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Plan Inputs Overview

Plan Inputs Overview

Financial Planner separates inputs (what you enter) from outputs (projections the engine calculates). Inputs live on child objects linked to the Financial Plan. Changing inputs after a successful run marks the plan Out of Date until you run Run Calculation again.

Inputs versus outputs

Seven child input objects feed orchestration. Outputs include projection storage chunks, tax bracket payments, and optional run history rows. Insights pages read persisted outputs—they never recalculate on the client.

Expense Amount Mode

Plan-level Expense Amount Mode in Plan Preferences selects whether orchestration uses Must Spend or Like to Spend expense columns. See Modeling Assumptions.

Input categories

My Plan page What you capture
Accounts and Assets Investment, retirement, and bank accounts; non-account assets (vehicles, collectibles)
Home and Real Estate Primary residence, rentals, purchases, sales, relocations
Income Wages, pensions, Social Security, business income, and other sources
Money Flows Contributions, withdrawals, transfers between accounts
Debts Non-mortgage debt (credit cards, student loans, personal loans)
Expenses and Healthcare Living expenses, healthcare costs, and medical inflation assumptions
Plan Preferences Household members, tax jurisdiction, withdrawal strategy, goals—not child rows but plan-level fields

Plan Projections checklist

The Plan Projections page aggregates completeness across categories. Each card maps to a checklist item:

  • Accounts
  • Assets
  • Home & Real Estate
  • Income
  • Money Flows
  • Debts
  • Expenses & Healthcare

Age assumptions—Retirement age and Longevity age—appear in a separate section with edit modals for retirement and longevity timing.

Deep dive: Plan Projections Checklist.

Input change behavior

Auto Update: When enabled in Plan PreferencesSystem Settings, qualifying input changes can automatically enqueue a new orchestration run. When disabled, you control when to recalculate with Run Calculation.

Suggested order for new plans

1

Plan Preferences

Set plan members, retirement and longevity timing, and tax jurisdiction first.

2

Accounts and Assets

Add funded accounts and any personal property that affects net worth.

3

Income and Expenses

Establish cash flow — at least one income source or baseline expense.

4

Real estate and debts

Add properties, mortgages, and non-mortgage debt when relevant to the scenario.

5

Money Flows

Model contributions, transfers, and planned conversions.

6

Plan Projections checklist

Verify readiness cards, then run calculation from Plan Preferences.

Page guides: Accounts and Assets, Income and Expenses, Debts and Money Flows, Home and Real Estate.