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Interactive demo · Seasonal equipment finance
Can this payment hold through the slow season?
Mark the months the machine works, enter your own revenue, costs and payment. The month-by-month cash line, the reserve the slow season needs and the level-versus-working-month comparison appear immediately — from your figures, not a 12-equal-payment average.
02 · The year in cash
See the slow-season dip immediately.
Cash is working month cash minus the payment that month, added month by month.
The current entries cannot produce a useful cash-flow result.
Review the highlighted entries.
Extra cash to hold before the slow season — on top of the — held today; the year ends at —
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Month cash — Cumulative cash —
The bars and the line share the same zero line but are scaled separately, so each stays readable. Compare each against its own labelled scale, not against the other.
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- Extra cash to hold
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- Year ends at
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- Months short
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Working-month revenue sensitivity
Twenty per cent below the entered figure, the entered figure, and twenty per cent above it.
- Extra cash to hold
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- Year ends at
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- Extra cash to hold
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Illustrative cash timing only. It uses only the figures entered above. Both plans carry the same annual payment total; the working-months plan spreads it across fewer, larger payments, so it is a timing comparison, not a discount. A real lender schedule may include interest, fees, token payments or deferred amounts and must be supplied and approved by the client. It is not a finance quote, approval, recommendation, valuation, tax calculation, ROI claim or guarantee of profit, and it does not model interest, fees, residual value, tax, depreciation, downtime or every cost the business carries.
DecisionPixelIllustrative seasonal cash-flow summary
Seasonal equipment
Entered equipment price—
Entered monthly payment—
Working / slow months—
Plan shown—
Extra cash to hold—
Year ends at—
Working-month cash needed to break even—
Illustrative cash timing based solely on entered assumptions. Not a finance quote, approval, recommendation, valuation, tax calculation, ROI claim or guarantee of profit. Verify the complete commercial case independently.
What this changes
A standard calculator spreads the year evenly. A seasonal business cannot.
Twelve equal payments suit twelve equal income months. Tree care, landscaping, agriculture and snow work do not have them. A payment that looks comfortable in July can be unreachable in January.
This demonstration follows the cash month by month, so the reserve needed before the slow season and the difference a working-month payment plan makes are both visible before anyone signs for the equipment.
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