Planful Upped Our Game
April 08, 2025

Planful Upped Our Game

Jillian Channell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Structured Planning
  • Reporting

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

Planful is great for organizations looking to modernize their financial processes. If the majority of your process are in excel, there is great potential for improvement with Planful.

Planful Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
Not Rated
Financial budgeting
10
Forecasting
10
Scenario modeling
Not Rated
Management reporting
8
Financial data consolidation
Not Rated
Journal entries and reports
Not Rated
Multi-currency management
Not Rated
Intercompany Eliminations
Not Rated
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
Not Rated
Detailed Audit Trails
Not Rated
Financial Statement Reporting
8
Management Reporting
8
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
7
Cost and profitability analysis
10
Key Performance Indicator setting
Not Rated
Flat file integration
Not Rated
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
Not Rated
Pixel Perfect reports
Not Rated
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
Drill-down analysis
10
Formatting capabilities
7
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
Not Rated
Publish to PDF
5
Report Versioning
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
6
Predictive Analytics
8
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Report-Level Access Control
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10

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