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title: "Create a scenario"
slug: "create-a-scenario"
description: "This article provides a comprehensive guide to using Scenario Planner in Fullcast, enabling revenue organizations to model different go-to-market strategies, optimize capacity allocation, and analyze potential outcomes by defining revenue and expense models, setting goals, and creating schedules for effective financial planning."
updated: 2025-02-25T22:03:59Z
published: 2025-02-25T22:03:59Z
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.fullcast.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Create a scenario

Scenario Planner helps revenue organizations design and track different go-to-market (GTM) strategies and capacity models. A key function is modeling how to best use available capacity to maximize returns.

1. Access your Fullcast instance and switch plans if applicable.
2. Click Scenarios in the menu bar.
3. Click New Scenario on the Scenario landing page.
4. Provide a name, folder, and fiscal year for your scenario.
5. Click Start from Scratch to add your information. Alternatively, click Import from Plan to import data from an existing scenario.

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*Figure 1. Scenario Details*

1. Click Create Scenario.
2. Click Add on the Revenue and Expenses page and select the applicable option.

| Category | Sub-Category |
| --- | --- |
| Revenue | - Recurring Revenue - Non-Recurring Revenue |
| Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) | - Headcount - Production Cost |
| Operating Expenses | - Headcount - Marketing Expenses - Sales Expenses - Other Expenses |
| Other | Other |

1. Provide a name and click Continue.
2. Click Edit in the Goals section and configure your Entities, Functions, etc. as appropriate. Alternatively, enter your goal amounts in the space provided.
3. Select a schedule type.

> [!CAUTION]
> Warning:
> 
> A schedule must be provided.
4. Review the schedule and click Confirm.
5. Click Confirm.

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*Figure 2. Reviewing Schedule*

1. Click Next to add additional information based on your selection from step 7.

| Category | Sub-Category |
| --- | --- |
| Recurring Revenue | - Revenue Expansion - Revenue Contraction |
| Non-Recurring Revenue | - Revenue Expansion - Revenue Contraction |
| Headcount | - Additional Hires - Attrition |
| Production Cost | - New Spend - Attrition |
| Headcount (Operating Expenses) | - Additional Hires - Attrition |
| Marketing Expenses | - Additional Hires - Attrition |
| Sales Expenses | - Additional Hires - Attrition |
| Other Expenses | - Additional Hires - Attrition |
| Other | Identify a type and click continue. |

1. Click Save and Exit.
2. Click the Models tab.
3. Click Add Model.
4. Select the applicable model from the dropdown menu.
5. Provide the model with a name and click Confirm.
6. Click Edit to add inputs as applicable, and click Save and Exit.
7. Repeat these steps for additional models as necessary.