---
title: Plan fund allocations for investments
description: Plan your fund allocations if you aren't yet ready to finalize the allocation of your funds.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/it-business-management/investment-funding/plan-fund-allocations-for-investments.html
release: australia
product: Investment Funding
classification: investment-funding
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Investment Funding, Strategic Portfolio Management]
---

# Plan fund allocations for investments

Plan your fund allocations if you aren't yet ready to finalize the allocation of your funds.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_invst\_pln\_v2.investment\_user

## About this task

Keep investments in the planning stage if you aren't yet ready to allocate the funds. For example, you might want to wait to determine whether you require additional funds to meet the needs of all your investments.

If you plan to allocate additional funds to an investment beyond the received funds, a warning message is displayed in the **Totals** row indicating that you are overallocating. The additional fund amount is then deducted from the buffer amount set in your funding preferences. For more information on setting up overallocation of funds, see the [Set Investment Funding preferences](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/investment-funding/set-funding-preferences.md) topic. If you plan to allocate beyond the available fund plus the buffer amount, an error message indicates that new funds can't be submitted for allocation.

You can plan fund allocations only according to the funding frequency configured in the [Investment Funding Preferences](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/investment-funding/set-funding-preferences.md).

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Investment Funding** > **My Funds**.

2.  Select an investment card to open an active investment that has funds that you plan to allocate to other investments.

    If you want to open a different investment, access the drop-down menu next to the name of the currently displayed investment. Either search for another investment by entering its name in the **Search My Investments** field or choose it from the five most recently visited investments.

3.  Select the **Allocate Funds** tab.

4.  Select a working period and select **Apply**.

    -   If you have allocated funds earlier or there are incoming fund requests, those investments are listed in the **Allocate Funds** list.
    -   You can filter for pending \(planning and requested\) investments by clicking the filter icon \(\[Omitted image "filter-icon.png"\] Alt text: Icon to filter pending investments\).
5.  In the **Allocate Funds** list, select the incoming requests to which you're planning to allocate funds.

6.  Select **Plan**.


## Result

-   Funds allocations are planned for the selected investments for the specified period.
-   The state of all updated investments changes to Planning, which is indicated by highlighted cells.
-   The amount remaining after planning your allocations is displayed in the **Left after planning** row.

## What to do next

[Allocate funds to planned investments](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/investment-funding/allocate-funds-to-investment.md)

**Parent Topic:**[Investment Funding](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/investment-funding/investment-funding-overview.md)