Saved Hours on Forecasting
I stopped spending afternoons building marketplace financials by hand. This template gave me a working model fast, and I had cleaner numbers ready for a planning call the same day.
I stopped spending afternoons building marketplace financials by hand. This template gave me a working model fast, and I had cleaner numbers ready for a planning call the same day.
I used to drag out low, base, and high cases for every update. Here the assumptions are already organized, so I could compare scenarios in minutes and walk into the meeting with clearer answers.
Starting from a blank sheet always felt like the hardest part. This template gave me a solid structure right away, and I had a first draft I could actually build on instead of staring at an empty workbook.
The editable five-year Market workbook combines seller and buyer acquisition, transaction economics, operating expenses, scenarios and integrated financial statements.
Plan a two-way market by changing assumptions about acquisition, level, orders, prices, commissions, subscriptions, and seller service instead of reconstructing the formulas.
Editable operational contributions shall flow through monthly calculations into revenue, costs, cash flow, profitability, scenarios and management reports over the five-year forecast.
The model acquires sellers and buyers separately, builds buyers' orders and GMV by level, and then monetizes seller's transactions, subscriptions and supplements on a monthly basis.
The budgets of the seller and the buyer are allocated according to their own CAC, with separate monthly seasonality.
New users are allocated according to the level of the seller and the level of the buyer and are retained for the life of each level.
Contracts shall combine the activity of new buyers with recurring orders from the level-by-level qualifying active buyers' quota.
Orders shall form GMV at the level of AOV and the commissions shall be added to the income with a receipt tax and a flat fee.
The monthly revenue adds the seller's and buyer's commissions, subscriptions and eligible seller's allowances; GMV is excluded.
In terms of revenue, the seller's and buyer's acquisitions, levels mixtures, period of use, subsequent orders, AOV, commissions, subscriptions and supplements of the seller are organised.
Revenue
The COGS and OPEX perspective separates direct costs, Variable operating expenses and fixed costs so that the cost assumptions can satisfy anticipated margins and cash flow.
COGS & OPEX
The scenario compares the low, basic and high levels for revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA over the forecast period of five years.
Scenarios
The Dashboard combines model configuration, scenario control, financial summary, revenue mix, profitability, cash flow, return and key market indicators in one view.
Dashboard
The template corresponds to markets using separate buyer and seller acquisitions with the monetisation of transactions, subscriptions and seller services; substantially different structures 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 structure differ from the finished template.
Order of the financial model for the orderYou will receive a fully editable financial model market for Excel and Google Sheets with five-year forecasts, scenarios, integrated financial statements and management reports.
A change in market assumptions in a pre-designed workbook for Excel and Google Sheets.
Review of the five-year forecasts with monthly and annual financial summaries.
Compare the Low, Base and High cases using the model scenario frame.
Use the integrated income statement, cash flow, balance sheet, spreadsheet and supplementary reports.
The basic answers are visible in their entirety, without the need to click on the accordion.
It builds up buyer orders and GMV by level, calculates commission income, and then adds seller subscriptions, buyer subscriptions, and a seller add-on. GMV alone is not revenue.
You can change the seller's and buyer's purchase budgets, seasonality, CAC, level mixes, lifetime, repeat orders, AOV, commissions, subscriptions and seller's allowances.
Alternative paths for forecasting revenue, gross margin, contribution margin and EBITDA can be compared based on multiple model scenarios.
The product shall present the income statement, the cash flow report, the balance sheet, the dashboard, the summary, the scenarios and the additional financial analysis reports.
Yes. the Financial Models Lab offers individual financial modelling where revenue logic, operational schedules or reporting needs require a different structure.
This is a planning forecast based on edited assumptions and not a guarantee of financial or operational results.
This pre-built financial model for a marketplace business plan includes everything you need to forecast your startup's financial future, from detailed revenue projections to a complete set of 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