For startups · Australia
Nella for startups
Your investors will ask about runway. Nella already has the answer, from your own books.
At a glance
- Built for
- Startups
- Connects to
- Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent
- Your books
- Change only with your permission
- Free trial
- 60 days, no card
Secure connection · no card required
What makes the numbers hard here.
Runway is the whole question
Every other metric sits downstream of how many months of cash are left, and that number changes with every hire and every invoice.
The board asks between board meetings
Investor questions rarely wait for the next update, and rebuilding the answer by hand each time is slow.
Burn is not one number
Gross burn, net burn and one large receipt pull in different directions, and a monthly average can hide the month that mattered.
BAS lands every quarter
GST and the BAS date arrive on their own calendar, whatever the fundraising timetable.
How does Nella help startups?
Nella connects to your Xero or QuickBooks company and answers the questions that come up between board meetings — how much cash you hold, what you are burning each month, how long that lasts at the current rate, and how those figures moved since last quarter. It also keeps your BAS and company tax dates in view. Runway is calculated from your books, so it is as current as your bookkeeping.
Questions you can ask Nella
These are asked in plain English, and answered from your own figures.
- How much cash do we have, and how long does it last at the current rate?
- What did we burn last month compared with the three months before?
- How much of our revenue comes from our largest customer?
- When is our next BAS due?
- How has monthly revenue moved over the last six months?
- What are our largest costs this quarter?
Nella provides financial information and education, not accounting or tax advice. Nella shows you the numbers. When a question needs professional judgement, such as a filing or a tax decision, Nella says so and points you to a qualified accountant.
What Nella watches between your questions
- Cash and runway, derived from the ledger and updated as the books are
- Monthly burn and how it is trending
- Revenue concentration — how much sits with one customer
- BAS and company tax dates for your business
- The bank feed: Nella tells you when it stops updating
Cash and deadline alerts are included in the free trial and on Nella Paid.
The rules that apply here
Stated with the tax year they apply to, and linked to the source. Nella reports figures; it does not interpret these rules for your situation.
Quarterly BAS for the 2026–27 income year is due 28 October 2026, 28 February 2027, 28 April 2027 and 28 July 2027, or 11 November 2026, 12 May 2027 and 11 August 2027 for most quarters when lodged online; you lodge and pay by the same date (ATO - Due dates for lodging and paying BAS; ATO - Due dates for lodging and paying your BAS).
Company tax is 25% for a base rate entity (aggregated turnover under $50 million and no more than 80% passive income) and 30% otherwise, tested each income year (ATO - Company tax rate changes).
A company that lodges its own return for the 2026–27 income year does so by 28 February 2028; companies lodging through a registered tax agent follow the agent lodgment program (ATO – Due dates by topic: income tax).
More detail: BAS due dates for the 2026–27 income year · Company tax rate: 25% or 30% · Business tax and BAS due dates, 2026–27 income year
What Nella cannot do
Nella reads your books. Nothing in them changes unless you give permission in Nella, and it does not reconcile the bank, file anything with the ATO or ASIC, or move money. It reports what your accounting software already holds.
Runway is calculated from what is recorded in your accounting software, not from a bank connection, so it is only as current as your bookkeeping. Nella does not work out R&D tax incentive claims or base rate entity status.
Nella connects to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent. How deeply it can read varies by platform — the supported-platform table sets out what is read on each. See how your data is handled.
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