Alternatives
Cash Flow Frog alternatives
Cash Flow Frog connects to your accounting software or bank feed and turns the invoices and bills already there into a live rolling cash flow forecast. bluprnts starts from your website address and builds a full financial model from your products, people, costs and financing. Pick Cash Flow Frog for a simple cash view on a business whose books are current; pick bluprnts when you need a model.
First — is Cash Flow Frog actually the problem?
Switching costs time, so it's worth being clear about what you'd be giving up. Here's what Cash Flow Frog does well:
- Speed and simplicity are the whole design. Where an accounting system is already connected and current, a live forecast follows almost immediately, with no model to build.
- The widest integration list in this comparison: QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Sage Intacct, Zoho Books, FreshBooks, Odoo, and direct bank feeds. bluprnts connects to Xero only.
- Drill-down from any forecast figure into the underlying transactions, plus slicing by customer, vendor or tracking category.
- Multi-company consolidation into a single forecast, which we do not offer at all.
- Rule-based projections that maintain themselves, such as a percentage of revenue or a rolling average, so the forecast keeps working without being tended.
Stay with Cash Flow Frog if Pick Cash Flow Frog if you are trading, your bookkeeping is current, and you mainly want to see your cash position ahead and test the occasional what-if. It is also the better pick if you need several companies consolidated, or if your accounting lives somewhere other than Xero.
Where bluprnts fits
Pick bluprnts when a projection is not enough and you need the underlying model. If you have no accounting history, or you are planning something the history says nothing about, or you need a full three-way forecast with a balance sheet a lender will ask for, then the invoices in your ledger are not the raw material for that. bluprnts is more work to set up and gives you something a forecast built from transactions cannot: a model of the business you can change.
For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see bluprnts vs Cash Flow Frog.