Business Plan Pro, Marketing Plan Pro

Comprehensive, practical and easy to use business and marketing planning software from market-leaders Palo Alto Software...

Business Plan Pro will help you create a winning business plan, whether it's to gain funding or just map out your goals and the route you'll need to take to get there.

The Marketing Plan Pro application will help you answer the most common marketing and sales questions in order to create an effective, targeted and successful marketing plan.

Business Plan Pro is worth £99*, here are just some of its best features:

• Create a plan that's right for your business, choose from; a complete business plan, loan document, new product or service description, a financial plan or basic marketing plan. 

• Over 500 sample plans. This extensive library of sample plans allows you to select the plan that mirrors your general business concept, and use it as a guide to help you write your own. 

• All the financial spreadsheets you need in a business plan are included and linked together in Business Plan Pro. Just input your numbers and let Business Plan Pro do the rest. Key tables include; balance sheet, break-even analysis, cash flow financials, inventory/stock detail, sales forecast and more...

• More than 9,000 different industry profiles will give you an insight into how your business compares against similar companies in your industry. The software will guide you step-by-step through the process of understanding what the data in your industry profile means, and how you can use it to your strategic advantage. 

• Track how you are doing, with the Plan vs. Actual financial tool. You can't track results and make adjustments unless you know how your actual numbers compare to the figures you projected in your plan. This tool lets you actually track business performance by monitoring the variance between the financial plan and how your company actually performed.

Want to see it in action?

View the live demo of Business Plan Pro here

Marketing Plan Pro is worth £99*, here are just some of its best features:

• Create and implement a marketing plan that helps attract new customers, get more value from existing ones and raise your business profile. 

• Analyse and understand the market you are in with a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis

• Create a marketing budget and expense calculations. Let the software double-check all the numbers for you at the touch of a button.

• Map out your sales targets and monitor actual sales against predicted sales throughout the year. Marketing Plan Pro will forecast sales graphically on a chart and then transfer the numbers into your sales forecast table, automatically.

Whether you are using Business Plan Pro or Marketing Plan Pro you'll find that the software is simple to use, hassle free and manageable with a plenty of Wizards to guide you through each stage of formulating your plan.

Check it out for yourself

View the live demo of Marketing Plan Pro here

Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro feature as part of Barclays Business Essentials, Essentials Plus or Barclays Business Manager.

* All prices are as shown on the respective partner's website and are inclusive of VAT