Does Connected Cash Flow require bank account integration?

No. You can enter receipts manually, upload bank statements for AI extraction, or connect integrations on the Growth plan. Connected Cash Flow works regardless of how data enters the system — the connection happens after entry.

What if I make a mistake recording a receipt?

Edit or delete the receipt in the deals module. Treasury, runway, and Mission Control all recalculate from the corrected data. The audit trail shows the change with timestamp.

How is this different from accounting software that syncs with my bank?

Accounting software syncs transactions for bookkeeping. RunwayCal connects financial events to operational metrics — runway, burn, collection speed, cash forecast. The goal isn't a general ledger; it's a connected financial operating system for founders.

Stop Entering the Same Number Twice: How Connected Cash Flow Works

You just received $14,000 from TechNova. Here's what happens next in most startups:

Record the payment in your deals tracker or CRM
Manually update your bank balance spreadsheet
Adjust your runway model to reflect the new cash position
Update your collection rate calculation
Check if Mission Control (or whatever dashboard you use) needs refreshing

Five steps. Three different tools. One number. And at least a 40% chance you'll forget step 2 or 3, leaving your cash position wrong for days — sometimes weeks.

The Double Entry Problem

In most financial tools, recording a payment and updating your bank balance are two separate actions. They're designed as independent workflows because they were built as independent products: a CRM for deals, a spreadsheet for cash, a dashboard for KPIs.

Founders become the integration layer. You are the API that connects your deals tracker to your bank balance to your runway model. And like most manually maintained integrations, it breaks constantly.

The consequences are predictable. You make a hiring decision based on a runway number that doesn't include last week's $14,000 receipt. You report stale cash figures to your board. You discover a cash gap three days before payroll because your forecast was running on last month's bank balance.

One Action. Everything Updates.

Connected Cash Flow eliminates the double entry problem. Record a receipt once, and the entire financial system updates:

Receipt recorded → Treasury increases → Runway recalculates → Mission Control updates.

The architecture is simple but powerful. Every financial event flows through the same pipeline:

Receipt from a client → bank balance goes up → runway extends → collection speed recalculates
Tax payment → bank balance goes down → runway adjusts → obligations update
Funding received → bank balance goes up → runway extends → cap table updates
Tool billing due → Mission Control prompts "Mark as paid?" → bank balance adjusts on confirmation
Interest earned → auto-credited monthly to savings accounts

Every movement has an audit trail in the Treasury Activity Log. Filter by inflows, outflows, or all. See exactly when money came in, when it went out, and why. Like a bank statement, but organized by what matters to your business.

Walking Through the Flow

Let's trace what happens when you record that $14,000 TechNova receipt:

Step 1: Record the receipt. Mark TechNova's June payment as received in the deals module. One action. One number. One source of truth.

Step 2: Treasury updates. Your bank balance in Treasury increases by $14,000. The Treasury Activity Log records the inflow with timestamp, amount, source, and linked deal.

Step 3: Runway recalculates. Free Cash Position updates. Monthly burn context shifts. Runway months extend based on the new balance. Cash-out date moves forward.

Step 4: Mission Control updates. True Cash KPI reflects the new balance. Runway sparkline adjusts. If TechNova was flagged as overdue, the alert clears. Collection speed for TechNova recalculates from the new receipt data.

Step 5: Cash forecast shifts. The 60-day cash position forecast adjusts expected inflows. If a shortfall was flagged because TechNova's payment was late, the alert may clear or shift.

Five system updates from one action. No spreadsheet. No manual reconciliation. No stale data.

Bank Statement Reconciliation

Connected Cash Flow also works in reverse. Upload a bank statement, AI extracts every transaction, and the closing balance reconciles with your Treasury. If the statement shows $83,565 but your Treasury shows $50,000, RunwayCal asks: "Update to match?"

You review each extracted transaction before it enters your model. Nothing flows in without your approval. This gives you the speed of automation with the control of manual review — the opposite of bank-connected tools that auto-import everything and leave you cleaning up miscategorized transactions.

Deterministic Doesn't Have to Mean Manual

There's a false dichotomy in startup finance: either you use AI tools that predict your cash position (but you can't trace the numbers), or you use spreadsheets where you control every input (but you maintain everything manually).

Connected Cash Flow offers a third path: you control every input, and the system connects them. Deterministic means every number traces to a source you defined. Connected means you enter it once and everything updates.

Recording a payment in three different places isn't discipline — it's a workaround for tools that don't talk to each other. When your deals tracker, bank balance, runway model, and dashboard are the same system, the "double entry problem" disappears. Not because you tried harder to stay organized, but because the architecture makes disorganization impossible.

Try It

Record one receipt in RunwayCal. Watch your bank balance, runway, collection rate, and Mission Control update from that single action. Then ask yourself: how many places did you used to enter that same number?

That's the difference between Connected Cash Flow and the spreadsheet stack most founders are still maintaining. One action. Everything updates. No reconciliation required.