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

"Using Blackline"

What do you like best? I primarily work with Compliance and Task and the product has been very useful in managing the overall testing of controls. What do you dislike? Reporting and Dashboarding still needs work. Recommendations to others considering the product: Great tool supporting workflow, automation and visibility to account reconciliation processes What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Effective management of SOX controls

"Implementation went well"

What do you like best? Task and Account reconciliation module greatly helped to make the financial close more efficient What do you dislike? we cannot use the app as of right now and it is taking a while to fix it Recommendations to others considering the product: implement account recs first, then tasks What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? autocertifying account recs, streamlining processes

"Accountant"

What do you like best? Variety of modules. We use Blackline for Variances, Account Reconciliations, Reporting, Tasks etc. Blackline allows for a variety of things to be done within one system which is extremly helpful What do you dislike? This is our fault but we dont know what else Blackline is capable of past what we use today. This conference has helped with this but wish there were more updates on new products within the system. Recommendations to others considering the product: Clean ...

"Excellent business partner for finance transformation"

What do you like best? Ease of use. Fastest and easiest way to automate and shorten your close and/or get your team out of busy work and into adding value for the business.The implementation is quick and value is immediate. If you are still on spreadsheets, time to move on. What do you dislike? No dislikes. I will recommend to a friend and will implement again. Recommendations to others considering the product: Use the crawl, walk run approach. Make sure your team is on board and time is ...

"review"

What do you like best? task lists, recon templates, journals, matching, black line university What do you dislike? occasional slow speed especially during closing What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? recon automation, matching

"Blackline Repporting & Visibility is a Business Must"

What do you like best? The visibility that Blackline provides via it's Reporting tool and having all the accounting data in one place. What do you dislike? The inability to email Reports directly from within the system. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Standardization, cost savings, high level visibility.

"Good, it was very interesting and enjoyable session"

What do you like best? Learning session and various speakers - Tayler Shultz was really great and very interesting to listen to the story. What do you dislike? Food and variety of choices. SOme session are very high level, or not propoer people in the room to answer questions. Recommendations to others considering the product: It will help to stremaline the process and can be one stop shop What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Automation of manual ...

"New user in a company that has been a BL power user for a year"

What do you like best? BL is user friendly and I am continually finding ways to improve our close process, reporting and KPIs What do you dislike? As a new user in a company that is a power user, where to begin, a planned journey to catch up to the skill set would be helpful Recommendations to others considering the product: Get as much knowledge as possible with online training and use as much functionality as possible What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you ...

"Blackline Review Blackbaud"

What do you like best? Digital transformation and automation initiatives, matching capabilities What do you dislike? I haven't discovered any functionality I dislike Recommendations to others considering the product: Create quality training materials What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Eliminating use of manual excel spreadhseets

"Improved quality of life."

What do you like best? The ability to manage, spread and control the month-end efforts throughout the month. What do you dislike? Lack of advanced reporting, calculations and multiple data sources brought into a single report would be huge! Recommendations to others considering the product: Jump in, the sooner the better. There will be a learning curve, may as well get it started. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Bottlenecks, inefficient ...