BlackLine Reviews in September 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons
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Reviewers praise the transparency and visibility into account reconciliations and journals across the team.
Built-in task management with sign-off workflows keeps the close process organized and accountable.
It automates reconciliations, such as auto-certifying zero-balance or unchanged accounts.
The matching module automates high-volume transaction reconciliation, easing audits.
A reviewer notes BlackLine can be costly for small organizations.
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Administrator in Information Technology and Services
09/25/19
"Great for centralizing accounting"
What do you like best? Our company has enjoyed the reduction in paper files and decentralized storage. It's now easier for us to see the status of reconciliations globally without worrying about time differences. What do you dislike? We would like to see currency options expanded, as we are a global company, we have more monthly rates than the system allows. Recommendations to others considering the product: BlackLine should be implemented to compliment changes that you want to make. Just ...
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Administrator in Marketing and Advertising
09/19/19
"One powerful and holistic solution"
What do you like best? sophisticated functionalities with on-going improvement and features. Address most of the pain points during accounting process , plus incorporate in better control and supporting rails. Definitely save time on the team and improve efficiency What do you dislike? maybe overwhelming at the beginning and there will be learning curves to fully understand BL and optimize the setting so as to follow best practice Recommendations to others considering the product: Based on ...
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User in Information Technology and Services
09/19/19
"Reviewer Perspective"
What do you like best? The reporting feature allows me to track our progress from using the solution and communicate our wins. What do you dislike? Hard to say as we are new to the solution and may just need training What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? No significant issuesnoted
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Administrator in Financial Services
09/19/19
"Task Management"
What do you like best? User friendly, quick and easy to implement. Great Technical support after implementation What do you dislike? errors in charts such as not able to provide list of late tasks from the dashboard Recommendations to others considering the product: Use and integrate with other modules What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Visibiliby, compliance
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Executive Sponsor in Utilities
09/19/19
"Blackline Partnership with Workiva"
What do you like best? The possibilities are endless with this new relationship. I especially like seeing the reconciliation progress against the financial reporting lines. What do you dislike? Not much so far. I am glad to see two sucessful companies work together. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have currently resolved our reconciliation and task issues. We look forward to journals and transaction matching next.
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Ben A
09/19/19
"Life Saver"
What do you like best? The ease of the software and user friendly. It has saved us countless hours in the account reconciliation process. We were a manual company printing out hard copies of reconciliations which can create room for human error in regards to a reconciliation getting lost on a desk. Its perfect for visibility. What do you dislike? Nothing as of yet but if i had to choose something it would be the price. The price is a roadblock for our company in being able to implement more ...
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Administrator in Consumer Electronics
09/19/19
"Blackline"
What do you like best? Smooth implementation, easy to use, system runs in a consistent manner even if all users are logged in. What do you dislike? Learbibg material in Blackline U is very extensive and long. Will preferred something more concreate. Recommendations to others considering the product: Implement it as soon as possible What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Status of the recs easy to extract.
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User in Food & Beverages
09/18/19
"Blackline is essential "
What do you like best? Blackline has been an essential component to our team's month end close efficiency and timeliness. We have already cut down our month end close time by 5 days. What do you dislike? I don't like that it takes a few months to learn all the ins and outs of BlackLine. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to generate our financials earlier
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Administrator in Accounting
09/18/19
"Ease of Use"
What do you like best? BlackLine provides the ultimate visibility and is very user friendly. What do you dislike? BlackLine does not allow reporting manipulation. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Mitigating risk of invalid account recs.
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Administrator in Oil & Energy
09/18/19
"BlackLine ITB19 is great"
What do you like best? I've enjoyed the keynote speakers and enjoyed the 1 on 1 that is provided at the HUB. What do you dislike? Reporting limitations, dashboards limitations, and no RCM functionality. Recommendations to others considering the product: user blackline consultants and 3rd party vendors What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Testing of Internal Controls
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