Discover a better way to create a business plan than Excel

The Business Plan Shop enables you to create your financial forecast faster and more accurately than you can with Excel.

With The Business Plan Shop:

Excel eye strain be gone: our modern, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface makes number-crunching smooth

No more spreadsheet-related errors like #DIV/0! and #REF! Our software does the financial calculations for you

Modelling complex financial data such as amortization schedules takes only a few clicks

All your business plans are centralised in one place saving you the struggle to find who has the latest version

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Our modern, intuitive, and easy to use interface makes number-crunching smooth and speedy

The Business Plan Shop turns financial forecasting into a breeze

With multiple tabs spanning hundreds of rows, locating key data on an Excel business plan is often more time-consuming and tedious than it needs to be.

The Business Plan Shop neatly organises your data in modules accessible from the sidebar, enabling you to find and edit any element in your plan in less than three clicks.

Our user interface follows a logical structure tailored to the type of elements you’re modelling: adding payment terms or changing the sales tax rate of a cost is easy and you don’t have to sift through dozens of rows to find the data.

Step-by-step instructions guide you through each section of your financial forecast so you know what data you need to input and where.

Our friendly support team is on hand to help if you find yourself stuck on something or have any questions.

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Wave goodbye to spreadsheet-related frustrations like #DIV/0! and #REF!

Our business plan software does the financial calculations for you and without errors

Adding new elements in your Excel financial forecast can be a real pain, especially when you need to model them first, link them to your financial statements, and then make sure your outputs (whether it’s a printout or a table embedded in a Word document) update correctly as well.

With The Business Plan Shop, simply click add, enter the data and we’ll take care of the number-crunching (including payment terms and VAT/GST) for you - linking everything to your Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement at the end.

Want to add key metrics like revenue growth or profit margin in the text of your business plan without having to manually update them every time the figure changes? Our smart tags do the heavy lifting for you.

Simply click the smart tag button, pick your figure (whether it’s year 1 revenues or your gross profit margin from years 2-3), add the tag directly into your plan and it’ll automatically update anytime your numbers are tweaked. No more confusing Excel formulas.

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Add and model complex financial data faster than with Excel

The Business Plan Shop allows you to model complex financial data in just a few clicks

Do you find that some things are just too complicated to calculate with Excel? Even modelling a basic fixed cost with simple payment terms and VAT or GST can span across dozens of lines.

And modelling advanced financial elements like fixed asset amortization schedules, deferred costs, or variable interest rates loans is just a nightmare.

With The Business Plan Shop, adding complex elements only takes a few clicks and there is no need to fuss around with Excel fields.

With a complete financial forecast, download your plan in PDF or Word format to set out the vision for your next three to five years of operation and approach investors with an easy-to-read plan.

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Stop wondering who has the latest version of your Excel business plan

The Business Plan Shop makes it easy to collaborate with colleagues and advisors

Collaborating on an Excel business plan is painful: it's easy to lose track of who has the latest version or to miss comments.

Besides keeping all of your financial data stored in a central place, The Business Plan Shop's collaboration feature lets you share access to your plan with colleagues and advisors and set individual permissions for each.

No more painful back and forth emails, as your collaborators can write their thoughts and suggestions directly on your plan via threaded comments.

Switched advisors and need to remove your previous one as a user? Simply click to delete them and they’ll immediately be removed from the plan to ensure your data stays private.

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Easily export your business plan to Excel with The Business Plan Shop

The business Plan Shop enables you to export your numbers to Excel or Google Sheets

You can export most of the financial elements to Excel or Google Sheets using our export to CSV feature, including financial statements (P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statement), financial forecast details (business lines, overheads, loans, investments, etc.) and summary tables.

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Export your completed Excel business plan in Word or PDF format in just one click

No need to fret over formatting either. The Business Plan Shop makes creating an investor-ready document a total breeze

Click to download your business plan in Word or PDF once it's completed, and our business plan software will automatically generate the finished product with the formatting done for you.

Start with one of our pre-made themes and customise the font and colours to create a business plan that reflects the spirit of your business.

Within seconds, you’ll receive a professional and beautiful document, ready to be printed or emailed straight to investors or lenders.

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