Herding Cats

Finance & Reporting

The money side of the business, in one place

Per-event and season P&L, vendor bills, studio invoices, show-day settlement, and balanced QuickBooks entries — one ledger under the operations you already run.

Tulsa · Mar 20–22 — Financials

Assembled from the season, not a spreadsheet

Entry fees · from Registration

$52.4k

Travel · flights, hotels, trucks

−$9.8k

Venue · contract + overages

−$12.1k

Payroll · from staffing

−$14.6k
Net$15.9k30% margin

It's August and you already know — not March. Illustrative numbers.

Who it's for

You'll know it's time when…

The venue wants next year's answer before you know what this stop netted.

Bills, entry fees, and merch counts first meet in a winter spreadsheet.

Your bookkeeper rebuilds each event's P&L by hand, every month.

Day one

Day one, the March spreadsheet becomes a live page

  • Every event gets a Financials tab — revenue, costs, net, and margin.

  • Vendor bills carry their GL code, brand, and event from entry to payment.

  • Invoices go out as links studios open in email; aging chases the balance.

  • Sunday's cash boxes and merch counts settle into the same P&L.

Part of the platform

Same login, same data, same team

  • Travel, venue, and staffing costs flow from the events you already run.

  • With Registration on, entry fees land by category, refunds included.

  • Merch movements post their own cost of goods against the event.

  • Balanced journal entries leave as files your accountant imports.

What you get

Everything the finance add-on does

Per-event and season P&L

Revenue, expenses, net, and margin — one brand or all of them consolidated.

Bills, coded and approved

GL codes, approval thresholds, AP aging, and payments recorded against the bill.

Invoices and receivables

Sequenced numbers, emailed links, AR aging, statements, and credit memos.

What the people cost

Day rates, travel days, per diems, and honoraria — 1099 totals ready at year end.

Inventory and assets

Merch cost of goods posts itself; assets carry depreciation and an insurance-ready register.

Show-day settlement

Cash boxes, card batches, and merch counts close on-site with attestations.

Budgets vs actuals

Set targets by category; see the gap with season left to close it.

QuickBooks journal files

Balanced entries, Class = brand and Location = event. Direct sync in development.

Who sees Finance is up to you — per-user visibility controls are built in.

See pricing

Fair questions

Does this replace QuickBooks?

No. Your books stay in QuickBooks — we capture the costs and payments while the event runs, then hand your accountant balanced journal entries instead of a spreadsheet to rebuild.

Is this payroll?

No. Pay estimates and honoraria become coded bills so the cost lands on the right event. We don't process payroll, withhold tax, or file anything.

Do we need this yet?

If you can recite each event's margin from memory, wait. The trigger is the first renewal decision that happens before the numbers exist.

Start your season

Add Finance to your season

Same login, same event pages, no migration — and if it isn't saving you hours, turn it off.

  • Free for up to 5 events
  • No card required
  • Cancel any time