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It pulled pricing, costs, and growth into one place, so I stopped juggling messy tabs and finally had a clean set of numbers to review with my partner. We saved about 4 hours on the first pass.
It pulled pricing, costs, and growth into one place, so I stopped juggling messy tabs and finally had a clean set of numbers to review with my partner. We saved about 4 hours on the first pass.
I was stuck before I even opened Excel, but this template gave me a starting point for the whole gas station model. What would have taken a full day of setup was done in under an hour.
The statements and charts were scattered all over my old files, and this brought them into one view. I had a cleaner monthly report ready for my lender meeting, and it saved me a couple of hours of rework.
It's an editable five-year workbook that transforms business cards, conversions, recurring customers, basketball, mixing and pricing assumptions into declarations and management reports.
Use the workbook to convert gas station traffic, buyer conversions, repeat purchases, basket sizes, sales mixtures, prices, costs and financial assumptions into a combined forecast.
Changes to editable assumptions and related flow calculations through revenue, expenditure, cash flow, balance sheet, scenarios and reporting summaries.
The model converts shoppers into buyers, moves repeat customer cohorts, builds monthly orders and units, allocates a mix of categories, and then applies category prices.
A new buyer is equal to a visitor to a store multiplied by a visitor's conversion rate to the buyer.
Some new buyers become repeat customers for a certain lifetime.
Monthly orders combine first orders with active recurring customers and the frequency of recurring orders.
Orders × average units per order produced units sold and then allocated by the sales mix.
The units of the categories shall be valued by period and summed by category and month.
The revenue article organizes visitor traffic, buyer conversion, repeat customer behaviour, order size, mix of categories and price of categories that drive forecast retail sales.
Revenue
COGS and OPEX separate costs of goods sold, variable costs and forecast fixed operating expenses.
COGS & OPEX
The scenario compares the low, basic and high results for revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA over five years.
Scenarios
The Dashboard combines configuration controls, scenario multipliers, basic finance, a mix of revenue, profitability, cash flow and return on investment in one look.
Dashboard
It is appropriate for buyers whose business is business-to-business; substantially different revenue engines, operating schedules or reporting may require individual modelling.
The indicator is the starting point for planning, not a guarantee of performance.
The Financial Model Laboratory may build or adapt the model where the revenue logic, operational schedules or reporting requirements differ from that model.
Order of the financial model for the orderAfter purchase, you will receive a fully editable financial model of Excel with five-year forecasts, scenario analysis and related financial reports.
Open and edit the model of the gas station in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets.
A review of the forecasted five years of revenue, costs, cash flow and profitability.
Compare the Low, Base and High cases using model scenario analysis.
See the income statement, the cash flow Report, the balance sheet and the management reports.
The basic answers are visible in their entirety, without the need to click on the accordion.
Revenue start with visitors who turn into new buyers, add active orders from multiple customers, convert orders into units, allocate units by sales mix and apply category prices.
You can edit the launch date, visitors within a week, conversions, recurring customer behavior, order units, category mix, category prices, and monthly seasonality.
In view of the scenarios, the low, basic and high paths of revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA under the five-year forecast are compared.
The workbook contains the income statement, the cash flow report, the balance sheet, the dashboard, the summary, the scenarios, the estimates, the ROIC reports.
Yes. the Financial Models Lab can build or adapt the model to different revenue logic, operational schedules or reporting requirements.
This is a planning forecast based on edited assumptions, not a guarantee of business results or financial results.
This downloadable gas station budget template includes everything you need to build a complete financial plan, from revenue modeling to investor-ready financial statements.
Core inputs and core outputs
Three scenario analysis
Presentation ready
DuPont analysis
Researched revenue assumptions
Lender-friendly financial outputs
Revenue stream detailed view
Performance metrics benchmark