Financial Planner
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Retirement planning

Run retirement planning conversations inside Salesforce

Model income, withdrawals, taxes, projected net worth, first deficit year, and funding gaps on the household Financial Plan record. Advisors can review retirement readiness where client data, tasks, meetings, and service workflows already live.

Lifetime cash flow, plan health, and funding gaps on the Financial Plan record — ready for a review meeting.

Lifetime cash flow chart comparing projected income and expenses in Financial Planner
See when income covers spending — and when a funding gap may require drawing from savings.

Sample household data for illustration only — not a client record.

The challenge

Why retirement plans go stale

Assumptions live outside CRM

Retirement age, withdrawal order, and spending rules get updated in an external planning portal or a spreadsheet — then sit stale in Salesforce while account values and tasks keep moving.

Cash flow gets reduced to a stale PDF

Clients review last quarter's illustration while Salesforce already holds new balances, income changes, and the meeting notes your team logged yesterday.

Funding gaps surface too late

First deficit year and total funding gap stay hidden until someone re-runs the external planner — often days after the review conversation.

In a client conversation

What advisors can answer in a client meeting

Each question maps to a projection-backed view on the Financial Plan record — not a one-off spreadsheet.

Can this household retire earlier?

In Salesforce What-If Simulator and plan health show whether an earlier retirement age still funds spending goals.

What is the first deficit year?

In Salesforce Plan health surfaces the first year expenses exceed income — before the client hears it from a stale PDF.

How large is the projected funding gap?

In Salesforce Total funding gap and surplus-gap charts quantify shortfalls across the plan horizon.

Will income cover planned retirement spending?

In Salesforce Lifetime cash flow and retirement insight cards compare average income and expenses after retirement.

Should we adjust savings, withdrawals, or spending?

In Salesforce What-If controls model trade-offs in session — results stay on the plan record.

Should we review Social Security, CPP/OAS, Roth conversion, or tax exposure?

In Salesforce Dedicated explorers plus tax rate and IRMAA on the metric watchlist connect strategy to projected balances.

Worked example

Retire at 65 vs 63 on a sample household

Sample household data for illustration only — not a client record.

After a baseline Run Calculation on the sample Chen household, the advisor opens What-If to test retiring two years earlier. All values below are illustrative — not a client record.

Retire at 65

Retirement age
65
First deficit year
2044
Funding gap
$418,000
Income coverage
Income covers spending through 2043

Baseline plan funds retirement spending with a modest gap late in the horizon.

Retire at 63

Retirement age
63
First deficit year
2041
Funding gap
$612,000
Income coverage
Income falls below spending three years earlier

Sample result: retiring at 63 moves the first deficit year earlier and increases the projected funding gap.

Sample result: Retiring at 63 moves the first deficit year from 2044 to 2041 and increases the projected funding gap from $418,000 to $612,000 on the illustrative Chen household.

Note: What-if overlays are analytical until applied to baseline inputs and confirmed with Run Calculation.

The Salesforce advantage

Why retirement planning data belongs in Salesforce

Retirement readiness becomes governed Salesforce data — so advisors plan, review, and act without a second system.

Retirement inputs become Salesforce records

Readiness metrics, first deficit year, funding gaps, income, expenses, assets, debt, tax context, and withdrawal assumptions stay on Financial Planner objects — not a vendor planning database.

Act where advisors already work

Open plans from the same system where relationships, tasks, meetings, reviews, and service workflows already live.

Segment by planning need

Leadership can filter households by funding gaps, retirement risk, rollover opportunities, Roth opportunities, education funding needs, debt pressure, or review urgency.

Admin and compliance controls

Salesforce admins and compliance teams retain permissions, sharing, auditability, and data residency controls you already operate.

No duplicate entry or sync

No external planning database, duplicate entry, middleware sync, or copied sensitive client data.

Wellness Scorecard with retirement planning metrics on the Financial Plan record
Debt freedom, savings rate, tax rate, and legacy goals stay on governed Salesforce records.

Sample household data for illustration only — not a client record.

Product walkthrough

How retirement planning runs in the Financial Plan workspace

Advisors build the household plan once, run projections, and review retirement outcomes without exporting data to another vendor database.

Guided plan setup

Create New Financial Plan walks through basics, owners and ages, withdrawal rules, and tax context before you trust retirement projections.

Run Calculation on the plan record

Projection runs refresh retirement insights, cash flow charts, and plan health — results are saved to the Financial Plan record with run history attached.

Retirement insights and explorers

Projected net worth, average income and expenses, surplus-gap analysis, tax and IRMAA watchlist metrics, Monte Carlo, and what-if explorers sit in the same plan navigation.

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Household records

Ages, accounts, income, and expenses on the Financial Plan

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Projection run

Run Calculation refreshes plan health and cash flow

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Retirement insights

Income, expenses, funding gap, and net worth charts

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Advisor next action

What-if, Monte Carlo, or plan updates in Salesforce

Retirement Insights with income, expense, and estate summary cards in Financial Planner
Retirement insight cards and projected expenses from the last successful calculation on the Salesforce plan record.

Sample household data for illustration only — not a client record.

How it works

How the retirement workflow runs in Salesforce

From household records to advisor next steps — without a copied spreadsheet or external planning database.

Capture household records

Link Contacts as owners, then enter ages, accounts, income, expenses, and money flows on Financial Planner records — or import from a plan CSV.

Set planning assumptions

Configure return, inflation, tax, and withdrawal assumptions during plan setup and Plan Preferences.

Run Calculation

Projection runs refresh retirement insights, cash flow, net worth, and plan health. Results are saved to the Financial Plan record with run history attached.

Review and explore

Advisors walk through insight cards, lifetime cash flow, and plan health — then open Monte Carlo or What-If for follow-up questions in the same meeting.

Limitations

Planning-oriented analysis — not tax filing, trade execution, or custodian instructions. Complex cross-border situations need qualified advice.

Security and trust

Planning data protected by Salesforce Trust

Financial Planner is a managed Salesforce package. Sensitive household data inherits the platform controls your IT and compliance teams already govern.

Data stays in your org

Household records, projections, and explorer results never leave Salesforce.

Your permissions model

Packaged FinPlan permission sets sit on profiles, sharing, and field-level security you already run.

Salesforce identity

Advisors sign in with the SSO and MFA your org requires — no separate planning login.

AppExchange security review

Financial Planner has passed Salesforce's required AppExchange security review.

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FAQ

Common questions

Does client planning data leave Salesforce?

No. Household records, projection results, and explorer outputs stay in your Salesforce org. Financial Planner is a managed package — not an external planning portal and not a copy of client data in another cloud.

Can advisors compare retirement scenarios during a meeting?

Yes. What-If Simulator, Monte Carlo, and related explorers run on the same Financial Plan record so advisors can test retirement age, spending, and savings without rebuilding the household elsewhere.

Does it support household plans with spouses or partners?

Yes. Joint plans link primary and spouse Contacts as owners. Ages, accounts, income, and retirement assumptions stay on one Financial Plan record.

Can admins control access with Salesforce permissions?

Yes. Packaged FinPlan Admin and FinPlan User permission sets sit on profiles, sharing, and field-level security you already run — no separate planning login.

Can leadership report on households with funding gaps?

Plan health, first deficit year, and funding gap fields live on Salesforce records — so teams can filter, report, and prioritize reviews from the same platform they use for pipeline and service.

How is this different from an external planning portal?

External portals store household data in a vendor database and sync (or rekey) back to CRM. Financial Planner keeps planning inputs and results on governed Salesforce records — no duplicate entry, middleware sync, or copied sensitive client data.

Does it support Social Security, CPP/OAS, Roth, and tax-aware planning?

Yes. Tax context is captured during plan setup, insights include tax rate and IRMAA, and dedicated Social Security, Roth, and CPP/OAS explorers sit in the plan navigation alongside retirement cash flow.

Does it model taxes in retirement?

Yes. Tax context is part of plan setup, and insights include tax and IRMAA views fed by packaged reference data for US and Canada households.

See Financial Planner in your Salesforce workflow

Request early access to evaluate household records, projections, insights, and explorers before the public AppExchange listing goes live.

  • Public AppExchange listing coming soon — request early access to pilot in your org.
  • Passed Salesforce AppExchange security review.
  • Stratus Cloud Solutions has built Salesforce-native apps since 2009.
  • Documentation is available for evaluator walkthroughs. Open docs
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