Revenue in one place: tracking multiple businesses

Ask an owner of three businesses how much they made this year, and you'll usually get a pause.

It's not that they don't know their businesses. They know them better than anyone. The problem is that the money lives in too many places. A Stripe account for one. Square and Zelle for another. Rent coming into a separate checking account. Invoices in a CRM nobody updates.

Each one tells part of the story. None of them adds it up. Here's how to get one total you can trust, without building another spreadsheet you'll abandon by spring.

1.List every place money lands

Start with a plain list. For each business, write down every account and app where revenue arrives. Most owners we talk to find two or three they forgot about:

• Business checking accounts (one per entity, ideally)
• Payment processors like Stripe, Square or PayPal
• Peer-to-peer apps like Zelle, Venmo or Cash App
• Rental platforms, marketplaces and booking sites
• Checks you deposit by phone and forget to record

The goal isn't to connect everything on day one. It's to know what "everything" is.

2.Decide what counts as revenue

This is where most homemade trackers go wrong. When money moves from your agency's account to your rental's account, it looks like income in the rental's bank feed. It isn't. It's the same dollar changing rooms.

Get this wrong and your combined total can be off by tens of thousands of dollars, always in the flattering direction.

3.Keep each business separate, then add them up

You need two views, not one. Each business on its own, so you can see which one is growing and which one is coasting. And all of them together, with internal transfers counted once, so you know what your year actually looks like.

If the agency sent $45,000 to the shop over the year, a simple sum of bank deposits would say $647,000. Close enough to feel right. Wrong enough to change decisions.

4.Pick one place to look, and look weekly

Five dashboards you check once a quarter will lose to one total you check every Monday. Whatever you use, a spreadsheet or a tool, the test is simple: can you answer "how much have all my businesses made this year?" in under a minute?

If the answer is no, the system is too complicated, and you'll stop using it.

Where Yegly fits

We built Yegly because we kept seeing the same thing: owners with real, growing businesses who couldn't see their own total. Yegly connects each business's bank accounts, keeps them separate, counts transfers between your own accounts once, and shows the combined number next to your Year-End Goal.

You don't need Yegly to do any of this. You do need one honest number. Start there.

Yegly is open now, and the special deal runs through December 31, 2026.

— The Yegly team