Budgyt vs Pulse

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.

Pulse is a web tool for managing and projecting small-business cash flow. Users enter one-time or recurring income and expenses, revise earlier transactions, and switch items on or off to model changes to the bottom line. Views can be weekly, monthly, or set to a custom date range, with grouping by category, customer, or project. QuickBooks Online synchronization brings in transactions and supports comparisons between actual cash flow and projections. Collaborators can manage the cash flow, while investors can receive read-only projection access. Proposals, invoices, and contracts may be attached to transactions, and data can be exported to CSV. Pulse is intended for agencies, service providers, restaurants, manufacturers, retailers, contractors, and freelancers. It runs on the web and does not synchronize with banks. Monthly plans are Pulse Basics at $29 a month for one financial account, Small Business Plan at 59.00 USD for five, and Unlock Extra Features at 89.00 USD for unlimited accounts. New accounts receive a 30-day trial; there is no free plan.