Alternatives
Float alternatives
Float connects to Xero, QuickBooks or FreeAgent and builds your forecast from the invoices and bills in your ledger, so it can tell you nothing until that ledger is current. bluprnts starts from your website address and models your products, people, sales and costs. Pick Float for near-term visibility over real invoices; pick bluprnts to model decisions you have not made yet.
First — is Float actually the problem?
Switching costs time, so it's worth being clear about what you'd be giving up. Here's what Float does well:
- Mature integrations with Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent. Where your ledger is current, the forecast reflects real invoices and bills without you entering any of them.
- Aimed squarely at short-term operational cash visibility — which invoices land before which bills. For that question their source data is better than ours.
- Long established, with a large base of accountants and bookkeepers who already know the product and can support you in it.
- If you already live in your accounting software, the data model is one you recognise.
Stay with Float if Pick Float if your accounting data is complete and up to date, and the question is about the next few months of real invoices and bills. If your forecast should be a faithful projection of your ledger, and you have someone keeping that ledger accurate, a tool built directly on top of it is the better fit. That ledger is the condition, though — until it exists, Float has nothing to read.
Where bluprnts fits
you are modelling something the accounts cannot tell you about: a pre-revenue business, a new product, a hiring plan, a price change, or a project you have not committed to yet. bluprnts is built from operational drivers, so a forecast exists before any ledger does, and "what if we hire three people and raise prices 10%?" is a change to an input rather than a rebuilt spreadsheet.
For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see bluprnts vs Float.