Financial Overview
Understand the owner brief, priority queue, business pulse, and forecast entry points under Finances.
Finances → Overview is the owner-oriented finance page. It answers three questions:
- What needs attention first?
- What do current revenue, profit, cash, and runway say?
- Which decision must you check in Reports, Invoices, Receivables, or Forecast?
This page is also the finance command center view of the product.
Prerequisites
The page is most useful after you do these tasks:
- Connect and turn on the bank accounts that must contribute to cash
- Sync or import the revenue and expense history
- Keep invoices, attempted payments, promises to pay, and customer payment methods current
- Create monthly budgets when plan-versus-actual alerts matter
The page needs signed-in workspace access. Owners, Members, and Viewers can read team finance queries. Viewers cannot do the team write operations that the page links to. These operations include forecast runs and budget changes.
Choose the review period
Open Finances → Overview. Then use Reporting period:
- Last 4 weeks
- Last 3 months
- Last 6 months
- Last 12 months
- Month to date
- Year to date
- All time
- Custom range
For Custom range, enter From and To.
Eigenn stores the selection in the page URL. The report, health, action, and forecast queries then use that selection. Current cash balance is not a period sum. It comes from the connected accounts available now.
Owner brief
The Owner brief promotes the highest-priority action item. If the action list is empty, it points to the weakest health area.
The health line contains:
- an overall score out of 100
- the weakest of revenue growth, expense control, cash flow, and profitability
Use this to choose where to investigate. It is not a close status, an audit result, or a statement that every data source is current.
Do these first
This queue shows at most three rule-based items. Eigenn sorts the queue in this order:
- Critical before Warning before Info
- Larger monetary exposure first inside the same severity
Possible items and destinations:
| Signal | Destination |
|---|---|
| Overdue invoices | Invoices |
| Broken promises, failed payments, missing autopay, risky terms | Receivables |
| Category over budget | Finances → Reports |
| Bank connection error | Settings → Account → Bank Connections |
| Customer cards that expire soon | Customers |
Some severity rules are concrete by design:
- an invoice at least 30 days overdue is Critical
- three or more broken promises is Critical
- five or more failed payments is Critical
- bank connection errors and risky invoice terms are Critical
- an over-budget category has Warning severity
- a card that expires soon has Info severity
The queue can say Nothing urgent is blocking cash right now. That means that none of these buckets produced an item now. It is not proof that Eigenn reconciled the ledger.
Business pulse
Revenue
Revenue is the selected-period total. When a prior-period value exists, the line below shows the percentage change. The comparison uses the equal-length period that comes immediately before.
No prior-period signal means that Eigenn cannot calculate the comparison. Usually the prior value is zero or absent.
Profit
Profit uses the selected reporting period and the same prior-period convention as revenue.
Cash
Cash is the total current balance across connected accounts in the resolved currency. The line below shows the average monthly burn over the selected period.
If cash looks wrong, check the accounts that you turned on. Do this before you change the reporting period.
Runway
Eigenn models runway from current cash and burn:
| Display | Interpretation |
|---|---|
| Unknown | There is not enough connected cash and forecast context. |
| 3 mo or less | Cash is tight; test delays and expense reductions immediately. |
| More than 3 to 6 mo | Watch cash before you hire, spend, or extend terms. |
| More than 6 mo | The page describes runway as workable. We recommend that you stress-test it before you make commitments. |
Runway is a projection, not an observed balance or guarantee.
Decision panels
Make more money
This panel uses the next-month revenue projection and up to two collection-related actions. Work receivables opens the invoice working area.
Lose less money
This panel uses selected-period profit and up to two bank or over-budget actions. Review spend opens Finances → Reports.
Plan what may be coming
This panel uses projected revenue across the next six months. Run stress test opens Finances → Forecast with the combined severe-downside preset already represented in the URL.
The panel's projection is not a budget target. It is a modeled continuation adjusted by the active forecast logic.
Forecast before you commit
The final section shows:
- current unpaid-invoice count
- current unpaid-invoice value
- Test those payments arriving late
- Open forecast workbench
The first action opens Forecast with a collections-delay scenario. The second opens the baseline workbench.
For invoice-specific status, aging, payment, and collection analysis, use Invoices → Insights. The unpaid-invoice context on Overview is not a replacement for that dashboard.
Complete an overview review
- Set the correct reporting period.
- Read the owner brief and weakest health signal.
- Open all Critical items in Do these first.
- Reconcile Cash with the accounts that you turned on.
- Explain the direction of Revenue and Profit.
- Classify Runway with the page's 3- and 6-month thresholds.
- Open the most relevant decision panel.
- Use Forecast before you approve a future cash commitment.
The review is complete when every promoted issue has an owner or a resolution. The four pulse figures must be explainable. You must read the projected values as projections.
The page does not have a Save review or Mark complete action.
Data freshness
- The page queries current workspace records on load and when its URL-backed period changes.
- It shows placeholders while the queries resolve.
- It has no single last-updated timestamp for all sources.
- A bank-connection action means the connection needs attention.
- The absence of that action does not confirm the exact time of the last successful sync.
Check Settings → Account → Bank Connections for source health. Use Transactions to examine individual ledger entries.
Live page, export, and share boundaries
- Overview is a live signed-in workspace page.
- It has no CSV, Print, or page-level Share control.
- Reports gives CSV and Print for financial handoff.
- Public widgets are separate views with restrictions. They do not show the full Overview.
- Assistant shares are read-only snapshots of Assistant content, not live finance-overview access.
- Older finance analytics or bank-view links resolve to Reports rather than a separate Overview embed.
Troubleshoot
Revenue or profit shows zero
Confirm that the reporting period contains recorded data. Then examine the transactions and the source connection. A current cash balance can exist even when the selected period has no revenue or profit.
Cash uses the wrong accounts
Open Settings → Account → Bank Connections. Then read which accounts you turned on.
An action opens a different product area
That is normal behavior. Overview is a triage page. The linked invoice, receivables, customer, report, or settings page contains the working detail.
The queue contains only three items
By design, the page limits Do these first to three items. Use the linked domain pages for full lists. Use the decision panels for two more category-specific actions.
Runway looks too optimistic
Open Finances → Forecast. Turn on Model real payment behavior when it applies. Then test the revenue, expense, and collections assumptions. Check P10 and cash-negative odds, not only the median.