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BlackLine

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4.7
Market Presence: Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions, Financial Reconciliation Solutions

Overview

Product Information on BlackLine

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.

BlackLine Pricing

BlackLine software uses a subscriptionbased pricing model where fees are determined based on factors such as the number of users and modules selected. The software offers various modules for financial close automation and other accounting processes with pricing tailored to business requirements and volume. Custom quotes are generally provided following an assessment of organizational needs.

Overall experience with BlackLine

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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About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

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

Updated 26th February 2025
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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BlackLine Likes & Dislikes

Like

Automation Centralization Customization Streamline Ability Customer Service

Like

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

Like

The modules are user friendly and as we keep implementing it into our close processes, we become more efficient with close.

Dislike

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.

Dislike

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

Dislike

The introduction of Verity and AI in the system will help improve even more efficiencies.

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About BlackLine

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 2024528 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 2024328 Views3 Comments

BlackLine Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 38 ratings and reviews for Financial Reconciliation Solutions market. View all 609 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.7

(38 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
74%
4 Star
26%
3 Star
0%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.2

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.6

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  • VP, Finance
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    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.
  • Director of Finance
    10B+ USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Consistent Customer Support and Strong System Performance Highlight Product Experience

    5.0
    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
    Review Source

    BlackLine Integration Enhances Efficiency and User Experience in Close Processes

    5.0
    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.
  • Director of Finance
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    BlackLine Helpful tool

    5.0
    Sep 8, 2025
    blackline has helped streamline balance sheet recons as well as roll forwards and many other tasks
  • SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, CHIEF ACCOUNTING
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Cloud-Based Platform Allows Access and Integration With Various GL Platforms

    5.0
    Jun 4, 2025
    Great online platform allowing for consistency in processes and controls.
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