Cash flow

Know what cash is available, what is spoken for and what could change next.

RunwayCal brings cash, known obligations, commitments, revenue timing and plans into one place so you can understand the cash position behind the next decision.

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Held cash
Known obligations
Revenue timing
Scenario impact

Conceptual planning sequence

Held cashRecorded now

Known obligationsAlready spoken for

Expected moneySeparate until received

Decision contextWhat can the business support next?

Expected money stays separate from held cash until it is received. This is explanatory, not product UI or a literal formula.

Chapter 01

The bank balance tells you what is there. Not what is already spoken for.

Cash in the bank is the starting point. Payroll, tax, tools and contracts may already be coming due, while a customer payment can be expected without having arrived.

RunwayCal keeps those states separate so a held balance is not mistaken for unused credit, expected revenue or cash that is automatically safe to spend.

Understand True Cash Position

Four parts of the cash question

Cash heldWhat the recorded accounts show now

Known obligationsAmounts with a real claim on cash

CommitmentsRecurring or one-time costs already accepted

Expected receiptsTiming context, not money received

Chapter 02

Expected money should help the plan without pretending it has arrived.

A modeled revenue line, a won deal and a customer receipt are not the same state. Expected amount and collection timing can inform the plan while received cash remains the confirmed event.

This lets the team ask what happens if a receipt is late without quietly adding that money to today's held cash.

Explore Revenue Planning Explore Collections Planning

Expected and received remain separate

Revenue or dealCommercial expectationUseful context for the plan

Expected timingWhen the money may arriveStill not held cash

Received cashRecorded as realizedNow part of confirmed reality

Chapter 03

Know what the business has already committed to.

A decision can look affordable until the costs already coming due are put beside it. Keep known commitments in view before another hire, contract or purchase joins them.

Cash Commitments uses structured entries. It does not discover obligations through a general bank feed or automatic reconciliation process.

Explore Commitment Planning

PayrollTeam costs already coming due

TaxRecorded obligations with a due date

Tools and contractsRecurring costs the business has accepted

One-time costsSupported obligations outside the monthly pattern

Chapter 04

The same amount of money can create a different outcome when the timing changes.

A customer payment expected after payroll cannot cover payroll today. Renewals, tax and one-time purchases create the same timing question. Put the sequence beside the amount before deciding what the cash can support.

Illustrative timing sequence

TodayCash held

NextPayroll

ThenCustomer receipt

LaterRenewal

DueTax

The sequence is illustrative. No dates or product state are being claimed.

Chapter 05

Test the decision before you make it part of the plan.

Test one change at a time: hire one person, delay a purchase, change revenue timing, or add or remove a recurring cost. The result shows the consequence of that assumption without rewriting confirmed reality.

A scenario stays hypothetical until you choose to make the change part of the operating plan.

Explore Scenario Planning

Known nowRecorded obligation or commitment

Already belongs in the forward cash view.

Test firstHypothetical decision

Stays separate until the business adopts the change.

Before committing cash

Questions you should be able to answer before committing cash.

01
How much cash is actually held today?
02
What obligations are already coming due?
03
Which customer receipts are expected but not yet received?
04
What changes if a payment arrives late?
05
What does a new hire or recurring cost do to runway?
06
Which assumption is driving the change?

Product evidence

See the cash decision in the product.

Mission Control keeps the bank balance, recorded obligation context and derived True Cash Position visible as separate values. Runway remains a downstream planning horizon, not a promise about the future.