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Place Overview

What is Place?

The Revenue Management Software Built Natively on Salesforce Place is the only RevOps platform purpose-built within Salesforce to power end-to-end revenue management and accurate financial planning for high-growth SaaS companies. Say goodbye to data silos, spreadsheets, disconnects, and revenue leakage. Place keeps your entire business on the same page with connected revenue processes and insights - enabling SaaS companies to scale fearlessly into the future. By unifying siloed systems into Salesforce as the single source of truth, Place seamlessly connects sales, billing, revenue recognition, forecasting, and planning across one trusted platform. This eliminates painful manual processes while enhancing cross-functional alignment. Place equips RevOps, go-to-market teams, finance, and accounting teams with integrated tools to: -Automate billing, subscription, and revenue workflows natively in Salesforce, eliminating revenue leakage -Generate invoices, close the loop between new business, cash, and the data that teams need in real time -Gain real-time visibility into revenue analytics and KPIs -Generate reliable forecasts with drivers based on customer insights -Prepare accurate reporting for stakeholders and the board The results for SaaS leaders is accelerated growth, operational excellence, and strategic finance powered by Salesforce. Place lets you maximize enterprise value by optimizing revenue generation, predictability, and financial strategy.

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Place is a suite of corporate performance and revenue lifecycle management solutions that live within Salesforce and sync with your accounting system to automate customer subscriptions, billing, and revenue recognition, and produce accurate financial forecasts and current SaaS metrics that help you guide the company more effectively.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Place is built intentionally for early-stage B2B SaaS companies to connect their financial forecasting and planning more strategically to their order-to-cash processes, all inside the comfort of Salesforce. The Place platform addresses unique SaaS business challenges related to managing customer subscription growth and churn, timely SaaS metrics reporting and dashboards, billing, revenue and expense recognition, entity consolidations, financial forecasting, and headcount planning.

Historically, early-stage SaaS companies have either relied on Excel for managing customer subscriptions, corporate forecasts, and metrics, or they have cobbled together numerous software systems, or they have adopted enterprise-level tools that were built for much larger companies and take months or years to implement. Place lives where the revenue teams already spend most of their time – in Salesforce – which allows finance teams to meet them there and align more closely, to reduce friction and grow faster.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2018
HQ Location
Austin, Texas
Twitter
@PlaceTechnology
128 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
18 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Place Reviews

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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Forecasting Made Easy"
Easy to understand expense/revenue structure allows me to create and tweak forecasts without sifting through all the data available.
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Subscription Billing and Revenue Management"
The invoicing is much more efficient for our team having Place integrated with Salesforce. Place integration was a long process but the team assist...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"Great Team to Work With"
The people that work there. Every step of the way, we have enjoyed the people we have talked to and worked with. Makes the product that much better.
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Place Demo - Adaptable Forecasting with Transaction-Level Details
Gain the flexibility and freedom to build more resilient financial models on-demand that easily reflect the business changes on the ground. Dynamically produce P&L forecasts and cash projections that are based on real transactions to gain a new level of accuracy and efficiency.
Place Demo - Streamline Revenue
Manage recurring and non-recurring revenue like a dream with features built to streamline complexity. Leverage your Salesforce Sales Cloud sales pipeline and quota schedules to build robust sales plans.
Place Demo - Consolidations
Connect any number of business entities and simplify the production of consolidated financials, including foreign currency translations, eliminations, and adjustments.
Place Demo - Expense  Management
Easily handle recurring and non-recurring expenses and allocate those expenses automatically at the organization, location, department, role and employee levels.
Place Demo - Workforce Planning & Management
Plan and adapt your hiring strategy based on financial projections. Control salaries, commissions, bonuses and taxes. Understand the true cost of employees by associating non-wage expenses.
Place Demo - Visualize with Drag-and-Drop Reports & Dashboards
Build unique reports and dashboards that utilize the wealth of financial and operational data now at your fingertips.
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Jay K.
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CPA
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Place?

The ability to sync with Xero gives PlaceCPM your actual financial data right along your forecast data right in Salesforce. Makes for a powerful analysis engine, helping you run your business and make timely, smart decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

Not much! As an automator, I want to eliminate all data entry. Would like to be able to add Zapier to push data to Place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have our financial data readily available on our CRM. This gives us what we need to run our business. Having financial projections and actual revenue and expenses right in the system we use all day makes it super easy to make business decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for the review, Jay! We really value your feedback and partnership.

Deepak A.
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What do you like best about Place?

The ability to link Quickbooks to Salesforce to give an overarching view of projected costs and revenue is really helpful. We can review our forecasts based on the deals in our opportunity pipeline or based on quota we've assigned to our sales reps. I thought the concept was really cool as it merges historical data with projections to give a holistic view of the financial health of the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

The customer success team is very helpful in setting everything up and did a great job with our account. I thought they could have more self serve features, but I'm sure they are working on this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Place:

Check whether they integrate with your CRM and accounting software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to slowly move away from static excel modeling to dynamic financial forecasting. Also the ability to combine Quickbooks and Salesforce data gives us good visibility into our cash flow pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for the feedback, Deepak! Great to hear you're happy with the product and our awesome customer success team. We recently rolled out a self-service knowledge hub (linked below) that you might find useful.

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What do you like best about Place?

PlaceCPM really helps us plan on our future. We are a professional services company, so it's ability to handle revenue and cash forecasting for project based revenue streams is incredible. We now easily forecast our cash flow basically in real time.

We also have really enjoyed working with the Place team. They go the extra mile and have focused on making sure we were leveraging the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

We have not really had any issues with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our immediate needs were related to cash projections and forecasting the income statement. They do a great job on solving these challenges, and we really like how you can drill down into specific entries from the accounting system. We also really like the integration with the Opportunity records in Salesforce. This makes it very easy to forecast revenue, but also to include deals once they are booked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for the feedback, Greg! We really value your partnership. Great to hear you're seeing the value in live, transaction-level data at your fingertips.

Alexa P.
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Director Of Finance And Administration
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Place?

I'm excited to have a streamlined tool that forecasts both P&L and cash flow. This solution replaces my clunky Excel sheets and eliminates errors when trying to adjust individual expenditures. The tool even forecasts my revenue directly from our sales database. It doesn't get better than this! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

As with any software, there is a learning curve associated with adopting new technology. Fortunately, the system takes hardly any time at all to get used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Place:

Try it! You won't be disappointed. I've implemented and used several forecasting tools and none of them were able to tackle both P&L and Cash Flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our revenue is being forecast in real time with current data versus using historical data. This allows us to have a more accurate forecast and be better able to plan for resource allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for sharing your feedback, Alexa! We value your partnership.

Brandon S.
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CFO
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What do you like best about Place?

I really like that Place CPM links to both of our Salesforce and Quickbook instances to transfer data seamlessly and easily into one area where I can see a real-time forecast of our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

It would be helpful to have a cheat sheet or some documentation that centralizes the workflows that you as a business owner need to be responsible for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

To be able to see real-time where we are at from a cash and profitability standpoint is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

We appreciate the feedback, Brandon! Connecting your business's data in real-time is what we're all about.

Verified User in Accounting
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What do you like best about Place?

The dashboard is straightforward to understand and navigate. Appreciate the ability to view forecasting by client, by staff member, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

The setup is cumbersome and time-consuming Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Budgeting and forecasting; the ability to have long term forecasting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for taking the time to review PlaceCPM! We really appreciate your feedback.

Soumya M.
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CMO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Place?

Having a tool like Place CPM has made our financial forecasting and decision-making process a whole lot easier. Reports and dashboards can be pulled up a granular level and across entities and that's an important part of how we make quick decisions. The setup and implementation worked like a charm with timely support from the Place team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

We've not hit any challenges during our usage. The Place team has always been available right from the setup phase, so we are not too worried about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Though we had been using multiple products including QuickBooks for different parts our accounting process, PlaceCPM has added that layer of easy financial forecasting for P&L and cash that we needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

We appreciate the feedback, Soumya!

Verified User in Management Consulting
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What do you like best about Place?

The PlaceCPM team is second to none. Very thorough understanding of their product and the needs of the modern-day CFO/controller. The tool itself provides excellent visibility into both P&L and cash forecasting. Very thoughtfully designed with an excellent implementation process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

As with all tools that offer this much, the set-up process takes some patience. But the PlaceCPM team is fantastic and goes out of their way to ensure a smooth and seamless onboarding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Place:

There are quite a few forecasting tools out there. Fewer, perhaps, built directly on force.com. Most are notoriously expensive and/or only marginally better than just using MS Excel. PlaceCPM, however, has built something power and unique, and it's absolutely worth exploring! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cashflow forecasting integrated with our sales pipeline. The tool specifically meets that need as it is built directly on the force.com platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback! We're glad to hear you're happy with the tool's capabilities and our onboarding team.

Verified User in Legal Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Place?

PlaceCPM allows us to quickly re-adjust our forecasts in a timely fashion and has been a game-changer for our business. Using the cash variance analysis has been a wonderful addition to our forecasting flow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

Transaction-level budgeting can seem repetitive and takes some adjustment, but the Place team is always available to share best practices and optimize our use of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

Merging our Quickbooks data into our annual budget has given us the ability to quickly see how our projections compare against our actuals. We now have more accurate forecasts since using the PlaceCPM platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for the review! We take a lot of pride in doing right by our customers, so we're glad to hear you're happy with the level of support our team provides.

Sivasree D.
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Place?

Great team members. Very friendly and helpful. Right from demo they ensure we are at pace with them. PlaceCPM is very flexible and adaptable. As an executive it is very crucial to understand the finances of our organization and they have made it vey easy and transparent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Place?

We are a happy customer. The product really suits our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Place solving and how is that benefiting you?

PlaceCPM helped us remove the messed up excels and equations, toggling from one sheet to another. We are now able to get a clear and transparent view of our finances, where we are at, where we can improve etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Ben Sperry of Place

Thanks for the review, Sivasree! We're glad to hear you're loving PlaceCPM.