Cash and runway
Know what's in the account 90 days out. We plan POs, VAT and supplier deposits so they never land in the same week.
Finance partner · Ecommerce
The finance partner for ecommerce brands that are scaling.
Cash, margin, forecast and board-ready numbers. An ACCA operator in your corner, and your own login to Cuan: Finance OS. Live figures, not a PDF on the 21st of next month.
Cuan
A harbour, a haven, a safe place to come in from open water
cuanco.ie
Examples of brands Fiachra has worked with
The PO you hesitated on. The VAT bill nobody set aside for. Your store, your accounts and the bank showing three different numbers. Every brand hits the moment its numbers stop keeping up with its decisions.
Practice
The finance function, run for you, so you can run the brand.
Forecast
A 12-month forecast built and kept current, with every change flowing through to cash. Variance against it, line by line.
Margin
Gross and contribution margin down to the unit. The numbers you walk into a supplier renegotiation holding.
Board and investors
Board-pack reporting you won't have to walk back. Unit-economics questions answered before they're asked.
Finance operations
AP and AR teams
The day-to-day money in and money out, run by our own team. Bills paid on time, and the cash owed to you actually collected.
Accounts payable
- Supplier bills captured and approved
- Payment runs planned around your cash
- Supplier statements reconciled
Accounts receivable
- Invoices raised for wholesale and B2B
- Overdue accounts chased
- Payments matched to invoices
Bookkeeping
Already have a bookkeeper? We work alongside them. Don't have one? We can provide one.
In every engagement
- Monthly finance review
- Direct line on Slack or WhatsApp
- Bookkeeping gaps found and fixed
- Modelling for hires, POs and raises
- Your own login to Cuan: Finance OS
- Your bookkeeper, or one we provide
Included in every engagement
Cuan: Finance OS
Every client gets their own login to the system we run your numbers on. You see what we see, every day, not just on review day.
- P&L, balance sheet, cashDaily
- Forecast12 months
- Margin, CAC, MER, AOV, runwayLive
- Yesterday's P&L in SlackBy 07:30
- Any KPI to the transactionDrill-through
How it starts
Three steps from first call to first review.
Step 1
Free intro call
15 minutes. Your setup, your channels, and the number that's bothering you.
Step 2
Connect and review
Cuan: Finance OS set up within 24 hours, with no setup fee. We come back with what's wrong in the books and what it's moving in your margin.
Step 3
Every month after
A monthly review, a forecast kept current, and a direct line on Slack or WhatsApp in between.
Method
Built inside the brands, not advised from outside.
3-7pts
Gross margin gained through supplier renegotiations, walking in with unit-level numbers instead of opinions.
1quarter
To turn recurring monthly losses into positive EBITDA by restructuring the P&L. The revenue was there. Nobody had built the accounts to see it.
5→8figures
Finance architecture built for brands scaling from five-figure months into eight-figure years, from the seat accountable for the numbers.
These are results from Fiachra's career inside DTC brands, using the method Cuanco now runs on. They are not client case studies.
Where we sit
More than a bookkeeper. Less than a finance hire.
| What you get | Bookkeeper | Cuanco | Finance hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transactions recorded in your accounts | Yes | Yours, or one we provide | Yes |
| AP and AR team: bills paid, customers chased | Sometimes | Yes | Needs more hires |
| 12-month forecast, flowing through to cash | No | Yes | Yes |
| Numbers live between month-ends | No | Daily | Depends on tooling |
| Built for DTC: settlements, POs, CAC | No | Yes | Depends on the hire |
| Monthly cost | € | €€ | €€€€€ |
Pricing starts from
€1.5k/ month
A finance lead and a finance OS, for a fraction of a finance team.
Commitment
3 months minimum.
Bookkeeping
We work alongside your bookkeeper, or provide one if you don't have one. A bookkeeper we provide is priced separately, based on your level of activity.
Not included
Your year-end accountant. We work alongside them.
About
Fiachra Harrington. ACCA. Built DTC finance from the operator's side of the desk.
Before Cuanco, Fiachra sat inside ecommerce brands as the person accountable for the numbers. Every brand needed the same three things: a cash forecast, unit economics and runway. Every brand rebuilt them by hand. Cuanco is that work done properly, once, and run with you every month.
Based in Cork. Working with brands worldwide.
cuan(n.) harbour, haven
co.the company you keep
Questions
How quickly can we start?
Connected within 24 hours of kick-off. No setup fee.
Is there a minimum term?
Yes, 3 months.
Do I need my own bookkeeper?
No. If you have one, we work alongside them and fix the gaps the software finds. If you don't, we can provide one, priced on your level of activity.
Do you do year-end accounts and tax?
No. Annual accounts and corporation tax stay with your accountant. Clean data makes their job faster.
We already have a finance team. Is this for us?
It can be. We take the manual work off them and give them numbers shaped for DTC: settlement timing, PO cycles, CAC by channel.
Come in from open water.
A free 15-minute call. Bring the number that's bothering you. You'll leave knowing whether we're the right fit.
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