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Financial Edge (legacy)

Overview

What is Financial Edge (legacy)?

A legacy software offering, Blackbaud now instead offers and supports their cloud-based accounting solution, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as a modern alternative.

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What is Financial Edge (legacy)?

A legacy software offering, Blackbaud now instead offers and supports their cloud-based accounting solution, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as a modern alternative.

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  • No setup fee

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

How to Install The Financial Edge, The Education Edge and Student Information System

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Features

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

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Avg 7.1

Customization

This addresses a company’s ability to configure the software to fit its specific use case and workflow.

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Avg 7.1

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

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Avg 7.8

Reporting & Analytics

Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.

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Avg 7.6

General Ledger and Configurable Accounting

Financial management solution, including capabilities for general ledger and configurable accounting

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Avg 7.3

Inventory Management

The ability to track and manage the flow of goods or materials into and out of an inventory.

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Avg 6.8

Order Management

The ability to process orders, and track them from quote to cash.

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Avg 7.3
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Product Details

What is Financial Edge (legacy)?

A legacy software offering, Blackbaud now instead offers and supports their cloud-based accounting solution, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as a modern alternative.

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Financial Edge (legacy) Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

A legacy software offering, Blackbaud now instead offers and supports their cloud-based accounting solution, Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT as a modern alternative.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Salary revision and increment management and Reimbursement management highest, with a score of 1.

The most common users of Financial Edge (legacy) are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 10)

Do Not Recommend

Rating: 1 out of 10
January 05, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Financial Edge (legacy)
2 years of experience
I use Financial Edge daily. As the Accounts Manager, I create invoices, manage monthly recurring statements, processing reimbursements, you name it. Everything Receivable and Payable is my territory.

I have to say, Financial Edge is a joke. Their website is constantly "under maintenance", and until it's done, the website is frozen.
They have this plug-in, essentially, called the Database View, which is used for reporting and posting things. It looks exactly like Windows 98 did, and I've never seen it in a state that's not buffering.
The most frustrating part is to create monthly recurring statements, we have to use what is called the Crystal Report. This generates all the data we've input for the year, and it puts the data in a template that we can then print and mail out. It was acting crazy one day so I contacted customer support, and they told me that they're not offering support for it anymore. Meaning, they carry and advertise this part of their software, but when it doesn't work properly and you lose data, it's not their fault. Okay bro.
  • Responsive customer service
Cons
  • Customer service blames the customer, and never offers solutions other than "wait it out." I've always been told it's my computer, even though everyone else at my work has the same issues.
  • Website is constantly "under maintenance" and it somehow never gets better.
  • The Database View is outdated and glitchy. Honestly get rid of it.
  • The Crystal Report is the only way to handle monthly recurring statements, and Financial Edge does not offer support for it anymore. Good luck figuring that out on your own.
I honestly have nothing nice to say about Financial Edge.

Financial Edge Spoiled Me

Rating: 6 out of 10
April 30, 2021
WJ
Vetted Review
Verified User
Financial Edge (legacy)
20 years of experience
Financial Edge is the premier nonprofit software I have worked with. It allows for deep segmenting and analysis of expenses as well as grant management. If an organization has two or more grants, I highly recommend Financial Edge to them. One of the better features is dashboards that allow department or team managers to quickly review their budgets and expenses at a glance without burdening the accounting team.
  • Grant Management - nothing is more harrowing than grant reporting, and FE does it best. It allows for layered budgets and limitless division of expenses among grants, overhead, or other projects/programs.
  • Reporting - Most financial software tries to adapt for-profit accounting into a non-profit mode without addressing the unique needs of a nonprofit for reporting and auditing.
  • Multiple projects and/or cost centers within a budget and system - nothing is more challenging than trying to manage expenses over several cost centers and FE is a champ at allowing that complexity.
Cons
  • Not for "out of the box" users - Financial Edge is a great system, but implementation requires support or even an consultant. You want to make sure you have set it up correctly - not duplicating what you have always done, but in a way that makes the robust reporting in FE work for you.
  • Better exported reports - Reports exported to Excel always seem to have too many lines and columns as well as at least one column that is off one cell to the right. Not a huge issue, but it takes a little time to reformat.
Financial Edge is ideal for the $1m to $10m budget organization. Those who are smaller or larger (or more complex) may want to consider another system.

Financial Edge - Stable, traditional, but not forward thinking

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 18, 2020
W(
Vetted Review
Verified User
Financial Edge (legacy)
10 years of experience
Our accounting team uses Financial Edge daily. Our senior management across departments accesses reports directly on a bi-weekly basis. We import Altru general ledger entries into Financial Edge. It addresses our accounting, internal controls, and business needs.
  • Stable Platform
  • Understandable to our users
Cons
  • The dashboard is not robust.
  • The online version (FE NXT) seems to operate slow to often.
  • Financial Edge is well suited for traditional day to day accounting, accounts payable, and related needs.
  • Financial Edge dashboard does not provide a snapshot view of data that I have found are available through other platforms (like QBO).

Financial Edge

Rating: 10 out of 10
January 22, 2020
JB
Vetted Review
Verified User
Financial Edge (legacy)
8 years of experience
Financial Edge is our accounting system. We use Financial Edge across our entire organization.
  • Non-profit accounting
  • Flexibility - NXT or database
Cons
  • All functionality needs to be available in NXT
  • Integration between RE and FE needs to be easier to manage
I love Financial Edge for non-profit accounting. The integration between RE and FE (when implemented correctly) makes running donations between the donor data base and the financial system seamless. Financial Edge has built a great web based version (NXT) which is much easier for users with little to no experience with the system to pick up. I just implemented the fixed asset module eliminating a huge Excel spreadsheet and it went very well. Our first month recording depreciation through the system was a breeze.

Financial Edge, Use It!

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 21, 2018
SU
Vetted Review
Verified User
Financial Edge (legacy)
8 years of experience
Financial edge is used as the financial, accounting software for my organization. It is also used for subsidiary corporations. We are able to track debits and credits, provide balances for departments across the university campus, examine budgeting scenarios and reporting. We utilize a number of candid reports but also have built a number of custom reports.
  • Financial edge is able to be customized in a way that fits our organization.
  • Financial edge is able to provide reports to our end-users on budget versus actual account balances.
  • Financial edge is able to handle a large volume of transactions with ease, having built-in capabilities for batching and balancing.
Cons
  • While the program is highly customizable, it would be helpful if there was more direction on best practices of how to set everything up.
  • Expand on reporting.
  • Ability to report on "open" years.
Financial edge is great for tracking revenue and expenses for specific donor-designated gifts. It is easy to create projects for each designation that allows for tracking and reporting. I would like to see some expansion in reporting based on projects. We currently have built custom reports for reporting to our end-users and donors on project balances.
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