Online business plan software
The Business Plan Shop's Business Plan Software makes it easy to create a financial forecast to assess the potential profitability of your projects, and write a business plan that’ll wow investors.
With our online business plan software you can:
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Who’s our business plan writing tool for?
Our online business plan software helps you write a convincing plan
Our business plan software gives you the structure to write a professional plan
The Business Plan Shop’s professional business plan writing tool lets you confidently create your plan without worrying that you've left out a crucial part.
With The Business Plan Shop, you'll be able to put your best foot forward when attempting to secure finance.
Create your plan without worrying that you've left out a crucial part
Our detailed outline includes sections that are vital for all business plans (for e.g. executive summary & financial plan)
This ensures that your plan will follow the structure investors and lenders expect
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Clear instructions help you write your business plan faster
Save time by following our online business plan software’s step-by-step instructions
Not sure what to include in your market analysis or executive summary?
In The Business Plan Shop, each section of our plan includes:
Clear instructions regarding the type of information and level of detail required, helping you carefully consider every aspect of your business.
A recommended word count
Relevant examples to help guide you
The Business Plan Shop's online software helps you power through your business plan with confidence.
Avoid writer’s block with our business plan templates
Take inspiration from our range of business plan templates
Browse through our many business plan templates (each containing a complete financial forecast and business plan).
Download your chosen template in Word or PDF format (or load it directly into our online business plan software to use as a starting point for your own plan).
Replace the template’s text and numbers with your business’ details to make it your own.
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Get a vibrant and investor-ready business plan
Our business plan software leaves you with a completed, investor-ready document
The Business Plan Shop's business plan writing tool helps format your document:
Start with one of our professionally designed themes
Customise the font and colours to create a document that matches your business’ colour scheme
Download your business plan in Word or PDF once it’s completed
Our business plan software will automatically generate the finished document with the formatting done for you.
Within seconds, you’ll receive a professional and beautiful document, ready to be printed or emailed straight to investors or lenders.
Create a financial forecast to assess your profitability potential
Our online software helps you project your financials with ease
Overwhelmed at the thought of building a cash flow statement, profit & loss, and balance sheet from scratch? It can be a long and error-prone process.
Our forecasting software does the maths for you. Simply enter your revenues, costs and investments. Click save and our online tool builds a three-way forecast for you instantly.
No knowledge of accounting required
Answer simple questions and let our business plan software crunch the numbers for you
Get a complete set of financial statements over 3 or 5 years
No confusing Excel formulas
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Our online business plan software runs quality checks on your forecasts
Easily identify issues with your forecast and make changes where necessary
Forecasting is hard. So it’s easy to get swept away and be a little too optimistic when it comes to your business' incomings and outgoings.
Our forecast analysis gives you a quality score & generates alerts to identify issues with your forecast, such as a shortfall in inventory or lack of cash.
Traffic light-themed tags clearly mark out areas of concern by looking at:
Expected growth
Profitability
Cash generation and credit metrics
With visibility over your business’ finances, you can make decisions quickly and confidently.
Avoid mistakes in your text with our smart tags
Change numbers without introducing errors in the text with our online business plan software
Smart-tags keep your business plan's text up to date, no matter how much your financial forecast changes while using The Business Plan Shop.
Click the insert smart tag button
Pick a financial metric (year 2 gross profit for example)
Insert the tag right into your business plan
Each time you generate your business plan's document, our software automatically injects the latest value of the metric in your text, ensuring it stays accurate and error free.
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Test multiple business scenarios
Nail the art of long-term planning by visualising the financial impact of different scenarios
Should you focus on increasing sales or cutting costs this quarter? It’s hard to make decisions when you don't know the financial impact they'll have on your business.
With our scenario analysis module, you can quickly view the effect of big or small decisions on your profits and cash flows.
Simply:
Create a copy of your central case
Change your hypothesis
Analyse the difference both scenarios have on your financial statements
Track KPIs and monitor business performance
Compare your forecast to actuals and keep pace with KPI targets
Our financial dashboards help you track the KPIs which are relevant to your business:
Pick from our vast selection of system-defined KPIs (which include the most common financial ratios)
Build your own custom KPIs using our formula builder (using financial or non-financial data)
Once defined, check if your KPIs are on target in your business plan
Detect and adapt to important trends in your KPI data to help keep your business plan relevant.
Connect your accounting software to The Business Plan Shop and instantly view the variance between your actuals and forecast.
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500,000+ entrepreneurs have already used The Business Plan Shop
Your software is very easy to use - it helped me write a business plan, which was used to finance my online real estate agency.
Ludovic S.
A simple solution that's easy to get started with. The examples and explanations in each section are coherent and useful. The system is intuitive and enables you to draft your business plan with peace of mind!
Michael F.
Very clear and useful! Thanks to your website we brought a strong business plan to our first meeting with our accountant, and the accountant validated it!
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Try The Business Plan Shop before you buy
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Writing your business plan is easy and fast with The Business Plan Shop
| Without us | With The Business Plan Shop | |
|---|---|---|
| Creating your business plan's financial forecast | Done manually on spreadsheets which are error prone | Our forecasting tool crunches the numbers without errors |
| Integrating your financial forecast into the document | Waste hours formatting financial data from Excel or other spreadsheets | Your financials are automatically integrated and formatted into your business plan |
| Structuring and writing your business plan | Research which structure investors expect and face writer's block while drafting | Follow clear instructions and examples, get inspiration from dozens of complete templates |
| Keeping your business plan up to date | Spend hours doing it manually using Word and Excel | Track actuals vs. forecast in our software update your plans in just a couple clicks |
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Business Plan Software
A business plan is a written document that sets out the commercial, operational and financial objectives of a business and explains how it's going to achieve them.
To put it simply, it consists of two distinct parts:
- A written part that presents, in detail, your project, the team, your business strategy, and your medium-term objectives.
- A financial forecast that highlights the expected profitability of the project and the funding requirements.
Writing a business plan without The Business Plan Shop can be both error-prone and time-consuming - whether you're new to entrepreneurship or experienced:
- You'll need to research the structure of a business plan, what to include in each section, and what key elements investors and lenders expect to see
- You may encounter writer's block (especially if it's your first time)
- You'll need to create a financial forecast on a spreadsheet which requires a solid understanding of accounting and financial modelling in order to be done without error
- You'll need to spend hours formatting financial data on Excel or Sheets before it's ready to integrate into your business plan
- Any updates to your business plan or financial forecast will need to be done manually
Luckily for you, The Business Plan Shop's online software guides you through every stage of writing a business plan, so that you can spend more time managing your business instead.
Our editor follows a best in class structure for professional business plans. Each section and sub-section includes examples and instructions to help you, while our business plan templates provide further inspiration if you're stuck.
Our financial forecasting software helps you create a forecast and integrate it into your business plan with ease. Anytime you update your data, your business plan automatically updates.
And with our best in class forecasting software all the calculations are done for you, without errors.
Yes, The Business Plan Shop is suitable for both startups and existing businesses.
Both startups and exisiting businesses have a unique "sources and uses" section in The Business Plan Shop's financial forecasting software.
Startups can enter a list of their sources of capital and what they will be used for (also known as the startup financing plan).
Exisiting businesses can use the opening balance of their cash position and any other balance sheet items.
This means that you'll be able to accurately model your business with The Business Plan Shop, whether you're a startup or an exisiting business.
Read about how our online software helps each type of business in more detail:
The Business Plan Shop arguably offers the best business plan software on the market:
- Our software is easy to use, even for entrepreneurs with limited knowledge of accounting
- Our financial forecasting tool is more comprehensive than what is offered by most alternative solutions, enabling you to build more accurate cash flow forecasts
- Our wide range of business plan templates makes it easy to see what is expected and how a finished business plan should look like
- Our theme editor let you tailor the design of the document to your brand colours enabling you to get a stunning document to help secure financing
- Our forecast analysis helps you avoid errors in your forecast
- Our scenario analysis tools makes it easy to stress test your assumptions and ensure you are prepared for all eventualities
- Our accounting software integrations make it easy to track your actuals against your initial forecast and make sure you deliver what was planned
- Our support team is here to help you if you are stuck
- And more...
But you shouldn't take our word for it: try our solution for free and make your own opinion as to whether or not we are truly the best business plan software for you!
Alternatively, you can also read our guide to help you choose the best business plan software for your business.
You can use The Business Plan Shop's online business planning software on any device and all operating systems, as long as you have a stable internet connection and a modern web browser.
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 support the last two versions of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Apple Safari.
The free trial enables you to try the software for free during 7 days in order to verify that it meets your requirements before buying.
Some features are limited during the free trial, the main limits are:
- You can only create one business plan
- The financials of the first year are visible, data for other years are hidden
- You can export your plan in PDF but not in Word or CSV
- No access to our business plan templates
Yes, The Business Plan Shop caters for all industries.
Our financial forecasting software deals with even the most complicated of business cost structures, meaning that modelling elements such as complex payment terms or accruals become a breeze.
So, whether you're a small shop owner, or technology business, The Business Plan Shop's online software can help!
Yes, you can work on multiple projects at the same time.
You can read into this in more detail on what's included in each subscription our pricing page.
Yes, you can invite multiple users to work on a plan at the same time.
You can also control which level access you give to each user.
Yes, our clients regularly use the business plans created with The Business Plan Shop to secure financing, you can read some of their stories on the testimonials page.
Please visit our pricing page to learn about this in more detail.
Yes, you can connect your accounting software to The Business Plan Shop.
We currently support Xero and QuickBooks Online and are working on adding more integrations. If you have a specific request please contact us.
Connecting your accounting software to The Business Plan Shop enables you to import your historical financial data which can be used as a starting point for the financial forecast of your business plan. And to compare your forecast to your actuals after your business plan has been created.
The software includes detailed instructions and examples to guide you through each step of writing your business plan.
Our support team can also assist you by explaining where and how to input your data in the software.
However, we are not consultants - meaning that we cannot proofread your business plan or give you an opinion on the relevance and chances of success of your project.