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Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT Overview

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What is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

Over 30 years of research and development went into making Financial Edge the most comprehensive, purpose-built accounting solution for nonprofits. With Financial Edge NXT, we’re bringing this thorough understanding of the unique needs and desires of nonprofits to the cloud, delivering a whole new level of performance and accessibility. Reliable, intuitive, and fully-integrated, our all-in-one solution brings you the most advanced technology and powerful tools to empower transparency, stewardship, and compliance. Best-in-class chat support is standard with Financial Edge NXT, providing unlimited access to support resources directly in the product. In addition, all upgrades and enhancements to the software are provided to users regularly as part of their subscription. Best practice online educational videos are included in the subscription price from Blackbaud University, while an extensive training curriculum is available through Blackbaud Learn with local, regional and online courses. With new classes every month, CPE credit-earning content, and exclusive sessions on strategy and best practices, Blackbaud has the premiere training offer for nonprofit accounting software. Financial Edge NXT offers multiple subscription-based packages to meet the needs of various types organizations, large or small, moderate needs or sophisticated, and across multiple industry verticals including human services, healthcare, private schools, higher education, arts & culture, and more. Blackbaud also offers software for fundraising, school administration, foundation management, outcomes measurement, corporate social responsibility, and more. More than 30,000 nonprofit organizations have already benefited from the superior software and support that Blackbaud offers.

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Financial Edge NXT is the first-of-its-kind cloud accounting solution for nonprofits thats intuitive, reliable, and built exactly the way nonprofits want it. It is advanced technology with powerful reporting tools to help your accounting team drive efficiency, transparency, and financial stewardship while enabling you to seamlessly manage transactions, eliminate manual processes, and securely share information in an instant.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Backed by ideas and best practices generated from more than 30 years of research and development in nonprofit technology, Financial Edge NXT gives your organization access to true fund accounting in a responsive, beautiful interface – all delivered securely in your internet browser and all designed with the comprehensive fund-accounting capabilities that thousands of nonprofits have trusted for years from Financial Edge.

The system is easy to use, even for people who have little accounting or computer experience. A wide range ready-to-go reports meet the special needs of nonprofit organizations and comply with FASB 116 & 117, while Financial Edge NXT’s user-friendly design makes finding information easier than ever, saving your organization from time-consuming searches and investigation.

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Blackbaud
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Year Founded
1981
HQ Location
Charleston, South Carolina
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@blackbaud
33,432 Twitter followers
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3,456 employees on LinkedIn®
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NASDAQ:BLKB
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+1.843.216.6200
Total Revenue (USD mm)
$913
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Serving the nonprofit and education sectors for 30 years, Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) combines technology and expertise to help organizations achieve their missions.

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What do you like best about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

I really like how easy it is to use and export things like reports in an easier fashion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

Some of the screens the journal entry one in particular could be a bit more user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it for our whole accounting system so that is benefiting us by not having to use andother GL system like QB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

The best thing about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT is the auto populate for repeating invoices. This helps to save valuable time. When I have any issues, the Customer Support team is there to assist or I can even use the frequently asked questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

I cannot think of anything that I do not like about FENXT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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BB FENXT helps to save our company time and in the process, money! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I like the ease of use and how quickly I was able to pick up how to use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I don't like how they're discontinuing database view in favor of webview only Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our finance team use it to do all of our accounting. I have used this software primarily for accounts payable and it has been reliable, easy to use, and quick to pick up and add value to the team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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BB FE NXT is fairly easy to use and can be pretty intuitive once you understand the basic workings of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

I am looking forward to all of the features of Financial Edge to be migrated and available in FE NXT, rather than having to perform certain processes in the FE 7 database view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to set up coding within the system to manage our over 8,000 projects. By assigning coding for school/agency, department, purpose, restriction, and more we are able to provide reporting and access security for the University that we are partnered with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I like expense management and routing expenses for approval Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

that you cannot run a trial balance without running a report. also printing reports you have to export first. and entering ap - wish it would use ocr Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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tracking our accounting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is easy to use and reporting from the finacial edge NXT is very neat and easy to understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

There are are limited functionalities. There are a lot functionalities that required additional payments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Limited in functionalities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I enjoy the ease of navigation when looking for information. The tremendous number of links within the software make it easey to find information and quickly return back to a previous list or category. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

The software lacks in core functionality, relying too much on third parties to compliment or augment its shortcomings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I have not seen any features unique to the product that are not avalible in competing products with more robust features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It's very useful for accounting and creating reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

The time it takes to solve an error in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to do payment assistant and do away with paper checks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

The ability to attach and store documentation with each transaction. It has been a great help in our journey to create a paperless work environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

We use the Administrative and Configuration tools quite a bit. It would be nice to have them more clearly label, maybe across the top ribbon. They seem to be hidden. Or they can be something that is viewable based on user permissions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to create more in depth reporting to assist us in product development and budget forecasting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Web based and integrated with ACH process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT?

At times slower and bank integration for doing reconciliatioin sometime fails for certain bank account Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT solving and how is that benefiting you?

Tracking finance and reporting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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