There are three input connectors the bookkeeping books won't tell you they need, but the operator's Tuesday-morning hours carry all the same — and they are paid in three open browser tabs and a stack of paper: the bank on the wire on the left monitor, the inbox the receipts land in sitting on a half-stack on the corner of the desk where the OCR scanner was supposed to read them last week, the point-of-sale per-day batch on the right. Stillpost carries all three under one wire-up, one OAuth per source, none of them written back to.
The first one — banks — is the one the eighty-percent of operators were going to half-build themselves, and it is the one that unlocks the cash-flow monitoring loop. Plaid reads the long tail of U.S. institutions in one connector; the direct connectors for Mercury and Stripe Banking and Brex sit beside it for the operator whose accounts live there; the rest of the retail half — Chase, Bank of America, the small-business checking the operator has had for years — fold into the same per-account ledger the 06:00 cash-flow watch reads. Read-only OAuth, one wire-up at the kitchen table, the source-of-truth bank stays exactly the way it was before Stillpost touched it.
The second one — email — is the inbox receipts come into, and it unlocks the overdue-invoice chasing loop AND the nightly receipt reconciliation loop, two back-office jobs the operator's bookkeeper used to run on a Tuesday morning. Gmail for the operator who forwards receipts to a dedicated address, Microsoft 365 for the operator whose domain already runs mail on Outlook, generic IMAP for the operator who set up the inbox themselves. The 09:00 chase reads what arrives, ages each invoice against the term the invoice itself carries, and queues the next nudge; the 20:00 receipts reconcile OCRs the day's mail into the costing ledger without an inbox hand-pass.
The third — point of sale — is the till the loop reads the per-day batch from, and it unlocks the nightly receipt reconciliation loop AND the state sales-tax estimates loop, the two jobs that used to take the operator's Sunday afternoons. Square for the corner store, Toast for the multi-rail restaurant, Lightspeed for the merchant with the mixed bag, ShopKeep for the smallest operation, SumUp for the operator who took the card swipe in the parking lot. The day's batch lands in the same per-account ledger the bank will reconcile against tomorrow; the per-till settlement feeds the 23:55 fifty-state sales-tax peg. Read-only per source. Same per-day batch, same read-only OAuth, none written back to.