Alternatives
Futrli alternatives
Futrli, owned by Sage, predicts cash flow by analysing transactions in your Xero, QuickBooks or Sage ledger, so a current ledger is the price of entry. bluprnts derives the same statements from your operational drivers, starting from your website address. Pick Futrli for short-term prediction on a trading business; pick bluprnts 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:
- Its prediction engine reads your actual ledger transactions and payment behaviour to project what is coming, including VAT, with confidence indicators. That is real information about your business, and a driver-based model does not have it.
- 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 template library, drag-and-drop management reporting, and 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.