Back Story: UltiCashFlow

Being a small business owner involved a lot of learning and some experimentation. In my particular situation, my biggest expense was employees which is complicated by today’s environment of distributed remote workers who reside and work in different states with different payroll tax rules. Further complicating matters is that my business involved a lot of proposals and nurturing prospects, which required attributing percentages of success to forecast future revenue. To manage these major complications and the myriad of other expense details, I created an extensive Excel workbook to track revenue and expenses, and better yet to forecast future cash flow. Talking to my accountant, banker, and fellow small business startups it was apparent that many small business owners could greatly benefit from having a similar tool. So went about converting my Excel workbook into a configurable workbook that goes to great lengths to hide complexity and simply the process so anyone can use it without needing any Excel skills.

Why Excel you may ask? Frankly, I already had the beginnings of it from the tool I had developed for my own business; but more importantly I wanted to use a tool that most small businesses would already have and be at least somewhat comfortable using. Additionally, this allows for the workbook to be installed on each owner’s own computer, thus avoiding any security concerns about their data being on the web and potentially exposed to prying eyes. I also wanted to keep the development cost to a minimum so I can offer it at a very attractive cost for small businesses, especially those just getting started.

You can go the the menu item Store to purchase a license and download the workbook to get started.