The Business Plan Shop
The Business Plan Shop is the financial planning and analysis platform for small and medium size businesses, and their financial advisors.
Who’s The Business Plan Shop for?
Discover our FP&A platform's capabilities
Effortlessly write a professional business plan
The Business Plan Shop's online software helps you easily create a professional business plan which can be presented to lenders and investors to help secure financing.
It works for every industry and whether you are:
Developing a new venture
Growing or buying an existing business
Simple enough to be used by first-time business plan writers, The Business Plan Shop doubles up as a powerful tool to help professionals such as accountants and consultants sharply increase their productivity.
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Our financial forecasting software puts spreadsheets to shame
The Business Plan Shop's online forecasting software enables you to easily build and maintain 3-way-financial-forecasts.
We've spent nearly 10 years building and refining the best financial forecasting software.
Using our solution is easier, faster, and more robust than using Excel or Google Sheets.
And whereas most software only allows you to create basic forecasts, The Business Plan Shop let you build a more realistic and accurate forecasts by making it easy to incorporate complex elements such as:
Variable interest loans
Fixed assets with advanced depreciation schedules
Complex payment terms, or deferred costs
And more...
And we make it easy to track your forecasts against actuals and to keep them updated as the year progresses.
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Avoid writer's block with our business plan templates
It's much easier to start with a concrete example than a blank page, that's why our platform gives you access to dozens of business plan templates which you can use as inspiration to help you create yours.
Each business plan template includes:
A complete three-way financial forecast
A fully written business plan that clearly details all aspects of the business
Simply download our business plan templates in Word or PDF, or use them directly on our online platform.
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Financial analysis and KPI tracking made easy
Our financial dashboards help you analyse the past and future performance of your business.
Compare actuals vs. forecast to see where your business is headed
Compare scenarios side by side to make the right decisions
Get a quality score and alerts on your forecasts
Track the KPIs that matter to your business and set targets
Easily create graphical analysis to visualize both historical and future performance
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Sync your accounting data with The Business Plan Shop
The Business Plan Shop integrates with major accounting software solutions such as:
Sage and more: coming soon
Our solution makes it easy to import your chart of accounts and accounting data into our platform to create a single source of truth for your financial performance.
Once your accounting software is connected, your data will automatically be imported so that you can always base your decisions on the latest data.
500,000+ entrepreneurs have already used The Business Plan Shop
With The Business Plan Shop software, I was able to create a business plan that could be sent to both investors and the job centre - and at such a reasonable cost!
Mickael F.
From clear instructions on collecting data related to the organisational aspects of the business to the financial side (with automated profit and loss statements and balance sheets), this solution is really thorough. And the team is so helpful, too: as soon as you ask a question, you can expect a clear and precise response in no time.
Carole C.
Very useful and practical. A huge time saver compared to the business plans I had to draft myself using Word and Excel!
Philippe Y.
Try The Business Plan Shop For Free
See our financial planning and analysis platform in action: try The Business Plan Shop for free during 7 days.
No credit card required & no commitment.
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Staying on top of your business performance is easy with The Business Plan Shop
| Without us | With The Business Plan Shop | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting a holistic view of your business performance | Impossible as data is spread across multiple spreadsheets and tools | All your data is in The Business Plan Shop creating a single source of truth |
| Writing investor ready business plans | Start from a blank page with no guidance | Follow clear instructions and examples throughout |
| Creating financial forecasts | Done on spreadsheets which are error prone and where modelling complex elements takes dozen of lines | With our best in class forecasting software all the calculations are done for you, without errors |
| Tracking actuals vs. forecast, and KPIs | Requires you to manually update spreadsheets which is tedious and error prone | Is done automatically using our accounting software integrations |
| Collaborating with your finance team | Necessitates to juggle with spreadsheet versions, discussion threads, and manage accesses | Discussions are centralised inside our application where you can quickly manage accesses and permissions |
Frequently Asked Questions
Financial planning and analysis involves a framework that helps support a business' overall decision-making and financial health.
The framework consists of five main activities:
- Business planning
- Financial forecasting
- Budgeting
- Reporting on financial performance
- Analysing financial and non-financial performance
Without proper financial planning and analysis your business is flying blind: you don't know where you're going (financial planning), nor if you are on track to reach your destination (financial analyis).
That's why all large businesses have entire teams of FP&A professionals.
Until The Business Plan Shop, FP&A was out of reach for most SMB - as most of you lack the skills to perform it yourselves and the budget to equip yourself with entreprise software and hire a FP&A profesional.
The Business Plan Shop's FP&A platform allows small and medium size businesses (and their advisors) to get equivalent capabilities to big businesses at a fraction of the cost.
So that you too can get a single source of truth for your financial performance, plan your growth and anticipate future cash flows with confidence, and check that you are on track to deliver your forecasts.
In the long term, financial planning & analysis could help your business gain a competitive edge over rivals who don't use FP&A and narrow the gap against the large groups and franchises you compete against.
The free trial enables you to try our platform for free during 7 days in order to verify that it meets your requirements before buying.
Some features are limited during the free trial:
- You can only create one business plan
- The financials of the first year of forecast are visible, data for other years are hidden
- You can export your plan in PDF but not in Word or CSV
The Business Plan Shop is used by all types of businesses (startups, freelancers, small and medium size businesses, buy to let investors, etc.) spanning all sectors (retail, hospitality, services, construction, tech, etc.).
Yes, The Business Plan Shop's online software handles all currencies worldwide.
You can use our online software on any device, as long as it has a stable internet connection.
PC, laptop, mobile and tablet devices are all suitable.
We recommend using devices with a large(r) screen size to make it easier to visualize monthly financial data.
We offer multiple plans, our prices vary depending on whether you are a financial advisor, or an entrepreneur and on the size of your business.
Please visit our pricing page to learn about this in more detail.
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