Name: BlackLine
Rating: 4.5 (612 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.

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VP, Finance

50M - 250M USD, Banking

FAVORABLE

“Blackline Simplifies Bank Reconciliation Despite Complex Integration and High Costs”

5.0

Oct 6, 2025

The Blackline platform is a phenomenal platform that has truly simplified our lives and has exponentially improved how we do reconciliations at the bank. We envisioned this to be a great but it has turned out to be a complete game changer for our day-to-day operations for month end close.

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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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transparency

1. It is the best in class solution for accounting automation 2. System performance beats our legacy solution 3. Transparancy and visibility

The cost: This system can be very pricey, depending on how much data and transactions flow through it. The implementation and iterations of the specific file types that must constantly be put into it. The ease of integration to all the data tables is not as easy from an IT perspective as was promised originally.

manual journal entry module. AI solutions so far

It is expensive and to be successful you need a 3rd party implementer

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50M-1B USD

Banking

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Blackline Simplifies Bank Reconciliation Despite Complex Integration and High Costs

Finance Manager

10B+ USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Assessment of Balance Sheet Reconciliation and Manual Entry in BL Platform

4.0

Apr 14, 2026

the Balance sheet reconciliation process in BL is great tool giving us transparency of the data

Director of Finance

Retail

Consistent Customer Support and Strong System Performance Highlight Product Experience

Sep 8, 2025

The customer support has been phenomenal. Any time we run into an issue or need support they are here to support us

Project Manager - Financial Reporting

1B-10B USD

Travel and Hospitality

BlackLine Integration Enhances Efficiency and User Experience in Close Processes

Sep 9, 2025

We've been using BlackLine for a year and a half and have had a wonderful experience. We have been able to implement a number of products and we love how everything is connected.

<50M USD

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BlackLine Helpful tool

blackline has helped streamline balance sheet recons as well as roll forwards and many other tasks

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.

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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“Blackline Simplifies Bank Reconciliation Despite Complex Integration and High Costs”