Frequently asked questions about BznsBuilder

BznsBuilder is an AI-powered financial planning and forecasting platform for startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in the Middle East and North Africa. You test your idea with Reality Check, write your business plan, build a connected forecast (profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet), compare scenarios, and track actual results against your plan. See how it works →

Founders testing a new idea, owners of small and medium-sized businesses, and the people who support them: business consultants, incubators and accelerators, and universities. Solutions by role →

No. Guided setup asks plain-language questions about your sales, costs, staff and funding, and BznsBuilder builds the formulas and financial statements for you. Most founders finish their first forecast in 45 to 60 minutes.

Yes. Enter your opening balances, forecast the months ahead, then add your actual results each month, by hand or synced from QuickBooks Online on the Decide plan, and compare them with your plan on the dashboard. Financial dashboard →

Yes. The interactive product tour takes you through the real app with a demo company in about two minutes. No sign-up needed. Take the product tour →

Yes. The app, your plans and your reports work in English and Arabic, with a full right-to-left Arabic interface. You can switch the language at any time in settings.

Reality Check tests whether your idea can work before you spend money. It walks you through your market, pricing, costs and funding using rough estimates, and shows where the plan is weak. Its numbers carry straight into your financial forecast. It is included in every plan. About Reality Check →

The AI assistant suggests ideas and forecast assumptions, such as revenue streams, costs and wording for plan sections. You accept, edit or ignore each suggestion. It does not write your plan for you, and you stay in control of every number. Build and Decide add AI-powered forecasting and the automatic forecast builder.

Yes. Every plan includes guided business plan creation and the Idea Canvas. Already have a plan? Import it or paste it in and keep working from there. AI business plan creator →

Both. BznsBuilder is online business plan and financial forecasting software. Reality Check works as a first feasibility test of your idea, then you write the plan, build the three financial statements and compare scenarios in one place. Prefer to start on paper? Use the free business plan template. Free business plan template →

Plans and financial reports download as PDF, Excel and Word, with unlimited downloads on every plan. Build and Decide can also share a live view through a link.

No tool can guarantee funding. BznsBuilder helps you prepare a clear plan and the three financial statements that banks, investors, grant programmes and accelerators expect, so you can answer their questions with numbers.

Yes. BznsBuilder turns your assumptions about sales, payment timing, expenses and funding into a monthly cash flow forecast linked to your profit and loss and balance sheet, so you can see when cash could run low before it happens. Cash flow forecasting →

Yes. Change a price, a hire or a cost and compare the effect on profit and cash before you decide. Launch includes 1 scenario, Build 3 and Decide 10. Forecasts and scenarios →

Yes. Build includes a monthly performance dashboard. Decide adds real-time profit and cash flow tracking and syncs your actual results from QuickBooks Online. Financial dashboard →

Choose your company's currency in project settings, including the Egyptian pound, Saudi riyal, UAE dirham, US dollar, euro and pound sterling. If yours isn't listed, pick Other and enter its symbol. Each company uses one currency.

Up to 10 years on every plan, with month-by-month detail for the first year.

Yes. Try BznsBuilder free for 7 days. No credit card is needed to start.

Nothing is charged. Your trial does not turn into a paid subscription on its own, and your work stays saved in your account. Whenever you are ready, choose a plan in Billing & Subscriptions and continue where you left off.

Launch is for testing a new idea. Build is for launching, raising funds or applying for a loan, and is our most popular plan. Decide is for monthly, data-driven decisions with QuickBooks Online. Compare plans →

Prices are shown in your local currency on the pricing page. Launch starts from $16 a month billed annually, and annual billing saves up to 33% compared with monthly. Compare plans →

Yes, at any time in Billing & Subscriptions. You can upgrade or downgrade, and if you cancel, your plan stays active until the end of the period you have paid for.

If you cancel during the free trial, you pay nothing. After a subscription starts, fees are generally non-refundable and partial periods are not refunded. Charges made in error are refunded, and consumers in the EU and UK keep their legal rights. For billing questions, email info@bznsbuilder.com. Return and refund policy →

Yes. Launch includes up to 2 team members, Build up to 5 and Decide up to 10. Each person gets their own login, so a partner, accountant or advisor can work on the same plan. Compare plans →

Yes. Create several companies and switch between them from one account. Each company has its own plan, forecast and currency, and its own subscription.

Yes. The Decide plan connects to QuickBooks Online and syncs your actual results automatically, so you can compare them with your forecast. QuickBooks integration →

No. You can enter your actual results by hand. Connecting QuickBooks Online on Decide only saves you the typing.

Yes, on Build and Decide. Bring in the numbers you already have instead of typing them again.

Google Sheets is coming next, followed by Shopify and Odoo. They are not available yet, and we will announce each one when it is live.

BznsBuilder runs on secure DigitalOcean cloud infrastructure. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS), passwords are stored with one-way hashing, staff access is limited and logged, and data is backed up regularly. Payments go through Stripe, and we never store your card details. Security overview →

No. We don't sell your data, and we don't use your business data to train AI models, ours or anyone else's. Privacy policy →

BznsBuilder runs in your web browser, so there is nothing to install. We recommend a laptop or desktop for building plans and forecasts, and you can check your dashboard from a phone or tablet.

Our customer team is available Sunday to Thursday, 9 am to 5 pm Cairo time (UTC+2), by phone or WhatsApp on +20 10 6060 0386, through the contact form, or by email at info@bznsbuilder.com. Inside the app, Help has guides and video tutorials. Contact us →

In Excel, you build and fix every formula yourself. ChatGPT can draft text, but it does not build connected financial statements, scenarios or a performance dashboard. Compared with LivePlan, BznsBuilder is built for the Middle East and North Africa, with a full Arabic interface, local-currency pricing and Reality Check. BznsBuilder vs LivePlan →