Product
From export to report, on one set of figures.
planist links import, chart of accounts, planning, checks, analysis and report into one chain. Every view calculates with the same figures, which is why the report agrees with the reconciliation. Every feature is explained here.
Import
Bring the data in, without retyping it.
Eight import routes, all following the same pattern: check first, then take over. The check report shows what was recognised, what is missing and which amount is affected. Nothing is written before you confirm.
See all 31 checksEXTF_Buchungsstapel_2026-06.csv
- 1Check
- 2Confirm
- Bookings read
- 1,240
- Accounts recognised
- 310
- Accounts unknown
- 2 · 1,800 in total
- Debit and credit totals
- match
Nothing taken over yet.
Unknown accounts are listed with their amount, nothing drops out without a trace.
Exports, as they come
DATEV booking batches (EXTF), the GDPdU package and account sheets as actuals, the chart of accounts from GDPdU or from SKR03 and SKR04. Encoding, decimal comma and leading zeros are built in.
Free CSV
Any other source through a column mapping you set during the import. Plus an Excel budget template.
Replace, not double
Importing a month again replaces its values. Every run stays in the log and can be rolled back.
The right period
Closing entries booked in January land in the prior year through the fiscal month, not by the year of the document date.
Only what is needed
From receivables and payables, planist reads account number and type. Names, addresses and IBANs are neither read nor stored.
Chart of accounts
The structure of your report, not of a template.
Every booked account is a row of its own. On top you lay dimensions, cost centres and calculated rows, the way your report is built, and they survive the next import.
Calculated rows
| Row | Formula | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Gross profitSubtotal | A − B | calculates |
| Operating resultResult row | C − D − E | calculates |
| Balance sheet totals equalCross-check | F − G = 0 ± 1 | within tolerance |
A Revenue · B Cost of materials · C Gross profit · D Personnel · E Other costs · F Assets · G Liabilities
Dimensions
Named, hierarchical groups of accounts, several analysis frames side by side. Totals always sum the accounts underneath, never twice.
Cost centres
With DATEV cost-centre codes and allocation keys that split an amount across several cost centres by weight.
Calculated rows
Subtotals, result rows and cross-checks by formula. A cross-check tests budget and actuals against an expected value with a tolerance.
Chart of accounts in versions
A new chart of accounts applies from a fiscal year onward. Old and new accounts are linked, and amounts that cannot be mapped stay visible as a row of their own.
Planned accounts
Budget rows that do not have a booked account yet. When it shows up in an import, it is mapped rather than kept twice.
Accounting purpose
Commercial and tax views on the same data. You set per year which view applies, and planist reports diverging accounts.
Planning
Plan in versions and scenarios, not in file copies.
A fiscal year is a plan year: one document with several versions, scenarios on top, and a forecast within the same year. Exactly one released version flows into the analysis.
Plan year 2026
Version 2 · released
6020 Salaries
from the personnel planning driver
- Jan
- 80,000
- Feb
- 80,000
- Mar
- 80,000
- Apr
- 80,000
- May
- 80,000
- Jun
- 80,000
- Jul
- 84,000
- Aug
- 84,000
- Sep
- 84,000
- Oct
- 84,000
- Nov
- 84,000
- Dec
- 84,000
Year984,000
Guided entry
On the left the accounts by dimension with progress, on the right one account with twelve monthly fields. Fully keyboard-driven, with undo and an Excel template.
Distribute, do not type
Spread an annual value across the months linearly, seasonally or by prior year, also for a whole dimension with a preview per account.
Scenarios
Cautious, expected and good on one version, comparable side by side. The primary scenario decides what analysis and dashboard show.
Planning drivers
Personnel with FTE, salary and employer share, investments with straight-line depreciation, financing with loans and repayments. They write traceably into the budget and into liquidity.
Rolling forecast
Actuals replace the budget up to the cut-off month, after that the base scenario carries forward. Single future values can be overridden. It extrapolates, it does not guess.
Analysis
Budget vs. actuals, and every row leads to the source document.
The variance analysis, account by account. One click on a row opens the account sheet: which bookings stand behind it, which import they came from and what your team has noted about them. No rebuilding it in Excel, no question to the bookkeeper.
Account sheet 6825
Legal and advisory fees
- Budget
- 90,000
- Actual
- 118,000
| Date | Document | Booking text | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb | Audit of annual accountsRE-1042 | 40,000 | |
| 03 Apr | Tax advice, first quarterRE-1107 | 18,000 | |
| 21 May | Legal advice, contract frameworkRE-1188 | 60,000 | |
| Total January to June | 118,000 | ||
Comment on May 2026
One-off for the new contract framework. Not carried over as recurring in the 2027 budget.
Time series · Advisory fees
| Actual 2024 | Actual 2025 | Budget 2026 | Δ % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal advicefrom 6825 | 72,000 | 81,000 | 90,000 | +11.1 |
| Tax advicefrom 6825 | 30,000 | 34,000 | 36,000 | +5.9 |
List
Month, quarter or year to date, cumulative or not, by dimension, cost centre or account. With subtotals, result rows and cross-checks.
Direction-aware traffic light
For costs, overspending is critical, for revenue the shortfall is, and a favourable variance never turns red. You set the warning threshold, critical threshold and minimum amount yourself.
Time series
Up to 24 columns from budget, actuals and forecast across several years, with variance in absolute terms and per cent, across chart-of-accounts changes with the origin per cell.
Pivot table
Freely rotatable across accounts, dimensions and periods, over several years, with a tree view and calculated rows in the table.
Account sheet and single bookings
Every booking behind a variance, searchable, filterable and with a monthly trend.
Saved views
Name filters, columns, grouping and granularity and use them again.
Reports
The result is a document, not a screen.
The target output is the PDF that lies on the table in the board meeting: on your letterhead, with the comments on the variances. Next to it: balance sheet, liquidity, cash flow and your dashboards.
Monthly report June 2026
Budget vs. actuals · Expenses · Board
| Salaries | −8,000 | on plan |
|---|---|---|
| Legal and advisory fees | +28,000 | over plan |
| Office supplies | +1,000 | watch |
Comment: one-off for the new contract framework.
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Dashboard
- Budget to date
- 648,000
- Actual to date
- 668,000
- Variance
- +20,000
Traffic light across all accounts
- on plan281
- watch24
- over plan7
Largest variances
- Legal and advisory fees+28,000over plan
- Office supplies+1,000watch
PDF report
Standard or board version, with attached comments. Your own templates for header, footer, letterhead and sections, with a preview.
Excel
The current view with real number formats and traffic-light colours, protected against formula injection.
Balance sheet
Any reporting date, with prior-year comparison. If it does not balance, the page says so and shows where.
Liquidity and cash flow
Liquidity monitor with a warning buffer and planned payments per version and scenario, plus a cash flow statement using the indirect method.
Dashboards and key figures
Your own dashboards on a grid from nine tile types, your own key figures as formulas with a target and their own traffic light.
Several companies
P&L and balance sheet added up across a group, with a way back into the single company where you have access.
planist assist
Ask your figures.
planist assist answers questions about budget and actuals, suggests budget values and explains anomalies. The figures come from queries against your data, the model does not calculate on its own. Every figure from the model is marked with a dashed line until a person accepts it.
From the Plus package up. AI answers can be wrong. Always check.
Chat
Questions about budget, actuals and variance in plain language.
Explain findings
“What does this mean?” on every data quality finding, in plain words.
Suggest account types
For unknown charts of accounts, accepted as a step of its own.
Suggest budget values
Remaining months and scenarios as a draft, never written directly.
Collaboration
Explanations sit on the figure, not in an email.
Whoever explains a variance writes it where the variance is. Whoever wants to change a structure requests it where it is maintained. And whoever looks for something finds it with a keyboard shortcut.
Roles, access and hostingComments
On every variance, at account, cost-centre or dimension level, tied to a period and collected on one page. They go into the PDF.
Change requests
Editors request changes to account properties, admins decide. A bell reports new and decided requests.
Three roles
Viewers read, editors import and plan, admins manage structure and access.
Command palette
Ctrl or Cmd and K searches accounts, pages and bookings, typos included.
In-app manual
Eleven sections, 89 chapters, filtered by role and searchable. A new tenant starts with a checklist instead of an empty screen.
See your own figures in planist.
25 minutes on video. We show the reconciliation on sample data or on an export from your bookkeeping.