How to see everything you're owed in one place
There are three numbers that matter: what's been collected, what's outstanding, and what's overdue. Korda's Morning Brief delivers all three to your phone at 7am every day, drawn from the same Xero data your bookkeeper sees, before you've started the ute.
The blind spot most trade businesses have
The work is visible, jobs on the schedule, crew on site. The money is invisible until it isn't. Most trade businesses track it with a spreadsheet that's two weeks behind, a mental list, or nothing at all, and none of those give a reliable picture on any given day. That gap has a real cost: jobs priced without knowing what margin exists, suppliers paid at the wrong time, new work taken on to fill a cash shortfall that might not exist once outstanding invoices clear.
The three numbers you need
Collected is cash that has landed in your account, the only number that affects your actual position. Outstanding is invoices sent and not yet overdue, money on the way. Overdue is invoices past due, where attention is required, an outstanding invoice is a timing issue, an overdue one is a potential problem that gets harder to recover the longer it sits.
What the Morning Brief shows
"Collected this week: $14,200. Outstanding: $22,800. Overdue: $6,400 across 2 invoices," plus which follow-ups fired overnight and against whom. Thirty seconds and you know your cash position without opening any software. A dashboard requires you to remember to log in, and usually only gets checked once something's already gone wrong. A brief that arrives without any action required means you're always current.
How it connects to Xero
The brief draws from live data, invoices sent through Korda, payment status updated in real time, everything reconciled automatically in Xero. What you see matches what your bookkeeper sees, no separate tracking layer to maintain.