CASHFISH FOR BOOKKEEPERS

Thirty-eight arrived
over the weekend.
Seven of them
need your eyes.

Clients send their money records the way they live: a receipt photographed on a car seat, a bill forwarded three weeks late, a statement locked behind a password. CashFish reads each one as it lands, lifts out vendor, date and amount, holds the second copy of an invoice against the first, and hands you a queue where the only documents still waiting are the ones a person has to settle.

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01The pile that arrives sideways

The judgment was never
the slow part.
The keying was.

Nothing in the day is difficult the way clients imagine. It is that every small decision arrives wrapped in twenty minutes of opening, squinting, typing and filing before anyone can make it.

IMG_4471.HEIC · photographed at an angleHalf the receipt sits in shadow, and the total is the one number the camera missed.
FWD: FWD: sorry, just found thisA bill from three weeks ago lands on the morning the client wants the month finished.
statement.pdf · password requiredThe password was texted to somebody once, in April, from a phone that has since been replaced.
invoice #4482 · seen twiceOnce by email, once from the shared folder — and nothing between the two copies says they are the same bill.
vendor coding · consistent until ThursdayCategories hold up perfectly right up to the week three clients decide to close at once.

Volume, not difficulty — which is precisely the half of the work that does not need you.

02What a document becomes

One photograph in.
Four fields out.

A crooked photo of a supply receipt is still a receipt. CashFish reads it where it lands — inbox, shared folder, forwarded thread — and returns the fields you would otherwise have typed, each shown with how sure it is, and a category suggested from the way you coded that vendor last time.

VendorBluepeak Supply Co.99%
DateSat 29 Aug 202699%
Total$164.2099%
CategoryOffice & suppliesrecommended

The photograph stays attached to the record it created, so the answer to "what was this?" is one click away in March.

01
Connect the mailbox
Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP inbox, checked again every five minutes. Google Drive and Dropbox connect as well, so the shared folder a client uses sits alongside the mailbox as a place documents are collected from.
02
Let it do the keying
Vendor, date, amount and line detail come off each document in under three seconds, at 99% accuracy.
03
Take only the exceptions
A field read with low confidence, a first-time vendor, a suspected duplicate — each waits in one queue instead of entering the records.
04
Leave as CSV and PDF
The ledger gets the transactions, the client gets the report, and the original document stays attached to every record.
03The queue at nine

Six lines,
and that is the whole
morning decision list.

Thirty-eight documents came in between Friday evening and Monday morning: twenty-two receipts, nine invoices, five bills, two statements. This is what they look like once they have been read — a sample of the queue as it stands at nine o'clock.

DocumentSourceExtractedConfidenceSuggested
Rideshare receiptphoto · Sat 18:22$23.4099%Approve · Travel
Design tool renewalGmail · Sun 06:03$15.0099%Approve · Software & tools
Delivery invoice #4482Gmail, then Drive$318.00matchedHold · second copy · confirm
Bluepeak Supply receiptphoto · Sat 11:04$164.2099%Approve · Office & supplies
Scanned billOutlook · Sun 14:47$1,236.0081%Review · total against line items
First invoice, new vendorGmail · Mon 07:55$450.00no historyReview · category unconfirmed
38 in since Friday31 ready to approve4 held for review3 possible duplicatesFIRST PASS · 09:00 TO 09:40

Nothing crosses into the records without you. Extraction sorts and suggests; the approving is yours, in one pass or one line at a time — and anything the reader cannot stand behind waits rather than guesses.

04What it does with the volume

Five habits it takes over,
none of them judgment.

01
A queue where a pile used to be

Every document arrives already read and classified, and only the uncertain ones ask for attention. Seven exceptions out of thirty-eight is a different Monday from thirty-eight attachments spread across three inboxes.

Ready to approve
31
Held for review
4
Possible duplicates
3
02
The second copy never becomes a second entry

The same bill arriving by email and again from a shared folder is ordinary client behaviour. Matching on vendor, amount and date holds the newcomer beside the original and waits for your call instead of doubling the expense.

vendor + amount + date agreeemail copy, then the Drive copyyou confirm — it enters once
03
Categories that remember your last call

CashFish recommends the category you gave that vendor before, and sends first-time vendors to you rather than picking one. You make the call once; it is offered the same way afterwards, and you can change it whenever a client's categories move.

Software & tools
$1,240
Office & supplies
$658
Travel
$386
Utilities
$209
month to date, one client
04
Payables and receivables that build themselves

An extracted bill becomes a payable with its due date; an extracted invoice becomes a receivable with its terms. Read-only bank sync sits on the same plan, so what has actually cleared shows up beside what the documents said was owed — reconciliation starts from two lists instead of a blank column. Both are Growth features.

Payables · from bills read$1,554.00
Receivables · from invoices read$450.00
Bank sync · read-only12,000+ banks
05
The source document never leaves the record

Every extracted record keeps the file it came from. When a client asks in March what a line in August was, the receipt opens beside it — and the CSV and PDF exports carry the same trail out to the ledger you keep.

original attachedTransactions — CSVClient report — PDF
05The numbers behind the quiet

Fast enough that the queue
is never the reason to wait.

The point of the speed is not the speed. It is that documents stop accumulating between the moment a client sends them and the moment you can act on them.

0%
extraction accuracy

The fields it can stand behind, it fills. The rest come to you instead of into the records.

under 0s
per document

Reading a receipt, a bill or an invoice takes less time than opening the attachment used to.

0
days of history

Connecting a mailbox imports what is already sitting in it, so a new client file does not start empty.

0 min
between checks

A connected mailbox is re-read every five minutes, weekends included, so Monday is never the first look.

Across CashFish accounts the average saving is more than ten hours a week, and month-end close moves from three or four weeks to two or three days. Your own numbers will depend on how many clients you carry and how they send things.

06Where the documents come from

Six places clients leave things,
one line into the queue.

Gmail
read on arrival
Outlook
read on arrival
IMAP
any other mailbox
Google Drive
shared folders
Dropbox
shared folders
QuickBooks · Xero
one-way import in

Yahoo Mail, iCloud Mail, Zoho Mail and OneDrive connect on the same basis, and Stripe, PayPal, Square and the store integrations join from Growth. QuickBooks and Xero import into CashFish one way only — the ledger you keep stays the record. Bank access is read-only, data is held under 256-bit encryption with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and GDPR alignment, and every connection shows its health in settings where you can disconnect it at any time.

07Growth, and why

Connect one mailbox tonight.
Tomorrow's pile arrives sorted.

Growth is the plan for a working practice: read-only bank sync to reconcile against, payables and receivables built from the documents already read, and vendor insight on top of the extraction Starter gives you. Keep the judgment. Give away the typing.

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08Questions

Before you connect a mailbox.

Receipts, invoices, bills, statements, contracts and proposals, arriving in Gmail, Outlook or any IMAP mailbox. Fields are extracted at 99% accuracy in under three seconds per document, and connecting a mailbox imports up to 150 days of what is already sitting in it.

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