BlackLine Fantastic
Updated September 10, 2025
BlackLine Fantastic
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BlackLine
We use BlackLine for standardization of financial close processes and the automation of account reconciliations. Through using the Matching module we have saved over 95 hours per month in manual matching processes. We also now have a standardized and controlled account reconciliations, where we used to have multiple different types of reconciliation formats.
Pros
- automation
- standardization
- controls
Cons
- bulk closing of items in account reconciliations
- better import transformation options
- increased productivity
- improved visibility into the close process
- decrease of manual accounting work
Working with BlackLine has helped us to continue to optimize our utilization of the platform. They have been good partners in helping us solve problems and finding good solutions
Do you think BlackLine delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with BlackLine's feature set?
Yes
Did BlackLine live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of BlackLine go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy BlackLine again?
Yes
BlackLine Feature Ratings
Using BlackLine
60 - shared services accounting, loan accounting, treasury accounting, deposit accounting, serviced by others operations and accounting, mortgage operations and accounting, financial leadership
5 - We have finance transformation assisting with system admin duties, and then 4 business admins who are also users of BlackLine who have the skills and drive to create automation and find efficiencies in processes.
- matching
- reconciling
- ease of use
- matching disputes that took hours to balance previously
- reporting on required adjustment items to CFO and leadership for aging
- reporting of items to business operations to give them actionable information on items to clear
- terminal balancing with a vendor report
- high frequency reconciliations
- connection to snowflake for data
Evaluating BlackLine and Competitors
- Integration with Other Systems
We use BlackLine as the recon tool , so it's import to integrate with our ERP system
the implementation process is important as well
Using BlackLine
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
None | Unnecessarily complex Difficult to use Requires technical support Not well integrated Inconsistent Cumbersome Lots to learn |
- Task
- Reconciliations
- Matching
- Advanced Automated Journals
Yes, but I don't use it
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