Work

Real workbooks. Open one.

Every screen here is a real workbook our engine built, shown with invented names and numbers. Three of them are free to download, so you can click through the tabs, type in the sand cells and try to break them.

Free samples

Each sample was built the way a custom order is built, and only a build with no failures is copied to this page.

Free sample · A made-up pottery studio

Studio bookings and cash

Class bookings with fees and what is still owed, flags for classes coming up, a price list the bookings look up, supplies to reorder, a cash tab with a running balance, and a dashboard worked out from all of it.

Dropdowns that read from the Lists tab, so a new class shows up everywhere
Sand cells for typing, locked cells for the math
A Check line on the Dashboard that says Totals match

Checks passed: 2,164
Failures: 0
Tabs: 8

Tabs: Start Here, Cover, Bookings, Prices, Supplies, Cash, Dashboard, Lists.

Download the workbook (.xlsx, 192 KB)

The Bookings tab of the Studio bookings and cash sample workbook, with made-up data — Bookings tab

The Dashboard tab of the Studio bookings and cash sample workbook, with made-up data — Dashboard tab

Free sample · A made-up soap and candle workshop

Production cost planner

A bill of materials, a production ledger that looks up each item's cost, a control panel with a few typed settings, margin against a target, and a heatmap of cost by category and month.

Settings typed once on the Control Panel and used on every tab
Categories found by formula, with no macros
Colors that change with the numbers

Checks passed: 4,184
Failures: 0
Tabs: 5

Tabs: Control Panel & Dashboard, BOM Database, Production Ledger, Category Heatmap, Start Here.

Download the workbook (.xlsx, 44 KB)

The Control Panel & Dashboard tab of the Production cost planner sample workbook, with made-up data — Control Panel & Dashboard tab, printed from the file

The Category Heatmap tab of the Production cost planner sample workbook, with made-up data — Category Heatmap tab, printed from the file

Free sample · A made-up garden gala

Event budget and guests

A budget with what is spent and left on each line, payments, a guest list with replies, a seating chart that fills itself from the guest list, a find-your-seat lookup and a run of show.

One guest list feeding the seating chart and the counts
Bars that show how much of each line is spent
Tables with a total that says who is still to seat

Checks passed: 814
Failures: 0
Tabs: 8

Tabs: Start Here, Budget, Payments, Guest List, Seating Chart, Find Your Seat, Run of Show, Lists.

Download the workbook (.xlsx, 90 KB)

The Budget tab of the Event budget and guests sample workbook, with made-up data — Budget tab

The Seating Chart tab of the Event budget and guests sample workbook, with made-up data — Seating Chart tab

The samples open in Excel 2016 or later (tested in Microsoft 365) and in Google Sheets. In Google Sheets, upload the file and open it; the cell locks are an Excel feature and Google Sheets does not keep them.

Before and after

The same rows, first as a plain grid and then as the finished tab. These are the pictures from our custom spreadsheet listings, drawn from practice orders with made-up data.

Before and after: a bank export as a plain grid beside the finished Cash tab with money in, money out and a running balance — Bank lines, pasted and balanced

Before and after: a plain list of budget lines beside the finished Budget tab with spent, left and a bar for each line — A budget, spent and left

Before and after: a plain list of debts beside the finished Debts tab with the months to debt-free under two payoff plans — Debts, with a payoff date

Before and after: a plain vendor list beside the finished wedding Budget tab with cost, paid and still owed for each vendor — A wedding budget, kept honest

Before and after: a plain to-do list beside the finished Checklist tab with each task dated back from the wedding day and overdue tasks flagged — A to-do list, dated and ticked

Templates and printables

Our ready-made planners, budget workbooks and printable party games live in our Etsy shop, where each listing shows its own pictures.

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