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Rating: 8.8 out of 10
Score
8.8 out of 10

Reviews

48 Reviews

Something better than Excel

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Budgyt for budgeting and forecasting in our nonprofit, which previously relied on a cumbersome Excel system. Budgyt is intuitive and easy to use, though improvements in automation would be beneficial. The setup was straightforward and I'm very likely to recommend it, rating it a 10.

Pros

  • expense to budget
  • automation
  • SUPPORT

Cons

  • Would love to see more automation

Likelihood to Recommend

We are a $10million nonprofit and so far, I have not found a scenario that Budgyt is not well suited. I have challenged them on several fronts and in each scenario, they have worked with me to ensure the Budgyt works for me.

Vetted Review
Budgyt
3 years of experience

Easy financial insight

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Budgyt to manage the budget and financial reporting for our non-profit organization. It allows us to easily view actuals and update projections using our cost-centered model. I love the ease of dissecting financial information through multiple dashboard views.

Pros

  • Provides multiple ways to view the data
  • Allows for multiple scenarios
  • Allow easy comparison to prior periods

Cons

  • Data entry screen can be a little cumbersome.

Likelihood to Recommend

This works really well for managing our non-for-profit organization's budget. Providing access to our staff to view and update financial projections.

Budgyt is a great choice for simplifying the budgeting process

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I was building the budget in Excell and I had to fill in each amount in the budget fields, which was very frustrating, time-consuming and with the risk of errors in the budget. In Budgyt, I got rid of this chore because I bring my amounts through imports from all the sources used for collecting information and I can focus more on analysis now.

Pros

  • It has well-developed import functionalities which facilitates importing from external sources, making it easier to complete the budget, regardless of the source of the data.
  • It has very flexible reporting possibilities, which makes it very efficient to analyze and present the budget, once the data has been imported or completed.
  • It has well-developed security and role management specifications for users, including an audit of user operations in the application, which ensures transparency in the way it works and facilitates the correction of any errors by the people who have a verification role in the platform.

Cons

  • My first impression was that there is no room for negotiation on the price that initially seemed a bit high to me, but it is the first budgeting application purchased, probably the advantages of the application will far exceed the initial purchase price.

Likelihood to Recommend

In my case, the problem was that I had a lot of different data sources and I would bring this data into an Excell file and then build all kinds of spreadsheets and other files for various reports. Budgyt allows me to centralize this data in a much more efficient way than I did in excel, and the reports in Budgyt are very good and it saved me from the additional processing I was doing in Excell.

Vetted Review
Budgyt
1 year of experience

Great Product for Mid-Sized Organizations

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Budgyt is our financial planning and analysis software, used primarily for distribution of monthly financials to all department heads and for the annual budget build/approval process

Pros

  • Budgyt has a strong hierarchy structure (i.e. department, program, project) for roll up of various functions into their department
  • Allocation of shared costs, especially salary and benefits across various funding sources
  • Quick and easy switching between views (i.e. actual to budget, 3-year actual trend, 3-year budget trend)

Cons

  • Visualizations integration into core product
  • Balance Sheet functionality in core product

Likelihood to Recommend

Budgyt is great for instant consolidation of a multi-department and multi-entity organization. It has strong hierarchy and roll-ups at various levels. User setup and security is straightforward, with ability to restrict data to only department heads over a project. Excellent capability in salary and benefit calculation, for instance down to each type of state and federal tax, and each type of employee health benefit with individual cost as specific as necessary. Strong export functionality.

Fantastic Product

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use Budgyt to manage expenses and provide consistency in reporting. it is integrated with Business Central, our accounting software.

Budgyt is easy to use both for accounting purposes as well as the departmental staff who are responsible for their budgets.

Most important, Budgyt provides excellent customer support and is very responsive.

Pros

  • easy to use
  • nice consolidating roll up
  • easy to select roll up options

Cons

  • I havent noticed any missing functionality

Likelihood to Recommend

it is very easy to set up multiple scenarios. you don't need to be an accountant to utilize the software and provide input. Import and export Budgyt data and actual data is easy to use. customer support was very helpful in customizing the report format to accommodate our accounting software.

I do not use the balance sheet in Budgyt though it is an available feature. I also do not use much of the formulas in our current environment but did use it at a previous company.

Vetted Review
Budgyt
6 years of experience

Powerful, Flexible, Easy to Use Budget & Planning Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ACSM uses Budgyt to build our annual operating budget, produce and view regular periodic financial reports, and complete ad hoc data analysis. Budgyt is very user-friendly and flexible, and easy to administer, which is great considering that most of our users are non-finance folks. Budgyt is very intuitive and easy to follow, enabling successful navigation and use of financial info for our entire organization.

Pros

  • budgeting: building annual budgets from the ground-up
  • financial reporting: Budgyt includes a number of great options for navigating financial reports
  • analysis (& reporting): the ease and flexibility of configuring and using data tools allow for detailed analysis, and numerous options for accessing data to enable effective analysis and reporting views

Cons

  • minor: a desired quality of life improvement would be to alter the way things are presented/navigated via the sidebar - in some cases, it can mean repeatedly toggling between multiple tabs or going back and forth between different screens when it could be more efficient and less tedious if done differently
  • major: having access to real-time data is a priority, therefore relying on manual import/export of financial data from Sage Intacct is not ideal. Budgyt has promised that live integration with Sage's API is coming, but it has yet to be delivered.

Likelihood to Recommend

Budgyt's value for the money is exceptional. the system is very approachable - implementation, initial setup, training, and getting up to speed with regular use was a breeze. support has been exceptional ever since implementation. the system seems straightforward and can be exceptionally simple if limited in use, or more complex based on utilization of advanced features. execution is great across the board, and the support tools available to navigate any uncertainty about using the product is incomparable.

Budgyt saved us time and money

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We mainly use Budgyt as our budgeting software. Previously we used spreadsheets with links that often broke or were corrupted. We are able to set up different scenarios without overriding the original data.

Pros

  • Tailored to your agency needs
  • User friendly and intuitive
  • You don't have to enter the same information in different sections as they are all connected.

Cons

  • Need interface with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Likelihood to Recommend

The forecasting function helps with completing the budget. The software has many features that allow you to forecast/budget based on a flat % or a certain seasonality. My favorite feature is being able to allocate staff based on the revenue. As you make changes to the budget it recalculates and allocates appropriately.

Vetted Review
Budgyt
3 years of experience

Good Budget for Accoutants

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Budgyt to create our budget for the current year. We use it for Forecasting future years and can even compare the forecasts for multiple scenarios. The reporting feature is used to created detailed reports specific for whichever employee needs it. Our monthly financial data is entered and reviewed on Budgyt as comparisons is much easier.

Pros

  • Forecasting
  • Reports
  • Budget/Data Comparison
  • Formulas and KPIs

Cons

  • Importing could be more user friendly.

Likelihood to Recommend

Monthly reviews are easier since it can create specific reports that are structured by however we want. Forecasting future years is easy. Comparisons between budgets is simple along with previous years with comparing them to your current year.

Great value and easy to use

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Budgyt to forecast and budget for our business and compare to actuals. We also use it for management reporting to department heads because it allows us to restrict what they can and can't see through permissions, rather than having to create multiple spreadsheets.

As more than 95% of our cost is associated with employees and contractors located around the globe using spreadsheets to forecast costs is extremely difficult. Budgyt makes this process easy.

Pros

  • Permission levels, and aggregating sensitive GL categories
  • Payroll and contractor costing and forecasting
  • Multiple currencies

Cons

  • Only thing I would like to see is a report that uses actuals and budget to forecast the whole financial year

Likelihood to Recommend

It's most appropriate for P&L (Income statement) and payroll cost forecasting and budgeting. It's not appropriate for balance sheet forecasting. I would say it's most useful in the small to medium business space, probably not for very large enterprises. However, the solutions that are suitable for large complex enterprises don't really work for smaller businesses anyway.

Budgyt - Stop relying on error-prone Excel budgeting!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Budgyt to create and report against budgets at multiple levels in the organization. We have integrated Budgyt with Quick Books Online to rapidly bring in actual financials to report against the budget. We also use Budgyt workflows to manage out budgeting process.

Pros

  • Quickbooks integration
  • Multiple levels to report against and rollup for consolidation
  • Very strong support during implementation
  • Streamlined user interface comfortable with non-technical user community

Cons

  • Major changes to roll-ups over time may need tech support
  • Some modules of Budgyt will not be needed by many users (ie employee records)
  • Online learning library is comprehensive but could be more polished.

Likelihood to Recommend

Best suited if moving from Excel spreadsheets for budgeting, and if Quickbooks Online is your financial system of record. Less suited for organizations using more sophisticated accounting systems, or with a need to report against multiple sub-ledgers such as grants.

Vetted Review
Budgyt
4 years of experience