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Who it's for

Any business whose customers come back: suppliers, trades, studios, agencies, service firms, distributors. If your customers order more than once, they have a pattern — and we tell you when one of them breaks it.

What you get

A weekly email listing the customers worth a phone call this week, with the reasoning behind each one and their contact details. It opens with up to three suggested actions.

A monthly summary showing how the whole customer base is doing: why revenue moved, how many customers are still ordering, who you won and lost, and who is worth calling back.

Pages you can open any time — what to do, your customers and the monthly summary — though the emails are the product. You are not expected to log in.

What the alerts mean

Overdue
A customer with a regular rhythm who has gone quiet by their own standards. A weekly buyer is overdue after a fortnight; a quarterly buyer is not.
Gone quiet
A customer who never had a fixed rhythm, but whose silence is extreme even for them.
Spending less
Still ordering as often, but spending materially less than their own baseline — compared both with the previous 90 days and with the same period last year.
New customer to follow up
Someone who ordered once and hasn't come back, past the point your returning customers usually reorder.
Stopped buying a line
Still ordering normally, but has quietly dropped a product they used to buy nearly every time. Only shown if your invoices use item codes consistently.
May be a credit hold
Added to an alert when the customer usually pays but now owes a large amount, long overdue. They may have stopped because you stopped supplying them.
Smaller orders
Ordering as often as ever, but each order is smaller. Usually means someone else is supplying part of what you used to.
Slowing down
The gap between orders stretching — early warning, before they are overdue.
Buying fewer lines
Still ordering, but across far fewer products than they used to.
Good news
Customers ordering more than usual, or who came back on their own after a long gap.

Can I turn off alerts I don't care about?

Yes. Choose what you get alerted about and switch off anything that isn't useful for your business. It changes what we tell you, not what we analyse — so a signal you switch back on works immediately, with full history behind it.

Why isn't customer X on the list?

Common reasons: they order too irregularly for any gap to be unusual; they have fewer than four orders; they spend less than your minimum; they are on repeating invoices in Xero, so their invoices arrive whether or not they are really buying; you snoozed them, marked them lost or turned off alerts for them; or we told you about them in the last 60 days. The list is also capped, so only the few worth a call appear.

What does "revenue at risk" mean?

Each customer's annual spend multiplied by how confident we are that their silence is real, added up. It is deliberately lower than the figure you would get by adding up their full annual value, because some of them will order again.

Why does it show a Xero link instead of a phone number?

Because Xero holds no phone or email for that contact. Adding the details in Xero makes them appear in the next alert.

Someone was flagged who is perfectly fine

Press "Not useful" in the email or on the what to do page. For a customer you never want to hear about, press "Never alert on this customer". Your answers are remembered and shape what you see next.

Two of my customers are the same business

If their names match once punctuation and things like "Pty Ltd" are ignored, we treat them as one customer and say so in your audit. Near-matches are left alone, because merging two genuinely different customers would hide a real problem.

Why can't I see the product reports?

They only appear where invoices use item codes consistently — at least 70% of recent lines, with a real range of products. If your invoices are mostly free-text descriptions, we stay quiet rather than show you a half-empty report.

We shut down over Christmas

Set your closure period in settings. We won't send alerts during it, and we won't treat the quiet period as customers leaving. The engine also raises the bar automatically when your whole customer base slows down.

I have several Xero organisations

When you connect, we ask which one to watch and disconnect from the rest. To switch, disconnect and connect again.

Can you change anything in my Xero account?

No. Our access is read-only: sales invoices, credit notes, contacts and your organisation's basic settings. Nothing else, and nothing is ever written back.

Is my data used to help other businesses?

No. Every calculation uses your invoices alone. Nothing is pooled across businesses and nothing is used to train models. See our privacy policy.

How do I stop and delete my data?

Disconnect and delete everything. It is immediate and needs no email to us.

Something is wrong

Email support@flowcatch.app. We check it a couple of times a week.