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Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT

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What is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

Financial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.

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8 out of 10
November 30, 2023
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What is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

Financial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.

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  • Setup fee required
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Product Details

What is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

Financial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution from Blackbaud that is designed to provide transparency across teams, security, compliance, and reduce the need for manual processes. The system is a fund accounting solution that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, and banking.

This solution includes a personalized dashboard and customizable views. Financial Edge NXT enables users to closely monitor income statements, program-to-expense ratios, cash balances, and other key metrics. Financial Edge NXT offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability, to enable data-driven decisions in real time.

The system allows users access to grant and project accounting that allows for streamlined management of budget, as well as a way to effectively monitor accounts and generate reports. The vendor’s value proposition is that by using Financial Edge NXT, nonprofits can reduce dependency on manual processes, thus improving data entry accuracy.

Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Features

  • Supported: Cloud Based
  • Supported: advanced allocations management
  • Supported: Flexible chart-of-accounts structure
  • Supported: Project, Grant and Endowment reporting

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Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Video

Nonprofit accountants attended bbcon 2016. They describe how Financial Edge NXT helps organizations spend more time focusing on their missions.

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Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, Canada
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Financial Edge NXT is a cloud accounting solution tailored for nonprofits that provides a general ledger, projects, grants, endowments, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, banking, and more. It offers real-time reporting, with one-click drill-down functionality and export capability.

Sage Intacct, MIP Fund Accounting, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 are common alternatives for Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.

The most common users of Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is able to provide amazing reports which are informative and customizable. We also use the projects feature. For us, each project equals one house, so we can easily record the income and expenses for each house. Finally, invoice entry is simple and complete.
Jeanne Welch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as our company's complete accounting solution. We are a non-profit in the higher education space, raising resources for an affiliated community college, so it was of primary importance to have a product that integrated well with our donor database management solution, which is currently Raiser's Edge NXT. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT easily handles the unique demands of nonprofit accounting for tracking net assets in restricted and unrestricted classes, in all ledgers. Because the two products are integrated, gift processing and reconciliation are part of a seamless workflow.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT manages all our grant tracking needs for AR,AP, and Financial Budgets. It tracks expenses for each project so we can compare and report on each grant and category separately. Along with Budget to actual monthly reports. Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is the best tool I have used in the 32 years of my career, most of which has been non-profit accounting. It is very easy to learn and understand in the web view. They are making enhancements to the web view often.
June 07, 2023

My point of view

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT to process all of our daily transactions. I personally use the system on a daily basis to process the accounts payable side of our finance department. NXT allows all users within the finance team to collaborate on the financial status of our company.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I enter new vendors and invoices for payments. I process payments thru Batch Report. I review account balances and invoices. I run Reports and Queries.
I work in all aspects of Accounts Payable.
May 20, 2023

Still Needs Work

Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Staff and I use it mostly for general ledger and project reporting. We prefer to use the Database View (Citrix) because that is what we learned and are experienced with. A big problem for us is that NXT does not support Accounts Receivable which is a very important part of our business. Blackbaud has announced that they will take away our Database View at some time in the future, so I have been trying to use NXT more in order to learn it. In doing this, I've learned that some basic bank account functionality is not available on NXT--things like pre-reconciliation reports. The Database View has to be used for this ability. I prefer the general ledger and project reporting over Database View. It just seems easier to build and process the reports and their outputs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With the cloud-based General Ledger and Accounts Payable modules, I am able to process payments and record journal entries while working remotely. The modules are user-friendly. Also, the Blackbaud support team is pretty responsive.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Financial Edge NXT as our financial software for our not-for-profit Foundation. We primarily use FE-NXT and supplement with Blackbaud database view software where NXT is still lacking. Overall I prefer NXT but some tasks are only possible in the database software. Both versions update the same database. We use Financial Edge for General Ledger, Financial Reporting and Accounts Payable. Our organization has nearly 500 funds, Financial Edge manages fund accounting well.
May 17, 2023

CFO Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use NXT for all accounting functions. This includes budgeting, reconciliations, AP processing, General Ledger, and creating custom reports for auditors, tax professionals and charitable solicitation registrations. We use the product on a daily basis and rarely run into problems. When problems occur, Blackbaud's support team is quick to address the problems and minimize our downtime. We also use the Raiser's Edge product and enjoy how it seamlessly integrates into Financial Edge NXT.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I have been an FE user for 16 years, the last 4 years with FE NXT. FE NXT has facilitated some reports, some screens are more friendly, but curious enough, there are things we have to do in database because they can't be done in NXT, like AP posting periods for example. Half of our users prefer to work in NXT, half prefer database.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT in the daily financial operations of my organization. It's the primary software that our organization uses for expense management, cash management, budgeting, fixed asset management, cost allocations, and electronic record storage. I used Blackbaud's Fundware until that product was no longer supported. Once I made the switch to FE NXT, I realized that I should have switched sooner. The software is very user-friendly and easy to learn. In particular, I love the reporting functionality. I can create and style my own reports to match individualized needs within the organization. Currently, I'm working on launching the Expense Management module, which will allow for the electronic workflow of invoices and expense reimbursements from staff to supervisor to the accounting department. I am also working on linking our company credit cards so that FE NXT will pull in a feed of all transactions. This will eliminate the manual entry of hundreds of transactions annually. Overall, I really love FE NXT!
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Blackbaud FE NXT to track non-profit revenue and expenses, as well as manage some of our clients' monies. The products we purchased help mainly with accounts payable and accounts receivable. We also have recently added fixed asset management, however it can be a very daunting process to get started.
May 17, 2023

My Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Financial users within the Foundation use for AP, and GL. Reporting to them is relatively easy. Struggle with providing standard reporting to non-financial users throughout the school that we support. Also still struggle with a very manual AP process. Do not have an expense management module.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Blackbaud Financial Management NXT for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Fixed Assets, Cash Receipts and General Ledger. We have an integration with Financial Edge and Raisers Edge. With this implementation, the Business Office no longer needs to manually enter gifts/donations/pledges into the General Ledger via journal entries.
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