Budgyt is a platform made to simplify business budgeting. With built-in functions designed for data integrity, team collaboration, and scenario planning & analysis, Budgyt is presented as an optimized budgeting experience that rids users of complex, error-prone spreadsheets and the time-consuming upkeep they require. It provides users navigable dashboards, drill-downs through data hyperlinking, formulas built away from the user interface, and automatic consolidation. With…
We would not want our 37 users to have access to QuickBooks as that would be costly and the time it would take to create specific access for the majority would be time consuming. Training would also be difficult. Additionally, QuickBooks does not allow you to build a budget …
Verified User
Manager
Chose Budgyt
This is a far easier tool to use and analyze budgets. It's also far easier to drill down into expenses.
Other than Hyperion, which is in a different league and more suitable for much larger organizations, I would say that Budgyt compares very favorably. We moved from Great Plains to Sage Intacct, and evaluated their planning solution at the time of implementation. We were very …
Forecaster was terrible. We switched from that. We looked at multiple products, either too expensive or not user-friendly. We switched 4 years ago. I do not recall the companies we visited back then. There are certainly more on the market now, but I have no interest in …
We work with Budgyt because of the platform's usability and affordability to have more user access. Other platforms were too tricky for the end user to access or had a monthly or annual fee that didn't meet the needs of our non-profit organization. In short, the platform is …
Budgyt
is easy for participants to set up and use; can be integrated with any
accounting software; it is excellent for loading, identifying, and correcting
Budgyt can do almost everything the most expensive CPM software does for a fraction of the cost, with excellent support and easy adoption. I am not sure why anyone pays $100k for what could be a suboptimal product when Budgyt is available.
Verified User
Vice-President
Chose Budgyt
SOMN selected Budgyt due to the ease of integration with our existing financial software (Blackbaud), and being a separate system, not needing internal support staff to manage/update the program.
Planful was another software we looked at that seemed to have a lot more bells and whistles. Integrations into PowerPoint and Excel that were probably too much for what we needed. In the end, Budgyt was very easy to learn and understand. It provided immediate value.
Budyt is simpler, easier to use, simpler to train on, and less expensive than Budget Maestro, which we previously used. That is not meant to impune Budget Maestro. It is tremendously capable, but the version we used (and I know there has been a recent update, so things may …
I'm sure that Budgyt would not be the most appropriate solution for large, complex organizations with numerous entities or overly complicated structures. Those org's likely have solutions within their ERPs or other sophisticated finance systems with budgeting/reporting capabilities that mirror Budgyt, making it redundant. However, for an easy, and relatively cheap solution to meeting those needs, as well as forecasting and analysis, I would recommend Budgyt to anyone with the need.
Combining departments (components of an entity or a component of various entity's income statement) or isolating departments (small slivers) of an entity's income statement. We can look at specific departments of specific entities together, with ease.
Splicing / flipping reports into countless formats. Helpful for users of the financial statements that digest data/numbers differently than the financial accountants who prepare the numbers.
It is relatively easy to import data from our Jonas accounting program into Budgyt.
We've had prompt customer service when we've encountered issues and they were readily available during implementation.
Our organization has increased our level of financial reporting and decreased the time it takes to build a budget with the Budgyt platform. Because our budget managers have access, it allows them a higher level of ownership for their areas.
Has the spreadsheet feel without the clunky formulas. Prior years monthly numbers easily visible on the data sheet to compare with. Easily run various reports on the dashboard. Easy to clone/create new scenarios. Custom template to import GL detail the way want to see it. User friendly for non-finance managers to use. Options to add comments on data sheet. Approval process - easy of viewing what needs to be approved.
During my first year of working within the budget software, I had to go through some training while trying to meet deadlines for meetings. The team at Budgyt was very accommodating and made sure I was equipped with the knowledge that I needed to be successful
Forecaster was terrible. We switched from that. We looked at multiple products, either too expensive or not user-friendly. We switched 4 years ago. I do not recall the companies we visited back then. There are certainly more on the market now, but I have no interest in switching as our entire office loves the product.
Budget scenarios are amazing, when it comes to educational funding, were always having to pivot. Having multiple scenarios for financial planning is key to being economically sustainable. We can quickly add services or staffing based upon funding adjustments/projections and see if they will work in our current climate. This supports leaderships ability to make quicker decisions.