Price increase – but with discount until 2012

The good news is that we are offering a 25% discount between now and New Year’s Day 2012 – the bad news is that I’m announcing a price increase (Business Plan Writer now costs £49.99 up from £39.99).

To get your discount come over to our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/BusinessPlanWriting (please ‘like’ us when you are there) and pick up the promotional code – then use this code when you reach the Checkout Page…

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Version 1.5 Released with Introductory 20% Discount

This is a major release that adds multi-year functionality to your business plans, the improvements are:

  • Ability to add up to twelve years to your business plan
  • Ability to remove years in your business plan
  • Sales, cashflow, profit & loss and balance sheet reports still calculated and displayed for each year in your business plan
  • Ability to give names/titles to each year
  • Ability to change the running order of months within years
  • Ability to manage ‘Primary Threshold’ figure for HMRC National Insurance rules
  • Redesigned ‘Personnel’ screen that makes adding and managing staff much easier
  • Redesigned ‘Loans’ screen that makes managing loans (now up to 14 of them) easier
  • Numerious small improvements to the user interface to make using Business Plan Writer even easier to understand and use

Up to the end of November we are offering a 20% discount on the usual price of £39.99 – to get the discount enter PLANNING CRAZY into the relevant box when you get to the Checkout page.

Offer ends 30th November – and on 1st December Business Plan Writer’s price goes up to £45.00 so buy now and save money!

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Beta Testers Wanted for Business Plan Writer

I’m still looking for beta testers for Business Plan Writer.

I need people to try out beta versions of the software as and when they are released, check if they work OK and give me some minimal feedback via email or over the phone. Continue reading

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It’s Annoying if people don’t read your Business Plan!

OK so you have worked really hard on your business plan, checked it and refined and polished it and you think it’s ready – well done! But don’t think you are finished with it yet… Continue reading

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Version 1.4.1.43 of Business Plan Writer released

This is a minor release that fixes a Sales Tax (VAT) display problem in the ‘Products’ screen.

If you don’t have the business in your business plan registered for Sales Tax (VAT) – which is the default setting – then its probably not worth updating to this copy of Business Plan Writer – but if you do have Sales Tax (VAT) set then it is worth updating. Continue reading

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Co-operative Edition of Business Plan Writer Released

Today (2nd February 2011) we are releasing a Co-operative Edition of Business Plan Writer. Continue reading

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Software Build 1.4.1.40 of Business Plan Writer released

This release of Business Plan Writer is a ‘tidying up’ version that is mostly bug fixes and error handling – the next release will be the big one when I bring in features that will allow you to have multi-year business plans. Continue reading

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Are You Making These Mistakes in Your Business Plan?

In a recent survey (Survey results – how business plans are read) one of the questions we asked readers of business plans was what things they found the most annoying. Continue reading

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Survey results – how business plans are read

Between December 2010 and January 2011 a small survey (see below for details) was conducted that shows there are indeed some things that writers of business plans should bear in mind when considering how their business plans will be read. Continue reading

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Changing VAT Settings from 17.5% to 20%

From 4th January 2011 Value Added Tax (or VAT – what Sales Tax is called in the United Kingdom) is to be charged at 20% instead of 17.5%. Continue reading
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