Walk One Customer Order From Deposit to Final Collection Before Sizing Working Capital

A receipt may be customer payment, an advance, owner funding or a transfer; each tells a different cash story. For one typical order, map the invoice, deposit, supplier payment, payroll, delivery and final collection. Separate customer receipts from financing and transfers. Test which payment becomes difficult if collection is late, while retaining the business’s other scheduled obligations. Assign a preparer and reviewer, preserve the forecast and compare it with actual cash movement. Fasty Funding’s archive-derived walkthrough turns that exercise into a focused working-capital inquiry: the gap, its timing and expected repayment. It is educational, not a client case or a universal underwriting model.

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