From Spreadsheets to Strategy How Planful Transformed Our FPA
November 13, 2025

From Spreadsheets to Strategy How Planful Transformed Our FPA

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Planful

We use Planful to streamline Budget, Forecast and planning in our company for all of the departments. It helps us to migrate from Manual spread sheet to Platform where we can track real time data of the financials. Our use case includes FP&A, Workforce planning across the globe, management reporting and overall financial scope of the activity.

Pros

  • Automates Financial close
  • Rolling Forecast
  • Reporting and Dashboard
  • AI scenario Planning

Cons

  • Learning the product - Training of the Product
  • Limited custmization
  • Mobile Experience
  • Faster Month close End
  • Better decision making
  • Cost Savings
It helps to improve our collaboration within the finance team and across departments. By centralizing data and automating workflows, it ensures everyone works from a single source of truth. This has reduced back-and-forth communication and improved alignment on financial goals which help finance control and visibility for the company as whole.
It’s reduced time spent switching between tools, improved data consistency, and enabled faster, more informed decision-making. With planning, consolidation, and reporting all integrated, we’ve gained better control, visibility, and collaboration across the finance function. Integration has improved accuracy, accelerated our month-end close, and enabled. more strategic, data-driven decisions across the business.

Do you think Planful delivers good value for the price?

Yes

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 well suited where company needs structured budgeting, forecasting and automated financial close. It helps the company fastening the process in automating and reduces the time of resource. Planful is not appropriate for the small company where there is small team and simple budgeting process followed in the company.

Planful Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
9
Forecasting
9
Scenario modeling
9
Management reporting
9
Financial data consolidation
9
Journal entries and reports
8
Multi-currency management
10
Intercompany Eliminations
9
Minority Ownership
7
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
8
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
9
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
9
Color-coded scorecards
Not Rated
KPIs
9
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Flat file integration
9
Excel data integration
9
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9
Pixel Perfect reports
9
Customizable dashboards
9
Report Formatting Templates
9
Drill-down analysis
9
Formatting capabilities
9
Report sharing and collaboration
9
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
9
Report Versioning
8
Report Delivery Scheduling
9
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
9
Role-Based Security Model
9
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
9
Report-Level Access Control
9
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Not Rated
Responsive Design for Web Access
2
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
2

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