Vanilla helps in-house wealth and estate planners simplify the estate planning process with guided templates and workflows for abstracting key information from trust and estate documents. 

Estate planning software for estate planners

Simplify the estate planning process

Vanilla helps in-house wealth and estate planners simplify the estate planning process with guided templates and workflows for abstracting key information from trust and estate documents. 

How Vanilla helps wealth and estate planners

Standardize estate reviews

Quickly produce detailed estate plan summaries from client documents with guided templates and workflows.

Eliminate manual workflows

Remove PowerPoint templates and Excel spreadsheets with software that helps model estate taxation, beneficiary distribution totals, and client reports, all in one place.

Visualize estate plans

Create modern and comprehensive diagrams, estate maps, and visualizations from complex estate documents.

Create efficient teams

Standardize your offering and reduce processing time with templates purpose built for estate planning teams.

Key features for estate planners

Enhance productivity

Enhance productivity by quickly abstracting key information

Abstract critical elements from estate documents into Vanilla in a few clicks. Easily create powerful visualizations and calculations for a full picture of your client’s estate.

On-demand PDF reports

Save time creating reports with a detailed PDF

Give your advisors a branded client deliverable that ensures every planner’s work results in a clean, easy-to-consume, modern estate report.

Estate tax calculations

Comprehend estimated federal and state estate tax liability

Leverage our estate planning software to ensure your clients understand the impact of estate taxes on their plans. Get estimates of potential federal and state estate tax liability.

Estate Review Manager

Manage team workload

Easily track the status of the team’s outstanding, in progress, and completed estate reviews  Seamlessly assign reviews to other members of the team for a streamlined estate planning process.

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With Vanilla, advisors can create a new type of deliverable that both clients and prospects have never seen before. Not only does Vanilla help advisors increase the depth of their service offerings, but it also helps an advisor’s client actually understand the full picture of their wealth and legacy. Download a sample report below.

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