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

"Actively Implementing"

What do you like best? 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? 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 are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...

"Learning about the new updates for Host"

What do you like best? I enjoyed the guest speaker as he was both humble and real. What do you dislike? Nothing yet! But hoping for some more to come in the excitement category What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? 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

"High level budget super user"

What do you like best? The reporting capabilities are very easy to customize. What do you dislike? The WFP template has too many columns and can at times feel clunky. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Five year outlook strategic planning

"Use the product for consolidation"

What do you like best? Being able to pull summary information from all systems to this one. What do you dislike? It is hard to find help documents when having trouble or wanting to know what else it can do. Hard to change set up after the facts. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? having IS for all location in one report.

"Older Host User"

What do you like best about Planful? Host is always coming up with better and new technology. As an older user we've seen change for the last 10 years and are always impressed with the changes and how they keep rolling out new services throughout the year What do you dislike about Planful? When there are changes or get rid of things we don't know exactly where to look for them and help task can get confusing What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? It has made our ...

"Finance the Right Way"

What do you like best about Planful? Host Analytics helps finance evolve into a more effective business partner through maximizing reporting efficiencies and providing dynamic reports to assist in strategic decision making. Less time spent on data mining and data auditing = more time analyzing and providing recommendations to senior management. What do you dislike about Planful? Trying to understand if I was using the tool as effectively as possible in my current position or whether I could ...

"Host"

What do you like best? The flexibility of the product has created a new understanding of our data and new possible outputs. What do you dislike? thus far we have not completed the implementation however we have had issues with the netsuite connect. i did not like that the product was new to the market and we used it. I would have preferred not to use a brand new product. that was not communicated well. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? source ...

"Great system for closing/consolidation and reporting"

What do you like best? Cloud based, user friendly and great customer service/support. Intuitive., What do you dislike? We are still trying to get our arms around changes to the load process as it relates to mapping changes. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Reporting and reporting packages are much improved. Consolidation is great.

"Forecast & Budgeting"

What do you like best about Planful? We save 2 or 3 days on consolidations or our plants monthly forecast. What do you dislike about Planful? The implementation of new products in Host need to be simpler. What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? While using Host our forecast have become much more accurate. We spend out time analyzing the data instead of consolidating the data.

"Satisfied Customer"

What do you like best about Planful? Dashboarding is very easy and something we intend to make more use of. What do you dislike about Planful? Earlier reporting was not as robust as we expected and we now need to rebuild them. The original consulting firm we used was skilled in report building. What problems is Planful solving and how is that benefiting you? Original reports on old version and are clunky. Need re-implementation.