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Gone are the days when people only do laundry at home. Setting up a laundromat business offers convenience for travelers and residents alike who can get their laundry done. When starting such a business, the key question is how profitable such a business idea might be. This financial model template allows you to reduce the guesswork and instead use financial analysis to find out more about how the economics of your next laundromat business might turn out.

Sources of Revenues for a Laundromat

This template is suitable for planning the setup of a new laundromat or dry cleaning business. The Excel financial plan template offers a set of assumptions to plan the expected profits and cash flows over the next 5 years by using a monthly forecast which then is aggregated into a yearly forecast. The template foresees the following sources of revenues:

• Self Service Wash and/or Dry
• Wash & Fold Service
• Dry Cleaning Service
• Home Delivery Service
• Alterations
• Sale from Vending Machines

The template is built bottom-up, starting with the expected number of daily customers, their expected purchases of the services offered, the anticipated consumption of utilities and supplies, and the expected cost items. The template’s assumptions offer deep insights into the financial implications when changing the mix of revenues, prices, customer purchase behavior, costs, required investment, and debt financing assumption.

The template allows Entrepreneurs to assess better the financial viability of their new laundromat project and a better understanding of how the economics of their business might work.

The Content of the Laundromat Business Financial Model

This Excel spreadsheet template clearly lays out the required assumptions for planning a laundromat or dry cleaning business. Follow and update the assumptions marked up in blue and follow the navigation links built inside the spreadsheet template. The contents of this financial model template are the following:

Assumptions include general assumptions such as the currency, first forecast year, and timeline followed by assumptions on how many daily customers will be expected upon starting to stabilize the business. Further assumptions are then used to forecast how many of these visitors will purchase which service, the expected purchased quantities, the pricing of such, costs, required investment, and anticipated debt financing assumptions.

Executive Summary & Detailed Summary include charts and table which summarize the forecasted financial statements – Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement – as well as the expected number of customers, machine capacity utilization, revenue and gross profit per customer, uses and sources of funds, debt schedule, free cash flow forecast and key financial metrics such as IRR, Cash on Cash Yield, Payback Period to assess the financial viability of the envisaged business. The plan also includes a forecast of the anticipated business value.

Monthly and Yearly Worksheets include the calculations of all forecasted figures and their derivation of it. The forecast is calculated on a 5-year monthly forecast period which then is aggregated into a 5-year annual financial plan.

Time to Start your own Laundromat Business now!

This is a great spreadsheet template for anybody looking to enter the laundromat business. Instead of getting your hands dirty with a messy spreadsheet, benefit from a well-laid-out planning framework and a concise financial plan template to understand if a laundromat business in your location might be financially feasible or not. Analyze how much funding will be needed and what are the expected returns in the first few years of the business. This handy spreadsheet tool will guide you in understanding your very own laundromat business from new angles and prepares you for discussions with a bank or other capital providers.

The current model version is 1.1. The model is available as a fully editable Excel template or as a PDF Demo version.

The file type is .xlsx and you will need MS Excel to open and use this file.