ACCOUNTING WORKFLOW

Every entrylands on both sides — the day it arrives.

Reading a bill, proposing where it belongs, finding the payment that settles it — that half of accounting is mechanical, and CashFish does it as the documents land in your inbox. The half that needs a person stays with you: every category is a suggestion, every record opens the document it came from, and your accountant starts from books that are already sorted.

Owner-operatorsIn-house bookkeepersFinance teams of onePractice clients

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01Out by an unknown amount

Nothing is wrong.
Nothing has been checked since June.

Books do not break in one dramatic moment. They drift — one bill read and forgotten, one duplicate waved through, one card charge nobody can explain in March.

SEP
The bill is read once, on the day it lands, and never again
Ironwood Co. sends $1,240 on the 3rd. You open it, note the net-15 terms, and move on. Three weeks later the only thing that remembers the due date is the email itself.
invoice_2209.pdf · buried in a thread
OCT
The same $1,240 arrives twice and lands twice
A supplier resends the invoice, someone forwards it to the shared address, and both copies get entered. The books now say you owe Ironwood Co. $2,480.
duplicate · counted twice
DEC
A quarter of receipts, sorted in one long afternoon
Eighty-nine documents in a folder, a coffee, and four hours of guessing what a card charge from October was for. Speed decides the category, not accuracy.
89 documents · one sitting
MAR
Your accountant asks what a payment was for
A $590 transfer, no document beside it, no note. The honest answer is a shrug — and the fee for someone else's afternoon of reconstruction.
why? · nobody remembers
DEBITS CREDITS DIFFERENCE unknown until December
02One bill, start to settled

Documents go in.
Records come out.

Nothing is typed twice. CashFish watches the inbox the paperwork already arrives in, reads what lands there, and turns it into a record with the original still attached — about 99% accuracy, in under three seconds a document.

Supplier billsPDFs that arrive in Outlook, Gmail or any IMAP inbox
Customer invoicesthe ones you send, tracked as receivables from the day they go
Card and cash receiptsforwarded, or emailed to you by the merchant
Statementsbank and card, read for the lines that match your documents
Contractsread for their terms, dates and amounts, so none of it is retyped
150 days of historyimported on the day you connect, not typed in afterwards

Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, Zoho or any IMAP mailbox. Checked every five minutes, with duplicate detection running on everything it reads.

Ironwood Co. — invoice #2209OUTLOOK · SEP 3
−$0extracted in under 3 seconds
VendorIronwood Co. · 4th bill this year
Termsnet 15 · due Sep 18
Duplicate checkno earlier copy found
Sourceinvoice_2209.pdf · attached to the record
Suggested category Marketing & printHIGH
ConfirmChange categoryOpen the PDF
Recorded to payables · due Sep 18paid Sep 17 · matched from the bank feed

One bill from Ironwood Co., followed through: read on the 3rd, categorized with your confirmation, recorded to payables, and settled on the 17th when the matching line appears in the read-only bank feed.

03Where the records come from

Six connections, and one direction of travel.

Reads in
Outlook
The mailbox the bills already arrive in. Checked every five minutes.
Reads in
Gmail
Same treatment, same speed — plus any IMAP inbox you'd rather use.
Read-only · Growth
Bank sync
12,000+ institutions. CashFish can see the lines; it cannot move a cent.
Reads in
Stripe
Store and payment integrations open on Growth. Card takings come in as records.
One-way in
QuickBooks
Your existing history imports into CashFish. Nothing travels back out.
One-way in
Xero
Read in the same direction, so your accounting file is left untouched.

Also Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, Zoho Mail, IMAP, Square, PayPal, Google Drive, Dropbox, Slack and Zapier. Bank access is read-only across 12,000+ institutions, data is protected with 256-bit encryption (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR), and every connection shows its health in settings and can be disconnected there at any time.

04Every entry, both sides

Money never moves
in one direction.
Neither does a record.

Each record CashFish keeps has two halves — where the amount landed, and where it came from. Five entries from one September week are below, with the check that has to pass at the bottom.

Sep 3
Ironwood Co. bill #2209
read from Outlook in under 3 seconds
DRMarketing & print
CRAccounts payable
$1,240
Sep 9
Invoice sent to Atlas Advisory
raised by you, tracked from the moment it goes out
DRAccounts receivable
CRConsulting revenue
$3,600
Sep 12
Bluepeak subscription
recurring charge, recognized as the one from last month
DRSoftware
CRCard ····4417
$590
Sep 17
Payment out to Ironwood Co.
found in the bank feed and matched to bill #2209
DRAccounts payable
CRBank · operating
$1,240
Sep 22
Atlas Advisory pays
$3,600 arrives and settles the invoice that raised it
DRBank · operating
CRAccounts receivable
$3,600
The check that has to pass — every day, not only at year end$10,270$10,2700.00

Every row opens the document behind it — the emailed bill, the invoice you sent, the bank line that settled it. If you already keep books in QuickBooks or Xero, that history imports the same way: one direction only, into CashFish. Nothing is ever written back to your accounting file.

05The mechanical half

The work still
happens. It stops
happening to you.

Not one of these is a judgment call. They are the sorting, typing and hunting that fill the hours between a document arriving and a record being right — and every one of them leaves a trail you can open.

01
Extraction that keeps the paper
Every bill, receipt and statement becomes a structured record with the original document one click behind it. The trail is the default, not a habit you have to keep.
02
A category offered, never imposed
Each record arrives with a recommended classification and how sure the reading is. Agreeing is one click. Disagreeing is two, and the correction sticks.
03
Payments that find their paperwork
Read-only sync across 12,000+ banks lets money leaving the account meet the bill it settles, and money arriving meet the invoice that asked for it.
04
Duplicates stopped at the door
The same bill forwarded twice, or showing up in both an inbox and a statement, is caught and flagged before it can be recorded a second time.
05
One-way import from QuickBooks and Xero
History you already keep is pulled in so the picture is complete. The connection only reads — nothing CashFish does is ever written back to your accounting file.
06
Records your accountant can work from
Live dashboards while the month is still running, and CSV or PDF exports the moment someone needs the numbers in their own tools.
06What changes

Review becomes exceptions,
not everything.

0%
extraction accuracy on the documents CashFish reads
under 3s
from a bill landing in the inbox to a structured record
0 days
of history imported the day you connect a mailbox

A Wednesday, fourteen entries

Twelve settled against something — a bill against its payment, an invoice against the money that arrived. Two are waiting on you: an unfamiliar vendor, and a charge that could sit in either of two categories. That is the queue at five o'clock — two decisions, not a stack of paper.

12 confirmed on their own2 flagged for your call

And month-end stops being a month

When records were kept as they arrived, closing is reading rather than rebuilding. Businesses that used to spend 3–4 weeks on it typically land at 2–3 days.

Rebuilding a month
3–4 WEEKS
Reading it through
2–3 DAYS

CashFish does not file taxes, does not replace an accountant and does not move money. It keeps the records, and keeps them inspectable.

07The plan for this

Give your accountant
a running start.

Starter already reads your inbox and classifies what it finds. Growth is the plan on this page because it adds read-only bank sync across 12,000+ institutions — the part that lets a payment find its bill on its own — along with automatic payables and receivables and business income and expense dashboards.

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08Six straight answers

The six things
an accountant asks us.

No, and it is not built to. CashFish takes the mechanical half — reading documents, suggesting categories, matching payments, keeping every record attached to its source. Your accountant then starts from organized records instead of rebuilding a quarter from statements. Advice, judgment and tax filing stay with people; CashFish does not file taxes and does not give financial advice.

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