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

"Blackline Recons"

What do you like best? Blackline has allowed use to ditch stacks of paper. What do you dislike? Switching roles. I which my access was by user and not defined by role What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We can now easily see completeness and eliminate paper

"Ease of use"

What do you like best? Ease of use, allows visibility and provides good control What do you dislike? Prices are a little too high, making it hard for ROI What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Standardization

"VP of Corporate Reporting"

What do you like best? reconciliation module is robust and very impactful What do you dislike? Task management module needs executive dashboard visualization reporting capabilities What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? single repository for worldwide reconciliations

"Duplication of effort - reduced"

What do you like best? Blackline will carry forward supporting documents until the support is no longer needed. What do you dislike? When reviewing - the additional support or items pop up in the same screen - but would be quicker in another screen. Recommendations to others considering the product: Plan out your end goal and road map. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Working on speeding up the close process - and efficiency.

"Pleasure to work with"

What do you like best? Blackline is a flexible platform that allows us to successfully update and change the system with minimal to no assistance when we desire it. The Blackline team is very responsive to requests and feedback. What do you dislike? That the system is so customizable that there is the potential of painting oneself into a corner by continuing what we've always done. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Optimizing the reckons and ...

"Optimizing Success"

What do you like best? Networking and the connecting with others in the industry What do you dislike? Rushed time - not enough time to really spend with experts What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Matching efficiency, better recons

"Recon and task implementation went great - matching has been a little more challenging"

What do you like best? Really great product - the tools seem thought out from accounting people for accounting people - helping us with our standardization of the accounting function to a R2R center What do you dislike? Matching implementation has not gone as smooth as recons wish we would have used a 3rd party to help What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Again back to the standardization to a R2R center - not sure we would have been able to ...

"Match It Up"

What do you like best? The logic of the matching rules and speed of the system has greatly reduced our preparation and confidence of our recons. What do you dislike? journal entries for our organization would duplicate the requirement for master data maintenance Recommendations to others considering the product: When using matching make sure that the data begin populated to the data sources from ledger or bank is as uniform as possible by the business. It will make writing matching rules ...

"Great start"

What do you like best? We are currently using Rex’s and tasks. Really enjoy the visibility to each group and always knowing where we are as a team. What do you dislike? So far the implementation has been taxing on our team due to the time needed in addition to completing our jobs. Recommendations to others considering the product: Seek assistance beyond reconciliation and tasks from a third party vendor. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

"Helped Automation but can be Streamlined"

What do you like best? Bringing different datasources together helps with automation & reconciliations What do you dislike? Interface can feel a bit clunky and unintuitive at times What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Eliminate manual reconciliations and automate accounting processes