Small Desk Tools: cash-flow forecast and budget vs actuals, two tools we are testing for QuickFile

Two reports are missing from QuickFile today: a cash-flow forecast and a budget against actuals. We are checking whether anyone would pay for either. Neither exists yet.

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Press the one you would pay for

Not on sale yet. These tools do not exist yet and may never be built. No payment is taken. Pressing only counts your interest.

Not on sale yet. These tools do not exist yet and may never be built. No payment is taken. Pressing only counts your interest.

What is missing, and what people do instead

Who it is for: people who keep their books in QuickFile. Both tools would work with QuickFile data. As far as the two requests below show, QuickFile has no built-in cash-flow forecast or budget report today, and the usual stand-in is a spreadsheet built by hand.

On the QuickFile community forum the request Cashflow forecast report is in the category Under Consideration. The latest staff reply on it, dated 10 April 2024, begins There are no updates to share at this time. The request is still open.

The request Creating a budget is in the category Feature Request, not Under Consideration. The latest staff reply on it, dated 13 May 2026, begins Not yet I’m afraid as the majority of our resources has been focused on MTD ITSA. It is also still open.

Titles, categories and dates were read by this page’s makers on 9 November 2026 from the QuickFile community forum. We make no claim about what QuickFile Ltd plans.

What one press counts

This page is a test of interest, not a shop. There is no payment form, no email field and no free-text box anywhere on it. The GBP 6 and GBP 5 a month figures are guesses and have not been tested with any buyer. Pressing a button records one anonymous count for the day for that button only, and a short tag if the link you followed carried one. A press on one button is never counted as interest in the other. No cookie is set and no address is kept. One press is allowed per button per page load. If too few people press, the page is taken down 42 days after it goes live.