Finance & accounting

Close your month without the shoebox

Forward a receipt, snap it with your phone, bring in your bank statements. KeyMetriq reads every document and pairs it with the right transaction, so reconciliation takes minutes instead of evenings.

It is the third of the month and the receipts are everywhere: a hotel invoice buried in your inbox, a software renewal on the company card, a crumpled parking receipt in someone's jacket pocket. You chase, download, rename, and the bank statement still refuses to add up. Most tools just display your numbers. KeyMetriq reconciles them. Every document you forward gets read, categorized, and paired with the exact bank transaction it belongs to, your accountant works from a link instead of an email thread, and month end stops being a project.

Chapter 01

Receipts that file themselves

Forward a receipt to your workspace's private intake address, drag in a folder, or snap it with your phone. KeyMetriq reads the vendor, amount, and date, categorizes the expense, and pairs it with the matching bank transaction on its own. Turn on auto-filing and confident matches file themselves; anything uncertain waits in a review inbox instead of guessing. A bill for a service period that is already over files under the month the service ended, so the August hosting invoice dated September 3 still lands in August.

Example:Maria at Brightline Studio forwards a $214.60 hotel invoice from her inbox, and by the time she opens KeyMetriq it is already categorized under travel and matched to the card charge.

Chapter 02

Matched to what the bank actually did

Your bank statement is the ground truth, and KeyMetriq treats it that way. Bring in your statements and the matching engine pairs documents to what actually moved through the account, even when payments arrive messy: several invoices paid in one transfer, an invoice settled in part payments, foreign-currency charges, vendor refunds, and fees taken off the top.

Example:A $1,200 design invoice from Hartley Creative, paid in two installments, still lands as one matched document, to the cent.

Chapter 03

One link for your accountant, no seat, no login

Send your accountant one link instead of another account to manage. The portal opens without a login, scoped to the accounting period you pick: statements, invoices in both directions, bank transactions with their documents attached, the client and supplier contracts running in that period, global search, and the one-archive accounting pack. Add a password and an expiry date if you want them, and every action inside is logged.

Example:Nora at Sagebrush Pottery sends her accountant one link in January, and he pulls the entire year, statements, invoices, and the pack, without a single 'can you resend that' email.

Chapter 04

A month end that warns you first

Tell KeyMetriq which documents arrive every month, each bank statement, that recurring vendor invoice, and the accounting pack checks the list before the month closes. Anything missing gets an amber warning and a reminder while there is still time to chase it. When the list is complete, one archive holds the summary, invoices both ways, and statements, ready to hand over.

Example:The November pack at Cedar & Pine Woodworks flagged the missing bank statement three days before month end instead of three weeks after.

Chapter 05

Contracts that know what should arrive

Set up recurring obligations and recurring income as contracts, and each month KeyMetriq materializes what should arrive: the retainer to invoice, the vendor bill to expect, the tracked hours to bill. Alerts fire when a month passes with no invoice, when tracked work sits unbilled, and when the amount invoiced differs from what the contract expects.

Example:Rachel at Foxglove Candle Co. got the missing-invoice alert while the Marlowe retainer month was still open, and the $2,500 invoice went out the same day.

Chapter 06

Know your low point months in advance

Turn on the cash-flow forecast and KeyMetriq projects up to six months ahead from what it already knows: contracts, salaries, loans, taxes, and open invoices. It shows your low point and the first week that would go negative, so a tight stretch becomes a plan instead of a surprise.

Example:Marcus at Lakeshore Supply saw the forecast dip to $4,120 in the week his loan payment and payroll landed together, and chased an open invoice early instead of finding out the hard way.

Chapter 07

Loans and cards without the spreadsheet

Upload the loan contract and repayment plan PDFs and AI drafts the complete amortization schedule for your review; nothing is saved until you confirm it. Credit card statements match to their bank payments by payment reference, and a reminder fires when a minimum payment is coming due with nothing recorded against it.

Example:Hazel Ridge Landscaping turned two loan PDFs into a reviewed 60-payment schedule in minutes, and the card reminder caught a $2,400 minimum three days before it was due.

What changes in week one

  1. Receipts stop piling up in inboxes and drawers
  2. Invoices matched to the bank lines that paid them
  3. Your accountant gets a link, not a login
  4. Warned before month end ships incomplete
  5. Missing invoices flagged while the month is open
  6. Your cash low point visible six months out
  7. Loan schedules drafted from the PDFs

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