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Budget Planner

Fail

Prices span $5.36–$12.11, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Budget Planner is a Fail.

Flapen Score
32
32 / 100
Ranks 736 of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · −15 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£30K/yr184K searches / yr
90-day growth
-18.0%search demand this quarter
Competition
66%top-5 click share · 10 brands · 14 sellers

Flapen Score

Budget Planner against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Budget Planner is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

32Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Budget Planner market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Budget Planner 184K times last year and spent an estimated £30K. The top 5 brands take 85% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Dec. Flapen scores it 32 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

2.1% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 184K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 2.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -18.0% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £30K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
184K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-18.0%
Conversion, latest week
2.1%
Market size, estimated
£30Ka year
Peak month
January3.4× the quietest month
Top search term
budget planner114K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £7.76.

Listings sell for £7.76 on average, from £5.36 to £12.11. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 4K to 5K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £7.76 that is £776 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£7.76under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£5.36–£12.11
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
4K–5K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£776–£2K
Returns
1.0%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

94% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 16.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #353 within Calendars, Planners & Personal Organisers. It carries 4,667 reviews at 4.41 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
94%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
16.4%
Average rank
#353in Calendars, Planners & Personal Organisers
Average rating
4.41 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
4,667per listing
Listings tracked
16

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 26 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
26 months

Products

Top Budget Planner products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 66% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£3K£6K£9K£12K1101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

10 falling

Sellers

14

Top-5 brand share

85%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

66%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

11%

  • KAICN39%
  • Nokingo14%
  • KMQOY14%
  • Clever Fox13%
  • Pukka Pad5%
  • Getvow4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (4 brands, 11%)

Demand

Budget Planner search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

15K10KSpike '24Holiday '24Spike '25Black Friday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.4×

Search terms

Top Budget Planner search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • budget planner114K/yr
  • budget book20K/yr
  • finance planner14K/yr
  • budget6K/yr
  • financial planner7K/yr
  • budget planner book5K/yr
  • budgeting planner4K/yr
  • money planner4K/yr
  • budget planner 202611K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Budget Planner

What buyers praise, what they complain about and why they send it back, from the reviews.

Complain

Size-Overall25%−0.13

Smaller then it looks

Its smaller better ones out there

Ease Of Use13%+0.86

Also as someone with Dylexia writing over the grey words with my own item would just make things way too hard to read

Flexibility13%+0.30

flexible

Document Organizing/Classification8%−0.05

I'd rather have a better laid out planner

Storage Capacity8%−0.07

too much space for the debts/savings

Love

Document Organizing/Classification23%−0.05

Good planner

It helps me to keep everything clear, and organised

Very useful organiser

Ease Of Use19%+0.86

Easy to use

Easy to track budget use

Brilliant, simple

Quality-Overall13%+1.06

Superb bit of kit

Good quality

Good quality and pages also made of slightly thicker pages, that do not bleed when used

Size-Overall11%−0.13

Good size

The size is convenient and the appearance is both pleasing and discreet, with strong, practical binding

Size good for larger handbag use

Advertised Vs Actual Product11%+1.30

As described

Does what it says on the tin

Just as described

Return

1.0% Return rate 32% Fixable by listing

Quality-Overall23%▂█▁▆▅▆
Advertised Vs Actual Product21%▆▁█▁▆█
Assembly/Installation13%▁▁▃█▁▁
Size-Overall11%▆▁█▁▁▁

Smaller then it looks

Its smaller better ones out there

Print Quality7%▂█▁▁▁▁

FAQ

Common Budget Planner questions

Answered from the same tracked data.