Meet Beans. Ask it anything about your cash.
Beans is the assistant inside Arclite. It answers from your own invoices and bills, tests a decision before you make it, and never moves a dollar.
The question is simple. Getting the answer is not.
Can I make payroll Friday. To answer it yourself you open the bank, open the aging report, remember which customer is slow, and subtract the bills you know are coming. Twenty minutes later you have a number you do not fully trust.
Ask Beans instead.
Beans has your ledger and your forecast already loaded. It answers the question in plain language and shows you the invoices and bills the answer came from, so you can see whether you agree with it.
- Your numbers, not the internetAnswers come from your connected QuickBooks Online file. No general advice, no guessing.
- Shows its workEvery answer lists the invoices and bills behind it, so you can check it line by line.
- Says when it does not knowIf the answer is not in your books, Beans says so rather than filling the gap.
Real questions, answered from your file.
- Can I make payroll Friday?The answer accounts for what is actually going to land this week, not what is invoiced.
- Which invoices should I chase?Ranked by what each one does to your tightest week, not by which is oldest.
- What if the Henderson invoice slips two weeks?Beans rebuilds the forecast with the slip in it and shows you the damage.
- Which bills can wait?What is safe to push, what carries a late fee, and what you should never stretch.
- Why did week six get worse?What changed in the ledger since the last time you looked, and which line did it.
- Can I afford this hire?Add the salary and start date, and see the thirteen weeks that come back.
Four steps, and one of them is yours.
1. Ask in plain language
Type the question the way you would say it out loud. No report builder, no filters, no formulas.
2. Beans reads your ledger
Open invoices, bills, balances, payment history, and the current thirteen week forecast.
3. You get the answer and the math
A straight answer, plus the invoices and bills behind it so you can check it against your own gut.
4. Then you decide
Beans never moves money and never sends anything. The next move is yours.
One connection, one set of numbers. Here is the forecast Beans reads from, and the same receivables sit behind drafting collection reminders.
Try the decision before you make it.
A simulation rebuilds the forecast with a change in it.
Slip an invoice two weeks. Add a hire. Push a vendor to next month. Beans reruns all thirteen weeks around the change and puts the new picture beside the real one. Nothing in your books moves. You are looking at a copy, and you keep it or throw it away.
- One change at a timeChange the date, the amount or the headcount, and watch which week absorbs it.
- The low week is the answerA decision is affordable if the tightest week survives it. Beans shows you that week.
- Nothing is written backA simulation is a what-if. It changes nothing in your books and nothing posts unless you approve it separately.
Questions about Beans.
Anything you would ask a bookkeeper who had your file open. Can I make payroll Friday. Which invoices should I chase this week. Which bills can wait without a late fee. Why did week six get worse since Monday. Who owes me the most right now. Beans answers in plain language and shows the invoices and bills the answer is built from, so you can check the math yourself.
Your own numbers. Beans reads the invoices, bills, balances and payment history in your connected QuickBooks Online file, and the forecast Arclite builds from them. It is not searching the internet and it is not giving you general advice about small business cash flow. If the answer is not in your ledger, Beans tells you that instead of guessing.
A simulation rebuilds your thirteen week forecast with a change in it. Delay an invoice two weeks. Add a hire at a salary. Push a vendor payment to the following month. Take the equipment loan. Beans reruns the whole forecast around the change and shows you the new weeks next to the real ones, so you can see what it does to your low week before you commit to anything.
No. Beans never moves money. It does not pay a bill, transfer a dollar, or email a customer on its own. It reads, it answers, and it drafts. Anything that leaves your business, a payment or a reminder, waits for you to approve it.
Each conversation or simulation costs one credit. Your $50 a month includes 100 credits. If you go past them, extra credits are 50 cents each on your next invoice, and there are no top-up packs to buy first.
Ask Beans your first question.
Connect QuickBooks Online and Beans has your numbers in about five minutes. Start with the one that has been bothering you.
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