This month at a glance
Reserve goal
Target: 3 months of running costs — your first financial goal.
Where this month's money should go auto-allocation
Based on income this month. Every payment auto-splits into these pots — edit the % in the Pots & Allocation tab.
Money in & out
Log a payment
Ledger
| Date | Description | Category | Tag | In | Out |
|---|
Invoices & receivables
Money you're owed. Mark an invoice paid and it drops into the ledger as income and auto-allocates into your pots.
Raise an invoice
Aged receivables
| Client | For | Due | Status | Amount |
|---|
Pots & allocation engine
Mode:
Step 1 — every £ of income splits
Step 2 — the Profit is distributed
Tithe + Offerings = 20% of profit. Reserve is fed first until the target is hit, then redirects to Own-Apps & Owner's pay. Partnership: fixed £/mo.
Adjust the percentages
Products & projects — profit / loss
Add a product / project
Portfolio
App unit-economics
Per-product profitability. Add active users & a one-off build cost on a product (Products tab) to see ARPU, margin per user and payback.
Per product
Reports
Investor-ready snapshots from your live data. Pick a month for the P&L and budget; cash flow shows the last 6 months. Print the lot as management accounts.
Month:
Profit & Loss
Cash flow last 6 months
Budget vs actual
Budget = allocation of that month's income (excl. grants); actual = costs grouped by their tag. Tag spend with the pot names (Delivery, Operating…) for a clean match.
Corporation Tax estimate rolling 12 months
Freelancer payments
Everyone's a freelancer — they invoice you, you pay, you keep the proof. No payroll, no employer tax.
Team
| Name | Role | Basis | Paid to date |
|---|
Log a freelancer payment
Payments
| Date | Who | For | Amount | Proof |
|---|
Owner pay — salary · dividends · director's loan
Record every way you take money out of the Ltd, so "what can I take out?" stays answerable and the profit split stays honest. Not tax advice — confirm figures with your accountant.
Dividends
| Date | Shareholder | Amount |
|---|
Salary
| Date | Period | Gross | Tax | NI | Net |
|---|
Director's Loan Account
Positive balance = the company owes you (you can draw it back). Negative = you owe the company (overdrawn — watch the tax).
| Date | In/Out | Amount | Balance | Note |
|---|
Giving
Churches & charities we partner with
| Name | Vision / goal | £/mo |
|---|
Compliance calendar
Your filing & tax deadlines with a live countdown. Set the real dates for your company — the seeded ones marked placeholder are just examples.
Add a deadline
VAT watch not registered
Deadlines
Documents
Fillable, printable business templates — they auto-fill from your company details in Setup. Not legal advice; have agreements professionally reviewed before you rely on them.
Pick a document on the left to fill in and print.
Setup — company details
Your company's core details, entered once. They auto-fill every document, and this doubles as your printable Company Details Sheet.
Company profile open printable sheet ↗
Changes save automatically and flow into every document.
Systems & SOPs
How it all connects
Bank (Mettle)→FreeAgent (books)→This dashboard (cockpit)→Claude (reports & advice)
Bank feeds transactions into FreeAgent (official books). You steer from this dashboard. Claude reads a summary to write reports & give CFO advice.
Bookkeeping Key — plain English
The words you'll meet, what they mean, and a real example. (More detail folds in from your bookkeeping video.)