Planful Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

"The conference is a great way to generate new ideas."

What do you like best about Planful? I like being able to talk to other customers to help understand how my company can use Host in a better way. What do you dislike about Planful? I think there should be more live trainings. What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? Host has helped us consolidate GL data from many different ERP systems.

"I have yet to use host in practice."

What do you like best about Planful? We are still currently implementing host. We hired UHY as our consultant and so far the experience has been ever pleasant. I think we will be using host with 6 months of the first date of activation. What do you dislike about Planful? I really dislike the naming conventions in host. Parent trees and leafs don't make sense to me. Why isn't it tree branches and leafs? or trunks branches and leaves. Also some of the things in host our not very intuitive ...

"Learning about the new updates for Host"

What do you like best about Planful? I enjoyed the guest speaker as he was both humble and real. What do you dislike about Planful? Nothing yet! But hoping for some more to come in the excitement category What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? Workforce planning is a very hard part of Host to use as it is incredibly manual and is sometimes a black box for creating CS/RS in the back end reporting section

"Host with the Most"

What do you like best? As a first timer, I enjoyed the flow of the events and the Host's commitment to the community (Wine | Water). I'm looking forward to the breakout sessions and learning more about unlocking Host's features. What do you dislike? For the first panel session, it would have been nice to have a live Q&A What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Planning and analysis

"pleased overall"

What do you like best about Planful? Like the easy to use, intuitive, logical planning and reporting What do you dislike about Planful? template mapping, process takes way too long What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? use the tool for all resource planning and reporting. Great too to view all resources.

"Helpful to a certain extent"

What do you like best? I like that Host mimics Excel functionality so there isn't a big learning curve for data entry and that it takes care of workforce planning, salary and benefits calculations. What do you dislike? Entering data such as a new fixed asset entry requires numerous clicks and it is extremely inconvenient when you have a lot of data to edit. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Planning. Data is centralized

"Actively Implementing"

What do you like best about Planful? The ability to create static scenarios for iteration references has helped us to follow our own budget process. We are looking forward to utilizing the statistical accounts to help us forecast off non financial data. What do you dislike about Planful? Creating full hierarchy build outs of statistical accounts before we understood them. Starting with one would have helped us be able to understand what else we wanted. What problems is Planful solving and ...

"easy to use, but its slow"

What do you like best about Planful? the spotlight reporting feature is very helpful What do you dislike about Planful? it takes a lot of time to upload forecast into host and running transaction details also takes forever What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? the spotlight feature helps me preparing the month end package for my business partner more efficient, giving me back a lot of time to work on other projects

"easy to use, but its slow"

What do you like best? the spotlight reporting feature is very helpful What do you dislike? it takes a lot of time to upload forecast into host and running transaction details also takes forever What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? the spotlight feature helps me preparing the month end package for my business partner more efficient, giving me back a lot of time to work on other projects

"How to Leverage Host Better"

What do you like best? Very flexible, Works well with Excel, has all the basics What do you dislike? Not intuitive, at times feels like programming What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Consistent process for closing the books, common template for budgeting