A template decides what the business looks like: what it sells, what it spends on, how it gets paid. A scenario decides how big and how healthy it is. Combine any of the 8 templates with any of the 8 scenarios.
Listed straight from the engine's template definitions.
--template professional-services
Consulting and advisory firms billing clients by invoice. The default template.
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--template saas
Software companies with subscription and usage invoices, quick collections and a payroll-heavy cost base.
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--template restaurant
Mostly cash sales receipts, food and beverage bills, and frequent purchase orders.
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--template construction
Estimates on most jobs, purchase orders for materials, slow and often partial customer payments.
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--template retail
Mostly cash sales, cost-of-goods bills and a higher refund rate.
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--template healthcare
Invoiced services with 30 to 90 day collections and frequent partial payments.
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--template nonprofit
Donations and grants, program and fundraising expenses.
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--template real-estate
Rental and management-fee invoices with maintenance, tax and insurance costs.
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Each scenario sets the size and shape of the company and may adjust collection rates, credits and refunds. On the CLI it's the --scenario flag. Without one you get $500K revenue, a $100K target profit and 15 customers.
--scenario healthy-small
Steady margins, customers who pay on time and no single client that dominates.
--scenario cash-crisis
Thin profit, late and partial payments, and a big share of revenue from a few clients.
--scenario rapid-growth
High volume, aggressive hiring and reinvestment, lots of estimates in flight.
--scenario seasonal
Busy and quiet months with larger quarter-end movements.
--scenario mature-stable
Predictable operations, high collection rates and steady expenses.
--scenario audit-nightmare
Many credit memos, refunds and vendor credits, with slow, partial payments.
--scenario new-company
Early-stage company with low volume and only a few vendors.
--scenario quick-demo
A tiny three-month company that loads into a sandbox in about a minute.
Templates are plain JavaScript objects. Add one, validate it, and open a pull request.