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

"Blackline helps me manage our finance function in a very controlled environment."

What do you like best? Backline is user friendly and is integrated with SAP. It helps us manage our risk. What do you dislike? Sometimes when I am in the account rec tool, I don't know which hat I am wearing. Recommendations to others considering the product: Know your company's need and commitment level before you go to Blackline. You should implement 4 modules to make it fully integrated. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? autocertification ...

"Enhances control"

What do you like best? facilitates internal controls and record retention What do you dislike? Sometimes new features may have bugs. There should be more testing prior to rolling out new features. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? BlackLine improved our account reconciliation processes and sped up our bank reconciliations.

"Great Business Partner"

What do you like best? Blackline is a great business partner. Their product provides great insight into our business and increases efficiencies. What do you dislike? We use an older ERP system and sometime Blackline doesn't play as nice with our system as it does with the new systems. Recommendations to others considering the product: This is a great product and you will get a lot of benefit from using it. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We ...

"Account Reconcilaition"

What do you like best? timely reconciliations and audit trail of reconciliations for preparer, approver and reviewer What do you dislike? When support could not resolve the issue of failed interface Recommendations to others considering the product: please look into the download files What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Failed interface

"Ease of Use"

What do you like best? I like how easy Blackline is to use. It is very self-explanatory. The system calculates quickly. What do you dislike? I don't like having to jump back and forth between between the preparer / approver role when looking at reconciliations. Would be great to see all listed at one point in time. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reconcilations, tasks (flux analysis) certifications of data

"Automated Reconciliation and Checklist"

What do you like best? The task management module. Automated checklist provides reminders for all required activities. What do you dislike? I have no complaints for Blackline Systems Recommendations to others considering the product: Blackline is an excellent solution to managing account reconciliations, task, and matching large number of transactions. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Control of account reconciliations, task management, ...

"Blackline is a powerful tool"

What do you like best? I love the ability to bring in large volume of data to streamline acct recs and speed up the bank reconciliation process with automated matching. What do you dislike? Nothing so far, but we are in the process of implementing matching and haven’t started journals yet. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Standing up a new R2R COE center

"Partners for 10 Years"

What do you like best? We've been using the Blackline reconciliation for module for 10 years and can't imagine going back What do you dislike? Blackline hs an opportunity to improve their reporting functionality to share with other users. Recommendations to others considering the product: Be sure to engage the blackline community for support What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are solving data reconciliation for our GL and multiple systems. ...

"An Accountants Tool"

What do you like best? BlackLine is truly an accountants tool. The manual processes in place are easily replicated and quick to get to automated. What do you dislike? Procurement process was a bit rough as we had to start over and forced down the SAP Solex route. Recommendations to others considering the product: No other reason to look at another tool. This is THE tool for accountants. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Highly manual processes!

"Key Note Speakers"

What do you like best? Loved the key note speakers and the content shared by them What do you dislike? I think the course on Account reconciliation did not provide a start level training. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Faster Reconciliation and matching.