Our research and development work keeps producing the same observation: organisations have spent fifteen years moving their documents into Microsoft 365, and almost none of that effort went into planning the work those documents describe. Teams store beautifully and plan in spreadsheets, whiteboards and inboxes.
The Planner Suite is our answer. Six SharePoint apps, each aimed at one kind of planning, each running inside the tenant you already govern.
The six Planners
Five are on the Microsoft Marketplace today and can be installed against your own tenant in minutes. Each one has its own site carrying the full feature detail, documentation and support.
Calendar Planner
The calendar SharePoint should have shipped with. Year, month, week, grid, timeline and Gantt views, all rendered live from SharePoint lists you already maintain. No shadow database, no migration.
Process Planner
An interactive kanban for any multi-stage process. Drag-and-drop across lanes, 30+ business templates out of the box, and a single board that aggregates items from multiple SharePoint sites at once.
Decision Planner
A clear record of the decisions your organisation makes. Captures the options considered, the owner, the sign-off and the outcome, against the work each decision affects.
Resources Planner
Forward demand and capacity planning on a board by month or quarter. Traffic-light cells you can drill into, an audit timeline on every record, reports and forecasts, and links to the Decision Planner entries that shaped the plan.
Booking Planner
Floor-plan-first desk and meeting room booking, inside SharePoint, Teams and Outlook. Book from an interactive plan, check in by QR code.
Content Planner
Coming soonEditorial calendars and content workflows for marketing, comms and internal communications teams. In design.
Six apps, one foundation
The suite shares considerably more than a naming convention, and that is the part that matters to whoever has to approve it.
Every Planner is an SPFx web part deployed to your own tenant App Catalog. Your data sits in ordinary SharePoint lists, which means the retention policies, sensitivity labels, permission model and eDiscovery rules you already enforce apply to it without anyone configuring anything twice. Entra carries authentication, so there is no second set of credentials to manage and no separate user directory to keep in step.
The design system is deliberately consistent, so a team you have onboarded onto one Planner recognises the next one. Releases follow a common rhythm. The licensing model is identical across the suite: per user, per month, through the Microsoft commercial marketplace.
Try before you buy
None of the released Planners needs a procurement conversation to evaluate.
Calendar, Process, Decision, Resources and Booking Planner each have a free tier that is genuinely free and needs no licence assignment at all — install one from the Marketplace, put it on a page, use it. Every fresh install then adds a 30-day Enterprise trial, starting once an administrator approves the JFDI Licensing permission in the SharePoint admin centre, so the paid features are open to you while you decide whether they earn their keep. Content Planner will follow the same model when it reaches the Marketplace.
Paid tiers are per user, per month, through the Microsoft commercial marketplace, which means the spend lands alongside the rest of your Microsoft billing and draws down any Azure commitment you already hold. For Decision, Process and Resources Planner, we can also set up a Marketplace private offer, which puts a negotiated price on your Microsoft invoice.
Documentation and support
Calendar, Process, Decision, Resources and Booking Planner each have their own site, and that site is the authoritative source for that product: feature detail, setup guides, release notes, use cases and support routes. The cards above link straight to them. Content Planner gets its own site when it launches.
For licensing questions, private offers, or anything spanning more than one product, our product support desk covers the whole portfolio.
Frequently Asked Questions
Want to know when the next Planner ships?
Tell us which of the six matter most to your organisation and we’ll let you know as they go live.