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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Budgyt

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Budgyt is a dynamic FP&A platform that simplifies budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. It offers a single source of truth for CFOs and finance teams to integrate financials, streamline processes, and manage multiple departments.

    $5,988

    per year (up to 10 departments)

    PlanGuru

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    PlanGuru is budgeting, forecasting and financial analytics software for SMB's, Nonprofits and the Accountants/ Advisors that work with them.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    BudgytPlanGuru
    Editions & Modules
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    PlanGuru App
    $99
    per month
    PlanGuru Desktop
    $99
    per month
    Offerings
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    BudgytPlanGuru
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsContact for pricing quote. Multi-year and non-profit discounts are available.
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    Considered Both Products
    Budgyt
    Chose Budgyt
    Budgyt's software is much better than PlanGuru's. We have multiple reoccurring glitches and errors with PlanGuru that we have not seen a sign of with Budgyt.
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    BudgytPlanGuru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (36 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (18 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.8
    (17 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    BudgytPlanGuru
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Budgyt
    Budgyt is great for instant consolidation of a multi-department and multi-entity organization. It has strong hierarchy and roll-ups at various levels. User setup and security is straightforward, with ability to restrict data to only department heads over a project. Excellent capability in salary and benefit calculation, for instance down to each type of state and federal tax, and each type of employee health benefit with individual cost as specific as necessary. Strong export functionality.
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    PlanGuru
    I suggest becoming fully familiar with the program before first time use as it can become costly and a charge off to a client would not be practical.
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    Pros
    Budgyt
    • budgeting: building annual budgets from the ground-up
    • financial reporting: Budgyt includes a number of great options for navigating financial reports
    • analysis (& reporting): the ease and flexibility of configuring and using data tools allow for detailed analysis, and numerous options for accessing data to enable effective analysis and reporting views
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    PlanGuru
    • Allows for several different scenarios for the same company
    • Modification in specifications alterable
    • Allows for changes at any level with several criteria.
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    Cons
    Budgyt
    • The ability to remove %'s entirely from reports, instead of only partially removing %'s from a report.
    • The formulas C2C and FOAs can be confusing to set up. I think more explanative data ---- hovering over question marks alongside cells you must complete as a suggestion --- in this module would be useful. These formulas work great once you trial & error your way into them operating. But we find their initial set-up a time commitment. We don't want to watch how-to videos each time we set them up. The hover/clarifications of what certain cells mean would be very helpful.
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    PlanGuru
    • Can be a bit complicated for new users.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Budgyt
    It is awesome, will never go back to the spreadsheet. Just paid for our second year. It does everything we need. Slick interface for data entry, easy to use and run reports with a few clicks to get what you want. great data comparison, flexible to be able to see monthly totals from prior year or other scenario when entering in the data sheet
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    PlanGuru
    It hasn't really been a viable program for our office.
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    Usability
    Budgyt
    We have not encountered any issues with Budgyt’s limitations, given the number of departments and the volume of data we pass to the tool. I have no reason to give it anything less than a 10; the only limitation so far is that we don’t have full API integration yet. Once that is finalized, we will be seamlessly integrated across all of our financial platforms and tools.
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    PlanGuru
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    Support Rating
    Budgyt
    During my first year of working within the budget software, I had to go through some training while trying to meet deadlines for meetings. The team at Budgyt was very accommodating and made sure I was equipped with the knowledge that I needed to be successful
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    PlanGuru
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    Implementation Rating
    Budgyt
    We were fortunate to have the founder lead us through a video conference to teach our users how to use the system. Totally invaluable!
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    PlanGuru
    Great tool for projections and forecasting.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Budgyt
    Other than Hyperion, which is in a different league and more suitable for much larger organizations, I would say that Budgyt compares very favorably. We moved from Great Plains to Sage Intacct, and evaluated their planning solution at the time of implementation. We were very underwhelmed by the management reporter tool that we used with GP, and budgeted with Excel prior to moving to Sage. We began looking at several other products alongside Budgyt & Sage's solution, but were so impressed by Budgyt that at its price point it was a no-brainer. We liked Sage's tools plenty, but felt that Budgyt could do more and cost less, so opted to go this route despite the lack of direct integration.
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    PlanGuru
    We contacted PlanGuru for a low-cost module initially for use on a particular client. It has been used several times since by my department for projections. It's fairly adaptable with our QuickBooks business clients.
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    Scalability
    Budgyt
    The ability to budget at multiple organizational levels is central to Budgyt's design. These levels can be regions or product lines or departments, which are all easily rolled up to a consolidated organizational view. Reporting back against these levels is also built-in to the system.
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    PlanGuru
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    Return on Investment
    Budgyt
    • It has been a huge time saving for us when trying to forecast for changing personnel and contractors
    • It has also created a portal that department managers can use to drill down on their costs without risk they will see information they shouldn't
    • We have also used it to replace manual management reports created on spreadsheets and this has also saved a significant amount of time.
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    PlanGuru
    • There hasn't really been much use of this product for some time.
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    ScreenShots

    Budgyt Screenshots

    Screenshot of the dashboardScreenshot of scenarios (budgets)Screenshot of where to copy dataScreenshot of a data sheetScreenshot of where to manage C2C's (Category to Category Formulas)

    PlanGuru Screenshots

    Screenshot of Income StatementScreenshot of Balance SheetScreenshot of Cash FlowScreenshot of Payroll ForecastingScreenshot of KPI's Example