Planner
Sales, purchase, expense, production, payroll, cash flow, and P&L planning.
The Planner replaces spreadsheet-based budgeting. Create a plan — Sales, Purchases, Expenses, Cash Flow, or a P&L plan that rolls other plans up — set targets by period, and compare reality against the plan. The moment actual numbers exist alongside your targets, the Planner becomes an early warning system.
What the Planner Does
| Function | How |
|---|---|
| Plan | Set targets by item, account, or employee per period (day, week, month, or quarter). |
| Track | Actual figures are computed from posted documents and the ledger every time you open a plan. |
| Compare | Attainment percentage, status badges, and colour-coded progress bars per plan, per period, and per row. |
| Adjust | Revise targets at any time in the plan grid. |
| Work together | A committee with per-person roles, file attachments, comments, and an optional public link. |
The Shape of the Module
Sidebar label: Planner.
| Surface | What It Is |
|---|---|
| Planner home | Every plan for the selected year, four portfolio cards, filters, and the portfolio export buttons. |
| New Plan | A single form — type, name, year, period, grid columns, center. |
| The plan page | Five tabs: Overview (targets against actuals), Committee, Attachments, Comments, Share. |
| The plan grid | Opened with Edit Plan. Rows down, periods across, one target per cell. P&L plans have no grid. |
| A target row page | Reached from a breakdown row on the Overview. Pace, projection, and change history for one row in one period. |
Plan Types
| Type | What You Plan | Rows | Cell |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sales | Revenue and units by product or service | Items | Quantity × Rate (price per unit) |
| Purchases | Purchase cost and units by item | Items | Quantity × Rate (cost per unit) |
| Expenses | Spend by expense account | Expense accounts | Amount |
| Cash Flow | Movement by cash or bank account | Cash and bank accounts | Amount |
| P&L | Income, Expenses, and Net Profit rolled up from linked plans | Linked sub-plans | No grid |
| Production | Output and cost by product (existing plans only) | Items of type Product | Quantity × Cost per unit |
| Payroll | Pay by employee (existing plans only) | Employees | Amount |
The New Plan screen offers Sales, Purchases, Expenses, Cash Flow, and P&L. Existing Production and Payroll plans still appear on the Planner home, open, accept targets, and track actuals.
Nothing you enter in the Planner posts to the ledger, moves stock, or changes a document. The plan holds what you expect; every actual figure is read back from posted documents, the ledger, production runs, or approved pay schedules when you open the plan.
Topics
Start here
The home, who can use the Planner, and how a plan is created.
Setting targets
The grid, the rows, the cell editor, and what Save writes.
Plan types
Seven types, each with its own rows, cell mode, and source of actuals.
Reading results
Attainment, variance, colour, pace, and where every actual comes from.
Working together
A committee, files, comments, and a public link.
Getting it out
Excel and PDF, for one plan or the whole portfolio.