You find out how September went sometime in October.
The books close a few weeks after the month ends. In between, you hired someone, renewed the annual plan and turned down a trip, all on a number that was already out of date.
Lightcash updates when money moves, so the number you decide on is today’s.
Set it up once. Then close the spreadsheet for good.
- Chase BusinessBank ··4821 Connected
- Amex Business GoldCard ··1003 Connected
- StripePayments
1Connect your accounts
Log in to your bank through Lightcash one time. No more exporting CSVs on the last Sunday of the month.
- Transactions
- Stripe payoutIncome+$6,940.20Just now
- AWSSoftware & hosting−$1,240.004 min ago
- FigmaSoftware & hosting−$75.001 hr ago
- Acme Co. invoiceIncome+$4,800.00Today
2Let it sort the mess
AWS goes under software, the 2am Uber goes under travel, and you stop squinting at statement descriptions.
- Cash projection
Point at the chart to read any month.
3Look ahead
See where your cash will be in three months, and what that does if you hire in March.
For the questions you ask at 11pm.
How much do I actually have?
Every account added up, cards included, so the number isn’t flattering you.
Cash on hand$58,030 Live+$2,330 this month · tap an account to leave it out
How long does it last?
Runway from what you really spend, not what you hoped to spend.
Runway14.2 monthsJan 31, projected$63,500Coming up
Oct 15Payroll−$18,400Oct 20Acme Co. invoice+$4,800Oct 31Quarterly tax−$6,200What does my accountant need?
The P&L and balance sheet they keep asking for, ready before they ask.
Profit and loss · September
Revenue$48,200+12%Cost of sales−$9,600+3%Software & hosting−$3,100−8%Payroll−$18,4000%Net income$17,100+21%Why don’t these numbers match?
Now they do. Everything you see comes from the same ledger.
DashboardForecastsReportsPoint at a source to follow its numbers.
When a number looks wrong, you can see why.
No digging through three statements to find the charge that threw everything off. Lightcash keeps one ledger behind every total, so any number goes back to the transactions that made it.
Your bank, Stripe, Shopify, QuickBooks and Gusto feed Lightcash, which matches, categorizes and reconciles every transaction into one ledger. The dashboard, projections, reports and Ask Lightcash all read from that ledger.
01Connect
02Reconcile
- Match
- Categorize
- Reconcile
Ledger
- FigmaSoftware−$75.00
- Shopify payoutIncome+$2,315.40
- Payroll, Oct 15Payroll · scheduled−$18,400.00
1,284 transactions· Balanced
03See
- No more exportsConnect once and the transactions come in on their own.
- No second versionThere’s no spreadsheet quietly disagreeing with your bank.
- No waiting for closeIt changes when money moves, not when someone gets round to it.
For whoever ends up doing the books.
“Lightcash saved us thousands in bookkeeping costs and hours of work every month.”
Free for your first account. $25 a month after that.
Connect one account and it’s free for as long as you like. Add a second and it’s $25 a month, however many more you add.
Before you connect anything.
Find out where you actually stand.
Free for your first account. Or try it on a year of sample data first.
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