The Cash Forecast is your thirteen-week survival forecast, a full quarter of money in against money out. It is the tool that keeps a profitable bar from running out of cash on the wrong week, and almost nobody runs it. Bar Cop runs it for you off data you already keep.

1. Enter your cash on hand

Open Cash Recovery → Cash Forecast. Cash in is your projected sales plus any event balances coming due. Cash out is your payroll from the schedule, your purchases, and every bill due that week, recurring ones projected forward. Enter your cash on hand and each week shows a running balance, so you see your real cushion and exactly which week runs thin. Past the weeks Bar Cop has real numbers for, it repeats your recent actual weeks forward so the quarter stays filled in.

2. Add your credit line as a backstop

If you keep a line of credit or a card you would lean on in a thin week, enter it next to your bank balance. Bar Cop counts it as your backstop, so a week that dips below zero reads as covered by credit, not a breach, as long as the line holds. The runway then means the weeks until you are truly out: your cash drained and the credit line maxed.

3. Read the low point and runway

The low-point week is the tightest your account gets across the quarter, the one to plan around. Runway is how many weeks your cash, plus any credit line, covers before you are truly out. A long runway means you can absorb a slow stretch; a short one is your cue to free trapped cash and tighten terms now. Booked events show in the Event Money Coming In card, with deposits you hold kept out of cash to spend, since you owe service for them.

4. Stress-test it, then take it to the bank

Slide sales down for a slow season and watch which week cracks, or drop in a what-if, a second bartender, an equipment buy, an owner draw, and see the runway move. The verdict reads three ways: you can carry it on cash, you can carry it only by leaning on your credit line, or it breaks you even with the line. Export for Lender gives you a clean thirteen-week cash flow to hand a bank for a line of credit.

Every figure is a projection built from your own numbers. It is a planning tool, not financial advice.