Business Plan HQ is a small independent business plan reference for small business owners: plan formats, templates, plan software and the financial statements a plan needs. It exists because the question is genuinely hard to answer from vendor marketing alone.
What gets written here
Individual write-ups, direct comparisons, and explainers for the vocabulary that gets in the way of a straight answer.
Each page is built around one question, and carries the date it was last updated so a reader can see how current it is.
How it is written
Where one option is better than another for a given job, that is said in words, with the reason attached. It is never expressed as a number.
- No scores out of ten, no star ratings, no tier boards and no leaderboards.
- No description of testing that did not take place.
- Pricing and feature claims are checked against the vendor’s own pages, and dated where the page says so.
- Where something is genuinely unclear, the page says it is unclear rather than guessing.
Funding
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Limits worth stating
Business Plan HQ is published information, not advice for your particular situation. Nothing here is a recommendation tailored to you, and no page can know the constraints you are actually working under.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads as more confident than the evidence supports, write to [email protected] and say so. A link to the page that contradicts it is the fastest way to get it fixed.