If you’re a SaaS company using Baremetrics, you already know the value of running Forecast Scenarios. It’s a powerful way to model subscription revenue growth and test “what-if” assumptions around churn, upgrades, downgrades, or pricing.
But there’s a challenge: while Baremetrics helps you see where your subscription revenue might be headed, it doesn’t tell you how those revenue shifts impact your overall financial performance. Traditionally, that kind of analysis requires a CFO — but with RunSmart, you get CFO-quality financial planning in an easy-to-use platform designed for founders, not CFOs.
That’s where RunSmart comes in. To use it, you’ll also need to be on QuickBooks Online, since RunSmart pulls in your accounting data to connect revenue scenarios with expenses, payroll, and cash flow.
Why Extend Baremetrics’ Forecast Scenarios Beyond MRR?
For SaaS founders, revenue growth on its own doesn’t guarantee a stronger business. A bump in MRR may look great in isolation, but once you layer in the realities of scaling, the picture can change quickly:
- Hiring plans and payroll – Headcount typically scales alongside revenue growth. RunSmart can forecast headcount automatically by analyzing past hiring data (if available in QuickBooks), and if a correlation with revenue exists, adjust payroll forecasts so they stay aligned with your growth trajectory.
- Sales and marketing efficiency – New MRR rarely comes free. Acquisition spend (ads, outbound, events, commissions) and longer payback periods can eat into cash faster than MRR grows. RunSmart checks whether these costs correlate with revenue growth. If they do, it will scale them in line with your Baremetrics scenario; if not, it applies its own forecasting methods to project spend realistically.
- Operating costs that scale with customers – Infrastructure, support, and third-party tools (like AWS, Stripe fees, or APIs) often climb with usage, reducing the margin on each new dollar of revenue. RunSmart uses the same approach here: if a correlation with revenue exists, it adjusts forecasts automatically; if not, it applies alternative forecasting methods.
RunSmart doesn’t just map these costs independently — it blends historical data, correlations, and forecasting models to show how growth actually impacts the full business, not just top-line revenue.
How to Bring Your Baremetrics Scenarios Into RunSmart
RunSmart makes it simple:
- Build Your Scenario Forecast in Baremetrics
Create your SaaS MRR forecast in Baremetrics using their Scenarios feature. - Enter Forecast Data Into RunSmart
Manually enter your monthly projected revenue numbers into RunSmart’s Sales Forecast page by creating a custom forecast. (No export/import needed — you can just type them in.) - Run Your Full 3-Statement Forecast
RunSmart automatically builds out your income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow from your QuickBooks data combined with your Baremetrics revenue scenarios. You can model out up to 5 years to see how your revenue assumptions impact hiring capacity, runway, profitability, solvency, and more.
Go Beyond Forecasting: From Revenue Scenarios to Full Business Health
Once your Baremetrics scenario data is in RunSmart, you can go beyond revenue-only forecasting and see the bigger financial picture:
- Health scores powered by your Baremetrics revenue forecast
RunSmart combines your projected revenue with QuickBooks expenses, payroll, and operating costs to calculate five key health scores: Profitability, Liquidity, Efficiency, Solvency, and Capitalization. - Create a budget grounded in your revenue outlook
Your Baremetrics forecast becomes the foundation for a practical budget. You can plan hiring, spending, and investments in line with the SaaS revenue scenarios you’ve already modeled. - Track progress and stay accountable
As actuals come in from QuickBooks, RunSmart shows how you’re performing against both the budget and the revenue expectations set in Baremetrics. Variances (the gaps between forecasted and actual results) are flagged early so you can adjust before small issues become big problems.
What You Get by Pairing Baremetrics with RunSmart
By combining the two, SaaS founders can:
- See how different revenue scenarios change your cash runway
- Understand whether your hiring and spend plans are sustainable
- Identify early risks with financial health scores
- Turn forecasts into budgets and track progress with variance analysis (comparing actual results against your plan to spot gaps early)
- Get CFO-quality insights — in a platform designed for founders, not CFOs
In short, Baremetrics tells you where revenue could go. But to understand what that really means for your SaaS company, RunSmart builds on your Baremetrics and QuickBooks data — doing the heavy lifting to transform it into full financial forecasts, health scores, budgets, and progress tracking so you can make smarter, data-driven decisions as you grow your business.
👉 Ready to see how your Baremetrics scenarios play out in real financial terms? Try RunSmart today.
