What's new in Ando Forecast

Ando Forecast is the financial brain for home-service businesses: pest control, lawn care, HVAC, cleaning. Connect QuickBooks or your bank and instead of charts to interpret, you get direct answers about where your money is.

Here's what's shipped recently. This is a running log — newest first.

June 2026: Bills Due, dashboard overhaul, job costing

Bills Due

For QuickBooks-connected businesses, the dashboard now shows outstanding vendor payables alongside your cash balance. When bills due are approaching your available cash, the "Your Move Today" card flags it and gives you a prioritization guide: cover payroll and the vendors you can't operate without first, then stretch the rest.

It's the number that matters most when cash is tight, and before this update it was buried in QuickBooks and not surfaced anywhere in plain English.

Dashboard KPI rebuild: "Right now" and "This month"

The main dashboard got a cleaner layout. Four cards, grouped by timescale:

• Right now: Cash on Hand, Overdue A/R
• This month: Revenue MTD, Net Profit

The old gross-margin card moved into the Net Profit drill-down, where it belongs. The dashboard is now organized around how an owner actually asks about their business — "how much do I have?" (right now) and "how did this month go?" (this month), not around accounting categories.

You can also set monthly revenue and net profit goals. They show as a progress bar on the Revenue card and a quiet caption on Net Profit. Optional, and stored locally so they don't go anywhere.

Job Costing (QuickBooks)

If you're on QuickBooks, the dashboard now shows per-customer profitability: revenue, estimated profit, and margin, sourced from your actual invoices and expenses. You can see at a glance which customers are worth more to keep (or who's eating margin without anyone noticing). Visible in the dashboard Profitability section when QuickBooks is connected.

Accountant Report: A/R by customer

The accountant-ready report now includes an overdue A/R table broken down by customer — who owes you, how many days past due, and the amount. Color-coded: amber for anything overdue, red for 30+ days. When you're preparing for a call with your bookkeeper, everything they need is already in one page.

Recurring Spend Audit cleanup

The "Recurring Charges" card now shows what it's supposed to: real, fixed monthly commitments (insurance, software subscriptions, phone, rent). It no longer picks up credit card autopay, payroll tax transfers, fuel, or variable operational suppliers — which aren't commitments, they're noise. On the businesses we tested this against, the real recurring overhead number dropped from misleading to accurate. You can review and mark anything you want to cancel directly from the card.

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Earlier updates (May–June 2026)

Morning Briefing

The Morning Briefing is a short, ranked list of the two or three things that actually need your attention today: a collection call to make, a Profit First transfer due, a cash position to know. It appears on the Snapshot page and adapts to how you run things — deep in the details or overseeing from a distance.

Clean Numbers — the margin error hiding in your QuickBooks

In a lot of home-service QuickBooks files, technician labor is booked to the wrong account, making gross margin look 15–20 points better than it really is. Ando compares your QuickBooks gross margin to the vertical benchmark (NPMA for pest, NALP for lawn, ACCA for HVAC) and flags the gap if it looks like a classification error — in dollars. You don't need to know any accounting for this to work.

QuickBooks readiness check

Before the dashboard shows you a gross-margin or cash-runway number, it checks whether your QuickBooks data is complete enough to trust. If a bank feed is disconnected or reconciliation is months behind, you see what's missing — not a confident-looking number built on stale data.

Mobile cash-flow alerts

Push alerts to your phone for the things that matter: low balance, income drying up, an overdue customer going quiet, a large unusual transaction. Enable in Settings, and Ando sends a tap-to-open notification that deep-links to the right part of your dashboard. Thresholds are tuned to your vertical and season, not a generic template.

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What hasn't changed

• 14-day free trial, no credit card. Connect QuickBooks or your bank, see your real dashboard, decide.
• Read-only connections. Ando cannot move money, modify your books, or take any action. It watches and tells you.
• Built for home services. The benchmarks, the alerts, the language — calibrated to pest, lawn, HVAC, and cleaning, not a generic SMB template.

See it yourself

Take the live demo — it runs on real home-service financials, so you can see the Bills Due cash story, the Morning Briefing, and the margin check on an actual business.

Run pest control? The Ando Pest Pro tier adds NPMA seasonal benchmarking and pest-calibrated renewal alerts.

When you're ready, start your free trial — 14 days, no card.