Finance dashboard

What it does

Behaviours, not fields. Choosing between two modules is choosing between these.

Runway is the only figure on the board that answers a question rather than reporting one, and it is why this exists separately from the revenue tiles.

Owed to us and we owe sit next to cash, because a healthy balance with 7,000 due out this month is not a healthy balance.

Each figure carries a note, so the number is never presented without the thing that qualifies it.

Recomputes from Invoices, Payments and Expenses, so opening it is enough — there is nothing to prepare.

How it works

1
Cash, receivables, payables and runway are drawn from Invoices, Payments and Expenses.
2
Every figure carries a note, so none is presented without the thing that qualifies it.
3
Runway is the only figure here that answers a question rather than reporting one.
4
Opening it is enough — there is nothing to prepare.

Best for

The top of a dashboard, answering "is this going well".

Not the right choice for

Anything needing more than a glance.

What a row holds

Every field, and what the agent listens for to fill it — which is the difference between a page you type into and one that fills itself.

Field	Type	Filled from
Figurerequired	text	What is being reported, named plainly.
Amountrequired	text	The value, aggregated from the modules that hold it.
Noterequired	text	The qualifier. Required, because a number presented alone gets acted on alone.

What it does not do

A module chosen for something it cannot do costs more than one that was never offered.

Runway assumes the current burn continues, which is exactly when it is least true.
Receivables are what was invoiced, not what will be collected.
No scenario modelling or forecasting.
Depends on the other finance modules being current; stale inputs produce a confident wrong answer.

Before it works

What you have to provide, if anything.

Needs Invoices, Payments and Expenses to be in use. This aggregates; it collects nothing.
Check the inputs before trusting the runway. It is the figure most likely to be quoted in a decision.

In practice

An owner deciding whether to take on a part-time hire.

“Can we afford someone two days a week?”

What was said to the agent

What the agent built

Cash, receivables, payables and a runway figure at the current burn, drawn from records already there.

What changed

3.2 months of runway with 3,200 of the receivables overdue. The hire happened a quarter later, after the overdue invoice was collected.

Better with

These do a different job on the same data. An agent can have all of them.

CashflowLive

Income arrives unevenly, costs do not, and someone needs to see a shortfall before they are in it.

InvoicesLive

The agent bills clients or is billed by suppliers, and someone needs to see what is unpaid without opening the accounting tool.

ReportsLive

Someone outside the day-to-day needs the picture periodically, with interpretation rather than raw figures.

Questions

What data does the Finance dashboard page use?

It reads transaction records the agent has collected. KPIs + charts combined. Nothing has to be imported first — the page appears once there is something to show.

Do I have to build or configure it?

No. You describe what you need in a sentence and the agent chooses the view and fills it. Custom pages exist for the cases no built-in view covers, and those are reviewed before they go live.

When is a kpi the wrong choice?

Anything needing more than a glance. It is best for: the top of a dashboard, answering "is this going well".

Does it stay up to date?

Yes. The page is a view over the data rather than a copy of it, so anything the agent learns afterwards shows up without a rebuild or a re-import.