Viable

🔄 Making Peak Season Finance Smoother: The latest product updates from the Viable team We’ve been busy shipping product updates to make our customers’ finance systems easier to manage: perfectly timed for the busiest trading period of the year. Here are some key wins: 1. In-app Document Viewer: Direct access to Xero and QuickBooks files within payment runs and invoice screens 2. Category-based Transaction View: All recurring and one-off forecasts in a clean, categorised table 3. Streamlined Reporting: Simplified cash flow visualisations with quick .xlsx and PDF exports 4. Purchase Order Integration 5. Automatic PO import into cash flow forecasts 6. Clear visibility of upcoming supplier payments 7. Payment Terms Enhancement 8. Flexible payment scheduling for purchase orders 9. Weekly payment plan modelling 10. Strategic payment mapping for improved cash flow visibility These tools are live in your account, ready to bring clarity to your peak season planning. Thoughts on what we should build next? Drop them below. #RetailFinance #DTC #Ecommerce

🔥 Contribution margin: the north star metric every DTC founder should be obsessed with? Last week we had an incredible conversation with Arthur Edson, Finance Director at Wild, one of Europe's fastest-growing cosmetic brands. Here are 10 game-changing insights for D2C founders on creating winning financial strategies to unleash rapid growth: 📊 Shift focus from revenue to contribution margin as your north star metric. Wild leads with contribution margin in all dashboards and reporting. 💡 Not every pound of revenue is worth the same - understand contribution margins across different channels, products, and markets to make smart growth decisions. 🔍 Audit supplier invoices at order-level detail monthly - Wild saves tens of thousands by catching billing mistakes. 💪 Leverage scale for better terms - review costs AND payment terms with suppliers every time you hit new growth milestones. 💰 Use revenue-based financing strategically for specific growth opportunities, not as a long-term solution. 📱 Build financial models that account for different margin profiles across channels and customer behaviours. 🚀 Growth opportunities should be balanced against cash impact - sometimes it's better to delay expansion for sustainable cash flow. 🎮 Run the business to a financial plan - don't scale above it unless you see clear efficiency gains. Huge thanks to Arthur for sharing these insights! #DTC #Ecommerce #StartupFinance #Growth

What makes Wild so successful? Amazing products, brand, founders and team.. including an elite finance operator in Arthur Edson. On Tuesday Viable's CEO & Co-founder Franklyn Martin will speak to Arthur about the finance side of scaling Wild across sales channels and markets, what early-stage founders should prioritise to increase growth potential and his take on the future of consumer brand finance. Sign up below!

Viable is hosting "How DTC founders can make friends with finance" - live at 3pm on Oct 29. Check it out!

Here we go!! We're bringing consumer brand founders into the spotlight to share the no-BS stories and finance insight behind scaling their business. In our first event, we’re joined by Trent Scanlen of wellness brand Kurk as he spills the beans on product pivots, raising money from celebrity investors and transitioning from early traction to high-growth across multiple markets and sales channels. Whether you’re hustling to raise funds, getting your head around cash flow or simply looking for ways to supercharge your growth - this is for you, with learnings and insight to make finance part of your success story.

Thank you NAYDAYA for the 5 star review! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "We have been using RunViable for over a year now, and it has completely revolutionized the way we manage our business finances. From tracking Cash Flow, planning, to reporting, our business is now able to make informed financial decisions, and everything is seamlessly integrated on the platform. This is a fully comprehensive financial management tool that has made managing our businesses finances simpler, more organized, and stress-free. As a result of RunViable we have been able to scale our business quickly, hire more people, and make much more informed financial decisions. I can highly recommend RunViable, I wouldn't be without this platform for our growing business."

We hosted a dinner event last night which brought together some of our partners from Uncapped, Apex and Shaded The Studio with some fantastic consumer brands. Thank you to everyone who attended. We hope you enjoyed meeting the people behind other brands, hearing their stories and listening to what’s impacting their businesses as much as we did. We’ll definitely be doing this again, watch this space!

For many merchants, staying on top of daily changes to cash, who you need to pay and how much profit you're making is really hard 😩 We've just released a new version of Viable to help 🎉 Now available in the Shopify app store where you can get: 💰 A complete, real-time view of your finances 📊 Detailed spend insights by category 📈 Current and projected cash flows 💸 Live P&L with margin and net profit projections You can get started for free (https://lnkd.in/e3Smp7f9) and if you need help, we're here for that too

🎉 Spotlight on Viable! 🎉 We're thrilled to highlight the integration between Shopify and Viable! Viable offers a unified view of your finances with intelligent cash flow forecasts. It eliminates guesswork by providing real-time visibility into cash flow, money inflows and outflows. Viable helps businesses save money through detailed insights on expenses by category and supplier. With projected cash flows, it assists in budgeting for inventory, marketing, and operational expenses. Viable also predicts financial outcomes and optimizes for growth, profit, or cash flow. Designed by e-commerce finance experts, it integrates seamlessly into your success story. Key features of Viable include: - A complete and real-time view of your finances: Access current financial status at any moment. - Detailed insights on expenses by category: Analyze and optimize spending per category for better cost management. - Current and projected cash flows: Manage present finances and plan for future needs accurately. - Live income statement with margin and net profit projections: Stay on top of financial performance with real-time projections. With this integration, Shopify users can now effortlessly connect their store data with Viable, utilizing its robust financial management capabilities to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency. This partnership brings powerful financial insights and streamlined financial management directly to Shopify users, promoting business growth and efficiency. We’re excited about the opportunities this partnership brings and look forward to its positive impact on our Shopify customers' financial management processes. Special thanks to Steven Haynes, Franklyn Martin and all team members involved in the project who have made this integration possible! Best wishes to Viable for a successful journey ahead! #partnership #success #shopifyapp #shopify #financialmanagement #cashflowforecasts #Viable

This week we welcomed PicPay to Rise London! PicPay is a fintech that reinvents the way people deal with money, shop and communicate. Their CEO and entire executive team joined us as Rise members Circles powered by StepLadder, Viable and Ctrl Alt pitched to the audience and received great feedback. Well done Matthew Addison, Franklyn Martin and Robert Andersen on your presentations! #Fintech #Innovation