales report). Expenses are split into Operating (utilities, rent, software, insurance, etc.) vs Payroll (W-2 payroll plus 1099 contractors). Owner Draw category is excluded from expenses entirely (it's a distribution to the owner, not a cost of doing business). Type last year's profit into the Last year profit line on each quarter card to get the YoY comparison.
No debts yet.
Add debts to see payoff scenarios.
Add a debt by hand
This projection is based only on the data you have imported. The math cannot account for: cash transactions, off-the-books expenses, irregular bills that haven't been classified, business taxes that haven't been paid yet, one-off charges, unexpected emergencies, or revenue that may not actually come in. Always cross-check the safe draw number against your real cash position and your planned spending before withdrawing.
If you notice a bill is missing or seems wrong in the projection, fix it on the Bills tab before relying on these numbers. The dashboard is a tool to help you think, not a substitute for your own judgment.
Compare safe draw under three debt-payment strategies. Pick a date with the picker above; numbers update.
Set your target take-home from the business. The Combined Picture view will tell you whether you're on track.
Booking software (Mindbody, Vagaro, Square, etc.) charges a customer's card on the scheduled autopay date, but the deposit doesn't hit your bank account until a few business days later. Without accounting for this, the forecast treats charge dates as deposit dates and shows money arriving earlier than it actually will.
To find your number: compare a recent sales report date to when the matching deposit actually posted in your bank statement. The gap (in business days, skipping weekends) is what to enter. Mindbody is commonly 2, Square is commonly 1.
Business days between a charge and the money landing in your bank. Most processors run 1-2 days. Leave blank to skip the shift. When set, every upcoming revenue event in the forecast is moved forward by this many business days so the projected balance reflects when money actually arrives in checking.
Aliases tell the dashboard how to categorize transactions whose meaning isn't obvious from the bank's description. There are two kinds.
Internal transfer is when you move money between two accounts you own (Chase business to PNC savings, or Zelles to yourself). Your bank shows two lines for the same dollars: a withdrawal on one side and a deposit on the other. Without an alias, the dashboard counts the withdrawal as an expense and the deposit as revenue, inflating both sides. An internal transfer alias tells the dashboard to skip those lines so the same money doesn't double-count.
Owner draw is money leaving the business going to you personally. The dashboard still tracks it on the Owner Draw tab, but excludes it from business expenses since it isn't an operating cost.
Matching is case-insensitive substring. If you add the match string zelle from jane, any bank line containing that text will be flagged.
This view runs every check the dashboard does and tells you what data is incomplete or potentially wrong. Use this before relying on the Safe Draw or Projected Balance numbers.
Your dashboard auto-saves to browser storage every few seconds. These buttons are for moving your dashboard between computers or keeping a backup file outside the browser.
Save to file downloads a backup of everything in your dashboard. Load from file replaces what's here with a saved backup. Quick save now forces a save right now (auto-save normally handles this every few seconds).
Save a named snapshot to track your financial position over time and compare month to month.
No snapshots yet.