Cash flow forecast based on daily sales data

Purpose

1. Automate cash flow forecasting based on real-time and daily sales data collection for offal barbecue restaurants in the food & beverage industry.

2. Enable automated data extraction, processing, and forecasting to predict future cash positions, assist procurement, optimize inventory levels, and automate daily financial management tasks.

3. Support decision makers by automating actionable insights to prevent cash shortfalls and leverage positive cash flow for growth investments.

Trigger Conditions

1. Automatedly triggered daily at a set time (e.g., close of business or after daily batch sales update).

2. Triggered when a new sales transaction is recorded in any POS, order management, or accounting system.

3. Manual trigger via dashboard for ad-hoc forecast requests.

Platform Variants

1. Square POS

• Feature: "Transactions API" — automate pulling daily sales and payment data.
  

2. Toast POS

• Feature: "Sales Reporting API" — configure for automated daily sales extraction.
  

3. Shopify

• Feature: "Orders API" — automate retrieval of order and payment data for F&B.
  

4. QuickBooks Online

• Feature: "Reports API" — automated extraction of daily cash movement and P&L.
  

5. Xero

• Feature: "Bank Transactions endpoint" — automate bank and sales sync for real-time cash visibility.
  

6. Lightspeed Restaurant

• Feature: "Sales Export API" — automate daily export of revenue data.
  

7. Oracle MICROS

• Feature: "Reporting Web Services" — automate pulling custom sales export for forecasting.
  

8. Sage Intacct

• Feature: "General Ledger API" — automate GL updates with daily sales for cash projection.
  

9. Zoho Books

• Feature: "Sales Orders & Invoices API" — automate capturing daily inflows.
  

10. Square Financial Services

• Feature: "Balance API" — automate checking available cash for instant forecast adjustment.
  

11. Google Sheets

• Feature: Sheets API (App Script: schedule trigger) — automate pipeline: daily ingest & calculate forecast.
  

12. Microsoft Excel Online

• Feature: "Automate Flow Connector" — schedule automated extraction/calculation of cash forecast.
  

13. SAP Business One

• Feature: "Service Layer API" — automate end-of-day sales data export.
  

14. NCR Aloha

• Feature: "Sales Data Export" — configure for automated daily CSV push.
  

15. Revel Systems

• Feature: "Orders API" — automate fetching dine-in and takeout numbers for forecast.
  

16. Stripe

• Feature: "Balance Transactions API" — automate payout data flow for forecast accuracy.
  

17. PayPal

• Feature: "Transaction Search API" — automate daily cash movements for F&B operations.
  

18. Punchh Loyalty

• Feature: "Transaction Data API" — automate loyalty and cash sales integration into forecast.
  

19. Slack

• Feature: "Incoming Webhook" — automate sending daily cash flow forecast notifications.
  

20. Outlook Email

• Feature: "Automated Mail Send / Graph API" — automate report delivery to management inboxes.
  

Benefits

1. Automates data aggregation and eliminates manual entry errors across multiple F&B systems.

2. Automated forecasts improve speed and reliability of operational planning.

3. Automation enables proactive restaurant management and streamlined procurement cycles.

4. Automating notifications ensures financial awareness for all stakeholders, real-time.

5. Automates compliance and audit trails via transparent, repeatable forecast calculation.

6. Frees management time for mission-critical, revenue-driving activities through continuous automation.