4. Registration Form - Only relevant for earlier releases
of Free-Plan
Need Financial
Projections for Your Plan ?
Use Exl-Plan for
preparing comprehensive financial projections for 1/3/5/7
years ahead. Ideal for a business plan, strategic planning, cash
flow forecasting, raising finance, budgeting and financial appraisals.
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details, download free
or trial copies or buy & use now.
This section introduces Free-Plan and its sister product, Biz-Plan.
Here is what DOWNLOAD.COM said in two reviews of Biz-Plan
(aka Free-Plan):
Writing a good business plan is the first step to success. But
what if you don't know where to start? Never fear; Biz-Plan can help.
This Word template provides the outline of a business plan along with
an excellent help file (in CHM and PDF format) containing detailed instructions
and important hints. The template itself has helpful comments in each
section. Colors and fonts greatly facilitate text editing, as does the
automatically updated table of contents. Best of all, Biz-Plan is free;
you just have to register by e-mail. Whether you follow it to the letter
or draw on it for ideas, Biz-Plan is a great resource for getting a
business off the ground.
This Word template
aims to help novices write a sensible business plan. Biz-Plan
holds your hand throughout the process. First, the concise white paper
offers brief directions and important hints. The template itself is commented
in detail and has an extensive tutorial in the appendix. Colors and fonts
greatly facilitate text editing, as does the automatically updated table
of contents. Novice business people will benefit from this program's advice.
Free-Plan is
a Business Plan Guide and Template compiled
and distributed as freeware by PlanWare. It comprises:
A Word-based Template (48
pages) contains a detailed framework and structure for writing
a business plan with sample text, typical tables and charts
(click thumb opposite to enlarge view).
A complementary Guide (supplied
as a 90+ topic Help file and as a 100+ page PDF file for printing)
offers extensive section-by-section help related to the Template.
It covers executive summary, strategy and mission, profiling
target markets, marketing strategies, sales plans and projections,
technology and R&D, operations and management, financial projections
and funding. It also discusses such matters as planning to
plan, length of a business plan and writing a basic/short plan.
Free-Plan is ideal for new and established businesses seeking
to expand, raise finance etc. which need to produce a comprehensive
business plan for internal/external use. While Free-Plan is not
specifically aimed at very small businesses (e.g. annual sales
under, say, $250,000), it contains many ideas and issues which
could be adopted to produce a shorter, simpler plan as explained
in the Guide.
Free-Plan is freeware. Once downloaded, you are completely
free to edit Free-Plan to produce your own business plan. The
only significant restriction is that you are not entitled to
distribute Free-Plan as a template to third-parties - you should
refer these parties to this page to get their own copies of Free-Plan.
The latest release of Free-Plan is designated 3.0. It is a major
revamp with the complete separation of the Template from
the Guide. The Template has
been restructured and the Guide contains
substantial additional advice and guidance. If you have an earlier
release, you may wish to delete/uninstall it and use the links
below to download the latest release.
To
check your release of Free-Plan, look for the release number
on the third line within the colored table on the first page
of the DOC file.
Biz-Plan
Biz-Plan and Free-Plan are, in theory, identical
packages with different names. In practice, different releases
of Biz-Plan are scattered around the Internet and these may not
be as up-to-date as Free-Plan.
The latest release of Biz-Plan is designated 3.0. If you have
an earlier release, you may wish to delete/uninstall it and use
the links below to download the latest release of Free-Plan.
To check your release
of Biz-Plan, look for the release number on the third line
within the colored table on the first page of the DOC file.
Biz-Plan
(Free-Plan) awarded 5-Stars by C|Net
2. Download Links & Instructions
for Use
To Download Free-Plan:
Click
an appropriate link below. To download Exl-Plan Free for business
financial projections (which includes a copy of Free-Plan),
go here
instead.
Important: Free-Plan requires Microsoft Word.
Free-Plan
- For Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 running with
Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016:
If you are using Windows XP, Vista or Win7,
you can ignore the Security Warning about "unknown
publisher" when
downloading FREEPLAN.EXE as we are the
publisher.
FREEPLAN.ZIP
needs to be uncompressed using an utility like WinZip before installation.
Our Privacy & Security
Statement applies
to all our software. This means that Free-Plan DOES
NOT contain "adware", "spyware" or
any devices for collecting and/or transmitting
any user information and we DO NOT send spam..
To Set Up Free-Plan:
If you downloaded the ZIP file, unzip and open
it and place the files* in an appropriate folder
(e.g. call it Free-Plan) on your PC. If you need an unzip utility,
download WinZip.
If you downloaded the EXE file, run it
to install the Free-Plan files*.
*
These files comprise README.TXT,
LICENSE.TXT, FREE-PLAN_GUIDE. CHM (comprehensive help file), FREE-PLAN_GUIDE.PDF
(comprehensive manual) and FREE-PLAN_TEMPLATE.DOC (Word document).
To Use Free-Plan after Installation:
If you downloaded the ZIP file, just open the supplied files.
If you installed from the EXE file, use Start
| Programs | Free-Plan and
select Free-Plan
Template. Alternatively, go to the folder where you placed
Free-Plan and click on FREE-PLAN_TEMPLATE.DOC. Both
approaches will start Microsoft Word and load the Template which
can be used as the basis for your business plan. The current
release of Free-Plan (downloadable using the links above)
does NOT require any registration - if you have an older release that
requires registration, see below.
The detailed Guide can
be opened via Start
| Programs | Free-Plan (if you used the EXE) or by clicking FREE-PLAN_GUIDE.CHM (HTML style help file). Open FREE-PLAN_GUIDE.PDF if you'd like a printable copy of the Guide (this requires the widely-used
free Acrobat
Reader).
To Uninstall Free-Plan:
Use Add or Remove Programs within the Control Panel (access
via Start
| Settings) if you used the EXE file, or simply delete the ZIP
file and its contents.
3. Registration Instructions
(Only relevant for earlier releases of Free-Plan)
IMPORTANT:
The current release of Free-Plan (downloadable
using the links above) does
NOT require registration
- so ignore these instructions.
The following instructions are for users who acquired an earlier release
of Free-Plan which requires registration. As an alternative to registration,
you can download a copy of the latest release of Free-Plan which
does not need registration using the links above. This
may be faster and more convenient for most users.
First, you must download, install and run the Free-Plan
or Biz-Plan DOC file using Word.
Register by sending us a special serial number (a)
using the form below or (b) within the body of
an email to <freeplan@planware.org>.
You will find this serial number inside
the box/table on the first page (click thumb opposite for guidance)
of FREE-PLAN_TEMPLATE.DOC once you have opened it with Microsoft Word.
Note:
With earlier releases of Free-Plan and Biz-Plan, this box will only
become visible once Word has been set to View |
PageLayout (Word
6, 95 or 97) or View | Print Layout (Word 2000, XP or 2003).
Online Tutorial
View a Tutorial
(2 minutes) on how to register and start using Free-Plan / Biz-Plan.
*
* If using Word 2007, the registration procedure
is slightly different: Load the Free-Plan DOC file, select the Review tab
and go to the Protect group. Click the Protect
Document button and select the Restrict Formatting
and Editing option. Look at the bottom of the task page
for Restrict Formatting and Editing, click the Stop
Protection button and enter the password into the Unprotect
Document box.
Depending on your time of day, time zone and day of week, allow between
one and twelve hours to secure your registration code by email (in plain
text with no attachments). Note
that:
If you don't hear from us within 24 hours, make contact again
but double-check your email address - wrong email addresses are
a problem! If you have just recently registered, please don't register
a second time - it won't speed up the process. In common with most
Internet-based businesses, we operate extensive spam-filtering. If
we don't respond to your request, check your original message to ensure
that it is not "all caps", overly HTML-intensive or contains
other spam-related elements, and then resend it.
If your own email system uses aggressive anti-spam filtering,
you may not receive our email containing your registration code.
You should temporarily add emails from "@planware.org" to your white
or friends list, or allow messages containing the phrases "Free-Plan"
and "Biz-Plan" to pass through your filters. Do
this before you seek registration.
If you intend to register Exl-Plan
Free (which includes Free-Plan), download
it from here and/or register
it here - there is no need
to separately register Free-Plan as you'll be given
codes for both packages when you register Exl-Plan Free.
4. Registration Form
(Only relevant for earlier releases of Free-Plan)
IMPORTANT:
The current release of Free-Plan (downloadable using the links above)
does NOT require
registration
- so ignore these instructions.
This Registration Form is for users who acquired an earlier release
of Free-Plan which requires registration. As an alternative to registration,
you can download a copy of the latest release of Free-Plan which
does not need registration using the links above. This
may be faster and more convenient for most users.
Instead of sending an email, you can use the Registration Form below
to register either Free-Plan or Biz-Plan.
You may
wish to bookmark this page to return to it once you have accessed Free-Plan
or Biz-Plan to secure its serial number.
Allow between one and twelve hours to secure the Unlock
Code. Please register just once!
If you wish to make a comment or get help, use this Contact
Form.
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