AN AWESOME EXCEL MODEL FOR STARTUPS
Forecast an ecommerce company
Ecommerce
For ecommerce startups that sell physical goods such as fashion, food, supplements. Ship from your own warehouse
Large and complete
85,566 formulas across 17 sheets with 95 charts
Heavy lifting done for you
You only need to input your assumptions into the yellow boxes. The model is fully integrated across sheets with smart automations inbuilt to help you to scale up and down
For those that want to impress
Wow your CFO and investors. You will level up your ecommerce KPI knowledge as you learn to get the most out of it
This is NOT for wannabees
This is for grown ups that want to take their business seriously. If you want a model to quickly fill in "because an investor asked for one" don't go here
It is 100% worth every cent
2 reasons: 1/ you couldn't even hire someone to make this, 2/ it's not a model- it's a structured learning process. You need to use it to understand what I'm saying, and it does blow minds!
Excel
Unlocked
Integrated
- Excel financial model
- Built for PC and Mac
- Not for Google Sheets
- Entire model is editable by you
- Nothing is locked or restricted
- Fully integrated model
- Each sheet acts as a module connected to each other which update immediately
Updates
No modeling needed
Easy to maintain
- Model is updated with new features
- I'll email you updates when they're done
- Everything works out of the box
- Just input your assumptions
- Designed to be easy to update monthly
- Just change the forecast month then add in you new month of actuals
Support
Automations
- If you're really stuck, ping me an email or catch me if I'm online and I'll help you figure out what to do for free
- You can hire me per hour if you need a lot of help on whatever it is you need
- Ware house, customer care, and photography staff added as you need them based on your assumptions
- Payments, tech, and other costs scale to your forecasts. Set and forget
FOR ALL TYPES OF ECOMMERCE STARTUPS
Model designed for all ecommerce startups with physical inventory
2 pricing options
Get a filled in model, or the filled in model + a blank version of the file.
Filled in model
Filled in + blank
- The base model has been populated with numbers so you can see how it works
- You can edit it however you want
- This version comes with 2 Excel files
- In addition there is a blank version of the file with no assumptions in it to save you time if you want to start from scratch
Quick walkthrough
Here's me explaining the video fairly briefly and pretending to enjoy it (All videos will be updates)
Who the heck is hawking me a financial model!?
Hey! It's me Alexander Jarvis. I like Excel and I love eCommerce.
- I'm the #1 seller of startup financial models in the world
- Worked in M&A (Lazard financial institutions group)
- I intimately know startup and what VCs care about having done both for over 10 years
- TEDx, Top Quora Writer, accelerator mentor, fund advisor etc
- I don't like bragging, so just read my blog and download free tools to see if I know what I'm talking about
- Inspired by a fashion startup that raised $55m to date
Free training course
I've made an 11 part training course to help you hit the ground running (It's also free)
There are a lot of cool features under the hood
An insightful and useful model needs to work for you, not against you.
My models do require thought on inputs, but there are 17 sheets to support you to derive all the outputs that you need without any coding.
On this page I'm going to very briefly allude to some of the functionality on each sheet so you have an idea what's going down in funky town.
17 sheets
There are lots of sheets in the model. Check out what they are so you can get an idea of what's in there. It's a list from the model with just one brief line per sheet. Writing this stuff is boring and know you don't want to read it either. Just saying.
Want to know more?
Let's run through details and answer your FAQs
Details on the model
FAQ
Want this model in a different currency? Now you can!
Convert all currencies in the model into one of 17 different currencies with a button mash
This model uses formatted currencies in $ (Why I use US Dollars). I often get asked if it is available in other currencies such as €? So I made an Excel PC addin to do that (It was hard!)
At the press of a button you can now convert the model into 17 different currencies. You just need to purchase the productivity addin.
Here are the currencies you can use with the macro:
Currency list | The format you will see |
EUR | € |
USD | $ |
GBP | £ |
YEN | ¥ |
INR | ₹ |
Krone | kr |
BAHT | ฿ |
RUB | ₽ |
Peso | ₱ |
BRL | R$ |
RM | RM |
Rp | Rp |
HKD | HK$ |
ILS | ₪ |
KPW | ₩ |
RMB | ¥ |
CHF | CHF |
Part of the productivity addin
All my favourite hacks and time saving tools in one place
More than likely, you aren't a huge Excel nerd like me, so you probably don't know about macros? These are hacks to make modeling in Excel much more faster and less painful. I love them!
I've been making models for years, so you can be sure I know what is useful and what is not. I decided to not just make the currency conversion macro, but add in all my most used hacks. You just hit a button and it will do handy things.
What can you do?
- Automatically format your cells so they have 'investment banking' standard black, blue and green
- Change the zoom and cell position of every sheet so it looks great when others read it
- Save a backup of your model (v1, v2, v3) at the push of a button so you never get a corrupt model
- Add error checks to your formulas
- And a whole bunch of other nerdy things you'll understand when you are making models yourself!
NOTE:
- This is for PC. Gates hates Mac so.... All the plugins other than 'check sheet sizes' work in Mac, but I don't warrant anything if you are on Mac (Sorry). I'm trying to find a developer to rewrite the code for Mac so the images, tips etc work too
- Currency conversion only works on 50Folds models. It won't on any other model (My code looks for certain cells... There is a hack- ask if you want to know)
2 pricing options
Get a filled in model, or the filled in model + a blank version of the file.
Filled in model
Filled in + blank
- The base model has been populated with numbers so you can see how it works
- You can edit it however you want
- This version comes with 2 Excel files
- In addition there is a blank version of the file with no assumptions in it to save you time if you want to start from scratch
Purchase guide and note
Let's just get clear so you know how it works and what to expect
Buying models
Getting the model
- Payment and delivery of the model is 100% automated!
- There's 3 upsell pages (Don't hate me for trying). At the end you can press download to get the file immediately
- It's hosted on SamCart and payment is via Stripe (Secure)
- There are no refunds. These are digital goods you can't return
- If you have questions ask me first in the chat or via email
- If you aren't sure if this is the right model for you, ask me!
- As soon as you pay there is the end page to press download
- After you buy you get confirmation emails from SamCart
- Delivery of the model is automated
- Note: I don't know why, but some clients get emails slow
- The file comes in a zip file. You need to unzip it (e.g. WinZip)
- If you're really stuck, ping me an email or via chat box!
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Is there a Google Sheet version available? If I upload this to Google Drive and convert it to a Google sheet document, will it break?
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Michael-
I make big models. If you want to do financial things seriously, you just have to use Excel. It’s way too much of a pain in the ass otherwise.
I haven’t tested it in Sheets. The issue with sheets is that it’s not a very advanced programme so there are a lot of formulas that just exist in it.
Alexander
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Hey Mr. Jarvis,
Love all the valuable content you’ve put out and am long time email subscriber. I’m currently bootstrapping for a scalable distribution model on my product idea. Could you swing the model access for 100$?
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Thanks. I sell the best you can get.
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Hi Ali- I’m making smaller versions of models atm. Best, Alexander
Good day! This is kind of off topoic but I need some advice from an established
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Hey Deon –
Thanks for reaching out.
I wrote a long blog to teach you how to do this in 2017, step by step. https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/complete-startup-guide-to-start-a-blog-and-begin-content-marketing/
I do things differently and more advanced now, but this will help you get started (I pay a lot more and do more fancy things now etc).
It’s not hard to start a basic blog at all. If you are shite at tech, go to upwork and hire a dude (like $8-20 an hour- pay more if you can as they are more reliable…) to do it for you. You will save so much time. I taught myself to do everything, but I hire people whenever I can now. I promise you spending a little on hiring a nerd and not learning will save you so much time! If you’re broke, ok, there are guides, but will take time. You can follow my blog and have a site up fast though if you want.
If you want to see if you will actually consistently post content (this is key), I recommend setting up a Medium account and starting there. There’s no tech and cost involved that way. If you want to build a brand I recommend owning your own site on WordPress though on your domain.
Any ‘business’ logic questions, ask me here again and will respond.
Best,
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
Wondering if you have a version of this model for an e-commerce business that does not retain or distribute its own inventory. A good example for this type of business would be Goldbelly. Goldbelly aggregates sellers into a single platform, facilitates orders, processes payments, and tracks shipping. Additionally, they provide marketing services. Their sellers actually handle all inventory and physical shipping.
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Hey Adam – sorry, just saw this as am updating this model and was improving the page here.
That’s a marketplace. Check out my marketplace model: https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/marketplace-financial-fundraising-model-in-excel/
I haven’t built-in marketing services into that model though. I built in ads into the model- don’t know if that is different to “marketing services” which if you are doing it with your own staff isn’t scaleable.
I want to add in FBA like functionality so it’s more like dropshipping. I just need someone to show me the fees so I can model it. It’s easy to do, I just need to know how it works.
Best,
Alexander
Hi Alexander,
Wondering whether your model supports AUD?
Cheers,
Ryan
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Hey Ryan-
Sorry had COVID. I blew a bunch of time to tick off a nerd box to make my own excel addin because why not (to convert currencies- it took ages though!).
It’s a plugin you can buy. It converts to 17 currencies. I would rationally think i don’t have an AUD specific $ because it’s annoying to look at. I trend on ease of read.
I see you have a .com.au. I would just use $ and stick on the cover “this is in AUD”. Or whatever email investors “attached model, this is in AUD”
But I recommend using USD as investors think in $ anyway and having AUD takes up space.
Read: https://www.alexanderjarvis.com/use-dollars-in-your-startup-especially-for-your-financial-model/
Cheers mate
ADJ