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

"A Step Forward"

What do you like best? From a corporate level, we benefit most from the greater visibility to all accounts across all entities. This allows us a faster way to review activity and performance from all our locations through a shared platform that is easier to communicate issues. Having a shared platform for all users to use also minimizes the risk of miscommunication. What do you dislike? Like any developing platform, there remains some features that would be considered more personalized that ...

"Visibility, Automation & Quality Improvement"

What do you like best? 1. Fantastic visibility into the month-end process. 2. The wealth of reporting available which can drive many metrics. 3. Automated routing and approval of account reconciliations and tasks. 4. Account Reconciliation auto-certification functionality and BlackLine templates. 5. Peer review evaluations. What do you dislike? 1. Homepage dashboards lacking configurability (especially from a management point of view). 2. Task auto-certification functionality (parent & ...

"Blackline"

What do you like best? Smooth implementation, easy to use, system runs in a consistent manner even if all users are logged in. What do you dislike? Learbibg material in Blackline U is very extensive and long. Will preferred something more concreate. Recommendations to others considering the product: Implement it as soon as possible What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Status of the recs easy to extract.

"Blackline Partnership with Workiva"

What do you like best? The possibilities are endless with this new relationship. I especially like seeing the reconciliation progress against the financial reporting lines. What do you dislike? Not much so far. I am glad to see two sucessful companies work together. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have currently resolved our reconciliation and task issues. We look forward to journals and transaction matching next.

"Blackline has made my month end close easy"

What do you like best? Account Reconciliations . It has made the life easy for the accounting team in general. It has helped to see the statistics of the month end close and manage the close tasks and the efforts to improve the close. What do you dislike? That it doesn't have the keyboard shortcuts. There is nothing much I think I dislike about Blackline. Can Blackline add 4-5-5 amortization schedule to the prepaid template? What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...

"Best solution for close automation and controls"

What do you like best? insight to close process, quality control around financial reports What do you dislike? reporting needs some help. cross module reporting needs to be better Recommendations to others considering the product: Know your path and your process and be willing to modify them What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? insights to close, using compliance for workflow of non standard uses (employee onboarding/offboarding

"Controller"

What do you like best? Shorten month-end process. Task and Journal Entries What do you dislike? learning curve, takes time to learn , implementation time What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? month-end close task mangement

"Excellent product"

What do you like best? Flexibility of the platform to support connected financial processes. What do you dislike? there is nothing I do not like about the solution. Recommendations to others considering the product: Consider both time savings as well as risk avoidance What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reconciliations save significant amount of time.

"Great Product"

What do you like best? Integration with the tools offered in the suite of products What do you dislike? The turnover of our customer success folks but it's being addressed. Recommendations to others considering the product: Make sure Executive Leadership is behind you or it will be very painful What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Centralizing and visibility

"Excellent Product with Great Support"

What do you like best? BlackLine matching is intuitive. The way it works just makes sense. The ability to integrate our matching data sources, recons, and JEs has been a real time saver. What do you dislike? Sometimes updates surprise me. I wish there was more clear notification of changes to come... maybe login notifications. TIme outs are frustrating, especially when I've done a lot of manal matching and I lose my work