BlackLine Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"Excellent Platform for Transforming the Accounting Function"

What do you like best? The BlackLine platform is very configurable and allows us to tailor the functionality to meet our needs. What do you dislike? The reporting functionalities still leave a bit to be desired. Pulling reporting data from the system often requires export and manual manipulation. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have enforced consistency and quality in reconciliations, and increased efficiency and visibility to our account ...

"Leveraging BlackLine to help remediate our account reconciliation weaknesses"

What do you like best? The ability to monitor and the close process and identify the outstanding reconciliations for the month end close. Historically, new functionality was constantly added to the tool. Most importantly the BlackLine team/employees. They seem to genuinely care and want to help. What do you dislike? Lack of enhancements to account recs. Focus seems to have been on improving matching and ICH. Implementation partners not doing a good job implementing the tool and or miss ...

"ITB 2019... Amazing!"

What do you like best? The breakout session and the one on one with CSL experts. What do you dislike? The limited nature of partial matching. It will be quite beneficial if this process is automated. Recommendations to others considering the product: I recommend transaction matching. I have to fully use the other functions in order to recommend them. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Running account reconciliations from unmatched transactions, ...

"streamline your reconciliation!"

What do you like best? Visibility to the processes and time savings What do you dislike? Having have to convince users that they have to start using new tool What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Using Blackline reconciliation module saved us time and effort. We also have better visibility to what is being done when and how well at anytime we want.

"Internal Audit success"

What do you like best? I love that the Compliance module connects with the other modules, which makes internal audit much easier. What do you dislike? -Workflow tracking and status in compliance. Once something is de-certified, there is no way to see that it was once certified. This exists in the other modules, so please add to Compliance :) -No alerts for when something is rejected or closed, so manual checks are required Recommendations to others considering the product: Use as many of ...

"Definite benefits"

What do you like best? I am pleased with the time savings and standardization that the tool provided What do you dislike? I do not have a specific issues with the tool. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Universal visibility to the reconciliations

"Blackline is essential "

What do you like best? Blackline has been an essential component to our team's month end close efficiency and timeliness. We have already cut down our month end close time by 5 days. What do you dislike? I don't like that it takes a few months to learn all the ins and outs of BlackLine. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to generate our financials earlier

"BlackLine ITB19 is great"

What do you like best? I've enjoyed the keynote speakers and enjoyed the 1 on 1 that is provided at the HUB. What do you dislike? Reporting limitations, dashboards limitations, and no RCM functionality. Recommendations to others considering the product: user blackline consultants and 3rd party vendors What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Testing of Internal Controls

"Blackline is essential "

What do you like best? Blackline has been an essential component to our team's month end close efficiency and timeliness. We have already cut down our month end close time by 5 days. What do you dislike? I don't like that it takes a few months to learn all the ins and outs of BlackLine. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to generate our financials earlier

"BlackLine ITB19 is great"

What do you like best? I've enjoyed the keynote speakers and enjoyed the 1 on 1 that is provided at the HUB. What do you dislike? Reporting limitations, dashboards limitations, and no RCM functionality. Recommendations to others considering the product: user blackline consultants and 3rd party vendors What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Testing of Internal Controls