Create your business plan and financial forecast
Enter your sales, expenses and funding. Calculate cash balances month by month, compare scenarios and choose an export format for your recipient.
Bike workshop forecast
Fictional example · First year
- Revenue excluding VAT
- €227,400
- Initial funding
- €55,000
Template figures are examples to adapt to your project.
Choose a template for your business
Templates contain the activities, expenses, staffing and investments for the selected business type. Replace sample amounts with your prices, volumes and costs, then complete the plan’s text.
Bike workshop
Repairs, sale of bicycles and maintenance contracts.
Consulting firm
Days billed, remuneration and activity costs.
Retail
In-store sales, purchases of merchandise and stock.
These amounts are fictional. Replace them with data from your business.
See all templatesCalculate sales, profit and cash flow
Enter your prices, volumes, direct costs and expenses. The engine calculates monthly and annual results, cash flow and a projected balance sheet from your assumptions.
- Product and service sales, professional services or subscriptions.
- Salaries, hiring dates, investments and loans.
- Payment terms, inventory, VAT and tax under the engine’s conventions.
Monthly results
Revenue, net profit and cash flow are calculated for each month.
| First year | Jan 2027 | Feb 2027 | Mar 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue excluding VAT | €18,950 | €18,950 | €18,950 |
| Net profit | €950 | €953 | €956 |
| Cash balance | €29,691 | €31,742 | €33,793 |
Net profit measures profit or loss. Cash flow depends on receipts, payments, investments and financing.
Bike workshop template excerpt · Fictional data
Compare financial scenarios
Keep a baseline forecast. In a scenario, change sales, a hiring date or an investment, then compare net profit and cash flow over the same period.
- Each scenario keeps its own settings.
- Charts show the baseline and scenario month by month.
- Saved scenarios are included in exports.
Try the comparison shown here: the amounts are calculated by open-bp’s engine.
Hiring in April or July
Compare hiring in April or July.
- Cash balance in Dec 2027
- €2,945
- With the July hire
- €15,125
Fictional example calculated over 12 months. Only the hiring date changes.
Set monthly changes in sales and expenses
Set a gradual increase towards a target volume, then add exceptions for specific months. You can plan higher summer sales, change a price on a specific date or add a one-off expense.
Growth diagram
Edit assumptions and write your plan using chat
Ask chat to add an activity, edit an expense, move a hiring date or prepare a scenario. It proposes changes in the plan and asks for clarification if your instruction cannot be applied exactly.
- Write or rephrase sections of your business plan.
- Review proposals, undo a change and save your version.
- Connect a compatible assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, using your account permissions.
AI features are optional and subject to subscription quotas. Missing data still needs to be completed.
Move the mechanic’s hiring date from April to July and compare cash flow.
The hiring date moves from April to July. All other assumptions stay the same in this comparison.
Fictional request and comparison example
Document assumptions and check the plan
For each assumption, record its source: a quote, draft lease, supplier price list or estimate. Add a note explaining the amount used and what needs checking.
- Sources and notes are included with the plan.
- The review flags missing assumptions and text that needs completing.
- Financial checks identify inconsistencies and blocking issues.
Automatic checks do not replace rereading the project, sources and applicable rules.
Document the rent
- Assumption
- Monthly rent
- Amount
- €1,400
- Source to add
- Landlord’s proposal or draft lease
- Note to complete
- Check service charges and lease terms.
This amount comes from the template. You still need to confirm it for your premises.
Share the plan with your partners and advisers
Invite a partner, adviser or accountant. A reviewer can view and comment on the plan; an editor can also change assumptions and text. You can revoke these permissions.
- Private invitations and revocable access.
- Comments kept with the project.
- Version history and restoration of an earlier version.
The number of collaborators and editing permissions depend on your subscription.
Plan access
Restoring creates a new version and preserves the history.
Example roles for a shared plan
Choose a format for your business plan
Exports use the saved version of the project. Share the business plan with your adviser, prepare a presentation or retrieve tables for your own tools.
PowerPoint retains the saved text and presents the main annual results, scenarios, sources and items to check. Detailed monthly tables and calculation settings are available in the complete business plan and data exports.
CSV files are delivered in a ZIP archive, with one file per workbook sheet. UTF-8 encoding, semicolon separator and decimal point. Text that could be interpreted as a formula is prefixed with an apostrophe.
The Excel workbook contains total and validation formulas. CSV and OpenDocument spreadsheets contain calculated values only. Use open-bp to recalculate the full forecast after changing assumptions.
All export formats are included from the Essentiel plan. Save your changes and review assumptions, sources and incomplete items before sending the business plan.
Compare subscriptionsWord .docx
Text of the business plan, assumptions and financial tables.
Excel .xlsx
Assumptions and monthly results over the entire period.
PDF .pdf
business plan and forecasts in a document to share.
PowerPoint .pptx
Editable slides: business plan text, financial summary, annual results, scenarios and items to check.
CSV .zip
ZIP archive with one CSV file per table: assumptions, results and scenarios. Calculated values, without formulas or formatting.
OpenDocument text .odt
Complete business plan editable in LibreOffice Writer, with assumptions, sources and financial tables.
OpenDocument spreadsheet .ods
Workbook for LibreOffice Calc: assumptions and results for all scenarios. Calculated values, without recalculation formulas.
HTML .html
Complete business plan with a table of contents, for offline viewing in a browser. Nothing is published online.
French, English, Spanish
The interface and export labels follow your language. Amounts remain in euros and financial conventions remain French.
Access and data management
You choose who can access the project and can revoke their permissions. Manage your data from your account.
Personal dataClient project portfolio
The accounting firm portfolio centralises client projects. Project capacity, collaboration and AI usage vary by subscription.
View subscriptionsQuestions about features and subscriptions
Do I need spreadsheet skills?
Enter your assumptions in the app; the engine produces the tables. You still need to understand sales, expenses and payment terms to review the forecast.
Is AI required?
No. You can choose a template, edit assumptions and write the plan without using AI features.
Does every plan include all features?
Paid subscriptions share the same financial calculations and checks. Project capacity, scenarios, exports, collaboration access and AI quotas depend on the plan. See pricing for details.
Can I go back to an earlier version?
Yes. The history lets you view saved versions and restore one. Restoring creates a new version without deleting earlier ones.
Create a plan from a template or using chat
Start with an industry template or describe your business in chat. Then enter sales, expenses and financing.
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