Alternatives
Futrli alternatives
Futrli, owned by Sage, predicts your cash flow by analysing the transactions in your Xero, QuickBooks or Sage ledger, and turns that into daily forecasts and three-way statements. bluprnts derives the same statements from your operational drivers instead, with no ledger required. Pick Futrli for automatic short-term prediction on a trading business with clean books; pick bluprnts when you need to model a plan rather than predict a pattern.
First — is Futrli actually the problem?
Switching costs time, so it's worth being clear about what you'd be giving up. Here's what Futrli does well:
- Automatic prediction is genuinely good. Futrli analyses your actual ledger transactions and payment behaviour to predict what is coming, including VAT, with confidence indicators. You get a useful forecast quickly without describing your business first.
- Daily granularity. For a business managing a tight cash position week to week, a daily view built from real invoices and bills is more useful than a monthly model.
- Deep reporting: a large library of templates, drag-and-drop management reporting, and customisable dashboards mixing financial and non-financial metrics.
- Built for advisory practices, with unlimited users and practice tiers, so a firm can run many client forecasts.
- Backed by Sage, and a natural fit if your accounting already sits in the Sage ecosystem.
Stay with Futrli if Pick Futrli if you are trading, your books are current, and the question is what happens to cash over the next few weeks and months. Its prediction engine reads your real invoices, bills and payment behaviour, which is information a driver-based model does not have and cannot invent. Pick it too if you are an accounting practice wanting one tool across many clients, or if you are already committed to Sage.
Where bluprnts fits
Pick bluprnts when there is no transaction history to predict from, or when the thing you care about is not a continuation of the pattern. Prediction is a strength when the future resembles the recorded past and a weakness when it does not. If you are pre-revenue, launching something new, or deciding whether to hire, raise or expand, you need those things to be inputs to the model rather than events the ledger has not seen yet.
For the full feature-by-feature breakdown, see bluprnts vs Futrli.