Overview
What is BlackLine?
BlackLine automates the the processes required to finalize periodic closing of the books. Beyond close/reconciliation management the product includes capabilities to enhance the management and control of financial processes throughout the accounting cycle.In October 2020, BlackLine acquired Rimilia, an AR…
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BlackLine is a great product and highly recommend
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BlackLine Goes Above and Beyond
BlackLine helps us streamline processes
BlackLine is the best!
Reporting and Insights!
Excellent Product!
Your Intercompany Partner
BlackLine - Reducing Manual Effort
Closing the Gap Between F&A and Technology
BlackLine is the Future!!!
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Popular Features
- Multi-currency management (28)8.989%
- Customizable Workflows (35)8.989%
- Detailed Audit Trails (51)8.686%
- Journal entries and reports (41)8.484%
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What is BlackLine?
BlackLine automates the the processes required to finalize periodic closing of the books. Beyond close/reconciliation management the product includes capabilities to enhance the management and control of financial processes throughout the accounting cycle. In October 2020, BlackLine acquired…
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Features
Consolidation and Close
Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.
- 7.6Financial data consolidation(25) Ratings
Consolidating data from several entities into a single statement using US GAAP, IFRS or other standards.
- 8.4Journal entries and reports(41) Ratings
Ability to enter journal entry adjustments and produce reports showing all journal entries for a specific period.
- 8.9Multi-currency management(28) Ratings
Ability to handle foreign currency conversions during consolidation.
- 8.6Detailed Audit Trails(51) Ratings
Tracing changes to data and processes that were run.
- 8.9Customizable Workflows(35) Ratings
The ability to adapt the software to complete tasks in a particular order according to business needs.
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What is BlackLine?
In October 2020, BlackLine acquired Rimilia, an AR automation solution. Rimilia's capabilities are now part of the BlackLine platform.
BlackLine Features
Consolidation and Close Features
- Supported: Financial data consolidation
- Supported: Journal entries and reports
- Supported: Multi-currency management
- Supported: Detailed Audit Trails
- Supported: Reconciliation Automation
- Supported: Close Checklist
- Supported: Customizable Workflows
Additional Features
- Supported: Intercompany Non-Trade
- Supported: Intercompany Balance & Resolve
- Supported: Intercompany Net & Settle
- Supported: Compliance
- Supported: Financial Reporting Analytics
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BlackLine Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
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(1-25 of 98)BlackLine is a trusted partner
- excellent support from our partners
- very knowledgeable Project Manager for project implementation
- Excellent professionals participated during we run the RFP
- Their prices are pretty high
BlackLine is a great product and highly recommend
- Account Reconciliations
- Journal Entries
- Tasks
- Would like to have some out of the box examples on how to automate journals
- Need to have a easier way to put custom screens/data on the home screen
- Would like to have the ability do more on the mobile app
Reporting and Insights!
- Reporting
- User access provisioning
- Connects to Tableau
- Connects to multiple ERP systems
- Dashboards
- App bugs
Your Intercompany Partner
- Connecting to SAP
- Automating recurring manual steps
- Visibility to leadership
- Less time spent initially acting upon tickets
- Better connectivity with ERPs other than SAP
- Provide a list of choices for generally requested customizations
Closing the Gap Between F&A and Technology
- Transaction Matching
- Automation
- Reporting
- Education Documentation
- Commenting on transactions
- Easier ways to rebuild match sets and data sources
BlackLine is the Future!!!
- Automation
- Tasks
- Data Storage
- We need more flexibility with usage on portable devices
- Better responses to our BL Support Cases
- Less System Issues
BlackLine technology is where it's at!
- Customer Support is AMAZING
- Everything is user friendly
- BlackLine cares about listening to customer's needs.
- Daily certification!
- Being able to maintain seeing the reconciliation while entering a comment.
- User groups for industries (financial institutions)
BlackLine Financial Close Management
- Great customer service
- Application always works
- Many product offerings
- Getting data from ERP can be challenging
User Friendly
- system prompt details error message when something not right
- time saving and less hassle when using batch upload function
- produce accurate result
- system respond speed is slow when perform financial adjustment
- it take time to run when switching from individual task to team task
- searching tool is slow to respond
The fallback will be the slow response from the system when searching the journal entries under department.
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- Automated Journal Entries
- Auto-Certification of documents
- Account Reconciliation Approval Workflow
- Transaction Matching
- Training
- Use Case Examples
- More granular recorded videos
- Telephone Support
Great Solution
- Reconciliations
- Customer Service
- Listen to clients
- Access customer instances to analyze data and suggest improvements more often
- Reach out to customers on a regular basis to check on their pain points using BlackLine.
Blackline
- Transform and enhance data
- Simplify processes
- Provide time savings
- More updates from the accounts grid view
- Ability to restrict sub roles by entity
- ability for users to use if then logic on import definitions
Excited to keep on the automation journey with Blackline!
- Blackline has great customer service and support.
- Blackline provides great visibility of key accounting functions
- Blackline allows standardization and visibility of finance and accounting tasks and processes.
- I’d like to see the learning paths in Blackline U be more intuitive.
- I’d like to see further Essen of use in Blackline in designing reconciliation templates
Great product with capability to transform
- Transaction matching
- Journal Entries
- Account reconciliations
- It would be nice if it was easier to modify/ customize the fields shown when you select an item on your dashboard.
- I wish the dashboard refreshed automatically once an item was marked completed
- Greater visibility over different time periods
Great Cash App!
- Cash Application
- Quick Processing in the website
- Central hub for check images and remittance advice
- User Interface
- Integration with non popular ERPs
- Less window jumping within the application
BlackLine's automation capabilities are a great value-add
- Cash matching automation
- standard format and control for account reconciliations
- Fixed Asset and Depreciation account reconciliation template
- More user friendly administrative functions
Finance from heart
- Reconciliation
- List detail of transaction
- User friendly
- It has streamlined various financial operation
- Training
- sending notification
- two user access for same account
Make Your Deadlines Less Dreadful
- Bank reconciliation
- Audit and attestation
- Month-end close
- Module-based pricing
- Unintuitive reporting
- No dark mode
#BlackLineforlife!
- All reconciliations are in one spot - don't have to access from multiple drives/folders
- Matching pulls in transactional data which allows more automation through In Transit and auto-certifications
- Everything is easily accessed from the side bar of the main page - the search is even more helpful if you're not sure of the category you're looking for
- I'd love to have the option to dynamically group in Matching on both Data Sources instead of just the first one
- I wish there was a report option for UnMatched Transactions that I could schedule to send - specifically it pulls the transactional detail for unmatched transactions for specific Match Set
One other thing we found is that Matching is a much quicker implementation if you already have the account you're wanting to create a Match Set on completely reconciled. This will not help you reconcile an account that is really large without drawing a line in the sand for a write off threshold.
Blackline success story
- Transaction matching eliminates the need for "rainbow" spreadsheets (manual excel matching). It increases the visibility and control of items. It can be a huge time saver.
- The task module is a great way to manage items or responsibilities. Inclusion of up to date and accurate purpose and procedures helps when tasks transition between team members.
- Consolidation Integrity Module has simplified the reconciliation between the consolidation software and our general ledger system. It was a great improvement to our processes.
- The journal entry module does not allow users to tab between fields in the templates and online forms.
- In transaction matching, I would like to see the ability to match two transactions that net to zero within the same data source.
- In static transaction matching, I would like to see the option to allow the preparer to approve suggested matches.
I recommend BlackLine
- Easy to use UI.
- BlackLine system training.
- Automation.
- Not all fields have an audit trail.
- They didn't have an API that worked with Intacct when we initially onboarded them.
BlackLine is Great!
- Standardization.
- Visibility.
- Controls.
- Connectivity of modules.
- System administration.
- Size of data.
Time saving and Standardization
- Standardization of our closing process
- Helps in audit compliance and audit reviews
- Shortens closing for journal posting
- Automation on both system admin and user side is efficient
- Our success manager makes sure we are informed in any possible improvement and/or topic we are interested in
- They could improve on the reporting side. Although it is a good reporting tool, not every report has all the information, field that we would like to use
- The system can slow down significantly during screen share
The community, trainings and Blackline University is a great support system provided by Blackline to help us decide on improvements, fill in user knowledge gap etc.
When audited, Blackline is one of the easiest process to go through as the auditors can have view access to some aspect of our system. This saves time to our users, as they won't have to provide supporting documents separately.
Great Tool for Accounting/Finance
- Keeps the month end Reconciliations organized and auditable.
- Simple to understand and easy to use.
- GL data is readily available for quick downloads and analysis.
- Sometimes data download is delayed/problematic.
- Sometimes BlackLine auto refreshes and kicks out while working and so we lose the work in progress.
- I wish I could work with multiple accounting periods at the same time.
Keeps the Reconciliations organized and auditable.
Great in keeping the supporting documents for any accounting record.
Has very useful built in reports.
GL data is readily available for quick download and data analysis.
Great in tagging team members to get quick responses to be able to resolve the issues, if any.
BlackLine- Saving time
- Transaction Matching
- Automated Journal Definitions
- Constant product improvement
- Reporting functionality is hard to use within BlackLine
- Email alerts are not detailed enough so they are not very helpful.