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Cash flow forecasting for retail businesses

Want to understand how coronavirus or seasonal trends will affect your cash flow? Float can help you plan and model the What Ifs so you can make decisions with confidence.

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Vatsalya Bohra, Smith Brothers

Cash flow forecasting for retail

Understand how your cash flow changes seasonally and make smarter, more sustainable growth decisions for your retail business.

Scenario plan for ‘what ifs’

Understand how a new stock purchase, opening a new product line, a quiet month, or a new hire will affect the financial health of your business.

Budgets vs actuals

Compare expectations for cash in and out to find out what actually happened.

Uncover unnecessary costs

Easily find the areas of your business where you can trim the fat to increase profit.

Easily manage seasonal changes

Plan your cash flow for leaner months during profitable periods.

Float’s predictive models show you how much cash you need to put aside to continue a seamless operation when seasonal downturns arrive.

Identify cash gaps

Understand and plan for the peaks and troughs of seasonal shopping trends.

Create model scenarios to understand how much stock you need throughout the season to match demand.

No more spreadsheet forecasts!

Save yourself the hassle and time needed to keep inaccurate spreadsheet forecasts.

Float provides a real-time, visual picture of your future cash pulled directly from your accounting software.

"No more Spreadsheets! Life-changing software. Powerful, intuitive, simple and super smart. Highly recommended for all businesses!"

Vatsalya Bohra

Smith Brothers

"Float is easy to use and integrates really well with Xero. Customer support has always been brilliant as well."

Emilie Smith

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"To have Float to create and monitor a budget is invaluable. It’s forecasts are accurate and allows for even better scenario planning!"

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    • 3 users
    • 5 additional scenarios
    • 3 years future forecast
    • Weekly cash summary
    • Export Your Forecast to CSV & PDF
    • Budget vs actual reporting
    • Manage invoice & bills
    • Email support
    • Set up call with a Float expert
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    79
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    • 10 users
    • 10 additional scenarios
    • 3 years future forecast
    • Weekly cash summary
    • Export Your Forecast to CSV & PDF
    • Budget vs actual reporting
    • Manage invoice & bills
    • Email support
    • Set up call with a Float expert
    • Quarterly review of your forecast with a Float expert
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    165
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    per month, billed annually *

    Start 14 day free trial

    * Pricing excludes VAT

    • 100 users
    • 100 additional scenarios
    • 3 years future forecast
    • Weekly cash summary
    • Export Your Forecast to CSV & PDF
    • Budget vs actual reporting
    • Manage invoice & bills
    • Email support
    • Set up call with a Float expert
    • Dedicated account manager
    • Monthly review of your forecast with a Float expert

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