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Planful

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4.5
Market Presence: Financial Planning Software, Financial Close and Consolidation Solutions

Overview

Product Information on Planful

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Planful?

Planful is a software designed to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes within organizations. It provides centralized tools for managing financial data, automating repetitive tasks, and facilitating collaboration between teams. The software allows users to create and analyze financial models, integrate data across different sources, and generate reports that support strategic and operational decision-making. It addresses business challenges related to manual financial workflows and data fragmentation by streamlining financial operations and offering real-time insights into organizational performance.

Planful Pricing

Planful software follows a subscription-based pricing model, typically structured by user count and features required. Pricing tiers often reflect access to specific modules and platform capabilities, with options for annual or multi-year agreements. The software may also include implementation and support fees that vary depending on organizational needs and selected package.

Overall experience with Planful

FINANCE TRANSFORMATION MANAGER
500M - 1B USD, Consumer Goods
FAVORABLE

“Upgrading to Planful: Automation and Efficiency at Its Best”

5.0
Oct 29, 2025
Planful has been a major upgrade from our previous vendor. It has helped use implement a rolling forecast, automate the balance sheet and cash flow forecasts/budgets, all while we reduced the size of our team.
Manager, Corporate FP&A
250M - 500M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Leveraging Planful for FP&A Activities: A Closer Look”

3.0
Apr 15, 2025
We use Planful to support our FP&A activities including budgeting, forecasting, and internal reporting.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

Planful is a company dedicated to the development of financial performance management cloud software. The main product is the Planful platform, which aims to streamline diverse business processes such as planning, budgeting, consolidations, reporting, and analytics. This platform is used globally and acts as a tool for finance, accounting, and business users to improve their planning, reporting, and closing procedures. The ultimate aim is to accelerate process cycles, boost productivity, and enhance overall accuracy. The company stands as a private entity, supported by Vector Capital.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2001
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
201 - 500
Website
http://www.planful.com

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Planful Likes & Dislikes

Like

I like the way Planful offers a variety of tools. Each part of budgeting and forecasting is a little different and Planful offers a variety of ways to plan and all of those tools are easily brought together to make your final forecast or budget.

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Like

Dynamic reporting capabilities Compensation item level workforce planning SpotlightXL connection to Excel

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Like

Very intuitive user interface compared to competing products

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Dislike

The dashboards in Planful are not great, however, they launched a Power BI connector which we now use in place of dashboards.

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Dislike

Support articles are often not up to date with current features or not useful No undo button available in input templates or template configuration Budget Entity hierarchy structure is not optimal for our organizational structure (5 legal entities and 70 cost centers)

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Dislike

Customization, while definitely possible, can become cumbersome and looks the look and feel of the out of the box product

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Planful Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 211 ratings and reviews for Financial Planning Software market. View all 297 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.5

(211 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
51%
4 Star
45%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.3

Service & Support

4.5

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • FINANCE TRANSFORMATION MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Upgrading to Planful: Automation and Efficiency at Its Best

    5.0
    Oct 29, 2025
    Planful has been a major upgrade from our previous vendor. It has helped use implement a rolling forecast, automate the balance sheet and cash flow forecasts/budgets, all while we reduced the size of our team.
  • Finance Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Great partnership, communication, execution

    5.0
    Jan 8, 2026
    From the selection process meetings, initial interactions to the implementation team everything was well communicated.
  • Finance Manager
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Great Product for FP&A with some limiting features

    4.0
    Oct 29, 2025
    Unfortunately, the implementation of the product went bad
  • Acting Managing Director
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Great for keeping a clean close calendar with our reconciliations and checklists

    4.0
    Jun 26, 2025
    It’s balance sheet reconciliation tool, which syncs with our ERP’s trial balance prevents potential audit issues by notifying preparers and reviewers of discrepancies.
  • Sr Finance Business Analyst
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Unveiling the Ease of Use and Customer Service Excellence

    5.0
    Jun 16, 2025
    Reliable implementation team Fast implementation Great performance Good customer service
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