Quick Create Tutorial

Discover how to efficiently create a plan in a matter of minutes using the Quick Create feature.

Last published on: December 11, 2025

 

Video: Quick Create | Income Lab Tutorial

Video Transcript

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Welcome. This video will walk you
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through how to use Income Lab's quickre
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feature to build a plan in a matter of
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minutes. From your main households page,
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find the blue add a household button,
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then click quickre. First, you'll want
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to enter your client information by
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filling out their full name,
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their birthday. You can use the calendar
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icon to select the year and the month,
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and then use the toggle to select the
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gender. If you have a second person in
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the household that you'd like to add,
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you can follow the same steps to fill
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out their information as well.
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Then select the state of residence.
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If your client is currently retired,
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keep the check box on. If your client
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hasn't retired yet, uncheck the check
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box and select the month
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and year of their retirement.
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If you have a situation where the
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clients have two different retirement
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start dates, you'll also see the toggle
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below to select which retirement date
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you want to use for the start of the
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income plan. Next, you can enter the
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portfolio information. You only need one
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portfolio account in order to get to a
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plan. But here I'll build a few
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different accounts just so you can see
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the options available. So first let's
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say we have Bill's 401k.
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We could put the name, the account type,
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the owner. So here we'll put Bill and
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then the amount.
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And then to add another account, you can
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simply click add new right below. So
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here we can add Mary's IRA.
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Select the account type, the owner, and
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then the balance.
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Just for example, here we'll add one
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more and just open the account types. So
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you can see the different account types
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available, whether you're adding
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qualified accounts, Roth accounts, or
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inherit accounts, or other types of
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unique accounts like 529s or HSAs. Since
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we have at least one account in here, we
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can then click let's go to get right to
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the plan. But for the sake of this
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tutorial, if you want to add more
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inputs, you can click add more to your
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plan. And then you'll see the option to
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add things like other assets. This could
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be things like real estate, for example,
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businesses, vehicles, or other things
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like that. You can add in social
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security. And here, for example, with
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social security, the easiest option is
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to just enter the primary insurance
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amount. So here, if I know how much Bill
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will get at his full retirement age,
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let's say that's 1,600, I could enter
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that for him. And then same thing for
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Mary.
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You can also add in other income. This
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can be pensions, rental property, any
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types of other income. Let's say here if
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we're adding in a pension, we can again
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give it a name, an amount,
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who it's earned by, and then select the
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tax treatment. You'll see again here we
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give you several different options for
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the tax treatment. So since it's a
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pension here, we can just call it
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ordinary income. But if we are adding
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current income like their salaries, we
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can call that for example a wage. Or if
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we're adding in more complicated income
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like let's say dividend income, we can
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call that investment income. But for
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here, since I'm adding the pension, I
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will keep it as ordinary income.
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You can also add liabilities. Let's say
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if we had that mortgage, we could put
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that in here. Savings, we'll go ahead
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and just do one example here. Since we
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have their accounts above, we can maybe
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call it Mary's contributions.
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Select the target account it's going
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into. So, telling the software which
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account these contributions are going
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into, and then we can select an amount.
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It's important here to always put the
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amounts in monthly figures as this is a
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best practice whenever you're entering
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inputs into income lab.
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You'll see that you can also enter
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expenses if you'd like as well as
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insurance.
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You can follow the same process here for
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any of these inputs, but if you are
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leaving anything blank, you can click
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the X at the top of that section to
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remove it from your inputs.
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Once you're done to get right to the
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plan, you can then click let's go to
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finish your inputs and jump right into
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your plan. And there you have it. That's
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how you use the quick create feature to
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create a plan in a matter of minutes.
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From here, you can analyze the income
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plan right from the dashboard. You can
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review the cash flows by clicking the
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cash flow section. Or if you scroll to
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the left here, we can go to the lifehub
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and see the full plan laid out. We can
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click the boxes at the top here to
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expand the inputs. And then we can use
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the timeline here to go year by year and
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look through every single year of this
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plan. You'll also notice you can get to
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the retirement stress test or your tax
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lab from the left side panel as well.
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Thank you for watching this video. We
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hope this helps and please reach out to
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our team if you have any questions.