Real-time cash flow monitoring

Purpose

1.1. Automate real-time cash flow monitoring to track all revenue, expenses, and reconciliations across multiple Chettinad restaurant outlets.
1.2. Automate detection of cash discrepancies, provide instant notifications for abnormal transactions, and automate consolidated dashboard reporting.
1.3. Automating sync between POS, bank accounts, invoice systems, and accounting tools for accurate automated cash visibility.
1.4. Automatic export of daily transactions and seamless integration with ERP for automatable compliance and financial forecasting.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. Automated sync when a sale, refund, or expense is recorded in POS or accounting software.
2.2. Scheduled or automated triggers on bank transaction entry or balance update.
2.3. Automate immediate alerts on threshold breaches, e.g. sudden drop in cash balance or abnormal receipts.
2.4. Periodic automated nightly batching or on-demand update requests.

Platform Variants

3.1. Square POS
• Feature/Setting: Webhooks for real-time sales data; configure endpoint for automated cash updates.
3.2. Toast POS
• Feature/Setting: API Key & Sales Events Webhook; automating cash transaction capture.
3.3. Lightspeed Restaurant
• Feature/Setting: Payments API; automatedly triggers cash flow sync on every transaction.
3.4. QuickBooks Online
• Feature/Setting: Banking API – “GetAccountTransactions”; automated import and reconciliation.
3.5. Xero
• Feature/Setting: Bank Transactions Endpoint; real-time automate fetch & post for cash tracking.
3.6. PayPal
• Feature/Setting: Instant Payment Notification (IPN); automate incoming/outgoing cash events.
3.7. Stripe
• Feature/Setting: Balance Transactions Webhook; automates monitoring of customer payments and refunds.
3.8. Razorpay
• Feature/Setting: Payment Webhook to automate event-based cash inflow/outflow update.
3.9. Zoho Books
• Feature/Setting: Automated Bank Feeds; automating real-time updates via “Banking API”.
3.10. Tally ERP
• Feature/Setting: ODBC Automation for real-time cash ledger extraction.
3.11. SAP Business One
• Feature/Setting: Service Layer API; automates posting, reading live cash transactions.
3.12. FreshBooks
• Feature/Setting: Payments Event API; automate sync to financial dashboards.
3.13. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Outbound Email API for automatedly sending cash alerts on anomalies.
3.14. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: SMS API – automate instant notifications to management on cash status change.
3.15. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhooks to automate real-time feeds in dedicated finance channels.
3.16. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Connector API to automate automated cash flow alerts in Teams.
3.17. Power BI
• Feature/Setting: “Push Datasets API”; automate streaming of cash data to live dashboards.
3.18. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Sheets API & Webhooks; automate appending transaction rows.
3.19. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: REST API “createRecord”; automating entry of every new cash event.
3.20. Plaid
• Feature/Setting: “Transactions” endpoint; automate linkage with connected bank accounts for real-time cash tracking.
3.21. Oracle Netsuite
• Feature/Setting: SuiteTalk Web Services – automate real-time cash journal integration.

Benefits

4.1. Automates the entire process, eliminating manual intervention for cash reconciliation and anomaly detection.
4.2. Enables automatable real-time visibility into all cash flows across locations, reducing financial blind spots.
4.3. Automates instant alerts, ensuring rapid mitigate of cash risks and frauds.
4.4. Improves stakeholder confidence through automated and auditable cash reports.
4.5. Reduces errors, automates compliance, and enhances strategic financial planning with accurate real-time data.