Your researchers do the science. Let BeretPlan mind the budget.
Built for research units in France. Consolidate funding from the ANR (France's national research agency), the EU and your region into a single structured budget. No more late nights in Excel working out what's left on each funding line.
Free, no credit card required.
20 to 30%
of researchers' time eaten up by admin work
(Cour des comptes, France's public audit office, 2025)
up to 80%
of lab directors' time swallowed by the same paperwork
(Cour des comptes, France's public audit office, 2025)
Three copies of the same budget, none of them up to date
Sifac or Geslab — the accounting systems of French universities and the CNRS — for your parent institutions, one Excel workbook per administrator, and tables rebuilt the night before the lab council. Managing a research lab's budget deserves better than triple data entry.
The institutional tool doesn't steer
Sifac and Geslab keep the statutory accounts, and they keep them very well. But telling you, in real time, what's left on the ANR grant before the cut-off date? That was never their job.
The shadow spreadsheet wears everyone out
Every funder has its own rules, so every lab administrator re-enters everything in their own workbooks. One overwritten cell, one #REF!, and a whole year of tracking goes off the rails.
Funds lost at year-end
A grant starts and stops on its own dates. Without grant-by-grant visibility, unspent funds quietly expire at year-end because nobody saw them in time — a luxury no research unit can afford anymore.
One structured budget, every funding stream inside
ANR, EU and regional funding tracked in one place, in a living hierarchical budget — as readable for your researchers as it is for the lab administrator.
One line per grant, per funder
Build your budget the way your lab is funded: one branch per funder — ANR, EU, region, own funds — with its expense lines underneath. Totals compute themselves, and nobody can overwrite a formula by accident.
- Activity periods per line: a grant starts and stops on its own dates, no conditional formulas required
- Non-financial lines to track FTEs and PhD students right next to the euros
- Formulas displayed in plain language — a researcher can check them, not just the administrator
Actuals next to budget, grant by grant
Enter your actuals month by month and see at once where each grant stands: what's been spent, what's left, what's drifting. Preparing the lab council means opening a dashboard, not rebuilding a workbook.
- Actuals vs budget, line by line and funder by funder
- A fast entry grid, built for the administrator's monthly ritual
- Dashboards and charts generated from the budget — ready to project at the lab council
“If we win this call, can we fund a post-doc for 18 months?”
That question shouldn't cost anyone a sleepless night. In BeretPlan, the post-doc's cost
is a named variable (e.g. $postdoc.monthly_cost), and so is the amount you're hoping to win. Change the assumption and the whole
budget recalculates — payroll, funding lines, totals. Roll it back just as fast.
And to keep the “with” and “without” versions side by side, the scenario comparison lands by the end of the year. Soon
The questions labs actually ask us
Does BeretPlan replace Sifac or Geslab?
No — it works alongside them. Sifac and Geslab remain your institution's statutory tools: commitments, payment orders, official accounting. BeretPlan is the steering tool: you track every funding line in real time, you know what's left to spend on each grant, and you walk into the lab council without rebuilding an Excel workbook.
Where is the lab's data hosted?
In Europe. BeretPlan is a French solution, built in Toulouse, with strict data isolation per organisation, role-based access control and GDPR compliance. Your budgets serve you, and no one else.
Can the lab administrator and researchers work together?
Yes — that's rather the point, and the roles are designed for it: the administrator structures and manages the budget, write access goes to whoever needs it, and project leads follow their grants read-only. Everyone sees where they stand, nobody breaks the formulas. Let's be straight with you: we're opening with the Free plan, which is single-user; working as a team arrives with the paid plans, coming soon. Build the budget now — your team will plug straight into it.
Take back control of your funding.
Build your lab's budget in one afternoon: one line per funder, actuals right beside it, and a lab council prepared without an all-nighter.
Free, no credit card required