Planful Upped Our Game
Overall Satisfaction with Planful
Planful is used for total company budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and internal reporting processes. It has solved a host of problems including but not limited to: version control of budget files, reporting errors form manual data manipulation, and wasted time on report building. Both finance team members AND department leaders are in the platform, and we are able to work collaboratively on budgets and forecasts. Now with all financial data and detailed notes centralized in one place, we are able to have much more efficient conversations on monthly results. With time saved on creating executive level reports, we are able to develop the story instead of sharing numbers on the screen. Planful has upped our finance game!
Pros
- Holds both financial and non-financial data to better document budget/forecast information
- Makes close tasks easily repeatable
- Provides a variety of reporting capabilities
Cons
- I'd like to see enhancements to the user experience for administrators. the navigation alone for setting can be overwhelming.
- Training documents are ample but not always the best mode for all learners. I'd like to see them expand their training videos and demos.
- We have cut our close time by a full day and now have more time to fully analyze month end results.
- Our business partners now have a deeper visibility into their results. They no longer have to wait on an email with an excel attached - they know where to go every close.
- It has improved our ability to be better business partners. Less time spent on building reports leads to more time actually analyzing and leading our business partners to successful decisions.
Version control issues are a thing of the past. We work together on a live planning template where we can house notes, comments, and attachments. This leads to better knowledge of the budget for all parties. Planful makes the budgeting process less transactional and more interactive. Department leaders build their budgets in Planful planning templates with little intervention from finance business partners.
Do you think Planful delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Planful's feature set?
Yes
Did Planful live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of Planful go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Planful again?
Yes


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