Budgyt vs ClearGov Budget Cycle

Budgyt is a cloud budgeting platform for finance teams building budgets, analyzing actual-versus-budget results, and reforecasting. Department heads, program leads, and other contributors can collaborate through unlimited scenarios and multi-year forecasts reaching ten years. Models can include cash flow, forecasted balance sheets, salaries, benefits, and personnel allocations. Reporting provides budget-versus-actual views, standard and custom dashboards, and board-ready visualizations. General-ledger actuals can arrive through accounting connections or Excel and CSV files. Budgyt lists approval workflows, rolling forecasts, multi-entity budgeting, and accounting integrations. Administrative controls include role-based user management, scenario management, activity logs, and audit trails. The AWS-hosted service offers Google, Azure, or Okta SSO, multifactor authentication, customer-isolated databases, a monitored web application firewall, and protected DNS. Every plan includes a Customer Success Manager, same-day support, and a knowledge base. A no-cost pilot rebuilds a customer spreadsheet for review. The Nonprofit plan is $399 a month, billed annually, with unlimited users and setup and training fees.

ClearGov Budget Cycle is cloud-based finance and budgeting software for public-sector agencies, including local governments and school districts. Operational Budgeting supports budgets from baseline through adoption and amendments, with annual or biennial cycles, future-year forecasts, and year-end projections. Teams can edit budget line items together in real time, save versions, and attach justifications and supporting documents. An audit trail records adjustments and user actions, while role-based permissions govern who can import capital and personnel scenarios. The software supports approval workflows, scenario planning, actual-versus-budget tracking, and multi-entity budgeting. Capital Budgeting includes request forms, scoring, dashboards, and spreadsheet or PDF exports; Personnel Budgeting tracks filled and vacant positions, compensation, and multi-year staffing scenarios. Digital Budget Book creates web, mobile, and PDF budget books with customizable pages and generated content. Capital and personnel data can feed into Operational Budgeting with automatic updates and duplicate detection. Pricing is by quote; support and product updates are included, with no per-seat fees. ClearGov says implementation requires no systems integration.