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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

It's helpful for forecast and budgeting. I'm having a great customer experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

I need big parent accounts for a sub-parent accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Walked through the steps to create a financial forecast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PlanGuru Overview

What is PlanGuru?

PlanGuru is a tool for budgeting, forecasting, and performance review for small and mid-sized companies, it has a simple, intuitive interface and solid integration with Quickbooks and Excel make implementation and utilization simple for businesses of all sizes and shapes.

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PlanGuru is a tool for budgeting, forecasting, and performance review for small and mid-sized companies, it has a simple, intuitive interface and solid integration with Quickbooks and Excel make implementation and utilization simple for businesses of all sizes and shapes.


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PlanGuru
Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
Wilkes Barre, PA
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Overall - Great Experience"
Keeps all my financials/budgets in one place
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"PlanGuru is a helpful and relatively inexpensive tool for forecasting and budgeting"
PlanGuru's capacity to consolidate multiple operating entities into a high-level view has been my favorite feature. Rather than having a spreadshee...
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Stephen F.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent System and Very Well Developed"
The assistance and support during set up was invaluable for a user such as myself: small business owner without a lot of financial planning and bud...
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PlanGuru Media

PlanGuru Demo - Income Statement
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PlanGuru Demo - Balance Sheet
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PlanGuru Demo - Cash Flow
Shows both the Actual Results in blue as well as the Forecast for the same accounts in green
PlanGuru Demo - Income Statement Budget
This is a Budget created and Archived so that any Actual Results that are imported in the future can affect the Rolling Forecast but not the Budget
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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

Working with PlanGuru feels very intuative. One of the best features is how quickly the software reacts to updates and changes and imports the data from our accoutning software.. I have yet to run into situation while building our model that a work around could not be found for something specific I needed. The support schedules are a great feature to build in detailed items such as personnel schedules etc. Overall I am very happy with PlanGuru....wish I had found it a little bit earlier. Also, the support staff is amazing, so willign to jump in and help and made theimplemenation piece go smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

The excel reporting can be a little tricky becuase of how percise it needs to be for the data to import. But anyone with strong excel skills should have no problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our current forecasting software was terrible, constantly breaking and havign to rebuild. PlanGuru is a much better option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

The best part about Plan Guru is the support that you get from their team. Unlike other softwares that have you speak with chat bots, Plan Guru has real people with a depth of knowledge that makes the integration of our financial data into the software a breeze. I have only skimmed the surface of the many features that the program offers and am excited to learn more. Being able to create one excel document with a plethora of easily discernable KPI's and data sets has been such a game changer for executive reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

There are lots of features which definitely adds to the confusion I had at times. But the Plan Guru team was able to support me everytime I was a a bit stuck. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having all of our data in one place, having it be malleable, and being able to build larger reports relatively simply. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

PlanGuru has enabled me to avoid budgeting in Excel, most importantly. Excel can work, but in my experience, it is too easy to make mistakes once you get into modeling multiple scenarios and utilize a lot of formulas. Also, PlanGuru adds a ton of reporting and the ability to budget at the beginning of the year and then have a separate forecast that I can adjust throughout the year based on recent performance. Additionally, using PlanGuru, I can dig into my budget and easily forecast on a per GL account, which I found difficult to maintain in Excel. Lastly, I can tell the tool was built with flexibility in mind, with lots of configuration available and even the ability to report directly in Excel, allowing me to continue to utilize Excel for those times when the canned reports are not enough to meet the need.

The support offered by the PanGuru team has been outstanding. I rarely receive emails from a software company volunteering to provide support. They genuinely want their users to get the most out of their product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

I haven't run into any downsides yet other than another software license to pay for. But it's well worth the money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The biggest problem I needed to solve was to be able to budget and forecast my financials, not utilizing Excel. Keeping bugs out of my spreadsheets was an ongoing challenge, and strategic financial planning is too important to rely on a tool that very possibly could contain errors. PlanGuru eliminated the need for me to maintain my own formulas and develop my own spreadsheets to maintain my budget and forecast different scenarios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

PlanGuru's capacity to consolidate multiple operating entities into a high-level view has been my favorite feature. Rather than having a spreadsheet pulling from numerous external data sources, I can consolidate the information in one place without having to worry about busted formulas and data links. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

The ability to move line items on the financial statements is clunky and time consuming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

PlanGuru does a great job of consolidating multiple forecasts and budgets into a master view. That has been a huge benefit for me because our holding company owns 4 operating entities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

Keeps all my financials/budgets in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

It did take several months to get to where I needed to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Makes it easy to upload the financials on a monthly basis and have a budget to actual report that I can pull into excel. Before I was just doing everythign in excel. This helps keep the history as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

Fairly easy to use after initial set up and some time spent with the implementation team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

There is no ability to add extra years to the project without recreating it from scratch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Taking multiple excel templates and getting everything into one place. In addition, the sync with actuals allows us to keep a close eye on cash flow and it provides various reporting options that are useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

PlanGuru has moved me away from interconnected spreadsheets that were vulnerable to errors. Also, the speed at which we can produce scenrios has made my job enjoyable to the task of forcasting. PlanGuru is evolving to meet the needs of their users. I receive calls to switch to other products but no one is able to meet their value. They could charge so much more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

I don't have any dislikes of PlanGuru. The product keeps evolving, the value is incredible and their service has never let me down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The benefits of PlanGuru are to do things quickly and with ease. Great tool for incorporating the impact of an acquistion into your current situation. I'm so happy I found PlanGuru as a tool to do my job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lynn P.
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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

PlanGuru is intuitive and effective. It is a tool that is not only tracking budgeting and forecasting but is designed to help you think about these issues. I particularly use the various methods for budgeting. The Excel-Add in moves this tool into one we will use for ongoing analysis. And last - but not least - the support is excellent! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

Bringing over actual data - and historical data - could use less key strokes. But the accuracy of the process is superb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to lock in a budget - and then do forecasting as we move through the year - within one view is fantastic.

The cash flow analysis will give us a cash management tool for the first time.

Game changers! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

Creating a budget and keeping track of financials is easy. Before I switched to plan guru, I was using Excel. I would have to download several reports from QuickBooks and the slightest change in anything could cause the whole spreadsheet to not work. Plan Guru syncs QB so I only need to log in and press the import button to get all of the actuals I need to make future decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

Nothing at the moment! I had an issue with it running extremely slow, but it was an issue on my side. I'm still setting up my budgets so I haven't ran into anything I dislike yet, but I'm sure with time I will be able to provide useful feedback to the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Plan guru is helping me by providing a simple user interface to budget, forecast, and analyze actual data. I was using Excel before, and Plan Guru has allowed me to get more information for less time and less hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about PlanGuru?

The product is intuitive and easy to navigate. I like that if gives you the ability upload the COA from multiple accounting softwares. Video training is also exceptional. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about PlanGuru?

The product still needs to have "project based" units on the budgeting side that can roll up to the full budget. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Forecasting for my client is the main function for PlanGuru however I will also be using it for Cash flow management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.