# Centage Reviews **Vendor:** Centage Corporation **Category:** [FP&A Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/fp-a-financial-planning-analysis) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About Centage FP&A Software That Frees You From Spreadsheet Chaos. Built for teams that have outgrown Excel, Centage is the only FP&A platform that combines powerful AI-powered automations, seamless collaboration, and multi-entity reporting. Centage’s built-in financial and business logic allows users to quickly create and update their budgets and forecasts and never worry about formulas, functions, links, or any custom programming. It is the only solution in the market that offers synchronized P&L, balance sheet, and automatically generated cash flow reporting. With direct line-of-sight into the organization's financial health, Centage helps clients react quickly to market changes and capitalize on new opportunities. ## Centage Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **ease of budgeting** with Centage, enhancing their financial planning for quarterly goals. (1 reviews) - Users find **budgeting for quarterly plans** significantly easier with Centage, enhancing their financial planning process. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of use** and appreciate Centage's commitment to innovation and excellent support. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **responsive and helpful Customer Support** team at Centage for effectively addressing issues. (1 reviews) - Users value the **customizability** of Centage, allowing tailored calculations and flexible reporting to suit various needs. (1 reviews) - Customization (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **ease of use** of Centage, making budgeting and forecasting a simple and efficient process. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **wide variety of features** in Centage, enhancing financial planning and reporting across multiple companies. (1 reviews) - Financial Management (1 reviews) - Forecasting Efficiency (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **difficult customization** options in Centage cumbersome, particularly due to the lengthy data download process. (1 reviews) - Users face challenges with **Excel compatibility** , requiring time-consuming downloads and limited customization options in Analytics Maestro. (1 reviews) - Users face **Excel integration issues** as data transfer is a lengthy two-step process, impacting efficiency. (1 reviews) - Users desire **improvements for functionality** to align Centage more closely with Excel for better usability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** options frustrating, affecting their ability to tailor the data views effectively. (1 reviews) - Users experience **missing features** with Centage, specifically regarding budget line deletions and processing speed. (1 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with delays in data updates, affecting the timeliness of financial reporting. (1 reviews) - Project Delays (1 reviews) - Refresh Issues (1 reviews) - Update Issues (1 reviews) ## Centage Reviews ### 1. Easy Nonprofit Org Budgeting **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren C. | Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 21, 2026 **What do you like best about Centage?** I use Centage for budgeting in my nonprofit organization. Centage easily keeps track of our budgeted expenses organized by division and department, and it helps us keep track of the many details within our personnel expenses such as fringe benefits, FICA taxes, and salary increases. It automatically allocates our overhead allocation of central operations costs to our revenue-generating divisions, which saves a lot of time each month when re-forecasting monthly expenses. I like that I have the flexibility to make my edits in Excel and then import that to the system. It gives me the flexibility to get to a greater level of detail on expenses so that I can review them with department heads, and it makes it easy to quickly change or reforecast data depending on our actual monthly usage of budgeted funds. A Centage representative helped us tailor the software to our needs upon setup, and thoroughly trained me on how to make updates on my own. Overall I enjoy working with the software. **What do you dislike about Centage?** I do find that the deployment of the plan and cube (as it relates to Analytics Maestro) can be a bit clunky and time consuming if I want to see the impact of budget changes in the Excel reports that I share with leaders outside of the finance team. I also find that the system is not user-friendly to non-finance people, and so I don't feel comfortable giving access to department heads. Instead I am the sole user of the system and all data entry must be handle by me. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables me to easily manage complex personnel costs and run scenario planning. It makes re-forecasting of departmental expenses much easier since I can make edits in Excel and import that data back into the system quickly. ### 2. Easy Budget Versioning and Impressive Meastro Analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adriaan V. | Head of Finance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2026 **What do you like best about Centage?** I like how easy it is to create new versions of my budget and compare them side by side. The additional functionality of Meastro Analytics is also very impressive. **What do you dislike about Centage?** The initial setup process is quite time consuming. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centage is saving our team so much time with managing multiple budgets and version control. ### 3. Easy Data Downloads to Centage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Individual & Family Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2026 **What do you like best about Centage?** The ease of downloading data from our system to Centage **What do you dislike about Centage?** Updating and refreshing can be longer than expected. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use centage for annual budgeting process. ### 4. Great System - Amazing Time Saver - Very User Friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tracy S. | Senior Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2025 **What do you like best about Centage?** The ability for multiple users to access the information simultaneously The ability to build scenarios for personnel costs The ability to control access to various user levels The ability to generate reports at various dimension levels The ability to do mass updates to personnel costs using drivers **What do you dislike about Centage?** I can't think of any at this time. It has met all my expectations. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Consolidation of 25 Excel Sheets to create annual budget Consolidation of Budget v Actual in Excel ### 5. Great Planning, Budgeting and Reporting Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Karen P. | Executive Director, Finance, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** The financial reporting tool - Maestro Analytics and the Personnel module, the budgeting section, and the forecasting tool are my favorite parts of Centage.Implementation and Product support are also top notch. Centage has a wide variety of features. The integration with D365 Business Central is top notch. **What do you dislike about Centage?** The only downside I see with Centage is the delay in posted entries to when they are reflected in the financials. I do think this will be a feature enhancement in the future to where data can be updated multiple times a day. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centage replaced our former report writer that had many technical issues. We are also able to pull in the budget directly from Centage and not have to load it into our ERP to include in financials. Centage has replaced our excel budget reports which no matter how many reviews are done, spreadsheet errors are inherent in the process. The budgeting process is simplified by including separate revenue, expense, and personnel budgets. The personnel budgets also take out the manual process of payroll and unemployment tax calculations. The budgeting process also allows for allocations and percentage based budgeting, thus eliminating more manual calculations in Excel. In addition, developing a forecast was a painstaking manual process. Centage allows the forecast to be rolling and I am able to include this with ease in my financial reports and budget reports. ### 6. Best tool for planning, budgeting and reporting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela G. | Executive VP Finance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Centage?** Ability to budget at a very granular level and adapt it to your industry needs. **What do you dislike about Centage?** Slow in implementing the updates. It will be helpful to have those new features sooner rather than later. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Budgeting at a very granular level using specifics of our industry. ### 7. Flexible and powerful budgeting solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** We have a number of different revenue streams and Centage allows us to create custom calculations and setting as we need them. I also like the variety of reporting options using the Analytics Maestro add on to really get an understanding of our data in order to best plan for the future. The Customer Support team is very responsive and helpful in addressing any issues. **What do you dislike about Centage?** Because the Analytics Maestro is used with Excel, there is a download process to move the data that you need. In order to get the most current actual data this is a two-step process which can take up to 30 minutes. Part of it could be set to run automatically but I prefer to do it as needed. Also, some of the screens have default views for certain elements and it would be better if those could be customized. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using an out-of-date program that we were unable to make changes to. The Centage platform is very customizable for individual needs and provides a wide variety of reporting options. We've been able to view our data in ways that we weren't before and it is very helpful with identifying trends and anomalies. ### 8. Great Rollup Features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hope T. | Vice President, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** We really like the rollup features of Planning Maestro. We manage 65 companies with different ownership, so being able to look at plans by company, by manager, by division, etc is extremely helpful. **What do you dislike about Centage?** End users would like some functions similar to Excel functions. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us hold department managers accountable to a plan. In addition, it helps us provide budgets and forecasts to owners. ### 9. Powerful and Time-Saving Budgeting and Forecasting Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alan L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** The tool is highly configurable, eliminates the error-prone manual Excel process for budgeting and forecasting, increases our accuracy, and is an enormous time saver. I cannot imagine managing the finances of our non-profit without it. The customer service team responds quickly to my requests, is knowledgeable, and is excellent to work with. **What do you dislike about Centage?** While it's true that setting up the tool and learning to utilize its capabilities fully can take some time, the customer service team is always there to guide you. In my five years of using the product, I've always received the support I needed to meet every reporting deadline. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centage has eliminated our error-prone and time-consuming manual Excel process, giving us more time to consider the numbers. It enables us to generate our monthly budget to actual and forecast reports quickly. More timely and accurate data allows us to make better and faster decisions. **Official Response from Peter Messana:** > Thank you for the review. We continue to work on improving the ease of use and are releasing a ton of improvements in the user experience later in 2024 that should both make it easier and create a faster onboarding time. The ultimate goal is to reduce time to value so you are up and running faster and achieve that error free collaborative budgeting we bring. ### 10. Centage Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** It has been a lot easier to budget for our quarterly plans by using Centage. **What do you dislike about Centage?** It only updates at the end of the day to actuals in our ERP system. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helpful that many users can provide their inputs directly into the software. ### 11. Centage tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** easy to use, continue to innovate, support **What do you dislike about Centage?** teams want it to function more like excel **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** BVA reports, assisting the teams with budgeting and forecasting. We have a small org, so end users interact with the tool and input their budget and forecasts. **Official Response from Andrew Fear:** > Thank you for your feedback! We're glad your team is enjoying Centage. We understand the importance of Excel-like functionality, so our product team is working on updates to Worksheets to provide a more familiar Excel experience. These updates will be delivered by the end of the year. Cheers! ### 12. Cost effective easy to use budgeting system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angelito S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Centage?** Customer support. Ease of use. Being able to create multi-budget version. Able to copy budget versions. Datalink/driver. New feature of locking budget versions. **What do you dislike about Centage?** Unable to delete multiple budget lines, drivers/datalinks. Somewhat slow when processing. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Annual budgeting and updating budgets **Official Response from Peter Messana:** > Thank you for the review. Releasing later in 2024 is the ability to delete multiple lines and such. The Worksheets will look, feel, and act very Excel like while still minimizing the errors and improving collaboration! ### 13. Great budgeting software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** April C. | Controller, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Centage?** Planning Maestro is an excellent planning tool. It is easy to use, allows for long term budgeting and more frequent forecasting. Once the software is set up, it is relatively easy to maintain it. It has a lot of flexibility - budgeting with as much detail or as little as your organization requires. It integrates with several accounting packages so that actual information can be brought into PM with ease. Refreshable reports in Excel is a bonus. **What do you dislike about Centage?** mass updates are a bit more problematic as changes in information often result in duplicate records that have to be removed. There is no copy/paste function which existed in the prior version of the software **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Producing a budget is simplified with Planning Maestro. With never ending categories, information can be updated year to year and serves as a good starting point for budgets yearly. We produce our budgets more quickly now in weeks instead of months. ### 14. Driving analytics with business intelligence tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick S. | Controller, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2022 **What do you like best about Centage?** What I like best about Planning Maestro is the proprietary nature of the software. It allows the user to cater financial reports based on the user of the financial information. **What do you dislike about Centage?** To get real-time data that ties back to your source ERP the integration must be perfect. The integration process can be challenging and cumbersome at first given the fact you may be new to using the software or it's your first time performing this task. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** At my organization, we are using Planning Maestro to drive management by the numbers. We're realizing quick pivot forecasting methods to help our divisional managers drive performance from operations. ### 15. Do yourself a big favor: run, don't walk, from even considering Centage Planning Maestro **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Centage?** I don't like anything about Centage Planning Maestro. **What do you dislike about Centage?** I disliked wasting so much time and effort with a bad product. I also disliked getting poor support, which manifested in being passed from one person to another and problems not getting fixed. Our primary person didn't know her own solution well, so she kept saying she'd speak with an engineer. Days became weeks, and nothing got resolved. I also disliked getting threatened by their law firm, when I complained publicly. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** There are so many solutions out there. Do yourself a favor and find something that works. Unless you want tons of problems that waste your time, in which case, go ahead. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was meant to help my company with budgeting. Since the integration failed, we got zero benefits. ### 16. From Zero to Budgeting Hero **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BJ T. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Integration, collaboration, what if analysis, reporting . . . the list goes on. BM gives me the tools necessary to get the job done, fast & accurate. The integration of the tool allows me to keep in sync all budget changes with the GL. BM allows for multiple people at once to update budget figures and collaborate across the company. The built in "What If" tool creates fast accurate scenarios we can use when making critical decisions. Analytics Maestro brings the best of both worlds together by combining the reporting power of Excel and the database of information in BM. **What do you dislike about Centage?** BM has a built-in reporting tool, but I don't use it. It's another report tool I don't want to learn to use, and therefore I dislike it. Instead I use Analytics Maestro, which is more intuitive, and more powerful than most reporting tools out there. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** Implementation is always a big unknown when looking at new software. BM was one of the best implementations I have ever been through. The BM Team was on top of what needed to occur and made sure they correctly heard and understood our needs. We started the process dangerously close to our budget season, but was ready to go on time, fully trained, and 2 years of prior data in the database for us to compare against. If you need a reliable budgeting & forecasting tool with a fantastic implementation team then Budget Maestro has what you need. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed & Accuracy, two words you don't associate with budgeting very often. With BM we are able to budget for a multi-million dollar company with multiple industry complexities in a way that we can rely on that data and not take forever to get it. We have cut our budget cycle time by over 50%, eliminated hours of data entry, and made our budgets and forecasts valuable to our company and stakeholders. ### 17. Powerful, flexible, and reliable budgeting software software functions as promised **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Ease of use and affordability. The ability to design your budget without having to pay someone to configure the software is inexpensive. Has all the features that small businesses need and their budget needs.Centage provides strong customerservice and was a great value for our organization. **What do you dislike about Centage?** We were still using an older version last I had checked and well there's one particular report that we like that could not duplicate the newer version to our satisfaction and the databse creates most mistakes for us. We shoudn't have had to resort to that. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** It would be important for any organization to analyze its data and structure requirements before selecting a budgeting tool that best complements its data needs. Centage is one of the best in that regard but their dedicated support team needs to step it up in terms of allowing the same reports across all their versions. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Financial presentations and eliminationg of excel spreadsheets to a more dedicated software solution. ### 18. Excellent tool with great features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dean J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** I like the reduction of our need for Excel spreadsheets. It has a better structure for data collection and processing. It's a Windows-based product that is easy to learn and use. We can quickly create multiple versions within a plan and what-if scenarios. We can quickly import actual data from our ERP system and take the actual, budget and forecasted data into Excel for custom financial reporting and analysis. **What do you dislike about Centage?** The current structure of sending an email to get on the support staff's calendar for a call is too slow for me. I prefer to call, get in the queue, and then get an answer immediately. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Budget Maestro really helps me make sure that my spread method is correct. Also, it is easy to use the data to create charts and graphs and make the financial data consumable to those budget owners that may not have a strong finance background. ### 19. Budget Software to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** The layout - it is easy to just click your way around and find what you're looking for. I use it to track the delivery of projects and the associated maintenance that goes with them. Easy to enter new records and update as the delivery date changes. **What do you dislike about Centage?** At first we set it up incorrectly and did not take advantage of the user training that Budget Maestro offered. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** Use the support they provide when setting up Budget Maestro for the 1st time. We did not and went 6-7 months setting it up incorrectly on our own. We used the in office support and was able to set it up within a short period of time correctly. Also use the conference calls for support once you have it set up and are using it to help you along the way **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** The use of very large excel files for budgeting as well as large files when reporting monthly to other business users. Also wanted to get in all of our headcount, project and contracts into one database instead of many different excel files. ### 20. Great Experience, very good support and flexibility in terms of training schedule. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** I like the level of detail a budget can be created.I also like the fact that after the initial set up the time to update the budgets for the following years is very much reduced. I also like that we are able to see the actuals and use that information for next year budget. **What do you dislike about Centage?** I don't like the fact that not all the input information can be printed in a report form. I also don't like the fact that the information can be easily deleted without any warnings. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a business that has multiple entities and consolidation was a problem. We were using Excel before and if you are not the owner of the spreadsheet you may not know how the template works and make mistakes by changing formulas. ### 21. Great Customer Service and Experience with the Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric K. | Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Great customer experience. Our company uses an older version, but we still have the ability to create new dimensions for Post Audit Adjustments, pro forma reporting, and any other measure we decide we would like to compare against. **What do you dislike about Centage?** Limited capabilities on older version so we only had 6 dimension capability. This was creating a challenge for our organization as we have over 300,000 rows of data per year to slice and dice. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** The cloud based demo appears to be a strong product for the end user. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the product for our Annual Budget process for over 60 branches. We also use the product for daily retrievals of actuals to compare against our Budget to help gauge the strength of our individual offices across the organization. ### 22. Our experience with Budget Maestro **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Henry A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Budget Maestro really gives us control of the budgeting process and has actually help us move beyond budgeting and into longer range planning horizons with ease **What do you dislike about Centage?** Take a little getting used to but the support is excellent and will get you there ! **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** Good Solution and an upgrade over excel based budget tools **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We reduced the stress of the budget cycle and process and having a great tool helps build confidence in the planning process ### 23. Vice President of Finance **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Environmental Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Budget Maestro is easy to implement and configure to your needs. You can also change or improve your budgeting and forecasting model as things change or you decide to get more granular with your budgets. **What do you dislike about Centage?** I can't really think of anything I dislike. We have the web based version so it is cumbersome at times to save files on the web server and then copy them down to our server for emailing and sharing internally but I think this is where most software is going. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centage Budget Maestro has allowed us to build our budgets in more detail than in the past and therefore we are able to change certain variables to see what the impact will be. We also can easily re-forecast the year periodically without much effort, just adjusting for changes in hires/terms and adjusting the drivers as necessary. ### 24. Effective Budget Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** We enjoy the ease of use and ability to organize a lot of complicated data in one system. **What do you dislike about Centage?** The system can be hard to navigate from screen to screen or instead of navigating to different screens it would be nice if more information was available pertaining the screen. I believe with the new BM release many of these concerns would be addressed. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** If you are looking for a more sophisticated system which can combine the aspects of multiple excel spreadsheets into one software this will be the system for you. It is nice that they have great support when you need it and they are continually trying to update and improve the program. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are getting a better handle and visibility of our budget by departments. We've been able to use reports from BM to hold monthly meetings helping to keep managers informed of their budget to actual performance throughout the year. ### 25. Budget Maestro - a user's Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** Software is logical to use and support excellent **What do you dislike about Centage?** would like a better module for asset financing **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** A good robust product that has the best support I have ever experienced from any software company **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a robust budgeting and forecasting tool that is easy to update with an integrated balance sheet and cashflow that also allows us to automate financial reporting ### 26. Budget Maestro Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Centage?** The reporting tool is my favorite thing about Budget Maestro. **What do you dislike about Centage?** It's a little confusing to do the budgets. I would like it to be a little more straight forward and easier to figure out what needs to be done. The help isn't that great. **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** It makes the monthly reporting a lot easier and quicker. ### 27. Five Years of Budget Maestro **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2017 **What do you like best about Centage?** Personnel level budgeting including hourly rates, health insurance, workers comp categories, vacation plans, etc. allows extremely accurate assessments of the 'people' costs in our organization; these costs account for ~85% of our spend so accuracy in this category allows for a strong budget. **What do you dislike about Centage?** System is far from intuitive; long learning curve and a bit frustrating however once over the hump on the learning curve the system functions well. **Recommendations to others considering Centage:** Have a demo of the setup process **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** In combination with the Link and Analytics Maestro tools creation of detailed monthly variance analysis and reporting at department levels has been greatly eased allowing for better communication between finance and operational leadership. ### 28. Instantanous Results for Quick Analysis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie W. | Corporate Financial Reporting/System Manager, Oil & Energy, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2017 **What do you like best about Centage?** We have support departments allocate to our divisions and we use Budget Maestro allocations. Our support departments can do 'what if' scenarios and the division see the results immediately. **What do you dislike about Centage?** Our balance sheet and cash flow is too complicated to use Budget Maestro **What problems is Centage solving and how is that benefiting you?** Terms less that 30 days ## Centage Discussions - [How much time does it take to implement?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/general-d52ccdcb-2ee1-44de-942d-a3635e000599) - 1 comment, 4 upvotes - [Does Budget Maestro operate in a network environment?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/general-f356373c-5b44-4fbd-b27a-c08f7278ef0a) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [View Centage pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/centage/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-07+12%3A07%3A01+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b3ae0d91-2a4d-4156-94ae-0a0e36233143&secure%5Btoken%5D=23b3068bcc127ebe295f8206a512cc413a644a2cf09c3e4ec243c6272e332660&format=llm_user) ## Centage Integrations - [ADP Workforce Now](https://www.g2.com/products/adp-workforce-now/reviews) - [BambooHR](https://www.g2.com/products/bamboohr/reviews) - [Intuit QuickBooks](https://www.g2.com/products/intuit-quickbooks/reviews) - [NetSuite](https://www.g2.com/products/netsuite/reviews) - [Paycom](https://www.g2.com/products/paycom/reviews) - [Paycor](https://www.g2.com/products/paycor/reviews) - [Paylocity](https://www.g2.com/products/paylocity/reviews) - [Sage](https://www.g2.com/products/sage-finance-sage/reviews) - [UKG Pro](https://www.g2.com/products/ukg-pro/reviews) ## Centage Features **Budget Creation** - Data Import - Budget Hierarchies - Versioning - Formulas - What-If - Budget Periods **Financial Planning** - Extended Planning - Reporting - Integration **Agentic AI - Accounting & Finance** - Autonomous Task Execution **Agentic AI - FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) ** - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Financial Insight** - Budgeting - Forecasting - Planning **Budget Management** - Consolidation - Adjustments - Workflows **Data** - Data Visualization - Data Analysis - Custom Reporting - Reporting Templates **Forecasting** - Historical Data - Reforecast - Forecast Types - Rolling Forecasts **Status Communication** - Collaboration - Version Control - Scorecards **Analytics** - Variance Analysis - Forecasts Comparison - Forward Looking **Agentic AI - Budgeting and Forecasting** - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Centage Alternatives - [Planful](https://www.g2.com/products/planful/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (491 reviews) - [Vena](https://www.g2.com/products/vena/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (469 reviews) - [Workday Adaptive Planning](https://www.g2.com/products/workday-adaptive-planning/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (301 reviews)