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I saw it at Accountex after a initial trial earlier in the year.
It was good to see it as I was huge fan of winforecast and my copy sadly died when my PC upgraded to Windows 10.
They have improved the look of the product but it looks old fashioned when compared to modern alternatives. Plus it only does the numbers so still a look of work to pull a bus plan together. People now expect a lot more visual data with the plans with graphs and charts etc which this is clearly lacking in.
Also the price was about £1200 for the consolidated version plus about £350 per year licence fee which is a lot more than winforecast plus i don't get the annual licence fee for what is a stand alone product.
I use another product now which very quickly puts together the whole plan not just the numbers and costs about $10 pe month while your working on the client and then when you have finished the charge stops when you archive the report until you revisit it the following year.
The final output is very good as includes a lot of summary graphs and charts in the plan and you simply fill in the text around them. Its very quick to use and final output looks very polished.
There was a 25% discount available at Accountex but It still think the product is over priced for most sole traders, and it does look tired compared to Xero add ons like crunch boards etc
The pricing is there, Carnmores, at the foot of the HomePage (and all other pages, too, I think) under the desription "Pricing and Ordering".
And here is the link
http://forecast5.co.uk/pricing/
Incidentally, I agree with you; it annoys me as well when prices aren't disclosed!
Johnny Kipps
Forecast5
I did the trial Tom and couldn't see much added functionality it was just a bit more Windows 10 looking and bit more pleasing on the eye.
When I asked about pricing is was told that winforecast used to sell for a lot more money in Aus & NZ and so the price point was set at their market rate.
Winforecast was always about £350 to £400 as a stand alone purchase with no need for an additional annual licence fee, so not sure about this priced to close down comment. At £500/£600 it would be worth buying but I couldn't justify £1500 for a copy.
The beauty of Winforecast was it was cheap and easy to use.
Its hard to know where it now fits in the market as for simple jobs the xero add ons are easy to use and output look better. For more complex stuff I imagine most just build big Excel spreadsheet for its flexability.
I suppose the market will decide if they sell many licences or have to drop their prices.
Cloud hosted with a banded subscription model is where everything is going.
Hi Carnmores
I use Liveplan for business planning it is ideal for most of my clients. It does not do consolidations.
It is American based so has a few quirks in it.
But it is very easy to use and produces a good looking document fully indexed up document in very short space of time. I am suprised more people dont use it.
PM your email over if you want to see a sample plan.
well i have still got my old machine which i will keep solely for win4cast, and i think the disks