Name: BlackLine
Rating: 4.5 (611 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is BlackLine?

BlackLine software is designed to automate and streamline financial close and accounting processes for businesses. The software provides solutions for account reconciliation, transaction matching, journal entry, and task management, enabling organizations to centralize and standardize their workflows. BlackLine software assists in improving accuracy, increasing visibility, and reducing manual efforts in financial operations. By offering real-time data access and configurable controls, the software supports compliance and audit preparation while helping mitigate risks associated with manual spreadsheets and siloed data. The software addresses the challenges of process inefficiency and lack of transparency in financial close management for enterprises.

Overall experience with BlackLine

Finance Associate

3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities

FAVORABLE

“Automation With BlackLine Frees Accountants For Higher Value Tasks But Module Costs A Little High”

5.0

Feb 24, 2026

We have had the best experience with BlackLine! So much so, we were invited to present our success around Matching at BTB 2022, which was a huge honor.

GLOBAL ACCOUNTING & TREASURY SERVICES LE

30B + USD, Consumer Goods

CRITICAL

“High Costs and Outmoded Features Do Not Meet Modern Accounting Expectations”

3.0

Sep 10, 2025

Experience so far is limited however not aligned with precise company needs. It's creating additional workload due to its old style of accounting. Not providing out of box functionalities and limited flexibility.

About Company

Company Description

BlackLine is a publicly-traded company known for addressing traditional accounting challenges. It leverages a cloud-based financial operations management platform to enhance the efficiencies of financial departments. The primary objective of BlackLine is to modernize accounting procedures by consolidating the data and processes along with automating mundane activities. This also ensures accountability through comprehensive visibility. BlackLine provides comprehensive solutions for managing and automating various activities like financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounts. They cater to both large and midsize corporations across various industries to help optimize accounting procedures. BlackLine operates globally with its main operations sprawled across several business hubs such as Los Angeles, New York, the San Francisco Bay area, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2001

Head office location

Woodland Hills, United States

Number of employees

1001 - 5000

Website

https://www.blackline.com

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I like the amount of time we have been able to give back to our accountants for higher value tasks. The automation and optimization that BlackLine has helped us accomplish has been incredible!

Integration with SAP is useful, but accounting benefits are only achieved once you get all different modules together. If using specific module standalone it has limited benefits. Also cost is high for certain functionalities, such functionalities can be achieved with other softwares with much lower costs.

Visibility across the company of where we stand each month on our close process. The task tracking tool has been especially helpful for my team in particular as I can see exactly what still needs to be prepared, approved, or reviewed. It beats doing that in excel by miles.

The thing I dislike most about the product/service is the cost of some of the modules. Wishing there were additional packaging options so we could pick and choose what we want to package (for those that can work together, of course.)

Limited flexibility if using standalone modules, not fully attending more updated ways of working. Still using old styles of reports accounting.

One area I see right away that could be a nice quality of life improvement is when my team attaches a document to a task or reconciliation, when I click on it, it just downloads it. It would make my life easier if I could just preview the document rather than clogging up my downloads folder. Take Outlook for example - when you receive an email with a PDF or Excel attachment, just clicking on it once will give you a preview of the document.

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Director of Finance

Does anyone have experience implementing transaction matching module from Blackline to further automate balance sheet accounts reconciliations? I would appreciate any insights from anyone using it.

Chief Accounting Officer

It's been awhile but team used the function at a previous company. It took a bit of work to set up and I believe we paid per transaction possibly? This has been a few years but I recall it being expensive but useful in speeding up reconciliations for cash.

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10 Oct 2024552 Views1 Comment

VP of Finance

In the future we plan to implement a close management system like Blackline or Trintech. As we standardize our process and policy in preparation. Will you share examples of Journal Entry policies and templates that align with the templates provided by these systems?

CFO

The implementation team generally provide standard templates and JV policies which company needs to review and provide their feedback to align with it standard processes and policies. The implementation team can then customize the system to neet the company requirements.

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12 Feb 2024340 Views3 Comments

BlackLine Reviews and Ratings

Recommended Gartner Insights

1B-10B USD

Energy and Utilities

Review Source

Automation With BlackLine Frees Accountants For Higher Value Tasks But Module Costs A Little High

Corporate Accounting Manager

Insurance (except health)

Task Tracking Tool Improves Month-End Close Visibility Across the Company

4.0

Sep 9, 2025

Blackline has started a movement at our company that will drive efficiency and transparency which we have not had before. We are still in the first couple of years of our journey so there are areas for improvement which is why we are attending these conferences and trying to learn as much as we can.

FINANCE ASSOCIATE

50M-1B USD

Banking

Efficiency Gains Tempered By Complex Interface And Analytics Limitations In Platform

Sep 17, 2025

The platform dramatically improves efficiency with advanced automation for account reconciliations and financial close processes, helping us save time and reduce manual effort too.

DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Manufacturing

Account Team enhances after-sales support

Sep 16, 2025

The support by the account team and the customer service support are key to complement the after-sales support

10B+ USD

Consumer Goods