Overview
PlanGuru, LLC sells budgeting, forecasting and financial analytics software for small businesses, franchises, nonprofits and the accountants who advise them[12]. It is available as the cloud PlanGuru App and as a Windows-installed desktop edition[13].
The core is an integrated income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement forecast that can run up to ten years, with more than 20 built-in forecasting methods, custom methods and forecasting from non-financial drivers[12]. Users can import up to five years of actuals from QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online, Xero or Excel, then run budget-versus-actual reporting, rolling forecasts and scenarios[12]. Additional tools cover financial ratios, business valuation, payroll, notes payable and lines of credit, with exports to PDF, Word and Excel and online dashboards[12]. A paid implementation package, PlanGuru Launch, covers set-up and training[12].
PlanGuru suits companies that already have accounting history and want the financial section of a plan built properly. It does not write narrative plan text, and its prices are well above plan writers: the published Single Entity edition is billed per month on an annual prepaid term, with additional users charged separately[13].
PlanGuru features
- Integrated three-statement forecast up to 10 years
- 20+ forecasting methods
- Imports actuals from QuickBooks, Xero, Excel
- Budget vs actual and rolling forecasts
- Business valuation and ratio analysis
- Multi-entity consolidation edition
PlanGuru pricing
Pricing is shown on the PlanGuru website; the figures on the page could not be read reliably at the time of review, so they are not reproduced here.
PlanGuru strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Long forecast horizon
- Many forecasting methods
- Imports historical actuals from major accounting tools
- Desktop edition for offline use
Limitations
- No narrative plan writer
- Expensive for a single founder
- Per-user charges beyond included seats
- Consolidation and analytics on higher tiers only
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