Alternatives
Float alternatives
Float connects to Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent and builds your forecast from the invoices and bills already in your ledger. bluprnts builds it from your products, people, sales and costs instead, so it works before you have accounting data. 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:
- Deep, mature integrations with Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent — your forecast reflects real invoices and bills with very little setup.
- Excellent for short-term operational cash visibility, where the question is which invoices land before which bills.
- Long track record and a large base of accountants and bookkeepers who already know the product and can support you in it.
- Very little to learn if you already live in your accounting software — the data model is one you recognise.
Stay with Float if your accounting data is complete and up to date, and the question you need answered 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 a bookkeeper keeping that ledger accurate — a tool built directly on top of it will get you there faster and with less setup than a driver-based model.
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.