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How one dashboard eliminated 6 hours of weekly bookkeeping.

A financial services consultancy managing revenue across multiple clients, payment processors, and bank accounts.

Manual work removed
6 hrs/wk
Financial visibility
Real-time
Categorization
Auto
Tax estimation
Live
1Overview

The situation at financial services consultancy.

Bookkeeping was spread across disconnected tools. Bank transactions lived in one place, payment data in another. Reconciliation meant manual spreadsheet work every week, and tax estimates were always outdated.

We connected their bank accounts and payment systems into a single dashboard. Transactions sync automatically, get categorized by their rules, and feed into a live accounting view with real-time tax estimates.

2The challenge

Three sources of truth, zero visibility.

The bottleneck

The consultancy was growing, but their financial operations were not keeping up. Bank transactions came from one source, client payments from another, and expenses from a third. Getting a clear picture of the business required downloading CSVs and cross-referencing spreadsheets.

Every week, the owner spent 6+ hours on manual reconciliation. At quarter end, tax estimates required pulling data from multiple sources and recalculating everything. The numbers were always slightly behind reality.

The real problem was not just the time. It was the lack of visibility. The owner could not answer 'How much did we make this month?' without spending an hour pulling reports.

3The approach

One screen, always live.

We connected their bank accounts and payment processor into a single dashboard. Transactions sync automatically throughout the day. Each transaction gets categorized based on rules the owner set: vendor name, amount range, description keywords.

The dashboard shows revenue, expenses, and estimated taxes all in one place. It updates in real time. The owner opens one screen and has a complete picture of the business finances.

Quarterly tax estimates calculate automatically based on current revenue and expenses. No more end-of-quarter scrambles to figure out what is owed.

4The outcome

Six hours back, every week.

Six hours of weekly manual bookkeeping eliminated. The owner sees revenue, expenses, and estimated taxes on one screen that updates automatically.

Weekly CSV downloads and manual cross-referencing are gone. Quarter-end tax estimation takes seconds instead of hours.

The owner can answer financial questions immediately instead of waiting until the next reconciliation cycle. Better visibility means better decisions.

Takeaway 01

Connect the systems, then automate.

The biggest win was not any single feature. It was connecting bank data, payment data, and accounting into one place so everything stays in sync without manual effort.

Takeaway 02

Categorization rules save hours.

Once the owner set rules for common transactions, 90%+ of categorization happened automatically. The remaining edge cases get flagged for quick review.

5Takeaways

What this tells us.

Connect the systems, then automate.

The biggest win was not any single feature. It was connecting bank data, payment data, and accounting into one place so everything stays in sync without manual effort.

Categorization rules save hours.

Once the owner set rules for common transactions, 90%+ of categorization happened automatically. The remaining edge cases get flagged for quick review.

Real-time visibility changes behavior.

When the owner can check finances anytime instead of once a week, decisions get made faster and with better information.

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