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Understanding Your Cash Runway
To help your business grow, it’s essential you understand your cash runway. But what is? And why is it so important? Read on to find out…
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The Best Xero Add Ons For Your Business
We have searched high and low for the best Xero add ons on the Xero marketplace, so that you don’t have to. These add ons are available for any type of business, with solutions from time-tracking software to cash flow forecasting. With more than 700 (and counting!) Xero add ons available for businesses and their […]
New Insights Feature in Float!
Ever wondered how accurate your cash budgets were, compared to what actually happened? We know that for a lot of people it’s really important to have an accurate forecast, and to know where and why you’re going over/under budget. We listened to feedback, and heard that it wasn’t as easy to do this in Float […]
3 Ways To Help Your Clients Deal With A Cash Shortage
Shockingly, 82% of businesses that fail, do so because of bad business cash flow. Walking the tightrope between cash in and cash out can be tricky for business owners to balance. But what are the realistic impacts of a cash shortage on a business, and how can you help your clients to manage and avoid […]
4 Ways To Help Your Clients With A Cash Surplus
The internet is full of advice for small business owners on what to do when facing a cash shortage. But there’s very little content on how to manage a cash surplus. So as an accountant and advisor, how can you help your clients that don’t make the most of the cash available to them? What […]
7 Advantages Of A Cash Flow Forecast
Small business owners have to make difficult financial decisions almost every day. The level of responsibility and risk can be a huge burden, but with the advent of cloud accounting and the availability of more sophisticated reporting, that is all beginning to change. In particular, online cash flow solutions have been a major contributor to […]
How To Get Paid On Time Webinar and Ebook
Getting paid on time is an issue for every business – regardless of the shape, size, or industry. Whether it’s customers that pay you late, or an overdue tax rebate, trying to get paid on time is a problem for one in five businesses. With too many consistent late-payers, your expenditure won’t be covered, which […]
How to improve your clients’ cash flow with GoCardless, Chaser and Float
We recently teamed up with our friends at GoCardless and Chaser, as well as financial adviser Mark Probert, to host a webinar all about how to help your clients improve their cash flow. Here’s the recording! How to help clients improve their cash flowWatch this video on YouTube
Top Five Apps for QuickBooks Online
We’ve hunted high and low for the top apps on the QuickBooks App Marketplace to bring you solutions for everything from time-tracking to cash flow forecasting. Check out our list of apps below to find out what they can do for you and your business. TSheets – Time-tracking TSheets is the time-tracking app that will […]
Xero’s Cash Flow Playbook
Having a healthy flow of cash is vital to the success of any business, regardless of the industry or size. But not every business has a handle on their cash flow, or even knows how important it is. In fact, in July 2018, just 50% of small businesses in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, […]
Product Updates!
We’re always looking to improve Float to match the needs of our customers. So, this month we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to push some updates to improve the product’s speed, as well as working on some new features, to make the process of managing your invoices and bills easier than ever before. So […]
A Guide to Eligibility for Business Finance
Almost all businesses will seek out finance at one point or another. Some need it as a matter of urgency — to pay staff or a tax bill, for example. Some need it to fund their day-to-day activities — to buy stock to fulfil customer orders. And some need it to grow — to pay […]
Partners: how to make the most of your free account!
Did you know that accounting and bookkeeping firms on the Float partner program get a free Float licence? You can use this to test-drive our software, and show clients how it works. It’s free for life, so you don’t have to worry about losing it. We want to give you the chance to use Float […]
Jargon-Busting: How to Speak the Language of Your Clients
A recent shift in the accounting industry has caused reverberations that have spread far and wide. With changes to the typical client offering, and an increase in fintech solutions, the modern world of accounting is a far cry from the old stereotype of pencil pushers and desk jockeys. But what has remained intact is the […]
Float for FreeAgent
We jumped on a training webinar with our friends at FreeAgent to explore cash flow forecasting, and how it works with FreeAgent. Check out the video recording below! Cash flow forecasting with FreeAgent and FloatWatch this video on YouTube To sign up to see what Float can add to your FreeAgent account, […]
If You Don’t Got the Time, You Don’t Got the Money
Here’s what a cliché (and a country song) can teach you about the effects of time tracking on your cash flow. What is time? Clichés. Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. (See what just happened there—it’s that bad). The most widespread, just-waiting-to-pop-out-at-you, cliché is a very short one, measuring just three words—time is […]
How Cash Flow Impacts Seasonal Business
Running a seasonal business can mean dealing with the peaks and troughs of fluctuating cash flow. However, additional insight into your financial systems can give you the control and foresight you need to properly plan for times of drought, and times of excess. Know your peak and off-seasons Xero’s research into small businesses found that […]
How Xero Pricing Works
To help show you the true value of joining the cloud revolution and integrating with Xero, we’ve got the lowdown on the Xero pricing structure, and how they can help you do beautiful business. In recent years, cloud accounting has gone from strength to strength – becoming increasingly popular the world over. Xero is slowly […]
How is App Fatigue Impacting the Accounting Industry?
Recently, there has been much debate in the mobile app world of a fatigue taking over the industry. And now, that same app fatigue has filtered through to the accounting app ecosystem, with the potential for causing just as much disruption. App fatigue is the phenomenon that occurs when there’s an influx of apps on […]
How Cash Flow Forecasting Can Help You Make the Most of Your Business Loan
Small business owners often feel like they have so much on their plate, that it’s nearly impossible to reach beyond day to day concerns of running a business and think strategically about the future. However, it’s crucial for every small business owner to do that, especially when it comes to cash flow. If you run […]
What’s The Deal With Business Advisory Accounting?
Changes to accounting and business advisory services are more than just water-cooler chat. In fact, the industry is abuzz with firms that are adapting their client offering to include value-add services as technology is making previously lucrative services obsolete. We want to make it as easy as possible for accountants that use (and love!) Float […]
How to Offer Cash Flow Services to Your Clients (And Make it Profitable)
When you ask your clients about their biggest issues, challenges, and concerns, cash flow is right up there at the top. Actually, “cash flow” isn’t always the term your clients use. They’ll say things like “I’m worried I won’t be able to pay my employees every month” or “our sales are great, but it takes […]
Automated vs Manual Data Entry – How to Make an Informed Choice
Invoice and receipt data entry is arguably one of the most time-consuming and costly business processes. Making sure data entry is as efficient as possible is crucial to optimising bookkeeping workflows, especially for companies who handle a large volume of documents. Why companies need bookkeeping data entry services Today, companies produce and receive a high […]
Business Credit Cards: The Safety Net for Your Business Cash Flow
64 million credit cards are in issue in the UK to date. And while this number includes consumers as well as businesses, it’s clear that credit cards are a popular method of spreading expenses. Many of the 5.7 million small businesses across the UK have discovered business credit cards as a useful tool, and by […]
Introducing: Multi-Budgets!
Here at Float, we know that your cash flow doesn’t always run like clockwork. Money moves in and out of your business all the time and, sometimes, a single monthly budget amount just isn’t accurate enough. That’s why we’ve made forecasting in Float more flexible and accurate than ever with Multi-budgets. In a nutshell, Multi-budgets […]
Your Guide to Xerocon Brisbane 2018
With Xerocon Brisbane just around the corner, we’ve got the lowdown on what to do, who to see, and where to go at this year’s beautiful business event! So get ready for some koala-ty Australian puns, some carefully placed Kylie song lyrics, and our top tips for the lucky lucky lucky few of you that […]
How Float Gave Synium Control Over a Lumpy Cash Flow
Janet Tonks is the Office Manager at Synium IT, an IT company based in the West Midlands providing outsourced IT support for small to medium-sized businesses. As a company that also handles extensive project work, Synium needs to keep a close eye on their cash flow. Janet says, “we need to have up-to-date figures every […]
4 Ways To Improve Your Accounts Receivable (And Cash Flow!)
In a small business, it’s easy to be focused on driving new sales; closing deals is exciting, especially when you’re trying to grow. But, once business is won and the service is provided, the job is far from over. Because many small businesses operate with part-time accountants, invoicing and Accounts Receivable (AR) may not be […]
How Strategic Planning Can Help Your Business In The Long Run
Strategic planning is the blueprint for your business. It’s an aspirational and practical plan for your future that can give you an exact outline of where your business is, and where it should be. The ultimate goal of strategic planning is to create a reasonable path to both short-term and long-term successful growth. Strategic planning […]
The 5 Best FreeAgent Integrations for Your Agency
Running an agency can be a tough job. But thanks to the emergence of new solutions in the FreeAgent eco-system, it just got that little bit easier. If you’re familiar with the FreeAgent platform then you’ll know there are quite a few apps to choose from. But who has time to sift through all of […]
6 Reasons To Use Float For Cash Flow Forecasting
Here are our top six efficiency-boosting reasons for using Float… 1. Save hours every month with automatic updates One of the most time-consuming parts of manual cash flow forecasting is bringing your spreadsheet up to date. Our users tell us this used to take them an average of eight hours every month when manually […]
How To Avoid Cash Flow Problems
Cash flow problems can occur for any business. Whether you’re growing, just starting out, or running an established business, it’s not always smooth sailing. In fact, 82% of businesses become insolvent because of bad cash flow, which isn’t all that reassuring. But don’t worry, we’ve got your back. That’s why we’ve written this guide to […]
How to Refinance Your Business Debt
Many firms will decide to take on debt at some point, at different stages of growth and for several reasons. What some business owners may not know is that a business loan they got in the past could be comparatively expensive in the present. This is one of the reasons you might want to consider […]