Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Budgyt
Score 8.6 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.N/A
LivePlan
Score 8.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
LivePlan is business plan software for entrepreneurs. Features include the pitch creation, sample plans, financial assessments, and performance dashboards.
$15
Monthly & Annual billing options available
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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LivePlan Premium
Starting at $30/month
Monthly & Annual billing options available
LivePlan Standard
Starting at $15/month
Monthly & Annual billing options available
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional DetailsContact for pricing quote. Multi-year and non-profit discounts are available.LivePlan Standard Includes: - Step-By-Step Instructions - Automatic Financial Statements - Full Financial Forecast - One-Page Pitch Builder - 500+ Sample Plans LivePlan Premium includes everything in Standard, plus: - Industry Benchmark Data - Financial Forecast Scenarios - Performance Dashboards - Milestone Planner - LiveForecast - Syncs with Xero & QuickBooks All subscriptions come with a 60-day money-back guarantee and access to expert customer support.
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Community Pulse
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Budgyt
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Adaptive Planning is more complex and considerably more expensive than Budgyt. Budgyt does a nice job of meeting the sweet spot of being very capable without being onerous.
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as previously mentioned it is affordable, robust, easy to use
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We chose Budgyt because of their user-friendly software.
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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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We selected Budgyt over other options because it is exceptionally easy to use, perfectly meeting all our budget management needs. Its user-friendly interface, robust functionality, and cost efficiency enabled seamless multi-department integration. Budgyt delivered the …
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I like both programs and I think there both have their advantage and disadvantages. I believe Budgyt is nice for smaller organizations and easier to learn. I notice with Budgyt when there are so much data, it start getting slow. Our organization only have 75 people, but for …
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Budget is a much more user friendly product and it allows me to share information with all business units without sending out individual financials.
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I needed a robust integration between QBO and my budgeting software. The reporting is Budgyt will serve our organization far better than those found and available in QBO.
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Budgyt was the best value for money solution for us
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It does. Or stack. Multiview has the limitation of how funds that is an available to me while Budgyt has Unlimited funds. With the option, the organization o a grow with the product without having to shop around for a new budget system every 2 years. This
product grows with the …
Chose Budgyt
Very well priced with everything we want, and more. Also looked at Xlerant/Budgetpak. Budgyt is very simple and way better than the clunky spreadsheet that could not be shared for fear of managers messing up formulas. It is even better than our accounting software for analyzing …
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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 …
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This is a far easier tool to use and analyze budgets. It's also far easier to drill down into expenses.
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We would not want our 37 users to have access to QuickBooks as that would be costly and the time it would take to create specific access for the majority would be time consuming. Training would also be difficult. Additionally, QuickBooks does not allow you to build a budget …
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Forecaster was terrible. We switched from that. We looked at multiple products, either too expensive or not user-friendly. We switched 4 years ago. I do not recall the companies we visited back then. There are certainly more on the market now, but I have no interest in …
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We work with Budgyt because of the platform's usability and affordability to have more user access. Other platforms were too tricky for the end user to access or had a monthly or annual fee that didn't meet the needs of our non-profit organization. In short, the platform is …
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We thought Budgyt was the best value for the product provided.
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We just reviewed budgyt. It met are needs and are budget so didn't review anymore vendors.
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Budgyt is easy for participants to set up and use; can be integrated with any accounting software; it is excellent for loading, identifying, and correcting
LivePlan
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When it comes to its overall functionality in terms of planning, budgeting and forecasting, there is no product that can beat LivePlan in that. The usability is also a differentiator of LivePlan from other products. Its User Interface is well organized, easy to learn and …
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I've tested Fathom. Though the UX & visualization tools are far superior, it(Fathom) ultimately did not consider the end-user / real-world application. It looks good but isn't useful, where LivePlan is the converse.
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We did not really find a similar solution. All other solutions are focused on project management, [there's] nothing on generating a business plan. There is nothing on this level that helps people without any business experience write the plan. They have samples, instructions …
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User Ratings
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
8.3
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Support Rating
7.6
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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Product Scalability
8.8
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User Testimonials
BudgytLivePlan
Likelihood to Recommend
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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All businesses require solutions and tools for organization and control of expenses, spreadsheets were always the first option, but since the arrival of LivePlan, all work is easier and more automated. With LivePlan we have charts and graphs that are automatically created based on our data, this is a great time and money saver. LivePlan is a tool that has worked from day one and has met our expectations in creating the total budget.
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Pros
  • Combining departments (components of an entity or a component of various entity's income statement) or isolating departments (small slivers) of an entity's income statement. We can look at specific departments of specific entities together, with ease.
  • Splicing / flipping reports into countless formats. Helpful for users of the financial statements that digest data/numbers differently than the financial accountants who prepare the numbers.
  • It is relatively easy to import data from our Jonas accounting program into Budgyt.
  • We've had prompt customer service when we've encountered issues and they were readily available during implementation.
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  • Great for startups that are still working on their idea.
  • Preparing for pitching and presenting.
  • People don't need business knowledge in order to write a professional business plan, everything is explained in details.
  • Simplicity.
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Cons
  • Inside setting up HR forumlas, it should give more than one filter criteria.
  • Application got slow after putting the information of HR module and formuals, need to speed up.
  • Selection of multiple companies with different GLs can be an option where it is lacking.
  • Didn't see the multicurrency feature, can be a good add on.
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  • UX: It's beyond time for an overhaul, especially on mobile. It can make the app seem dated.
  • The accounting software integration has been prone to break and need to be re-setup, though that seems to have improved.
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Likelihood to Renew
Our organization has increased our level of financial reporting and decreased the time it takes to build a budget with the Budgyt platform. Because our budget managers have access, it allows them a higher level of ownership for their areas.
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Usability
Incredibly easy to use and intuitive. Design is simple without lacking functionality. Limited learning curve makes it very easy to set up and start using, and with little practice it becomes incredibly easy to perform routine tasks, including monthly update of actual data, running and analyzing reports, as well as building budgets, forecasts, and 'what-if' scenarios
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Support Rating
James the founder always replies to my emails in a timely manner, even if overseas. Has not passed me on to a customer service support team member. Rob was great with the initial demos as explored the product to see if it was what we wanted. Online documentation and videos are very good
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Implementation Rating
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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Alternatives Considered
We selected Budgyt over other options because it is exceptionally easy to use, perfectly meeting all our budget management needs. Its user-friendly interface, robust functionality, and cost efficiency enabled seamless multi-department integration. Budgyt delivered the performance and financial insights we required at a fraction of the cost, ensuring maximum value.
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When it comes to its overall functionality in terms of planning, budgeting and forecasting, there is no product that can beat LivePlan in that. The usability is also a differentiator of LivePlan from other products. Its User Interface is well organized, easy to learn and understand and more user-friendly making it easy to navigate through the entire system, access and use the various features it comes with.
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • time savings: cannot overstate how impactful Budgyt has been relative to our former excel-based, manually-intensive budget process
  • financial insights: Budgyt is an incredible tool for putting financial data at users' fingertips, in formats and with details presented in a way that adds value to non-finance users and enables data-driven operational decision making
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  • For the price, it's worth it for 2 main reasons. Knowing what's going on throughout the year (relative to goals/prior periods), and seeing precisely where financial issues are off track.
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Budgyt Screenshots

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