Liquidity forecast

The liquidity forecast, under Liquidity forecast, projects the cash going in and out over the coming period, so the question "can we afford this in March" has an answer that is not a guess.

It draws on what the CRM already knows — invoices issued and not yet paid, recurring subscription income, expected costs — and lays them out on a timeline.

You can add things by hand. Not every real payment exists as a record in the CRM: a tax bill, a deposit, a one-off purchase. Manual cash-flow events you want included in the forecast. Add them and the forecast reflects the business rather than only the part of it the CRM happens to hold.

Repeating payments are entered once as a series. This event repeats. Anything you change here applies to every payment in the series. Take that seriously when editing — and note that removing a series is not limited to what is ahead of you: This payment on {{date}} is one of several in a repeating event. Removing the whole series removes every payment in it, past and future.

Treat it as a projection, not a bank balance. It assumes invoices are paid when due, and customers are not uniformly punctual. The forecast is most useful for spotting the shape of a problem — a thin month, a large outgoing landing before a large incoming — rather than for a precise figure on a given day.

For what has actually been invoiced and paid, use the accounting area and the invoice list. This page is about what is expected to happen next.