Planful

What is Planful?

Planful is a financial planning and close platform with budgeting, consolidations and reporting, suited to mid market and enterprise finance teams wanting structured FP&A. Formerly Host Analytics, it covers the core finance processes: budgeting and planning, financial consolidation, close, and reporting, in a structured platform that helps finance teams run planning and reporting cycles reliably. By combining FP&A with consolidations and close, Planful suits organisations that want both planning and financial consolidation in one platform, with the structure and controls finance requires. For structured financial planning and close, Planful is a leading choice.

Planful's distinction is combining structured FP&A with financial consolidation and close in one platform. Rather than planning alone, it covers budgeting, consolidation, close and reporting together, giving mid market and enterprise finance teams a structured, controlled environment for their core cycles. That combination of planning and close, with structure and controls, sets it apart for finance teams wanting both.

Who Planful is best for

Planful is best for mid market and enterprise finance teams that want structured FP&A combined with financial consolidation and close in one platform. It suits organisations wanting both planning and close with controls. It is a weaker fit for the most complex enterprise connected planning across operations, where Anaplan fits, lean finance teams wanting the lightest tool, where Cube fits, or Excel focused teams, where Vena fits.

Key features

The core strengths are budgeting and planning, financial consolidation and close, and reporting and dashboards, in a structured platform with controls. Planful offers workforce planning, scenario modeling, workflow, and integrations with ERP and data systems. Its combination of structured FP&A with consolidation and close, plus controls, is its defining advantage for finance teams wanting planning and close together.

Planful pricing

Planful uses custom pricing with no public figures, based on users, modules and scope, with Standard and Enterprise editions and typically a ten user license per year as a starting point, requiring a quote. There is no free trial; it targets mid market and enterprise. Because pricing scales with users and modules, model your team and whether you need planning, consolidation, or both. Get a quote via the Planful site.

Integrations and ecosystem

Planful integrates with ERP, accounting and data systems, so actuals and data flow into planning, consolidation and reporting. Its integrations let finance connect its planning and close cycles to source systems, supporting its role as a structured platform for both FP&A and financial consolidation in mid market and enterprise organisations.

Planful and consolidation

A key strength is combining planning with financial consolidation and close: Planful handles consolidations and close alongside budgeting and reporting, so finance teams run both core cycles in one controlled platform rather than separate tools. For organisations that want FP&A and consolidation together with structure and controls, this combination is a main reason to choose Planful.

Ease of use and support

Planful offers a structured, capable platform suited to finance teams, with support rated well, though its breadth across planning and close means some learning. Its G2 reviews praise the combination of planning, consolidation and reporting, with less cross functional modeling power than Anaplan and custom pricing the main considerations.

Is Planful worth it?

For mid market and enterprise finance teams that want structured FP&A combined with financial consolidation and close in one controlled platform, Planful is a strong choice. The main caution is that the most complex connected planning suits Anaplan, lean teams Cube, and Excel focused teams Vena, but for structured financial planning and close together, Planful excels.